Saturday, January 31, 2009

The Eternal Question

I haven't been able to stop thinking about this... which movie quadrilogy is better: the Die Hards, or the Lethal Weapons?

I think that the quick answer would be Die Hard... but are you sure?  I'm leaning towards the cop-buddy-drama.

The first movies in each series are fantastic... it's a push.  The last movies in each are an abomination before man, so that is also a push.  The 3rd Diehard has a distinct advantage over the 3rd LW, if only for the sign in Harlem at the beginning.  I think the turning point for the matchup is the 2nd movie.  Lethal Weapon knocks the sequel out of the park wheras Diehard 2 made me wish I was dead.

I think this comparison would be easier to make if I had seen these movies within the last 10 years.

-Anthony
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5 comments:

  1. MLaF297February 3, 2009 at 7:25 PM

    Wow, I'd have to go Lethal Weapon here. The cop-buddy-ness of LW has been often imitated and rarely duplicated as well. In my opinion Live Free or Die Hard crushed LW4. But the first 2 LWs were good enough to pull up the slack. Plus Mel Gibson rocks the sick 80's feathered doo...one of the few good things to come out of the 80's.

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  2. Dan M. W.February 5, 2009 at 5:39 PM

    Dan-

    I have to say both series are a push, if you tally it by the number of good movies out of four i say its a dead tie.
    Die hard- 1 and 3 were awesome, 4 being mediocre, definitely trying to grab the new age of fans..

    LW- 1,and 2 AWESOME. 3 sucked 4 once again mediocre, bringing on chris rock to become edgy.

    so i believe it all comes down to the catch phrases.

    Die hard- "yippee ky ay motherfucker"
    LW- "i'm getting to old for this shit."


    Die hard hands down winner. ( i'm not old yet)

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  3. AnthonyTwoFebruary 6, 2009 at 1:12 AM

    I actually started to ironically quote that Danny Glover catchphrase in my early teenage years. Edge: Lethal Weapon.

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  4. MLaF297February 8, 2009 at 4:14 PM

    ok, just throwing this out there, noticed this the other day when Lethal Weapon II was on TV. Theres a scene in the end where they discover that the bad guys are smuggling a bunch of $1,000 bills. I thought to myself, "shit, didn't think there were $1,000 bills.

    Looked it up, they've been out of print since the 1940's. It would be impossible to have that many $1,000 bills, or even to use them without being suspicious. Where am i going with this?

    LW2 is ballsy enough to say "hey, US Treasury, suck on this!" I mean sure Die Hards open about its "kick-ass-ed-ness", but Lethal Weapon seems to be a little more subtle about how much it wrecks house. Don't underestimate LW

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  5. AnthonyTwoFebruary 13, 2009 at 4:09 AM

    lol

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