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Films:  Romancing the Stone and 48 Hours

Some re-watching of 80s films this past weekend.  Romancing the Stone is such a beloved film, but it doesn't quite do it for me.  Too cheesy.  For my money, Raiders gets the proper seriousness vs. cheese balance correct, whereas Romancing the Stone overloads the cheese.  A perfect movie to show a beginning screenwriting class, however, about story structure.

I remember 48 Hours as a comedy, but the film is actually a hell of a lot grittier than all the later "action comedy" films.  Even Lethal Weapon, the 48 Hours sequel, Beverly Hills Cop, all of these films feature significantly more comedy than the original 48 Hours.  In fact, other than the famous redneck bar scene, I would venture to say the comedy in 48 Hours is more akin to the comedy expressed in Westerns than the comedy expressed in the genre known as action comedy.