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 […]
Entries Tagged as 'Danny Glover'
Lethal Weapon 2 (1989, Richard Donner)
August 29th, 2009 · No Comments
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 […]
Tagged: Danny Glover· Mel Gibson· Richard Donner· Shane Black· Warner Bros.· ★½
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001, Wes Anderson)
March 30th, 2009 · No Comments
The Royal Tenenbaums is a profound examination of the human condition. It’s hard to think about Tenenbaums, which Anderson made as a precious object–he tends to put the actors on the right and fill the left side of the frame with exactly placed sundries, sometimes it’s the carefully placed minutiae, but he usually puts those […]
Tagged: Alec Baldwin· Ben Stiller· Bill Murray· Danny Glover· Gene Hackman· Luke Wilson· Owen Wilson· Touchstone Pictures· Wes Anderson· ★★★★
Predator 2 (1990, Stephen Hopkins)
July 17th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Predator 2 is a great looking movie all because of director Hopkins. Early in the movie, right after a heavily Robocop influenced shoot-out (the whole first hour is nothing but a Robocop rip), Danny Glover’s up on a roof with the LA skyline behind him. Hopkins and cinematographer Peter Levy turn the shot sequence–it probably […]
Tagged: 20th Century Fox· Bill Paxton· Danny Glover· Jim Thomas· John Thomas· Stephen Hopkins· ★
Switchback (1997, Jeb Stuart)
November 8th, 2007 · No Comments
I’m having a hard time understanding certain aspects of Switchback. Primarily, Dennis Quaid’s terrible performance. I’m wondering if Jeb Stuart instructed him to imitate a log or if it was just Quaid’s read on the character. To be fair (to Stuart, not to Quaid), the character is a pretend protagonist. Stuart’s more interested in his […]
Tagged: Danny Glover· Dennis Quaid· Jeb Stuart· Paramount Pictures· ★½
Bat*21 (1988, Peter Markle)
January 24th, 2006 · 1 Comment
I only know Jerry Reed from Smokey and the Bandit. He’s a country singer too, but I don’t know anything about that artistic expression. Reed executive produced Bat*21 and it feels like a film an actor would executive produce. It’s padded (when, according to IMDb, the real incident took place over eleven days) and shouldn’t […]
Tagged: Danny Glover· Gene Hackman· George Gordon· Peter Markle· Tri-Star Pictures· William C. Anderson· ★½
The Rainmaker (1997, Francis Ford Coppola)
January 4th, 2006 · No Comments
The Rainmaker’s got some beautiful stuff in it. My history with it is somewhat sorted… I discovered it on DVD, then abandoned it–and have now rediscovered it. I can’t remember what my last problem with it was–probably the same as my current one–but I was selling DVDs and needed cash.
It’s not perfect and has some […]
Tagged: Danny DeVito· Danny Glover· Francis Ford Coppola· John Grisham· Matt Damon· Michael Herr· Mickey Rourke· Paramount Pictures· Roy Scheider· Teresa Wright· ★★★
