Warner Bros., Silver Pictures
Warning: This film has been modified from its original version. Leave it to the inelegance of television censorship to ruin a perfectly good scene rendering it completely unwatchable. I understand, it's the holidays, lots of people are watching TV, many scenes of the 1987 Richard Donner classic, Lethal Weapon, needed to be cut or altered to suit the home audience. However, I would argue against rerecording the word 'pissed.' First of all, among the list of offenses in a movie full of shootouts, the word 'pissed' is pretty innocuous and second, the rerecorded version is so distracting, now I hear it over the original.
Let's go to scene: Martin Riggs has just flown through a store window after being shot. Fortunately, he's wearing his bullet proof vest, so after a tense moment, he comes to, pops up and exclaims to his partner, 'I'm pissed, Roger, now I'm pissed.' Unfit for TV, the verbal infraction was rerecorded to, 'I'm miffed, Roger, now I'm miffed.' Miffed...now I'm thinking of white gloves, fluffy cats or teddy bear tea parties. The ridiculous replacement successfully drained any impact in the statement and is now burned! burned! in my memory for all time. Thanks FCC, but I think this is a gift even Leo Getz would return.