Fam, please make sure you go sub to SAM and tell her I sent you! th-cam.com/users/ogbreacts 🥳 I will share with you all on my Community tab and my socials when Lethal Weapon 2 will be going out on Sam's channel. You won't want to miss it, especially if you enjoyed this one! 💛 For all the info you need, visit kaiielle.com/
I don't need to. I've been subscribed to Sam's channel for a while now. So I hope to see you two working together throughout this entire series! Both of y'all are awesome!
One of my favorite pseudo Christmas movies. Mel and Danny are both 10 years younger than their characters. Mel probably wouldn't have been a special forces sniper in Vietnam. When he says he ran into the Shadow Company guys in 1969, Mel himself was 13. I'm always prepared for Dixie's house to explode. The second the airplane in the background reaches the fireplace - BOOM! The Christmas tree drug dealer who Mel tries to get to shoot him is actually Anthony Keidis', the singer for Red Hot Chili Peppers, father. Murdoch's wife is Darlene Love. From Wikipedia, "In 1962, she began recording with producer Phil Spector who renamed her Darlene Love. She sang lead on "He's a Rebel" and "He's Sure the Boy I Love," which were credited to the Crystals." She had other hits after those. Lethal Weapon 3 & 4 are also good films. They are supposed to be making a Lethal Weapon 5, but the characters would be in their 70s and 80s as Mel and Danny are in their 60s and 70s now. Gary Busey (Mr. Joshua) is a professional crazy person. Random trivia: in 1990, Mel starred in "Air America."
Just gonna say Riggs didn't actually take any of that cocaine. It's a slight of hand trick where he poured it into his other hand and wiped it on his leg. Smoooooth.
Also keep in mind that many guns, especially 9mm, had 15 round magazines, and you can do alot with that especially if you can think that they could pick up extra mags. So reloading is almost a non-issue.
Fun fact: I was a kid when this was being filmed (Yes, I'm old). And the bldg the lady jumps off at the beginning is my family's old apartment at the time. I watched them throwing a doll off the side of our bldg for like 2 days. That is E Ocean BLVD, Long Beach, CA.
Always fun to spot a landmark you know, or your neighborhood, but seeing your own apartment in a movie is pretty cool. I lived in and around LA for 25 years, and obviously always knew movies were shot around town, even was in some sets, but never really realized just how many until I moved away six years ago. Everything I watch now I recognize from somewhere around LA, especially the older movies. Lived near Ocean and Cerritos in the LBC back around 2000. And yeah, it’s BLVD, not Avenue like the Yellowcard song. Haha
@@BDogg2023I moved from NJ to Los Angeles in 1998. I had gotten season 1 of Baretta free from work. It's set in Philly. One Thanksgiving, my parents flew out to visit and stayed at the Sportsmans Lodge at Ventura and Coldeater Canyon on Stufio acity. The weekend before I had binged the series. In one episode, Barretta goes to Venice, CA. He glies back to Philky abd drives up to a hotel. It was The Sportsmans Lodge. I ended up parking in the exact same spot. I currently live about two blocks from a Cobra Kai location and the opening of Boogie Nights. Pretty much right between them.
Another noteworthy thing about Lethal Weapon that most people miss - the nature of the soundtrack. Whenever you hear that lone blues guitar riff that sounds Clapton-Esque? The guitar plays whenever it's a scene about Riggs or when there's a focus on his character. What about Murtaugh? You'll notice Murtaugh is always scored by a saxophone. In their respective scenes before they meet, they'll only have their 'own' instruments playing, but by the time they start working together (like the pool house scene), the instruments start playing in a duet, playing together. Framing all of this, the string section frames the narrative and adds necessary suspense in action scenes. And that's why the soundtrack for Lethal Weapon is a freaking masterpiece. Thank Michael Kamen and Eric Clapton for that!
I love this movie. Martin and Roger being partnered up together actually saved their lives. The friendship that Martin formed with Roger saved Martins life and then to basically be accepted as part of the family by the Murtah family just sealed the deal. Roger probably wouldn't of made it through this movie and save his daughter without Martin's help. I really love these movies and as it stands right now, there are 4 Lethal Weapon movies.
WOW - this was such a pleasant surprise, been watching OGB for years. Great reactions from the two of you and so happy to hear you’ll do Lethal Weapon 2 as well, such a perfect movie combo for a collab.
11:25 Many people often miss the reasoning of the flame to the arm. It wasn't to show how tough he was. It was to show how loyal his men were and that they would follow his orders without question.
You have to remember that Murtaugh was a Homicide detective, and Riggs was a Vice detective. That explains their manner of dress, with Roger in a suit and Martin wearing street clothes. You wouldn't expect to see Riggs in a suit any more than you would Roger in street clothes.
The guy giving Riggs the electric shock is Albert Leong. He has been in many, many movies. You may recognize him as the candy bar eating villain from Die Hard.
Please watch 2, 3 and 4 they get better each time because the relationships of the characters (new and old) grows with you each time, they become your family too. :)
Both of your comments at the beginning of the "jumper" scene were COMEDY GOLD! "A bonding moment" empathy' lol. I love this movie, glad you enjoyed it, always appreciate your reactions.
I, also, am too old. But, that's just the way it is. This is a quintessential 80's action, buddy copy movie. A lot of fun when it came out. And... still fun. Dated, of course, by the progression of time. The 2nd one is also pretty good. There are 4 of these with Danny Glover and Mel Gibson. (I won't spoil any of them, because I know you don't like that. :) Thank you for the watch, and the introduction to OGB Reacts. I haven't seen anything there. So, I guess #2 will be my first. See you on the next one.
What a great team! So many collabs don’t work, but here we get two great buddy-ups for the price of one, on screen and off. Can’t say I’m surprised, both your channels are great. Great pick with the movie too.
Oh wow, this was great. I am doing the Leo-points-at-the-screen meme right now, I had no idea a collab was in the works. The Lethal Weapon series isn't exactly my jam but I'll watch anyway, as two people bouncing off each other is great for reaction videos. (And I'll watch #2 on Sam's channel too.) I strongly hope you do more of these. By the way the sax performances are by the legendary jazz artist David Sanborn (6 Grammys) and Riggs' guitar theme is performed by Eric Clapton (18 Grammys.)
Riggs and Murtaugh are one of my favorite examples of the classic Apollo-Dionysus dichotomy. The brother or sister-equivalents that are polar opposites, but balance each other out perfectly (while also driving each other up a wall). It's the odd couple format at its most-simple, and the actors here are both so gosh-darned-charming, and have such amazing chemistry with each other, that it works perfectly. Also, shout out to the musical score (Michael Kamen working with Eric Clapton, of all people, there) with that theming, too, representing Murtaugh with a bluesy saxophone, and Riggs with an electric guitar, and keeping the instruments away from each other until the characters actually begin to trust each other, at which point, the instruments begin to merge in the score. I just love musical storytelling like that. :D Funnily, as much as "Lethal Weapon" now feels like a buddy cop film with some darker aspects, at the time of its release, it was seen as a return-to-form "hardboiled" crime film, and even compared to "The French Connection" on more than one occasion, which is kind of absurd, considering how much lighter this film feels than THAT. Says a lot about how over-the-top silly action movies had gotten in the '80s. I do think this film and "Die Hard" helped to pull the genre back a bit, and by the mid-'90s, we were getting gems like "Heat": you know, actual hardboiled crime films! RE: 47:08, I believe Riggs is supposed to be in his mid-30s here, if he was 19 in the Vietnam War. This is 1987, and the combat portion of the war effectively ended for the Americans by 1973. So, the youngest he could be is 33. Most-likely something like 35 or 36, really (Mel Gibson was roughly 30 at the time of filming). And I'm pretty sure that Rianne is supposed to be 16, since that's roughly how old Traci Wolfe was at filming (CORRECTION: I went back and checked: I got my decade wrong, she was 26, if you can believe it). There's "kid clubs" out there for the 16-to-20 set that don't serve alcohol, especially in bigger cities like LA, so, that's probably the intention? So, yeah, rather-illegal. Heck, age her up, and it's still super-skeevy, since she's the daughter of his best friend and partner. I don't THINK the intention in the script was to suggest otherwise, just that Rianne is "teen swooning" for the sake of humor, but male Hollywood writers of that period had some strange ideas about what was, and was not appropriate, so, I may be giving Shane Black too much credit, here.
Well this is cool - I've been following both of you for a long time. And a great movie too - there are four Lethal Weapon movies and they are all worth watching.
I was already subscribed to both of you, and I'm so glad you did this! Awesome reaction video. I hope more of my favorite reactors (like you guys) do these kind of collaborations and that you all get more and more subscribers as a result.
"I didn't know it was a Christmas movie" "Just like Die Hard!" "Lethal Weapon" writer Shane Black made an entire career out of Christmas action movies. He also wrote "The Last Boy Scout" "The Long Kiss Goodnight" and wrote and directed "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" "The Nice Guys" and "Iron Man 3" all of which take place at Christmas. "Die Hard" is the one Christmas action movie he wasn't directly associated with. He was an actor for a while and he was in "Predator" which was directed by "Die Hard" director John McTiernan. Both Die Hard and Lethal Weapon were produced by Joel Silver and lot of the same cast and crew appear in both movies.
2:15 ...."Oh, is this a christmas movie?".... Let's see; the movie opens with Jingle Bells, the first scene is about a women jumping from a building, and the plot is about some guys trying to bring snow to L.A...... Yeah, I think this applies as christmas movie.......
New sub here. Already subbed to OGB. You have to continue with this series. It just keeps getting better. Love the colab. Great reaction from you both👍.
We said in the video that LW2 will be going on Sam's channel. We hadn't planned on the other two as we have another series in mind to collab on, but we're definitely open to doing 3 and 4 as well!
Nobody mentions how when Murtaugh's buddy gets shot, the bullet goes through the milk carton in front of him as well. I know it's just squibs but even the best squibs dont' always sell it. I always notice when someone's shot and something near them also gets shot like the bullet went through. Also, for the sake of playful debate, I think Lethal Weapon is not only a Christmas movie (visible decorations, repeated mentions, it's about family, christmas music) but it's more fun than Die Hard while it's at it xD
One of the great things about the 4 Lethal Weapon movies is that: it is about strangers, becoming friends, becoming a family, with some crime-busting woven in.
I have to say that I thoroughly enjoy watching the two of you on your own channels but watching to the two of you together is extra special. Please do more movies together of than the Lethal Weapon series.
From what I heard, they set “Die Hard” during the holidays because it had worked well for this movie. Someone involved with LW suggested it to someone on DH because then they would get royalties forever when the networks air them every December.
Already subscribed to both of you, and seeing a collab was a great surprise! I will definitely be watching your Lethal Weapon 2 collab when it's up. I hope that you'll both check out all four Lethal Weapon movies. I don't want to set any expectations in advance, but I believe you will find them all worthwhile. 😃👍
I'M A BIG FAN OF COLLABS!!! And this is the mullet movie, right? I CAN'T WAIT!!! Lethal Weapon, starring Mullet Gibson!!!!! 80s checklist CHECKED: big hair, sombre saxaphones, and one-liners before shooting people!!!!! 🥳💛
The bad guy that you said was in Die Hard, was, and is in many movies. Also had a great fight scene with Brandon Lee in Rapid Fire. Gary Busy has been in toms of stuff including Predator 2 and The Buddy Holly Story.
The next couple of these movies are pretty good, i think you would enjoy loaded weapon it is a satire. Just subscribed to both channels, loved your reactions.
You definitely have to check out the movie. Harley-Davidson and the Marlboro Man starring Don Johnson and Mickey Rourke. This film is definitely a high octane action movie.
Even as a *huge* Mad Max fanboy, I'll readily admit that these movies were Mel Gibson's best roles. I don't know that there was any other actor who could've portrayed Riggs as perfectly, and Danny Glover provided the perfect "straight laced" counterpart. The sequels were also excellent. This may sound weird, but as an ex-Army guy who spent _plenty_ of time on various weapons ranges, shooting was always somewhat therapeutic for me. Very easy to focus in on the target & block out all the other noise going on in your life, at least for a couple hours. I can sort of relate on the pistol aspect, though: the one time I ever fired a handgun it wasn't the recoil that got me, but that since my platoon was running the range we wound up firing off all the "extra" rounds when everybody was done actually qualifying on the pistols, and by the time I'd burned through about a dozen magazines my trigger finger was wore out. Actually did the last couple left handed just for a break. 😂
One of my favorite Buddy Cop Action Comedy Films! Before Mel Gibson was cast as Martin Riggs, Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Jeff Bridges, Nick Nolte, Clint Eastwood, John Travolta, Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Charlie Sheen, Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin, Emilio Estevez, Matthew Broderick, Nicolas Cage, Jason Patric, Kiefer Sutherland, William Hurt, Sean Penn, Kevin Costner, Michael Douglas, Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer, Tom Hanks, Mickey Rourke, and Michael J Fox were considered for the role. Before Danny Glover was cast as Roger Murtaugh, Brian Dennehy, Nick Nolte, Charles Bronson, Robert DeNiro, Gene Hackman, Paul Newman, Warren Beatty,Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, and Al Pacino were considered for the role. Joshua was going to be played by either David Bowie, Christopher Walken, John Lithgow, Scott Glenn, Stephen Lang, Ron Perlman, or Keith Carradine, before Gary Busey was cast. The villainous Gen McAllister was going to played by either Peter Boyle, Robert Duvall, James Earl Jones, Lee Marvin, Richard Jordan or Ryan O'Neal, before Mitchell Ryan was cast.
This movie came from an era where guns didn't need reloading. Eventually everyone started poking fun at the trend and that's what led to guns always being reloaded now.
Nice collab reaction. There are a total of 4 Lethal Weapon buddy cop movies. I've seen the first two. There is more cheese, more fun, and the buddy cop friendship grows throughout. I've heard 3 & 4 are also well worth watching.
All 4 lethal weapons are faaaaantastic. They use the same actors and bring in some new ones along the way, the last one is the perfect ending, yeah they're all great.
ONE OF THE ALLLLL TIME GREAT STORY LINES AND LOTSAAA ACTION AND COMEDY ONE LINERS AND YOU SHOULD JUST DO ALLLLL 4 OF THEM!!! 😊 ONE OF THE TOP BEST FILM SERIES GIRLS! 😊 THEY ADD CHARACTERS TO EACH MOVIE AND JUST A GREAT STORYLINE ( 87-98 ) HAVE FUNNNNN AND ENJOY!
The reason you bring a helicopter is that you can see more from the sky. Hence why it flew in a big circle. Also, frying that low is taught to the military. It is called NOE (Nape of the earth) when you fly like that, people on the ground will not get as much warning, by the time they see you, they can hardly shoot at you. The higher you are, the greater the declination, which means they have time to see and aim at you.
More!!! Love you both. Gosh it would be AMAZING if you two would team up for "What's Up Doc?" (1972) I'm not sure if there's anything that would interest EITHER of you about it other than Barbra Streisand and "introducing" Madeline Kahn. I'm a carrot giver.
Indo, the man who tortures Riggs is played by the amazing Al Leong, who (you now just mentioned it) was o e of the terrorists in Die Hard. He grabs the candy bar right as the police are about to storm the Nakatomi tower. He was also in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.
I remember during this time in the Hollywood film that it seemed that every Hollywood star seem to be showing off there gluteus maximus. It was definitely a thing in the '80s.
The first two for sure. We have another series in mind with a 1/2 that we'd like to do too. We're certainly not opposed to doing 3/4 of LW, but just need to make sure we don't overwhelm ourselves either.
So glad ya'll got to watch this movie,there are actually 3 more and yes the cast is the same, with some great additions, like Joe Pesci from My Cousin Vinny,Home Alone and Good Fellas, plus Chris Rock, Jet Li and Renee Russo
11:15 I think that was the show how willing he was to follow orders. Like if he's willing to get burned like that just on a word and what do you think he'll do to you if he sent after you kind of deal. It was to put fear in the other guy and make sure he follows orders himself. By the way y'all definitely need to watch three and four as well because all four movies are one giant story that continues to show the relationship between these two guys. And it's definitely a beautiful thing.
Just subscribed...love the two of you doing this..its great. You were trying to figure out the bad guy..it sounded like you thought he looked familiar...i think you are referencing Gary Busey...he has played in quite a few films...one is a movie called Silver Bullet...i heard something happened to him right after the filming of this movie and that it seriously affected his mental well being..in any event..im getting a kick out of these reactions...!🤗
Amanda graduated the same year as I. Fun fact: Mel Gibson starred in “Air America,” with Robert Downey, Jr. it’s not too bad a flick about the CIA Airforce in Vietnam. *the car explodes* (all together now!) “Oooooo!” Oh, btw, Lethal Weapon 1-4…the best cop series ever! Do them all. Rihanna’s crushing on Riggs is just a silly thing that Riggs comments on to get under Roger’s skin. He has no designs on her. You both need to see “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension.”
Trivia facts. Air America was a real organization that smuggled heroin and weapons back and forth from Vietnam using military aircrafts. Mel Gibson was in a movie with Robert Downey Jr called Air America where they were both pilots. Denzel Washington was also in a movie where he was a gangster in New York during the war and he used Air America to smuggle heroin into the country for him. Both of those are pretty good movies.
I have worked in video editing and video production. My Ex was the real talent and I was just doing what she said.. In one scene for a movie or video project I had to put a gun to my head and shoot. Here in the UK guns are really really bad everyone is scared of them. Having to put a gun, a real gun to my head and pull the trigger. was the hardest thing I've ever done. It had been double checked by professionals, the barral had been plugged with a steel rod. It would not even be firing blanks. But still after all that it took me about 10-20 takes I just couldn't bring myself to pull the trigger while it was pointing at me.
I know you have a lot of reactions in your plate right now, but it would be great if you go through the rest of the franchise.... Each movie just goes better and better with a new entry....
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Fam, please make sure you go sub to SAM and tell her I sent you! th-cam.com/users/ogbreacts 🥳 I will share with you all on my Community tab and my socials when Lethal Weapon 2 will be going out on Sam's channel. You won't want to miss it, especially if you enjoyed this one! 💛 For all the info you need, visit kaiielle.com/
I don't need to. I've been subscribed to Sam's channel for a while now. So I hope to see you two working together throughout this entire series! Both of y'all are awesome!
One of my favorite pseudo Christmas movies.
Mel and Danny are both 10 years younger than their characters. Mel probably wouldn't have been a special forces sniper in Vietnam. When he says he ran into the Shadow Company guys in 1969, Mel himself was 13.
I'm always prepared for Dixie's house to explode. The second the airplane in the background reaches the fireplace - BOOM!
The Christmas tree drug dealer who Mel tries to get to shoot him is actually Anthony Keidis', the singer for Red Hot Chili Peppers, father.
Murdoch's wife is Darlene Love. From Wikipedia, "In 1962, she began recording with producer Phil Spector who renamed her Darlene Love. She sang lead on "He's a Rebel" and "He's Sure the Boy I Love," which were credited to the Crystals."
She had other hits after those.
Lethal Weapon 3 & 4 are also good films. They are supposed to be making a Lethal Weapon 5, but the characters would be in their 70s and 80s as Mel and Danny are in their 60s and 70s now.
Gary Busey (Mr. Joshua) is a professional crazy person.
Random trivia: in 1990, Mel starred in "Air America."
Just gonna say Riggs didn't actually take any of that cocaine. It's a slight of hand trick where he poured it into his other hand and wiped it on his leg. Smoooooth.
Also keep in mind that many guns, especially 9mm, had 15 round magazines, and you can do alot with that especially if you can think that they could pick up extra mags. So reloading is almost a non-issue.
I have seen many lethal weapon reactions, you Ladies did the best. Great job, 👍🌹🌹
Fun fact: I was a kid when this was being filmed (Yes, I'm old). And the bldg the lady jumps off at the beginning is my family's old apartment at the time. I watched them throwing a doll off the side of our bldg for like 2 days. That is E Ocean BLVD, Long Beach, CA.
So cool!
Always fun to spot a landmark you know, or your neighborhood, but seeing your own apartment in a movie is pretty cool. I lived in and around LA for 25 years, and obviously always knew movies were shot around town, even was in some sets, but never really realized just how many until I moved away six years ago. Everything I watch now I recognize from somewhere around LA, especially the older movies. Lived near Ocean and Cerritos in the LBC back around 2000. And yeah, it’s BLVD, not Avenue like the Yellowcard song. Haha
@@BDogg2023I moved from NJ to Los Angeles in 1998. I had gotten season 1 of Baretta free from work. It's set in Philly. One Thanksgiving, my parents flew out to visit and stayed at the Sportsmans Lodge at Ventura and Coldeater Canyon on Stufio acity. The weekend before I had binged the series. In one episode, Barretta goes to Venice, CA. He glies back to Philky abd drives up to a hotel. It was The Sportsmans Lodge. I ended up parking in the exact same spot. I currently live about two blocks from a Cobra Kai location and the opening of Boogie Nights. Pretty much right between them.
wait, you mean that tall building amongst short buildings where there was a fire some years ago???
Another noteworthy thing about Lethal Weapon that most people miss - the nature of the soundtrack. Whenever you hear that lone blues guitar riff that sounds Clapton-Esque? The guitar plays whenever it's a scene about Riggs or when there's a focus on his character. What about Murtaugh? You'll notice Murtaugh is always scored by a saxophone. In their respective scenes before they meet, they'll only have their 'own' instruments playing, but by the time they start working together (like the pool house scene), the instruments start playing in a duet, playing together. Framing all of this, the string section frames the narrative and adds necessary suspense in action scenes.
And that's why the soundtrack for Lethal Weapon is a freaking masterpiece. Thank Michael Kamen and Eric Clapton for that!
David Sanborn provided the sax.
It is performed and composed by Michael Kamen, Eric Clapton and David Sanborn. That's a great combo!
I love this movie. Martin and Roger being partnered up together actually saved their lives. The friendship that Martin formed with Roger saved Martins life and then to basically be accepted as part of the family by the Murtah family just sealed the deal. Roger probably wouldn't of made it through this movie and save his daughter without Martin's help. I really love these movies and as it stands right now, there are 4 Lethal Weapon movies.
WOW - this was such a pleasant surprise, been watching OGB for years. Great reactions from the two of you and so happy to hear you’ll do Lethal Weapon 2 as well, such a perfect movie combo for a collab.
11:25 Many people often miss the reasoning of the flame to the arm. It wasn't to show how tough he was. It was to show how loyal his men were and that they would follow his orders without question.
You have to remember that Murtaugh was a Homicide detective, and Riggs was a Vice detective. That explains their manner of dress, with Roger in a suit and Martin wearing street clothes. You wouldn't expect to see Riggs in a suit any more than you would Roger in street clothes.
The guy giving Riggs the electric shock is Albert Leong. He has been in many, many movies. You may recognize him as the candy bar eating villain from Die Hard.
Been watching OGBReacts for a while and it's nice to see them do a collab! Thanks for the fun reaction! Looking forward to Lethal Weapon 2.
Please watch 2, 3 and 4 they get better each time because the relationships of the characters (new and old) grows with you each time, they become your family too. :)
FACT!
Both of your comments at the beginning of the "jumper" scene were COMEDY GOLD! "A bonding moment" empathy' lol. I love this movie, glad you enjoyed it, always appreciate your reactions.
I love when reactors collab, to introduce us to other reactors. Opens up a wider audience to both of you, and more entertainers for us.
Wow! What a pleasure to see you two team up! Seems especially appropriate for this exemplar of buddy team-up Movies
I, also, am too old. But, that's just the way it is. This is a quintessential 80's action, buddy copy movie. A lot of fun when it came out. And... still fun. Dated, of course, by the progression of time. The 2nd one is also pretty good. There are 4 of these with Danny Glover and Mel Gibson. (I won't spoil any of them, because I know you don't like that. :)
Thank you for the watch, and the introduction to OGB Reacts. I haven't seen anything there. So, I guess #2 will be my first. See you on the next one.
What a great team! So many collabs don’t work, but here we get two great buddy-ups for the price of one, on screen and off. Can’t say I’m surprised, both your channels are great. Great pick with the movie too.
Oh wow, this was great. I am doing the Leo-points-at-the-screen meme right now, I had no idea a collab was in the works. The Lethal Weapon series isn't exactly my jam but I'll watch anyway, as two people bouncing off each other is great for reaction videos. (And I'll watch #2 on Sam's channel too.) I strongly hope you do more of these.
By the way the sax performances are by the legendary jazz artist David Sanborn (6 Grammys) and Riggs' guitar theme is performed by Eric Clapton (18 Grammys.)
Not Sam calling the shooting range smiley face! This is Yoda's height all over again!
YES! 😂😂😂
Riggs and Murtaugh are one of my favorite examples of the classic Apollo-Dionysus dichotomy. The brother or sister-equivalents that are polar opposites, but balance each other out perfectly (while also driving each other up a wall). It's the odd couple format at its most-simple, and the actors here are both so gosh-darned-charming, and have such amazing chemistry with each other, that it works perfectly. Also, shout out to the musical score (Michael Kamen working with Eric Clapton, of all people, there) with that theming, too, representing Murtaugh with a bluesy saxophone, and Riggs with an electric guitar, and keeping the instruments away from each other until the characters actually begin to trust each other, at which point, the instruments begin to merge in the score. I just love musical storytelling like that. :D
Funnily, as much as "Lethal Weapon" now feels like a buddy cop film with some darker aspects, at the time of its release, it was seen as a return-to-form "hardboiled" crime film, and even compared to "The French Connection" on more than one occasion, which is kind of absurd, considering how much lighter this film feels than THAT. Says a lot about how over-the-top silly action movies had gotten in the '80s. I do think this film and "Die Hard" helped to pull the genre back a bit, and by the mid-'90s, we were getting gems like "Heat": you know, actual hardboiled crime films!
RE: 47:08, I believe Riggs is supposed to be in his mid-30s here, if he was 19 in the Vietnam War. This is 1987, and the combat portion of the war effectively ended for the Americans by 1973. So, the youngest he could be is 33. Most-likely something like 35 or 36, really (Mel Gibson was roughly 30 at the time of filming). And I'm pretty sure that Rianne is supposed to be 16, since that's roughly how old Traci Wolfe was at filming (CORRECTION: I went back and checked: I got my decade wrong, she was 26, if you can believe it). There's "kid clubs" out there for the 16-to-20 set that don't serve alcohol, especially in bigger cities like LA, so, that's probably the intention? So, yeah, rather-illegal. Heck, age her up, and it's still super-skeevy, since she's the daughter of his best friend and partner. I don't THINK the intention in the script was to suggest otherwise, just that Rianne is "teen swooning" for the sake of humor, but male Hollywood writers of that period had some strange ideas about what was, and was not appropriate, so, I may be giving Shane Black too much credit, here.
Mel Gibson's mullet is long and luxurious in this movie!
Wow!! Two of my favorite reactors!! Great day!!
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Well this is cool - I've been following both of you for a long time. And a great movie too - there are four Lethal Weapon movies and they are all worth watching.
One of my favorite movie series! And I follow OGB Reacts too! So glad the 2 of you did a collab!
Two of my fav reactors together!!!
" Eat a Snickers...." Lmao, Sam!! 🤣🤣
I was already subscribed to both of you, and I'm so glad you did this! Awesome reaction video. I hope more of my favorite reactors (like you guys) do these kind of collaborations and that you all get more and more subscribers as a result.
This was a ton of fun to watch with you and I can’t wait to watch the second one with you soon!! 👀
"I didn't know it was a Christmas movie"
"Just like Die Hard!"
"Lethal Weapon" writer Shane Black made an entire career out of Christmas action movies. He also wrote "The Last Boy Scout" "The Long Kiss Goodnight" and wrote and directed "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" "The Nice Guys" and "Iron Man 3" all of which take place at Christmas.
"Die Hard" is the one Christmas action movie he wasn't directly associated with. He was an actor for a while and he was in "Predator" which was directed by "Die Hard" director John McTiernan. Both Die Hard and Lethal Weapon were produced by Joel Silver and lot of the same cast and crew appear in both movies.
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2:15 ...."Oh, is this a christmas movie?".... Let's see; the movie opens with Jingle Bells, the first scene is about a women jumping from a building, and the plot is about some guys trying to bring snow to L.A...... Yeah, I think this applies as christmas movie.......
New sub here. Already subbed to OGB. You have to continue with this series. It just keeps getting better. Love the colab. Great reaction from you both👍.
I think you guys should collab on the next 3 sequels also. The family dynamic and adding Joe Pesci is brilliant.
We said in the video that LW2 will be going on Sam's channel. We hadn't planned on the other two as we have another series in mind to collab on, but we're definitely open to doing 3 and 4 as well!
Great reaction!!!! It’s 4 lethal weapon movies and working on a fifth film.
Nobody mentions how when Murtaugh's buddy gets shot, the bullet goes through the milk carton in front of him as well. I know it's just squibs but even the best squibs dont' always sell it. I always notice when someone's shot and something near them also gets shot like the bullet went through. Also, for the sake of playful debate, I think Lethal Weapon is not only a Christmas movie (visible decorations, repeated mentions, it's about family, christmas music) but it's more fun than Die Hard while it's at it xD
awesome team up
Danny Glover was actually 40 years old when this film was shot!
Yay! More collabs!
Yay. One of my favorite movie franchises and definitely my favorite action/buddy cop franchises.
This classic buddy cop movie is the perfect movie to do a reaction Team Up
Great duo, really enjoy both of your channels!
Great reaction to a wonderful classic film. You both gave great insight into it. Love it:)
One of the great things about the 4 Lethal Weapon movies is that: it is about strangers, becoming friends, becoming a family, with some crime-busting woven in.
I love Sam! Great pick. :)
I have to say that I thoroughly enjoy watching the two of you on your own channels but watching to the two of you together is extra special. Please do more movies together of than the Lethal Weapon series.
We have another series in mind! ☺️ Thank you!
@@kaiielle you're welcome and I can't wait
@@kaiielle Mission Impossible?
@@Rmlohner We won't spoil. 😊
The... G.O.A.T.s... phenomenal Collab... Keep em coming!
From what I heard, they set “Die Hard” during the holidays because it had worked well for this movie. Someone involved with LW suggested it to someone on DH because then they would get royalties forever when the networks air them every December.
I doubt that’s true, as the Christmas theme was carried forward from the novel Die Hard was based on, and that book dates back to ‘74.
Woah!! A collab with another TH-camr I frequent. Let's Gooooooo!!
39:30 Berreta hols 15 in the mag 1 in the chamber, and 40:40 Riggs is ex special forces green berets...superhuman levels of fit
Already subscribed to both of you, and seeing a collab was a great surprise! I will definitely be watching your Lethal Weapon 2 collab when it's up. I hope that you'll both check out all four Lethal Weapon movies. I don't want to set any expectations in advance, but I believe you will find them all worthwhile. 😃👍
Hands down, my favorite buddy cop movie!
Great reaction! Please look at all the Lethal Weapon movies. Totally worth it
This is an amazing collaboration, you both have a nice day 🥰🥰
Classic 80’s action movie. LW2 is great too.
80's Classic Action Movie, The age of Glover screaming 'Rigs!' every couple of minutes XD
also FYI, those kind of fist fights do not go half as corny. lol
I'M A BIG FAN OF COLLABS!!! And this is the mullet movie, right? I CAN'T WAIT!!! Lethal Weapon, starring Mullet Gibson!!!!!
80s checklist CHECKED: big hair, sombre saxaphones, and one-liners before shooting people!!!!! 🥳💛
The bad guy that you said was in Die Hard, was, and is in many movies. Also had a great fight scene with Brandon Lee in Rapid Fire. Gary Busy has been in toms of stuff including Predator 2 and The Buddy Holly Story.
The next couple of these movies are pretty good, i think you would enjoy loaded weapon it is a satire. Just subscribed to both channels, loved your reactions.
You definitely have to check out the movie. Harley-Davidson and the Marlboro Man starring Don Johnson and Mickey Rourke. This film is definitely a high octane action movie.
Even as a *huge* Mad Max fanboy, I'll readily admit that these movies were Mel Gibson's best roles. I don't know that there was any other actor who could've portrayed Riggs as perfectly, and Danny Glover provided the perfect "straight laced" counterpart. The sequels were also excellent.
This may sound weird, but as an ex-Army guy who spent _plenty_ of time on various weapons ranges, shooting was always somewhat therapeutic for me. Very easy to focus in on the target & block out all the other noise going on in your life, at least for a couple hours. I can sort of relate on the pistol aspect, though: the one time I ever fired a handgun it wasn't the recoil that got me, but that since my platoon was running the range we wound up firing off all the "extra" rounds when everybody was done actually qualifying on the pistols, and by the time I'd burned through about a dozen magazines my trigger finger was wore out. Actually did the last couple left handed just for a break. 😂
One of my favorite Buddy Cop Action Comedy Films!
Before Mel Gibson was cast as Martin Riggs, Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Jeff Bridges, Nick Nolte, Clint Eastwood, John Travolta, Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Charlie Sheen, Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin, Emilio Estevez, Matthew Broderick, Nicolas Cage, Jason Patric, Kiefer Sutherland, William Hurt, Sean Penn, Kevin Costner, Michael Douglas, Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer, Tom Hanks, Mickey Rourke, and Michael J Fox were considered for the role.
Before Danny Glover was cast as Roger Murtaugh, Brian Dennehy, Nick Nolte, Charles Bronson, Robert DeNiro, Gene Hackman, Paul Newman, Warren Beatty,Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, and Al Pacino were considered for the role.
Joshua was going to be played by either David Bowie, Christopher Walken, John Lithgow, Scott Glenn, Stephen Lang, Ron Perlman, or Keith Carradine, before Gary Busey was cast.
The villainous Gen McAllister was going to played by either Peter Boyle, Robert Duvall, James Earl Jones, Lee Marvin, Richard Jordan or Ryan O'Neal, before Mitchell Ryan was cast.
Yay My favorite Kaiielle and Sam Reacting to lethal weapon together ❤❤ This is the best day ever I hope you too react to lethal weapon 2 next !!!🤵🏿
The saxophone was Roger's theme, the electric guitar (Eric Clapton) was Martin's theme.
You 2 are great together. You should do all Lethal Weapons together
I hope you do all four films!!!!
This movie came from an era where guns didn't need reloading. Eventually everyone started poking fun at the trend and that's what led to guns always being reloaded now.
Nice collab reaction. There are a total of 4 Lethal Weapon buddy cop movies. I've seen the first two. There is more cheese, more fun, and the buddy cop friendship grows throughout. I've heard 3 & 4 are also well worth watching.
The Murtaugh family is the heart of this movie series.
All 4 lethal weapons are faaaaantastic. They use the same actors and bring in some new ones along the way, the last one is the perfect ending, yeah they're all great.
Mr. Joshua letting General McCalister burn his arm was to demonstrate loyalty. Even though he is a mercenary he is still to be trusted.
Please keep going with the series! Greatest buddy cop series ever!!!
ONE OF THE ALLLLL TIME GREAT STORY LINES AND LOTSAAA ACTION AND COMEDY ONE LINERS AND YOU SHOULD JUST DO ALLLLL 4 OF THEM!!! 😊 ONE OF THE TOP BEST FILM SERIES GIRLS! 😊 THEY ADD CHARACTERS TO EACH MOVIE AND JUST A GREAT STORYLINE ( 87-98 ) HAVE FUNNNNN AND ENJOY!
The reason you bring a helicopter is that you can see more from the sky. Hence why it flew in a big circle. Also, frying that low is taught to the military. It is called NOE (Nape of the earth) when you fly like that, people on the ground will not get as much warning, by the time they see you, they can hardly shoot at you. The higher you are, the greater the declination, which means they have time to see and aim at you.
More!!! Love you both. Gosh it would be AMAZING if you two would team up for "What's Up Doc?" (1972) I'm not sure if there's anything that would interest EITHER of you about it other than Barbra Streisand and "introducing" Madeline Kahn. I'm a carrot giver.
Indo, the man who tortures Riggs is played by the amazing Al Leong, who (you now just mentioned it) was o e of the terrorists in Die Hard. He grabs the candy bar right as the police are about to storm the Nakatomi tower. He was also in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.
Yes, the candy bar guy!
Such a great action guy, it’s almost easier to name classic 80/90’s action movies that he isn’t in 😊
"i worked with a company called Air America" which was another movie with mel gibson and also robert downey jr
Ladies, Gary Bussey has been in over 150 movies! Buddy Holly, Point Break, Predator II
Under Siege.
fun fact i got to sit next to the woman who plays the psychiatrist on the plane when i was a little boy because her daughter and i were talking
I remember during this time in the Hollywood film that it seemed that every Hollywood star seem to be showing off there gluteus maximus. It was definitely a thing in the '80s.
You two should do all 4 movies together eventually.
The first two for sure. We have another series in mind with a 1/2 that we'd like to do too. We're certainly not opposed to doing 3/4 of LW, but just need to make sure we don't overwhelm ourselves either.
@@kaiielle understandable
So glad ya'll got to watch this movie,there are actually 3 more and yes the cast is the same, with some
great additions, like Joe Pesci from My Cousin Vinny,Home Alone and Good Fellas, plus
Chris Rock, Jet Li and Renee Russo
11:15 I think that was the show how willing he was to follow orders. Like if he's willing to get burned like that just on a word and what do you think he'll do to you if he sent after you kind of deal. It was to put fear in the other guy and make sure he follows orders himself. By the way y'all definitely need to watch three and four as well because all four movies are one giant story that continues to show the relationship between these two guys. And it's definitely a beautiful thing.
You both are so cool. Watch you both. Kaiielle and Sam! ❤❤❤
Just subscribed...love the two of you doing this..its great. You were trying to figure out the bad guy..it sounded like you thought he looked familiar...i think you are referencing Gary Busey...he has played in quite a few films...one is a movie called Silver Bullet...i heard something happened to him right after the filming of this movie and that it seriously affected his mental well being..in any event..im getting a kick out of these reactions...!🤗
I'd love to see you ladies react to the crime-comedy, "Kuffs."
Amanda graduated the same year as I. Fun fact: Mel Gibson starred in “Air America,” with Robert Downey, Jr. it’s not too bad a flick about the CIA Airforce in Vietnam. *the car explodes* (all together now!) “Oooooo!”
Oh, btw, Lethal Weapon 1-4…the best cop series ever! Do them all. Rihanna’s crushing on Riggs is just a silly thing that Riggs comments on to get under Roger’s skin. He has no designs on her.
You both need to see “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension.”
I love OGB reacts!
Gary Busey, the Buddy Holly story. Did his own singing for the movie.
Trivia facts. Air America was a real organization that smuggled heroin and weapons back and forth from Vietnam using military aircrafts. Mel Gibson was in a movie with Robert Downey Jr called Air America where they were both pilots. Denzel Washington was also in a movie where he was a gangster in New York during the war and he used Air America to smuggle heroin into the country for him. Both of those are pretty good movies.
A good pair of cowboy boots that fit right is like wearing socks.
Guy in the red at 6:17 is Anthony Kiedis' father.
Oh I love action Christmas movies.😊
awesome can't wait for part 2 its awesome.............. ps there are 4 lethal weapons
Recommended: Loaded Weapon (1993), a fantastic parody of this movie starring Samuel Jackson and Emilio Estevez.
That was to prove that his men were loyal to him. They’ll do whatever he tells them to do.
90s Mel would have been the perfect Wolverine
Good Lethal reaction
Gary Busey & Danny Glover were also in Predator 2. I remember him mostly in Keanu Reeves’ Point Break
Great movie and good times of cinema ...tanks, congrats from Brazil ❤ !!!
I have worked in video editing and video production. My Ex was the real talent and I was just doing what she said..
In one scene for a movie or video project I had to put a gun to my head and shoot.
Here in the UK guns are really really bad everyone is scared of them.
Having to put a gun, a real gun to my head and pull the trigger. was the hardest thing I've ever done.
It had been double checked by professionals, the barral had been plugged with a steel rod. It would not even be firing blanks. But still after all that it took me about 10-20 takes I just couldn't bring myself to pull the trigger while it was pointing at me.
I know you have a lot of reactions in your plate right now, but it would be great if you go through the rest of the franchise.... Each movie just goes better and better with a new entry....
This is my favorite buddy cop series. Hope u watch all 4