Episode #738: Lethal Weapon 3
Added 2024-05-07 04:00:03 +0000 UTC“This becomes a sitcom!” - Eric, on this sequel’s goofiness
On this week’s episode, the gang gets into action mode to talk about the incredibly silly sequel, Lethal Weapon 3! Why can’t Roger Murtaugh take a bath IN PEACE?! Did they really have to amp up all the grab-ass in this one? How is this evil ex-cop sneaking into all these high security areas like he’s some kind of ghost? What were they thinking with Pesci’s hair? And why couldn’t we see Rene Russo’s Lorna Cole playing that Three Stooges CD-ROM game? PLUS: How many people said HARD PASS before they cast this villain?
Lethal Weapon 3 stars Danny Glover, Mel Gibson, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, Stuart Wilson, Darlene Love, Traci Wolfe, Damon Hines, Ebonie Smith, Mary Ellen Trainor, Mark Pellegrino, and Steve Kahan as Captain Murphy; directed by Richard Donner.
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Also played Dr Hatcher in Hot Fuzz.
Matthew Lloyd
2024-05-11 10:40:20 +0000 UTCIn summation, your Mel Gibson impression was spot-on Rhys Darby.
William K. Wolfrum
2024-05-09 02:08:40 +0000 UTCAlso, I think.
William K. Wolfrum
2024-05-09 00:44:49 +0000 UTCRe: Hockey. Gretzky had signed with the Kings who where owned by massive fraudster and attention worry Brucd McNall, so L.A. hockey was a bigger deal.
William K. Wolfrum
2024-05-08 20:34:17 +0000 UTC2 might be my favorite Lethal Weapon movie. It hates apartheid so much 🥲❤️
Noura Sarayel
2024-05-08 09:28:57 +0000 UTCI’d never seen any of Pesci’s Scorsese movies prior to seeing him in Lethal Weapon, so had a hard time believing anyone could ever find him scary (until I finally saw Goodfellas).
Craig
2024-05-08 02:16:48 +0000 UTCThe Blake Snyder bit made me cackle, because there was a game released last year (Forspoken) with a notoriously bad script that opens up with the protagonist choosing to save her cat from a fire instead of a big sack of cash. This guy's a multimedia menace!
John Edwards
2024-05-08 01:45:29 +0000 UTCPlease do Lethal Weapon 2. 🙏🏽
Paul
2024-05-07 18:35:52 +0000 UTCI'll look forward to the bomb under the toilet jokes 😃
Kureigu
2024-05-07 18:12:32 +0000 UTCI second this motion. I wish the WB would have allowed Shane Black to kill off Riggs at the end of 2 to end the franchise on a high note.
CharlesGrodin'sToupee
2024-05-07 17:44:44 +0000 UTCSpeaking of unhinged, who the hell is bringing any food into a bathroom, let alone a goopy ass birthday cake? Also, I know it's a movie pod but thanks for the son of a cop talk Andrew, super interesting. Awesome ep.
Hard To Gwil
2024-05-07 17:22:14 +0000 UTCHockey nerd (Canadian) here - the jerseys are indeed weird. The ones in the long shots are right, but when Leo is (not) dying on the ice they're some off brand nonsense. Also Toronto is wearing what we would call the home colors now in this, because from the early 70s to 03/04 NHL home sweaters where the white ones and the away jerseys were the darker colors. Go Oilers
Matt
2024-05-07 15:57:24 +0000 UTCJames Caan was in The Dark Backward in 1991, I think he might’ve said yes to this
Chris Rose
2024-05-07 15:05:07 +0000 UTCI think I need some legal advice from the community here. I just murdered someone in a police station, tons of people saw my face and can identify me and I'm sure the cops will be after me since I signed my name on a registry to see the guy I killed. I have these tickets for a pro hockey game later this evening, do you all think it's a good idea or a bad idea that I go to this extremely public event?
Smaug
2024-05-07 14:53:21 +0000 UTCFantastic movie of course
Jan
2024-05-07 13:55:16 +0000 UTCLethal Weapon 3: Period Patrol
James C Harris
2024-05-07 13:49:23 +0000 UTCBlake Snyder, the “Save the Cat” guy, not only wrote Blank Check. He wrote “Stop or my Mom will Shoot!”. I have no idea why people took screen writing advice from this hack
Dan sulin
2024-05-07 13:43:18 +0000 UTCLaughed too about Loclyn Munro, he does pop up everywhere. Just watched a movie starring him and Lou Diamond Phillips on Tubi from the 90's; "Knight Club". It was hilariously bad, and a great high watch.
Matt Reid
2024-05-07 13:20:27 +0000 UTCOf course this made money, the LAPD was all the rage in 92! Tell me, where were you?
Mark Ibarra
2024-05-07 13:08:14 +0000 UTCWas Pesci filming a Billy Idol biopic at the time?
Eren Keskin
2024-05-07 12:34:32 +0000 UTCYeah, it's a WLM at some point down the line! - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2024-05-07 12:33:37 +0000 UTC2, is probably the closest action genre “I Got It By the Way”
Daniel Cloud
2024-05-07 12:25:20 +0000 UTCAfter Young Einstein, Mad Max 2 and now Mel’s slipping accent in this, really enjoying getting my fill of your efforts at the Australian accent!
Craig
2024-05-07 12:00:46 +0000 UTCDeeply ironic that Senator Steve blithely ignores the order of one of the biggest, and numerically ordered, franchises of all time. He’s just bipping and bopping around as if these are called “Lethal Weapon: Justice Awakens” or whatever. Like a conservative senator caught dipping their wick at sex parties.
Jason
2024-05-07 11:20:22 +0000 UTCSo, there's a *Becker Bomb!*
Leesha Olivier
2024-05-07 11:08:40 +0000 UTCLaughing when you guys bring up Lochlyn Munro. Inexplicably he continues to sneak around the film and TV industry. One of his bigger roles in recent years was as Betty's dad in that Riverdale TV show where you better believe he is secretly a serial killer.
Busiris
2024-05-07 07:15:43 +0000 UTCCool, hope 2 isn't too far in the future now. That's always been my favourite of the 4.
Kureigu
2024-05-07 06:17:01 +0000 UTC
