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 'Shane Black'
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 Monster Squad (1987, Fred Dekker)
March 16th, 2007 · 2 Comments
Fred Dekker can definitely compose a shot. For whatever its faults, The Monster Squad is one good looking film. Some of that credit belongs to the production designer and the cinematographer and the special effects people, but most of it belongs to Dekker. Dekker composes beautiful Panavision shots and he directs actors really well too–well, […]
Tagged: Fred Dekker· Shane Black· Tri-Star Pictures· ★
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005, Shane Black)
November 11th, 2005 · No Comments
It’s nice to have Robert Downey Jr. back. Val Kilmer is hardly doing anything, so I always looked at Kiss Kiss Bang Bang as a Kilmer film, but then, watching, I realized that I hadn’t seen Downey in anything since… Wonder Boys? Probably Wonder Boys. But he’s the lead in Kiss Kiss and it reminds […]
Tagged: Brett Halliday· Robert Downey Jr.· Shane Black· Val Kilmer· Warner Bros.· ★★★
