Top 100 Movies: No. 93 - Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
Posted on October 8, 2007
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Remember the first R-Rated movie you received permission from your parents to see? For me, it was Beverly Hills Cop. I had watched other R-Rated movies, but those viewings occurred at friends’ homes on HBO when their parents were out. This time, it was in a real movie theater. I could actually tell my friends that I had seen Beverly Hills Cop! Pretty exciting stuff for a kid. The fact that I saw this flick in a theater with my parents’ blessing (well, maybe not their blessing) helped Beverly Hills Cop crack my Top 100 Movies.
Believe it or not (but believe it ’cause its true), Sylvester Stallone was originally cast as Axel Foley in Beverly Hills Cop. However, two weeks prior to shooting, he was out, Eddie Murphy was in, and some screenwriters really freaked out (the Stallone-featured Beverly Hills Cop would not have been a comedy). The rest is history.
This is the only Eddie Murphy flick to make it into my Top 100 Movies list, which is surprising (at least to me). Eddie Murphy used to be really, really funny and made some great movies. Slight correction, he is still really funny, I just don’t care for some of the crap, uh, films, he has made the last several years.
For those of you who may be too young to remember, Eddie started out as a stand-up comedian and filmed a couple of his concerts, including Eddie Murphy - Delirious, which is an absolute classic. Oh, and you can’t beat old episodes of Saturday Night Live starring Eddie. These rank just behind the first couple years of SNL with Belushi, et al. (that’s John Belushi kids, not Jim.)
So there you have it. Beverly Hills Cop. No. 93 on my Top 100 Movies list.
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