{"id":288,"date":"2006-06-21T20:06:46","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T03:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/21\/kiss-kiss-bang-bang\/"},"modified":"2022-10-26T20:28:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T00:28:21","slug":"kiss-kiss-bang-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/kiss-kiss-bang-bang\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane Black’s Kiss Kiss Bang Bang"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Even if the marketing hadn’t trumpeted the dramatic return of burnt-out Hollywood high-concept screenwriter Shane Black, it’d be painfully obvious Kiss Kiss Bang Bang<\/em> is a movie crafted specifically for the audience he practically created with his Lethal Weapon<\/em> quadrilogy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The all-over-the-place plot leaves a few threads dangling (What happened to the whole Michelle Monaghan femme fatale setup? Was it too obvious to be anything other than a red herring?), but that’s not really what matters; the movie is exactly what what Hollywood execs and critics alike mean when they use the belabored cliche “a ride that you either get on or you don’t.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even if the marketing hadn’t trumpeted the dramatic return of burnt-out Hollywood high-concept screenwriter Shane Black, it’d be painfully obvious Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is a movie crafted specifically for the audience he practically created with his Lethal Weapon quadrilogy. The all-over-the-place plot leaves a few threads dangling (What happened to the whole Michelle Monaghan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,2],"tags":[1379,1305,1276,1304],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3-stars","category-movies","tag-michelle-monaghan","tag-robert-downey-jr","tag-shane-black","tag-val-kilmer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/kiss-kiss-bang-bang.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa9lhB-4E","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8253,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/damien-chazelles-babylon-is-not-very-loving-as-love-letters-go\/","url_meta":{"origin":288,"position":0},"title":"Damien Chazelle’s Babylon is not very loving, as love letters go","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"March 26, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Like most filmmakers and movie buffs, Babylon director Damien Chazelle would appear to have mixed feelings about Hollywood.","rel":"","context":"In "1 Star"","block_context":{"text":"1 Star","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/category\/ratings\/1-star\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Babylon","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/babylon.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/babylon.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/babylon.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/babylon.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/babylon.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5210,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/darren-aronofsky-mother-2017-movie-review\/","url_meta":{"origin":288,"position":1},"title":"Darren Aronofsky’s “mother!” earns its exclamation point","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"December 29, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Darren Aronofsky's mother! is an allegory so undisguised that it barely qualifies as one. It's more like a cinematic smoothie: blend one (1) King James Bible, the Big Bang \/ Big Crunch Wikipedia article, a heavy splash of Lars Von Trier-esque literal-as-metaphorical torture of a beautiful woman, season to taste\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "4 Stars"","block_context":{"text":"4 Stars","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/category\/ratings\/4-stars\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Jennifer Lawrence in mother!","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/mother.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/mother.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/mother.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/mother.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/mother.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3740,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/exclusive-the-expendables-3-poster\/","url_meta":{"origin":288,"position":2},"title":"Exclusive! The Expendables 3 Poster","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"August 6, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Coming summer 2014 -- The Expendables 3! Starring Lynda Carter, Pam Grier, Linda Hamilton, Angelina Jolie, Milla Jovovich, Uma Thurman, Sigourney Weaver, and Michelle Yeoh. This movie does not exist, but should. Hollywood, call me.","rel":"","context":"In "Movies"","block_context":{"text":"Movies","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/category\/main-menu\/movies\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Expendables","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/expendables.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/expendables.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/expendables.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/expendables.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/expendables.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8183,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-long-forgotten-comic-book-villain-black-adam-makes-for-a-quickly-forgotten-movie\/","url_meta":{"origin":288,"position":3},"title":"The long-forgotten comic book villain Black Adam makes for a quickly-forgotten movie","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"January 8, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Jaume Collet-Serra's dreadful Black Adam is damning evidence that Hollywood has forgotten why kids like superheroes in the first place.","rel":"","context":"In "1 Star"","block_context":{"text":"1 Star","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/category\/ratings\/1-star\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Black Adam movie","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/black-adam.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/black-adam.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/black-adam.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/black-adam.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/black-adam.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/alexander\/","url_meta":{"origin":288,"position":4},"title":"By Zeus’ beard, Oliver Stone’s Alexander is bad","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"August 10, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Ugh. I should have listened to the myriad critics and friends who warned me off Oliver Stone's Alexander... it is indeed quite bad. Everything you've heard is true: impossibly long, unintelligibly edited (can anyone explain to me Alexander's supposedly brilliant scheme in the first battle? Running away and coming back\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "2 Stars"","block_context":{"text":"2 Stars","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/category\/ratings\/2-stars\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Alexander","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/alexander-feature.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/alexander-feature.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/alexander-feature.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/alexander-feature.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/alexander-feature.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":125,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/manhattan\/","url_meta":{"origin":288,"position":5},"title":"Manhattan","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"January 22, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Amazingly, upon a second viewing I didn't care for Woody Allen's Manhattan nearly as much as I remembered. Perhaps its status in the canon has retroactively enhanced my opinion. But it still inspires as a big, fat, sloppy kiss to my city, and a poster of Woody & Diane beneath\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "4 Stars"","block_context":{"text":"4 Stars","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/category\/ratings\/4-stars\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Manhattan","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/manhattan-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/manhattan-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/manhattan-1.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/manhattan-1.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/manhattan-1.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7858,"href":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/7858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}