Beverly Hills Cop 4?!

[BYH]

I don't think Murphy can still pull Axel Foley off.

Huh? It's not like Axel Foley is Hamlet. Murphy knocked me over in Dreamgirls. Foley's character would be a walk in the park.

I think he meant making Axel relevant and cool...even though Eddie will be 48 or 49 by the time the movie finally starts shooting.

Damn that's depressing.

People were saying the same thing about Harrison Ford in the latest Indiana Jones movie and he pulled that off just fine.

Yeah but Harrison Ford hasn't sucked since the end of the Reagan years.

 

[schiezainc]

As long as the movie stays away from space and Murphy plays only one character and there are some titties, I'm down for it.

Alexl Foley is a bad ass mofo when done right.

 

[Armchair_QB]

I don't think Murphy can still pull Axel Foley off.

Huh? It's not like Axel Foley is Hamlet. Murphy knocked me over in Dreamgirls. Foley's character would be a walk in the park.

I think he meant making Axel relevant and cool...even though Eddie will be 48 or 49 by the time the movie finally starts shooting.

Damn that's depressing.

People were saying the same thing about Harrison Ford in the latest Indiana Jones movie and he pulled that off just fine.

Yeah but Harrison Ford hasn't sucked since the end of the Reagan years.

How do you know? You're still living in the Reagan years Mr. You Can Still Rock in America.

 

[slappy4428]

Update: OK, this is making me a little optimistic
http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1590230/story.jhtml

"The third 'Beverly Hills Cop' was horrible!" the once and future Detective Axel Foley laughed. "I didn't want to leave it like that. The first two were cool and the third one was sh---y. [Let's] get the franchise fixed again, clean up this old mess and do a good movie.

"[Don't] just leave Axel with his thumb up his a-- from the last movie," the comic continued, chuckling. "Whatever happened to Axel Foley? He's sitting in Detroit with his thumb up his a-- since 'Beverly Hills Cop III.' Let's take those thumbs out and make a great movie!"
...
Murphy seemed on the verge of quashing that notion in no uncertain terms. Although he hasn't yet read a script — and admitted that the franchise could go in any direction, including one that was toned down — Murphy was adamant that what he wanted most of all was for a "real" Foley. And that means a whole lot of swear words.

Axel Foley doesn't need to go to Beverly Hills. All he has to do is head to the City-County Building in downtown Detroit for a better script than anyone in Hollywoodcould dream up.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Harlem Nights (1989) came out the year after Coming to America (1988)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000552/

Neither was funny.

 

[BYH]

I don't think Murphy can still pull Axel Foley off.

Huh? It's not like Axel Foley is Hamlet. Murphy knocked me over in Dreamgirls. Foley's character would be a walk in the park.

I think he meant making Axel relevant and cool...even though Eddie will be 48 or 49 by the time the movie finally starts shooting.

Damn that's depressing.

People were saying the same thing about Harrison Ford in the latest Indiana Jones movie and he pulled that off just fine.

Yeah but Harrison Ford hasn't sucked since the end of the Reagan years.

How do you know? You're still living in the Reagan years Mr. You Can Still Rock in America.

Well, yeah.

That and the fact I still live with my parents, sport a mullet and haven't quite figured out a way to pass 10th grade Science.

 

[Oz]

Harlem Nights (1989) came out the year after Coming to America (1988)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000552/

Neither was funny.

WHAT!?!?!?!? :-\

I loved both those movies. Classics from my junior high days.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Harlem Nights (1989) came out the year after Coming to America (1988)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000552/

Neither was funny.

WHAT!?!?!?!? :-\

I loved both those movies. Classics from my junior high days.

Yeah, and you'd have had to be in junior high to laugh with them.

The last time Eddie Murphy was funny in a movie theater, it was Raw. His last funny live-action movie was Beverly Hills Cop 2.

Hell, The Golden Child was better than Harlem Nights or Coming To America.

 

[schiezainc]

Harlem Nights (1989) came out the year after Coming to America (1988)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000552/

Neither was funny.

WHAT!?!?!?!? :-\

I loved both those movies. Classics from my junior high days.

Yeah, and you'd have had to be in junior high to laugh with them.

The last time Eddie Murphy was funny in a movie theater, it was Raw. His last funny live-action movie was Beverly Hills Cop 2.

Hell, The Golden Child was better than Harlem Nights or Coming To America.

It's a good thing humor's not subjective or anything.

 

[zagoshe]

From his IMDB page: "Every bad decision I've made has been based on money. I grew up in the projects and you don't turn down money there. You take it, because you never know when it's all going to end. I made Cop III because they offered me $15 million. That $15 million was worth having Roger Ebert's thumb up my ass."

This doesn't make Eddie Murphy unique.

I mean, take a look at the list of film credits of guys like Arnold Schwarzenegger (sp?), Bruce Willis, Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson and Sly Stallone and I'm sure you'll find almost as many, if not more, **** balls like "stop or my mom will shoot" "Jingle all the way" or "Bronco Billy" as you will find classics in those lists.

And my God, the next time Ashton Kutcher stars in a movie that even rises to the level of watchable (I don't count cheaper by the dozen because he wasn't asked to carry the movie) will be the first time, yet he keeps getting asked to make movies and keeps agreeing to it while laughing all the way to the bank......

 

[zagoshe]

Loved the first one. The second was solid. The third was ****.

When was the last time Murphy made a funny movie for adults?

Coming to America? What was that 20 years ago?

And Life, which I believe came out in 1999, was funny as **** -- though that had as much to do with Martin Lawrence and Bernie Mac as Eddie Murphy, but still, the point remains it has been less than ten years ago that he made a genuinely funny movie for adults.

 

[schiezainc]

From his IMDB page: "Every bad decision I've made has been based on money. I grew up in the projects and you don't turn down money there. You take it, because you never know when it's all going to end. I made Cop III because they offered me $15 million. That $15 million was worth having Roger Ebert's thumb up my ass."

This doesn't make Eddie Murphy unique.

I mean, take a look at the list of film credits of guys like Arnold Schwarzenegger (sp?), Bruce Willis, Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson and Sly Stallone and I'm sure you'll find almost as many, if not more, **** balls like "stop or my mom will shoot" "Jingle all the way" or "Bronco Billy" as you will find classics in those lists.

And my God, the next time Ashton Kutcher stars in a movie that even rises to the level of watchable (I don't count cheaper by the dozen because he wasn't asked to carry the movie) will be the first time, yet he keeps getting asked to make movies and keeps agreeing to it while laughing all the way to the bank......

The director's cut of the Butterfly effect was a damn good movie.

 

[zagoshe]

From his IMDB page: "Every bad decision I've made has been based on money. I grew up in the projects and you don't turn down money there. You take it, because you never know when it's all going to end. I made Cop III because they offered me $15 million. That $15 million was worth having Roger Ebert's thumb up my ass."

This doesn't make Eddie Murphy unique.

I mean, take a look at the list of film credits of guys like Arnold Schwarzenegger (sp?), Bruce Willis, Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson and Sly Stallone and I'm sure you'll find almost as many, if not more, **** balls like "stop or my mom will shoot" "Jingle all the way" or "Bronco Billy" as you will find classics in those lists.

And my God, the next time Ashton Kutcher stars in a movie that even rises to the level of watchable (I don't count cheaper by the dozen because he wasn't asked to carry the movie) will be the first time, yet he keeps getting asked to make movies and keeps agreeing to it while laughing all the way to the bank......

The director's cut of the Butterfly effect was a damn good movie.

And that is the one time that Kutcher was not asked to try and be funny, charming, outrageous, over-the-top and he was also not asked to save the horrible plot with silly antics and blurting out loud stupid lines

 

[outofplace]

Harlem Nights (1989) came out the year after Coming to America (1988)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000552/

Neither was funny.

WHAT!?!?!?!? :-\

I loved both those movies. Classics from my junior high days.

Yeah, and you'd have had to be in junior high to laugh with them.

The last time Eddie Murphy was funny in a movie theater, it was Raw. His last funny live-action movie was Beverly Hills Cop 2.

Hell, The Golden Child was better than Harlem Nights or Coming To America.

I have to disagree with you on Coming to America, but Harlem Nights was damn disappointing for a movie with Murphy, Richard Pryor and Redd Foxx.