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Lethal Weapon 2 (1989, Richard Donner)

August 29th, 2009 · No Comments

Lethal Weapon 2 opens with the Looney Tunes music. It’s appropriate. I don’t think any other film series has so successfully adapted the sitcom to the big screen. The whole point of Lethal Weapon 2 is not to think–maybe as a ten year-old, I believed the South Africans could get away with all their crimes […]

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Tagged: Danny Glover· Jeffrey Boam· Mel Gibson· Richard Donner· Shane Black· Warner Bros.· Warren Murphy· ★★

Lethal Weapon (1987, Richard Donner)

August 29th, 2009 · No Comments

One of the more impressive things about Lethal Weapon is Danny Glover convincingly playing a fifty year-old at, approximately, the age of forty. It’s never a problem in a film rife with problems.
First, Lethal Weapon’s plot doesn’t really make any sense. There are huge jumps in logic as Glover and Mel Gibson’s “investigation” proceeds. The […]

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Tagged: Danny Glover· Mel Gibson· Richard Donner· Shane Black· Warner Bros.· ★½

Superman II (1980, Richard Donner), the Richard Donner cut

March 21st, 2007 · No Comments

Superman II might just be broken. Watching “The Richard Donner Cut,” it’s an easy conclusion to come to–the greatly anticipated Marlon Brando scenes feature a callow, selfish Superman–not one who’s bursting with love for Lois Lane, like in the theatrical version. Also problematic is the utter lack of super–it’s a Superman movie, but this version […]

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Tagged: Christopher Reeve· David Newman· Gene Hackman· Jerry Siegel· Joe Shuster· Leslie Newman· Margot Kidder· Mario Puzo· Marlon Brando· Ned Beatty· Richard Donner· Susannah York· Tom Mankiewicz· Warner Bros.·

Superman (1978, Richard Donner)

March 8th, 2007 · No Comments

I love how the end of Superman, with the spinning back of the earth, causes so much trouble for people. My fiancée–before Marlon Brando had even gotten the kid into the spaceship–made me stop the movie twice (I had to tell her to stop, though I love her line about Superman having just as many […]

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Tagged: Christopher Reeve· David Newman· Gene Hackman· Glenn Ford· Jerry Siegel· Joe Shuster· Leslie Newman· Margot Kidder· Mario Puzo· Marlon Brando· Ned Beatty· Richard Donner· Robert Benton· Susannah York· Warner Bros.· ★★★★

16 Blocks (2006, Richard Donner)

March 17th, 2006 · No Comments

Bruce Willis has had more comebacks–commercial and artistic–than any actor I can think of… Pulp Fiction was artistic, Die Hard: With a Vengeance was a commercial one, The Sixth Sense was both (his performance any way), and he’s due. (I just realized, the trips tend to come with comedic ventures). 16 Blocks is probably not […]

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Tagged: Bruce Willis· David Morse· Richard Donner· Richard Wenk· Warner Bros.· ★★★

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