1980s Eddie Murphy is the best Eddie Murphy. Popcorns from questionable origins are likely the best popcorns.
Dave: Many parts of this movie aged well, notably the soundtrack, featuring the Pointer Sisters and Patti LaBelle, and Eddie Murphy’s performance as a renegade Detroit cop investigating the murder of a friend in Beverly Hills. Murphy was cheeky, loose, and often hilarious, playing amazingly off everyone else’s stiffness, which was written into the plot. I wish this movie had existed in a time when bloopers and gag reels were a thing - some of Murphy’s comebacks and comedic bits, particularly his reaction shots, had to be improvised. I can’t imagine anyone made it through the taping with a straight face. However the “moral” of the story - that the white cops just need to learn to bend the rules and lie a bit more - probably doesn’t strike mainstream audiences the same way as it did in 1984. Still, it’s worth a watch if you haven’t ever seen it. (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
Thanks, Rene, for our new batch of popcorn recipes, as well as a few bags of popcorn kernels. After 100+ of these recipes, we’re wary of recipes from random places on the Internet, but this one was delicious. The maple syrup didn’t make the popcorn so treacly sweet that we went into immediate sugar comas, and the cinnamon and chili powder gave it depth and made it feel less like carnival fare. Alas, it has been so long since we had a movie night, I forgot all the rules and didn’t take a photo until there was literally only butter/maple syrup/chili mixture coating the bottom of the bowl. Frankly, I’m surprised any of it was still there - I liked this so much I was tempted to lick the bowl after all the kernels were gone. (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
Joe: Like most films from the 1980s, Beverly Hills Cop has not aged particularly well. Modern viewers may be quite turned off by straight dudes pretending to be mincing homosexuals (Damon Wayans, Bronson Pinchot, and Eddie Murphy all flit around at some point in the proceedings). Equally questionable is the portrayal of Detroit as a mostly Black slum, though one could argue this was an intentional foil to the very White, overwrought Beverly Hills. Murphy nabs almost every funny line, with Judge Reinhold playing Judge Reinhold and a bunch of 80s-looking actors playing 80s looking characters. The plot is shopworn and "Axel F", a song I had all but forgotten, will now be in my head for days. A fleeting diversion for a Friday night with some damn funny scenes, but, as our friends at the podcast The Rewind Project would say, this is a solid "rent". (⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2)
I'm not quite keen when Dave goes off script, and chooses a recipe that is not from one of our prescribed sources. But our friend Rene recently gave us a gross ton of popcorn kernels and photocopies of recipes she had found. And here we are. Turns out, we should probably seek out alternate sources more often. This was sweet and spicy and everything else its moniker advertised. Delish. Would make again. (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2)
Popcorn recipe from: photocopy of something called 15 Amazing Popcorn Recipes by Samuel Miller
Beverly Hills Cop on IMDB.
Comments