Best Eddie Murphy Movie?
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Eddie's most indelible and iconic characters in his career were all from the first three films he did, Reggie Hammond (48hrs.), Billy Ray Valentine (Trading Places) and Axel Foley (Beverly Hills Cop). All three were fast talking, extremely confident, streetwise characters who were kind of like a live action version of a Bugs Bunny cartoon, in that no matter what craziness happened around them you knew they would always come out okay. It was just a matter of how they would do it. And like Chris Rock had astutely observed, it was something the Black community really hadn't seen on the mainstream stage that often. Rarely did we see a black male character take control in a mainly white cast film up to that point. Or operate in a manner that didn't require the white male leads permission in some fashion. In 48hrs. Reggie was directly under cop Jack Cates (Nolte) control as a convict but he clearly had his own agenda in helping to apprehend Ganz. In Trading Places, Billy Ray had a keen innate understanding of how stocks and business worked long before the Dukes picked him up. Both of these roles could easily been performed in the more submissive way of the sidekick but Murphy went in the opposite direction and created people who are just as funny and distinctive today as they were some 25 years ago.
Those characters as well as Detective Foley (a loose cannon cop with great investigative instincts) had such an impact on the generation of black actors coming up after him that when Martin, Chris Tucker, Chris Rock and Will Smith had the opportunity to play cops or con men, they blatantly ripped them off. Bad Boys, Rush Hour and even Lethal Weapon 4 (Chris Rock's character in it) are all variations on Axel Foley. In Money Talks, Frank Hatchett (Tucker) is a variation on Billy Ray Valentine. The same with Martin Lawrence's character Miles Logan in Blue Streak, that's just Reggie Hammond.
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I was underwhelmed by Harlem Nights. Too much talent and not enough for them to do. Robin Harris under use was criminal. It has its moments but when you have that much talent you should have a much better product. I sat through it twice (Pussy Tax) So I really got to analyze it on the big screen. As to the best I would go with 48hrs followed closely by Trading places but clearly the most underrated Eddie Murphy movie is Life. Funny and depressing. I remember people left that theater quiet as shit. In my memory only 12 years a slave was more silent.
bowfinger wasnt his best movie but it is under rated, shit was funny. shrek was good as well
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I can't choose 1 so here are my choices:
Coming To America
Beverly Hills Cop 1
Life
Boomerang
Harlem Nights
I can't choose 1 so here are my choices:
Coming To America
Beverly Hills Cop 1
Life
Boomerang
Harlem Nights
Bev Hills Cop-had no idea most of the dialogue in scenes were ad-libbed
Imma go with 48HRS (Eddie was raw and uncut), The Nutty Professor (props for playing all of those characters) and Trading Places(Eddie showed he could be smart as well). Honorable mentions go to Boomerang (great cast) and Norbit(too much truth in that one).
Definitely Life for me. Beverly Hills series was my shit growing up though.
Eddie put in work over the course of his career. People tend to overlook his work.
As others have said its hard to pick just one. Life, Golden Child, Harlem Nights, Boomerang, etc are all classics.
Even the Disney movies were good. Nutty Professor, Dr. Dolittle, Daddy Day Care, Norbit (How YOU doin') were funny also.
Hell, he helped carry Mulan and Shrek as well.
As others have said its hard to pick just one. Life, Golden Child, Harlem Nights, Boomerang, etc are all classics.
Even the Disney movies were good. Nutty Professor, Dr. Dolittle, Daddy Day Care, Norbit (How YOU doin') were funny also.
Hell, he helped carry Mulan and Shrek as well.
Exactly, Boomerang was a smooth as movie man. We've seen a lot of "copy cat" black films after Boomerang but they don't come close imo. I remember watching that movie at the theater as a kid and saying to myself, "I wanna be on some playa shit like Eddie in that movie."
Vampire in Brooklyn is a very underrated film. 
Vampire in Brooklyn is a very underrated film.
Shit... where the links at
where the fuck is raw at??? that is hands down his best
Just saw it again. Extremely underrated.
Life
Nutty Professor
Harlem Nights
I thought Boomerang was just OK
them titties was looking nice in christmas with the cranks. Which came out in 2003. Dont know how their doing now though.Fuck it...Trading Plces. I was gonna snap until I saw the "besides Coming To America". So I'll go with Trading Places. That movie never fucking gets old.
And Jamie Lee Curtis' titties were looking good in that movie. Well.....at least they did when I was like 8
Boomerang. Comedy, drama, progressive Black folk, beautiful women... It was the blueprint to the "grown and sexy" movement.
But Bowfinger was crazy underrated.
i cant say, i love them all, but i guess i got to go with Beverly hills cop, and hay i loved vampire in Brooklyn,the white Italian guy eddie did was funny a shit.
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