Top Five: Christmas Action Movies
3) Lethal Weapon (1987)
You know, along with Die Hard, Lethal Weapon kind of created an action sub genre, the Christmas Actioner. Pity we haven’t gotten another in about 20 fucking years. Thanks, Bill Clinton. I dunno why I’m blaming you, I just am. It’s almost like movies that guys get to watch when the kids have gone to bed waiting for the fat one and mercifully, the washy family seasonal shit has finally ended for the day. As in, you’ve earned it, peace and quiet – now here’s Mel fucking Gibson. What is it about a Christmas action movie from the late 80’s set in L.A.? I mean, you’ve got everything here; Murtagh’s wife doing Christmas dinner, Jingle Bell Rock opening credits and Mel ‘God’ Gibson buying Christmas tree’s from a criminal on the side of the highway, then headbutting the scumbag and threatening to kill him.
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