Word: scene
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wrote to the Cardinals asking for an old McGwire bat so he could use it as a wooden leg. Recently, when getting beer for his buddies, McGwire returned to his car to see people leaving their cars and slowly walking to him with pens outstretched. He described the scene to comedian Mark Pitta as The Night of the Living Dead. So McGwire wants to separate himself from the sideshow, to prevent himself from becoming Roger Maris. In 1961, unhappy that a relatively unimpressive player (Maris' second best year was 39 home runs, his career average was .260) threatened Ruth...
Picture this scene from a recent hit movie. It's night. A car idles at a railroad crossing, waiting for the train. Inside the car are a man and a woman. She's pregnant. She asks the man to feel her stomach--her baby is kicking. It's the kind of dewy moment that wouldn't be out of place in a financial-services commercial, or maybe one for tires...
...ends up on the tracks instead. Wham! Kapow! Impressive fireball! Fortunately, one of the bad guys is still alive and has time to look up and react--Wuh-oh!--just before the van is hit by a second train on parallel tracks, a deft directorial callback to an earlier scene in the same movie when another bad guy had time to look up and react just before being run over by a truck...
...photogenic violence is a legacy of earlier Lethal Weapon's, albeit not the only one. Leo is a retainer from the second, Riggs' girlfriend Lorna (Rene Russo) from Lethal Weapon 3, and the partners' past actions color every scene at LAPD head quarters. But never does the movie rest on the laurels of its predecessors. Many jokes are funny for the uninitiated even as they take on added resonance for those who have followed Riggs and Murtaugh through the years, and no jokes exclude those who are not die-hard fans. Old characters and running gags are neatly integrated into...
...multi-picture photo album underlay of the credits, but the real end of the movie comes fifteen minutes earlier, when Murtaugh and Riggs clasp each other and pause for a moment after vanquishing the last villain. They have come a long way from their early days, and the scene captures that feeling even for those who don't know the duo's history. Like that scene, the movie as a whole takes both characters a step past their development in previous films, yet also manages to be an amusing, entertaining film complete in itself. Lethal Weapon 4 is that rare...