Do you ever watch cable tv and see an old movie or show like “Lethal Weapon”, and realize with sad, wistful nostalgia that the next generation will not know such apolitical, feel-good interracial action-buddy entertainment or the strange truce between black and white masculinity that football was the foundation of? That that era where action and comedy cinema especially were defined by such simple masculine *fun* is gone forever?

Richard Linklater has literally made it his life’s purpose to make sure the memory of that early-80s interracial truce on the basis of earnest, earthy, fun-loving American clear-sky summer day masculinity is not forgotten