Continuity mistake: When Riggs runs onto the ice at the hockey game, he collides with two players. After he is hit by the second player, there is a brief shot of Riggs still in the hockey box trying to open the door. This is where he was before he ran onto the ice.
Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Richard Donner
Starring: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Rene Russo, Joe Pesci
Riggs and Murtaugh head to Travis' compound where Riggs devises an ingenious plan. He siphons some gas from a pickup and begins to drive it around the compound while leaving a trail of gas in its wake. Murtaugh lights the trail and the whole housing project goes up in flames. Travis confronts Riggs in a front-end loader, but Murtaugh tosses Riggs a gun loaded with the "cop killers" and Riggs shoots Travis directly through the front scoop. Travis is still alive, but Riggs puts the trailer in gear and the burning remains of the house come down on Travis.
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Martin Riggs: He's done this twice, oh, damn! I'm gonna suck his eyes out through his nose!
Trivia: After the building collapses in the beginning, the bomb-squad guy who claps (making fun of Riggs's and Murtaugh's goof up) is in real life Bill Frederick, the mayor of Orlando at the time the scene was filmed.
Question: Can anyone explain to me the phrase Rene Russo says to Mel Gibson 'Close is a lingerie shop without a window'. Gibson's character can't make sense of the phrase and neither can I.
Answer: She means that's as close as he's going to get or as far as they're getting. Like the old saying, "Close but no cigar." He played the game, but didn't win the prize.
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Answer: So what does it mean? "Nothing, " says screenwriter Jeffrey Boam. "It's a complete non sequitur. The (original) line was something like 'Close doesn't count, ' or 'Close only counts with horseshoes.' Dick (director Richard Donner) is a fun-loving guy," says Boam, "and this thought just popped into his head. He said, 'Let's have her say something completely off the wall.'" Boam, who wasn't on the set at the time, quickly faxed Donner a dozen meaningless lines that began with the words, "Close is..." Then the whole cast and crew started coming up with them. But the one they used came from Russo herself. "This is like some line from a Beatles song," says Boam. "I guess people are trying to figure it out."