I’ve had the Lethal Weapon series playing in the shop the last few days while I putzed around.
You can see each movie becoming more liberal and political.
In Lethal Weapon 3, the theme is “cop killer bullets” and his goal to get them off the streets.
In 4, Glover and Gibson have a discussion while standing in front of a huge poster that says zillions of kids get killed each year by guns. 4 is basically unwatchable.
4 was punishable as a crime against humanity. Oy. I remember when it came out, director Richard Donner saying in an interview that they basically had no script, and they sort of made up the day’s shooting schedule each day over their morning coffee. Maybe he was just trying to be funny, but I remember saying to my wife, “Yeah, it looks like it!”