Post by goldengun on Aug 14, 2007 10:20:29 GMT -5
Personally I think 48 hrs should be #1 - it's the movie that started the genre which works successfully to date. And Eddie Murphy terrorizing a red-neck bar is one the funniest scenes I have ever seen - "I'm your worst nightmare - a nigger with a badge - that means I can beat the shit out of you anytime I want!" so Murphy tells a frightened "red neck"
LOL!
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10. HOT FUZZ (2007): This slam-bang pseudo-satire from Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg swayed me with its heart-on-its-sleeve adoration for a period in filmmaking lore when all you needed was a cavalcade of police cruisers, a half-dozen .45s and The Pointer Sisters on the soundtrack.
9. TURNER & HOOCH (1989): Granted, it's not the film Tom Hanks wants to be eulogized for, but it's defensible because: 1) It's the best of its kind - which is to say, it's better than K9 and 2) If you didn't cry when the dog died, you sir are made of sturdier stuff than I.
8. RED HEAT (1988): Speaking of Jim Belushi -- and we don't do enough of that these days, do we? -- he starred opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger as a slovenly Chicago cop teamed with a mirthless Moscow military man.
7. RUNNING SCARED (1986): I know when I think Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines I think hardened undercover detectives. Just like when I think Michael McDonald I think "hit single" and "gotta listen."
6. BAD BOYS (1995): This slick, antic, craptastically entertaining yarn cemented the film careers of Will (Yaww hell no!) Smith, Martin Lawrence and director Michael Bay. Interestingly "Yaww hell no!" were precisely my words when I heard they were making Bad Boys 2.
5. STAKE OUT (1987): Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez are cops assigned to run surveillance on the ex-girlfriend (Madeleine Stowe) of an escaped felon. Of course, she's beautiful. Of course, Dreyfuss falls for her. The nuances of staking out vs. stalking aside, this John Badham romp benefits immeasurably from a sense of its own absurdity and the effortless chemistry between Dreyfuss and Estevez.
4. MIAMI VICE (2006): Like everything else about this brooding, minimalist thriller, this Crockett and Tubbs (Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx) are gravely understated, making them the darkest, yet most realistic, entries here.
3. THE LAST BOY SCOUT (1991): This outlandish ode to testosterone, violence, profanity and the cheerfully offensive stars Bruce Willis as a disgraced Secret Service agent who ends up working with a downtrodden former star quarterback (Damon Wayans). Tell me you don't feel like head-butting someone after watching it.
2. 48 HOURS (1982): Eddie Murphy deserves blame for many things. Norbit, for one. Contributing to the genealogy of the Spice Girls, for another. But you can almost look past it all when you consider his superstar turn opposite a never-gruffer Nick Nolte in Walter Hill's seminal cop-and-con shoot 'em up.
1. LETHAL WEAPON (1987): Apparently inspired by Live Free or Die Hard, Warner Bros. is purportedly again trying to revive the most revered of all cop-buddy duos -- Detectives Riggs (Mel Gibson) and Murtaugh (Danny Glover). Gibson has always balked at signing on for a Lethal Weapon 5. Then again, times have changed in the superstar's life and career. Script excerpt: RIGGS: "Hey Sugar-t--s!" MURTAUGH: "I'm too old for this s--t!"
LOL!
jam.canoe.ca/Movies/Artists/G/Gibson_Mel/2007/08/13/4414651-sun.html
10. HOT FUZZ (2007): This slam-bang pseudo-satire from Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg swayed me with its heart-on-its-sleeve adoration for a period in filmmaking lore when all you needed was a cavalcade of police cruisers, a half-dozen .45s and The Pointer Sisters on the soundtrack.
9. TURNER & HOOCH (1989): Granted, it's not the film Tom Hanks wants to be eulogized for, but it's defensible because: 1) It's the best of its kind - which is to say, it's better than K9 and 2) If you didn't cry when the dog died, you sir are made of sturdier stuff than I.
8. RED HEAT (1988): Speaking of Jim Belushi -- and we don't do enough of that these days, do we? -- he starred opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger as a slovenly Chicago cop teamed with a mirthless Moscow military man.
7. RUNNING SCARED (1986): I know when I think Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines I think hardened undercover detectives. Just like when I think Michael McDonald I think "hit single" and "gotta listen."
6. BAD BOYS (1995): This slick, antic, craptastically entertaining yarn cemented the film careers of Will (Yaww hell no!) Smith, Martin Lawrence and director Michael Bay. Interestingly "Yaww hell no!" were precisely my words when I heard they were making Bad Boys 2.
5. STAKE OUT (1987): Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez are cops assigned to run surveillance on the ex-girlfriend (Madeleine Stowe) of an escaped felon. Of course, she's beautiful. Of course, Dreyfuss falls for her. The nuances of staking out vs. stalking aside, this John Badham romp benefits immeasurably from a sense of its own absurdity and the effortless chemistry between Dreyfuss and Estevez.
4. MIAMI VICE (2006): Like everything else about this brooding, minimalist thriller, this Crockett and Tubbs (Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx) are gravely understated, making them the darkest, yet most realistic, entries here.
3. THE LAST BOY SCOUT (1991): This outlandish ode to testosterone, violence, profanity and the cheerfully offensive stars Bruce Willis as a disgraced Secret Service agent who ends up working with a downtrodden former star quarterback (Damon Wayans). Tell me you don't feel like head-butting someone after watching it.
2. 48 HOURS (1982): Eddie Murphy deserves blame for many things. Norbit, for one. Contributing to the genealogy of the Spice Girls, for another. But you can almost look past it all when you consider his superstar turn opposite a never-gruffer Nick Nolte in Walter Hill's seminal cop-and-con shoot 'em up.
1. LETHAL WEAPON (1987): Apparently inspired by Live Free or Die Hard, Warner Bros. is purportedly again trying to revive the most revered of all cop-buddy duos -- Detectives Riggs (Mel Gibson) and Murtaugh (Danny Glover). Gibson has always balked at signing on for a Lethal Weapon 5. Then again, times have changed in the superstar's life and career. Script excerpt: RIGGS: "Hey Sugar-t--s!" MURTAUGH: "I'm too old for this s--t!"