Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
I’d heard the term before but always assumed it was referring to artists they specifically say aren’t yacht rock.
I remember an elementary school class field trip to… a radio history museum(?)… where we learned about a bunch of old radio shows, making me one of the maybe dozen kids in the U.S. who knew anything about the character when this came out.
Removed from the childhood innocence where you don’t yet understand there can be bad movies, this holds up… okay. The plot is incoherent, but the style hits all the same buttons that make me love other superhero…
Maybe it’s lingering memories of that one good Hulk video game, but I like when he does car boxing gloves.
It has maybe five moments that work really well and feel like they’re in a separate movie. Riggs realizing he’s finally slowing down with age and Murtaugh helping him deal could be the core of a solid franchise capper.
Instead we got even more Joe Pesci, with Chris Rock now competing to see who can be the most annoying. We got a gay panic bit that lasts 3/4 of the runtime. We got even more Riggs casual racism. We got…