The Lethal Weapon movies may look like prime targets for satire, but consider for a moment: Aren t they already a satire of themselves? Don t they get most of their laughs by forcing the conventions of the cop-buddy genre to unlikely extremes? When a suicidal Mel Gibson jumps from a building handcuffed to a guy he s supposed to talk out of jumping, or when Danny Glover s life is threatened by a bomb concealed in the toilet plumbing, somehow the Lethal Weapon crew has already moved beyond Dirty Harry.
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It s hard to satirize a satire. That s what National Lampoon s Loaded Weapon 1 wants to do, but the target proves elusive. This is a would-be comedy that s not as funny (nor as satirical) as the movies that inspired it. If you look back at the successful laffaminit send-ups, from Airplane! through Top Secret! to The Naked Gun, you ll see that their targets are movies that take themselves fairly seriously. Here the target is already in on the joke.
CS Score Interviews Staci Layne Wilson & Composer Chad Rehmann
CS Score Interviews Director Staci Layne Wilson & Composer Chad Rehmann
Welcome back film score lovers! This week we’re looking at La La Land’s release of the
Tremors motion picture soundtrack by Ernest Troost with additional music by Robert Folk. We also sat down and spoke with composer Chad Rehmann, who scored the upcoming film
Dashing in December; and Staci Layne Wilson, director of the amazing documentary
The Ventures: Stars On Guitars.
Lets do this thing!
JINGLE JANGLE
Check out this track from the Netflix Original Film
Jingle Jangle, titled “By the Fire with Grandma / Jangle’s and Things.” Composed by John Debney (