I like Lethal Weapon. Haven't seen it in a long time though. Might have to put it in the Netflix watchlist.
Well anyone who likes
Lethal Weapon can't be
all bad
I feel like the new Jason Bourne movie is the type where most people will walk out of the theater saying, "oh wow, that was a huge piece of shit," and then if you asked them to rate it they'd be like, "i dunno- 6.5/10."
@Bullitt68 I think it was in a different thread Karloff films were mentioned and you listed some that you liked better than his widely known films.
There was some sort of a Karloff marathon on TCM a few days ago so I recorded a few. The Walking Dead, The Body Snatchers and The Mummy I haven't seen, and I also got Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, and The Black Cat.
I believe you mentioned a few of these am I correct?
I'm pretty sure you're thinking of
shadow's
Dracula thread where I said the following:
To be honest, I'm not really a fan of
any of the Universal monster movies. I prefer literally everything else that Lugosi and Karloff did in the 1930s and 1940s like
Murders in the Rue Morgue,
White Zombie,
The Old Dark House,
The Black Cat,
The Raven,
The Invisible Ray,
The Walking Dead (not the TV show
),
Black Friday,
Before I Hang, etc.
I don't think
Frankenstein,
Bride of Frankenstein, or
The Mummy are
bad, but I don't think they're all that good, either.
The Black Cat, that's a wickedly awesome movie and probably the highlight of the Lugosi/Karloff pairings;
The Body Snatcher is IMO Karloff's greatest performance and one of the strongest efforts in the Val Lewton canon; and
The Walking Dead is more hidden gem material than underrated masterpiece, but it's still more enjoyable to me than the Universal monster movies.
In terms of whole episodes, the one where Bart wants to be a daredevil is my favorite. Beginning to end, it's just solid writing with the best mixture I've seen yet of genuine heart with Homer not wanting to see Bart get hurt and legit comedy with Homer fucking himself up when he accidentally does the stunt he was trying to keep Bart from doing (that's also been the hardest I've laughed so hard, particularly when the rescue helicopter keeps smashing his head off of the cliff and then ambulance hits a tree and he falls out the back right back down the cliff
).
The runner-up would be when Mr. Burns runs for governor. Very Trump-esque in a lot of ways, plus they do that awesome
Citizen Kane reference:
As for individual lines, my first laugh came from Homer's line in the episode where Bart goes to genius school and blows up the chemistry lab. Homer is trying to wash the green shit off of Bart and he tells him, "I bet Einstein turned himself all sorts of colors before he invented the light bulb." And then I think the sharpest line I've heard yet was when Mr. Burns is trying to give Homer a promotion so he'll convince the people that his plant is safe but Homer sees through it. Mr. Burns says, "You're not as stupid as you look, or sound, or our best testing indicates."
