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48 Hours and Beverly Hill Cop
48 Hours and Beverly Hill Cop
Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief. Glad I stuck with it, turned out to be not to bad! Now I need to see the second film.
As I recall, the chief murderer they are after was a scary dude, too. James Remar was the actor's name. He's been around a long time, but like the fellow who played Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs, Ted Levine, he's never gotten his proper measure of fame."48 Hours" is one of my favorite movies (that I'm not proud of) as it did the cop / buddy thing, IMHO, better than any other movie. There are no boring scenes in the movie and no political correctness. Murphy is on fire as his style and humor was all fresh and bold at the time and Nolte more than holds his own with Murphy.
The story moves along weaving humor and action wonderfully while building the relationship between Murphy and Nolte. "Beverly Hills Cop" is an enjoyable movie, but you can already feel that the Hollywood machine was taking over Eddie Murphy's raw, awesome talent and "marketing" and packaging it in a contrived way.
As I recall, the chief murderer they are after was a scary dude, too. James Remar was the actor's name. He's been around a long time, but like the fellow who played Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs, Ted Levine, he's never gotten his proper measure of fame.
As for Murphy, it was after I saw the horror of Superman III that I realized: If the producers had cast Murphy instead of Richard Pryor, and played the whole "Let's destroy Superman" story straight, it would have saved that flick. Imagine Murphy as a savvy computer whiz, not a goofball, who works a computer scam on Robert Vaughn's company; Vaughn spots talent like his own, unfettered by conscience; and they go after Superman together! That would have been sharp. (Still I liked Annette O'Toole as Lana Lang, and the "Superman, you're a mean drunk" sequence in the bar. But they weren't enough to save the story.)
Love this movie!The Money Pit. I've seen this one so many times, but I still laugh! Such a great comedy.
I would watch it, but it would probably give me nightmares!The Money Pit. I've seen this one so many times, but I still laugh! Such a great comedy.
Good! Read the book once upon a time and was hoping that it would be worthwhile.Inherent Vice (2014). Overly long at 2 hours 28 minutes, the plot wanders quite a bit, and I don't know why everyone insists it's a comedy. But it has that "special something" that makes it watchable, and I'm fairly certain this is my favorite performance by Joaquin Phoenix.
Yeah...I wouldn't go that far. I can't go into specifics without veering dangerously into "spoiler" territory, but a friend and I were discussing Inherent Vice at dinner tonight and he made the comment that it's one of those movies like The Big Sleep that you watch for the characters, and not so much for the plot. I couldn't disagree.Good! Read the book once upon a time and was hoping that it would be worthwhile.
That is how I felt with the book. I was entertained enough, but do not see me reading anything else by the author.Yeah...I wouldn't go that far. I can't go into specifics without veering dangerously into "spoiler" territory, but a friend and I were discussing Inherent Vice at dinner tonight and he made the comment that it's one of those movies like The Big Sleep that you watch for the characters, and not so much for the plot. I couldn't disagree.