Lethal Weapon (TV Series)

The Mad Professor

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RPF PREMIUM MEMBER

• May 21, 2016

• #1

I'm not too thrilled about this.

Part of the fun of the Lethal Weapon series was the extreme wackiness of Mel Gibson's portrayal juxtaposed against the by-the-book nature of Danny Glover.

This seems... subdued.

Not the action. The portrayals.

Here, it seems like Riggs is less hilariously insane and more like someone who's just bitter about life and is willing to take crazy chances because he has nothing to live for.

 

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dascoyne

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• May 21, 2016

• #2

http://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=247810

 

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madmax

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• Sep 26, 2016

• #3

i liked it ,looking forward to episode 2,it'll never be Gibson and Glover but all in all not bad

 

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batguy

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• Sep 26, 2016

• #4

Mel's crazy version of Riggs is perhaps better left in the past. It would be VERY hard for anyone else to follow that act without just being an impersonation of Mel. And it probably works better in small doses than an ongoing TV show anyway.

 

Father

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• Sep 27, 2016

• #5

I guess there's a time-line Hollywood uses for properties like this... something like 1.5 generations, before they decide there's a whole new audience out there that has never even seen the original movies... so it's ok to try to recreate something that was great and should just be left alone.

 

Jedi-72

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• Sep 27, 2016

• #6

Saw the pilot. Not very good. They have Riggs all over the place. One second he's a clown. The next, he's suicidal. Mel's version had an undertone of pain and darkness to the clowny parts. This doesn't have that at all. The guy is likeable enough. But, the character is very uneven. This also didn't need re-telling. It's already been done the right way. This feels, and is edited like, Dukes of Hazzard, meets Miami Vice, with a splash of NCIS and a pinch of every other cop show ever made.