FilmXTRA 7 - Lethal Weapon 5, Ghostbusters 3 and Much More!

[TomPerkins]

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This Episode - Lethal Weapon 5, Ghostbusters 3 and Much More!



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[Sheridan Passell]

Great show. Fast paced. If they do make a Lethal Weapon 5 its quality is dependent on one thing and one thing only - Shane Black. Anyone who saw Kiss Kiss Bang Bang knows he's as good as he ever was. Without him it'll be absolute drivel (see Lethal Weapon 4, and its 'We Are Family' ending).

[T.ROSS]

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[Angel Orona]

With the key element of screenwriter Shane Black, LETHAL WEAPON 5 could be some good stuff.  But my concern is that Warner Brothers doesn't seem to have a whole lot of respect for him since they almost literally threw away the superior KISS KISS BANG BANG and completely rewrote his script (where Riggs actually died) for WEAPON 2.  But he is one of my all-time fave writers and responsible for THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT, which I consider an imperfect action classic, so I've got my fingers crossed.  However the one thing they MUST do is dispose of all those goddamn secondary characters (especially Joe Pesci) and make the film actually about Riggs and Murtaugh.

On the other hand, I've already got the bad mojo rising off of GHOSTBUSTERS 3.  The"protege" thing never works!  So now we'll be stuck with the genuine funnymen being overshadowed by the cast of pretty boys (and girls . . . You just know there'll be a girl this time) frrom GOSSIP GIRL, whose comedic timing is the equivalence of a fart at a funeral.

[Sheridan Passell]

I never understood why The Long Kiss Goodnight got bashed by anyone. I think people at the time just heard 'Renny Harlin' and went with the fashionable opinion.

The thing is Ghostbusters 1 (which still holds up supremely well) wasn't just a comedy, it was a hugely inventive spectacle. The writers of The Office? People who've never had to deal with a scale bigger than a cubicle? That says to me only the comedy element is covered here.