Comedy Beverly Hills Cop: Axel Foley

[L.A.]

Loved the entire trilogy! Not sure if making another is a good idea though..

 

[thedeadite]

my thoughts on a new beverly hills cop movie are as follows:

 

[Catman]

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO the 80s is coming back baby!!!!!!!!D

All we need now is a Ghostbusters 3.

 

[Batman Beyond]

I would love to see a Beverly Hills Cop IV. That is, if it attempts, like II, to be faithful yet different to the first one. I wouldn't call III terrible - granted, it was much more different than the first two. But there have been worse movies out there, right?

Anywho, I'd like III to have better action than III. Also, I hope Rosewood (Reinhold) AND Taggart (Ashton) are brought back for the sequel. III missed Taggart, and Rosewood didn't do much. I just fear that IV will be TOO rejuvenative and discard any of the old elements. I want the trio of the first two back, damn it!

 

[Rez]

I'm just going to go out on a limb here and say that the second film is the greatest movie ever made.

Are you driving with your eyes open, or are you like using the force?!
And Billy with the two shotguns... Goddamn.

The third film, despite having dinosaurs, sucked horribly.

 

[dogwonder78]

I don't see why everyone hates 3 so much. Uncle Dave was friggin funny. I'm more worried about what has happened to Murphy since he made 3 than the overall quality of 3 (I'd probably give that movie a 5.5...better than I'd give half the academy award winners on any given year).

 

[Noir]

I hope it'll be good..
Its Beverly Hills Cop.. how could it not atleast be funny..?
Notice how like every trilogy from the 80s is getting a 4th movie.


Lets hope we get a War Games 2, and a Tron 2, and a Back to the Future 4..

 

[Rez]

Number 3 is a children's film. Sure, there's violence and swearing, but the antics in it are something I expect from a Disney movie. The return of Serge, The popcorn gun, that pathetic ferris wheel scene... ugh.

To top it off we only had what- three of the six main characters back? And one of them died in the first scene, and had no purpose other than to try and make the film darker and personal, like the last two whose personal death and gunshot attack get the film rolling. Never once did I buy his Chief's death as anything more than a plot device.

The real difference is that the entire film is just plain old unrealistic. I don't buy it for a second. The beauty of the first two films is that back during the 80s, I could have easily seen some hilarious slick as **** cop pulling all that crap in Beverly Hills. I mean, the most far fetched moment in either of the first two is when Billy blows up the truck with the rocket launcher by accident. The third film has an endless barrage of these cheesy, unrealistic moments.

 

[ShaneHelms]

All we need now is a Ghostbusters 3.

Catman.. No..

Let this little peice of goodness from my childhood.. Rest in Peace.

 

[tzar]

Eddie still has some funny left.
Not sure if it's enough to pull another one these off though.

 

[Catman]

Catman.. No..

Let this little peice of goodness from my childhood.. Rest in Peace.

I WANT GHOSTBUSTERS 3, DAMMIT IT!

 

[ShaneHelms]

I want to support you.. But i just cant..

 

[Catman]

I want to support you.. But i just cant..

But its Ghostbusters!

 

[jimmylace]

blame bill murray - if it wasn't for him we woulda had Ghostbusters 3 back in 2000 The script sounded pretty cool - alot better than the second.

 

[Noir]

**** GHOSTBUSTER 2.
The comics ignore the second movie, if they made another second movie and based it off the limited Comic series from 8T8MPH it would be really cool and really funnay.

 

[ShaneHelms]

But its Ghostbusters!

I know...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5ePpHAfVpw&mode=related&search=

 

[Assassin]

Number 3 is a children's film. Sure, there's violence and swearing, but the antics in it are something I expect from a Disney movie. The return of Serge, The popcorn gun, that pathetic ferris wheel scene... ugh.

To top it off we only had what- three of the six main characters back? And one of them died in the first scene, and had no purpose other than to try and make the film darker and personal, like the last two whose personal death and gunshot attack get the film rolling. Never once did I buy his Chief's death as anything more than a plot device.

The real difference is that the entire film is just plain old unrealistic. I don't buy it for a second. The beauty of the first two films is that back during the 80s, I could have easily seen some hilarious slick as **** cop pulling all that crap in Beverly Hills. I mean, the most far fetched moment in either of the first two is when Billy blows up the truck with the rocket launcher by accident. The third film has an endless barrage of these cheesy, unrealistic moments.

Gill Hill is a friend of my dad lol.

 

[hammerhedd11]

I liked the first two but the third one sucked.

 

[Caliber]

i'm down for another beverly hills cop. it's great, all these movies i never got to see in theatres are getting new sequels.
Beverly Hills Cop
Rocky
Die Hard.
it's like a really mediocre dream come true!

Die Hard and Rocky have another good film in them. For Rocky its over and ended good. Die Hard looks good and not mediocore. BHC is not a series that deserves a another sequal. Murphy looks desparate now.

 

[Caliber]

I WANT GHOSTBUSTERS 3, DAMMIT IT!

Sounds like a good idea but proable never going to happen.

 

[Batman Beyond]

III is badly put together. As if monkeys made the film. Plus, it wasn't scored by Faltemeyer, and the whole film didn't have that Simpson-Bruckheimer MTV feel from the first two (surprise they didn't make it??). Its not horrible, but badly put together. Truth be told, though, Murphy and Landis had seen better days before that.

I think a IV can bring justice to the series if Axel is a little bit developed and in addition is as funny as in the first one. I want that crazy, uncontrolable humor of his. But if a IV is done, it should be the last.

Regarding Die Hard and Rocky... Rocky did end good, and the first three Die Hards have all been consistently excellent (Die Harder had a weak villain, though, and Die Hard With A Vengeance had a weak ending). I'm worried on the fourth, though. No Michael Kamen, no Steven E. De Souza (screenwriter from the first two) and no Al Powell (he was missed in the third one). Plus, McClane divorces his wife? Couldn't they kill her or something, like Stallone did with Rocky? McClane's Holly is like Rocky's Adrian - its his everything to him. I fear Live Free or Die Hard will be the first mediocre Die Hard... And I'd hate that because the Die Hard Trilogy has been CONSISTENTLY excellent. And there's very few trilogies (BHC NOT included) that one can say that about.

 

[hammerhedd11]

Plus, McClane divorces his wife? Couldn't they kill her or something, like Stallone did with Rocky

I thought he got divorced in the third movie. And anyway, I don't see how her not being in it is bad. I mean, she wasn't in the third movie and you liked that one

 

[Batman Beyond]

In the third one they're seperated, and John actually tries to make it up with his wife at the end. In original ending (available in the dvd, of course), McClane says to Simon that he'll spend Christmas with his family, so its easy to assume that in that ending John had come back to his wife and kids. Its fitting, since in that ending McClane looks like he did in the other two DH, which I was the intention - sober and all. Now in the ending we have, John may have left her hanging, but I think that the indication of the two of them patching things up between them some time after DH3 is there.

The necessity for that is because Holly is, like I said before, like Rocky's Adrian - She's John's glue. His rock. DH1 and 2 went into great lengths to show his determination to save his beloved wife from the terrorists.

In other words, I just wish they ahd her killed and be over with, rather than drag the divorce stuff that only ruins part of the core of McClane's actions in the first two films. In three, he was drinking and all and he behaved very differently (I've got a very bad headache!) BECAUSE of Holly's absence in his life. That wass apparent. I just wish they didn't use THAT idea again for showing a McClane thats different from the first two (although he's older).

If they were really never gonna use Holly, they could just as well kill her and have him widower. That would work.

Anyway, aren't we a little bit away from BHIV?

Nonetheless, what do you say?

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=20909

EXCL: Di Bonaventura on Beverly Hills Cop 4
Source: Edward Douglas
June 8, 2007

Later this month, Bruce Willis will be returning as the popular Detective John McClane in Live Free or Die Hard, but who knows if that movie would ever have happened if Eddie Murphy hadn't brought comedy into the police action genre with Beverly Hills Cop?

When ComingSoon.net had a chance to talk with mega-producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura about his upcoming movies Transformers and Stardust, we also wanted to find out where things stand with a possible fourth installment in the action-comedy franchise with which he's been involved. "'Happening' would be too strong a word, but we are working on a take," he told us. "We have not hired a writer yet, but we've been analyzing the franchise and asking lots and lots of people about Alex Foley. 'What do you love about Axel and what would you want to see with an Axel Foley movie?' I think we have enough information now that we'll probably be hiring a writer in the next four to eight weeks and taking a good shot at it."

But is Eddie Murphy still interested and on board with revisiting the character? "It's one of his favorite characters and as he told me, it's a character that his fans come up to him often and mention to him. 'When are you going to do Axel? What about Axel?' In a way for me, it's less 'Beverly Hills Cop' and more Axel Foley what I get excited about."

Di Bonaventura also told us the premise of Nowhereland, the upcoming comedy that he's doing with Eddie Murphy, which starts preproduction soon, and it sounds like it could offer some great humor from the versatile comic. "It's a father-daughter story, and it has a lot of wonder in it. It examines, hopefully in a very fun way, the trials and tribulations of learning to become a parent. As much as it's a kids story, in a way, it's as much about the adults trying to figure out, 'How do you become a dad?' It's hard for us. I'm a parent, and I'll say it was a real learning curve for me, and we're going to have fun with that learning curve."

Look for more with Mr. Di Bonaventura leading up to the release of his two summer movies, Transformers on July 3 and Stardust on August 10.

 

[terry78]

So long as it's a hard R, including the violence and profanity of the others, I'm good. This is one franchise that, if watered down, will NOT be a good thing. The character's universe revolves around gritty things happening in Beverly Hills and his real world reactions to it, so it has to be R.