Ladies and Gentlemen.. watching Lethal Weapon today, as part of my Xmas, this series of revelations, previously unentered hit me:
*Riggs H2H skills are now in question against McClane.
(McClane would EASILY have done that "escaping by killing two or three three goons on the way out" bit..in the leisurely time in which Riggs executed it.. Especially as one dispatchment was a quick KO, and the other gunshot inflicted (As would be everyone else Riggs killed right up to McCallister.)
* Also Riggs' fabled MA skills against Joshua amount to a lot of blurred slow mo photography, some occasional slapping faggotry and some basic strikes delivered slowly, finishing with a very manlove jujitsu bollocks-to-neck "Choke" in which you can actually see Joshua leaning forward mouth open teeth all gnashing enthusiastically directly towards Rigg's balls. Yes. This is the way that Riggs chose to end the fight:
With an trained Ex-CIA tough guy nibbling at his nuts.
* That look Roger gave Riggs as Riggs walked off from that first "Meeting of the Murtaugh family" night was exceedingly fu*king gay. Theres NO denying it.
* Riggs makes some really dumb deductive reasoning, of a magnitude that is worrying. When he is blown through the window by that shotgun drive by, he concludes after the attack that the bad guys think he is dead.
Only problem is that they could have had a spotter, as do a lot of hits by coordinated by these ex-CIA/Paramilitary types, and therefore, a nice report would go back to Mccallister's desk stating quotes of Riggs saying "And now they think Im dead, so we have the advantage..!!"
Yeahhhhhhh.......Nice one Riggs.
* But at least he pushes that nice asian prostitute chick he is talking to nicely out of the way before he is hit.
Oh also, he likes his prostitutes. He clearly lures them back to his beachouse under the false premises of watching the three stooges, then rapes them, kills them, rapes them again, cuts the body into tiny little pieces and they are eaten, thrown up, shat out and reraped and never heard of or seen again but Riggs keeps trophies of their dismembered bodies like their hair or the occasional clitoris, as evidenced by the scene in which Riggs takes home a prostitute who he takes home by paying cash stating "Younger the better", on the premise of going home and stooge festing, only for her never to be seen in the rest of the saga after that point..
* Riggs is a bad mother fu*ker with a sniper's rifle.
* That whole "Murtaugh bumming Riggs whilst he was knackered after his fight with Joshua", right through to after Joshua's corpse had hit the floor was just plain low, by Murtaugh.
(No wonder he tried immediately to bump off Riggs as material witness by inviting him to a dinner of Trish's cooking.)
That all said. The movie rocked.
A great Xmas movie. With Beer. Do it. Director's cut.
