The Rewatchables: ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan

Published 2019-09-17; 1:33:06 by the feed.

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The extraction calls the show “The Rewatchables (The Ringer)” and the episode “'Beverly Hills Cop' With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan”.

Hosts: Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey. Guests: Wesley Morris.

Subject films: Beverly Hills Cop (1984).

On the transcript: Transcript has no speaker labels and ads are interleaved at 0:00:00-0:00:55, 0:30:34-0:31:50, 1:00:13-1:01:03 and 1:32:17+. Wesley Morris is introduced as a special guest, not a host; all four speakers are present.

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Film years in films[].year, the identification of Gigli, Scent of a Woman, Detroit 9000, Fletch's composer credit, Year of the Dragon, and 'Perfect Strangers' for Balki, and Shawn Ryan/Brandon T. Jackson spelling were supplied by me, not said.
Wesley Morris is listed as guest because the transcript introduces him as special guest; the task header listed him as a host.

Awards and segments (52)

Most rewatchable scene

pick Axel checks into the Beverly Palm Hotel with the Rolling Stone / Michael Jackson story
“Axel arrives in Beverly Hills and checks in the hotel.”
Bill Simmons · 0:32:51
pick Axel meets Jenny Summers at the gallery and gets Serge, the whole stretch right after the hotel
“And this is just an almost impeccable 9 minutes of comedy.”
unknown · 0:35:42
pick The banana in the tailpipe and ordering room service in the suite
“The banana and tailpipe, the actual ordering them room service.”
unknown · 0:37:00
pick The strip joint scene that leads into the super cop monologue
“I have the strip joint scene that leads to the super cops monologue, which is where everybody's cracking up, which is really...”
unknown · 0:37:30
pick Axel getting chewed out by Inspector Todd, with Cobb's 'This is not my locker' bit
“Axel getting chewed out by Cobb.”
unknown · 0:39:10
pick Axel and Mikey Tandino playing pool, sitting at the bar and going back to his apartment
“Those are, that's my rewatchable sequence is the sequence where like they get together, play pool, sit at the bar, and go back to his apartment.”
Chris Ryan · 0:40:43
floated Axel at the customs facility, asking about the Porsche and the match
“Also, did you put in the axle at the customs facility?”
unknown · 0:41:18
floated The opening Detroit cigarette truck chase
“The chase is really, it's fine, but if I'm flipping channels, I'm so excited if I know he's about to get to Beverly Hills, that's when I'm ready.”
unknown · 0:32:00

Ebert Review · The reading of Roger Ebert's review of the film.

pick Beverly Hills Cop: Ebert gave it 2.5 stars and called it a victim of the 'Star Magic Syndrome'.
“He said Eddie Murphy looks like the latest victim of the Star Magic Syndrome, in which it is assumed that a movie will be a hit simply because it stars enormously talented person.”
Bill Simmons · 0:30:12

Aged Best · What in the movie has held up best.

pick Jenny Summers' red Mercedes convertible: The car and the shot of it.
“And also the fact the red Mercedes-Benz convertible.”
unknown · 0:46:19
pick The soundtrack and score: The hits on the soundtrack and the Faltermeyer score.
“The soundtrack, which includes the heat is on Neutron Dance, stir it up and nasty girl.”
unknown · 0:47:44
pick The Mumford Phys Ed t-shirt: The Mumford shirt and Axel's cropped sweatshirts as iconic looks.
“His, the, uh, almost as iconic as the Mumford Phiz Ed department t-shirt is his cropped sweatshirts that he wears for most of the movie.”
unknown · 0:49:14
pick Taggart and Rosewood: The pair lays the groundwork for their stronger work in the sequel.
“Well, it aged the best because it lays the groundwork for 2 heroic performances in Beverly Hills cop, too.”
unknown · 0:49:53
pick Bronson Pinchot as Serge: Not falling for the banana in the tailpipe line.
“Yes. Um, I also like the performance by the not going to fall for the banana, the tailpipe guy, just because he also has earlier, he does his best.”
unknown · 0:50:42
pick Lisa Eilbacher as Jenny Summers: Hosts agree to put her back in the list; they land on Eilbacher Mountain.
“I'm willing to put her back in again.”
Bill Simmons · 0:51:16

Aged Worst · What in the movie has held up worst.

pick The slow first 19 minutes: The opening could have moved faster.
“I feel like the 1st 19 minutes could have zipped by a little faster.”
unknown · 0:51:33
pick 1984 stunt work and masking: Obvious stunt doubles and tumbling action that has gone out of style.
“In general, I would say that 1984 was not our peak of masking stunt work.”
unknown · 0:51:36
pick Victor Maitland's reaction to Mikey's death: The villain's reaction is played badly.
“Well, speaking of the window, I had Victor Maitland's reaction to Mikey's death.”
unknown · 0:52:38
pick The movie's homophobia: Offered as an aged-worst item, though the hosts argue it is less homophobic than remembered, with the hepatitis B bit the low point.
“I think Eddie and the hepatitis B thing probably would.”
unknown · 0:55:24
pick Taggart punching Axel: Floated given how LA police are seen now; the hosts note he apologizes right after.
“Would you put Taggart punching Axel in the Woods age the worst?”
unknown · 0:56:24
pick Maitland's bodyguards: None of the six can shoot.
“Maitland's bodyguards are bad, bad, age badly just because all of them were terrible.”
unknown · 0:56:37
pick Name-dropping Rolling Stone and Michael Jackson to get the hotel room: The ruse would not work 35 years later; magazines also stand in for phones throughout.
“He decides to get in the Beverly palm by name dropping that A, he writes for Rolling Stone and B, he's doing a profile on Michael Jackson.”
unknown · 0:59:23

Casting What Ifs · Almost-castings and other stars who could have led the movie.

pick Mickey Rourke as Axel Foley: Signed a holding contract, then left; Simpson tore his picture out of a magazine.
“Casting what ifs, you mentioned Mickey work.”
Bill Simmons · 1:01:05
pick Sylvester Stallone as Axel Foley: Signed for the lead and rewrote it as a straight action film before leaving two weeks before filming.
“Stallone was signed up for the lead.”
unknown · 1:03:19
pick Top Gun: Answer to which 80s movie they wish Eddie had starred in.
“Top Gun.”
unknown · 1:11:40

Best That Guy (Joey Pants Award) · The best 'that guy' character actor in the movie.

nominee Jonathan Banks: First-ballot Hall of Fame that guy, before Breaking Bad made him known by name.
“This is tough because Jonathan Banks was like an all-time classic, that guy forever.”
Bill Simmons · 1:03:45
nominee Ronny Cox as Bogomil: Was that guy for a long stretch before becoming known as Ronny Cox.
“Ronnie Cox was also that guy.”
unknown · 1:04:06
winner James Russo as Mikey Tandino: Seen as the winner; nobody knew his name.
“I think James Russo is kind of the winner of this.”
Chris Ryan · 1:04:23
winner Michael Champion: A guy in everything in the 80s, always the slimy sidekick to the heavy.
“I'm going to go Michael Champion, who's actually one of the guys who's who works with Jonathan Banks in Maitland.”
unknown · 1:04:28
nominee Stephen Elliott as the chief: A TV-actor type; later called bad.
“Stephen Elliott?”
unknown · 1:05:16

Best Overacting (Saul Rubinek Award) · The biggest overacting in the film.

nominee Stephen Elliott as the chief: Described as overacting in his scenes.
“Oh, he's about to come up here as we head to the Salt Rubinck, they knew a word for overacting.”
unknown · 1:05:22
nominee Paul Reiser as Cobb: Said earlier to be the only one who goes over the top of Murphy, along with James Russo.
“That's like the only time I think someone goes over the top of Murphy.”
unknown · 0:39:44

Small Role Big Impact (Dion Waiters Award) · The small part that made the biggest impression.

winner Bronson Pinchot as Serge: Two scenes, knocked them out of the park and got a sitcom out of it.
“The Dion Waiters Award.”
Bill Simmons · 1:05:34

Apex Mountain · What was at its peak in this movie, in the hosts' terms.

pick Eddie Murphy: Covered earlier in the episode.
“Apex Mound.”
Bill Simmons · 1:09:43
pick Lisa Eilbacher as Jenny Summers: Emphatically at her apex.
“Lisa Elbacher, 100,000%.”
Bill Simmons · 1:09:44
pick LA cops: A joke that this was the apex for LA cops, which turned dramatically downhill after.
“Possible Apex Madden.”
unknown · 1:10:13
pick Mumford High School: The Mumford apparel at its peak.
“Mumford High School, definitely.”
unknown · 1:10:34
pick Harold Faltermeyer: The composer at his peak.
“Harold Faltimeyer, yes.”
unknown · 1:10:38
pick Kent cigarettes: Kent at its peak.
“And then Kent Cigarettes, for sure.”
unknown · 1:10:40

Picking Nits · Nitpicks about the plot and logic of a movie they like.

pick Mikey stealing the bearer bonds and showing them to a cop: Why Mikey stole them, why they tracked him to Detroit, and why he shows them to Axel right away.
“Mikey was a security guard in Beverly Hills, who just ended up stealing a bunch of German bear bronze.”
unknown · 1:12:46
pick Guns in the strip joint under long coats: Hard to believe two men with leather dusters could walk in unnoticed.
“Is it that easy to bring guns in a strip joint?”
unknown · 1:14:26
pick Axel's car driving from Detroit to Los Angeles: Doubts the car could make the drive, and that they would not buy him a plane ticket back.
“Oh, I just, I don't think that Axel's car could have made the drive from Detroit to Los Angeles.”
unknown · 1:15:00
pick Jenny Summers' income as Jenny Summers: How much an art gallery job pays for such nice clothes and car; the hosts wonder if she was a drug dealer.
“I was going to do this nitpick, but I did spend some time wondering how much Jenny Summers made running the art gallery because she had nice clothes and that car was fucking nice.”
unknown · 1:15:22

Best Quote · The best lines in the movie.

pick "Take those bananas": Damon Wayans' line at the Maitre D stand.
“Best quote, take those bananas.”
Bill Simmons · 1:15:43
pick "This is not my locker" as Cobb: Offered as an additional pick.
“Aside from this is not my locker.”
unknown · 1:16:04
pick Axel asking the valet to park the car in a good spot: Line about everything that happened the last time he parked there.
“When he pulls up to the valley, he goes, can you put this in a good spot because all this shit happened the last time I parked here.”
unknown · 1:16:09
pick "The super cop thing was working really well": How Eddie sells the beat after the cops contradict his story.
“We didn't give him credit for how he sold when the super cop scene.”
unknown · 1:16:19

Unanswerable questions · Two questions the hosts argue without a firm answer.

pick Beverly Hills Cop II: Says Cop 2 is the better movie, though he is more fond of the first for what it meant for Eddie's arc.
“I think that I think Coptay was better.”
Chris Ryan · 1:16:49
pick Axel Foley as Axel Foley: Answers 'was Axel Foley gay' yes, reading the film as about a gay man whose former lover is killed.
“And I don't know what their problem is, because I watched this movie, and it's to me a movie about a gay black man who works for the police department of Detroit, whose former best friend slash probably lover in, or like the hookup buddy or what, I don't know what, gets killed and goes on a mission to find him.”
Wesley Morris · 1:20:37

Who Won the Movie · Who came out on top by the end of the movie.

winner Lisa Eilbacher as Jenny Summers: Agreed with enthusiasm.
“Yeah, definitely Owlbacher.”
unknown · 1:31:32
winner Eddie Murphy: Eddie wins his own movie.
“Eddie Murphy wins his own.”
unknown · 1:31:40
nominee Ronny Cox as Bogomil: Praised as good and not given enough love.
“Good job by Ronnie Cox.”
unknown · 1:31:45

Films that came up

Claims (79)

theme (theme): Eddie Murphy → Madonna. Eddie's 1984 fame is placed alongside Madonna, Prince and Springsteen as a youth-culture phenomenon.
“on the level of Madonna Prince Bruce Springsteen”
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contrast (contrast): Eddie Murphy → Richard Pryor. Pryor and Bill Murray visibly wait for their moment to steal a scene; Eddie is present and connected instead.
“Richard Pryor was like this and Bill Murray can be like this where you can tell that they're waiting for their moment to do the thing that they're going to do that steals the scene.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:04:18 · Wesley Morris (0.80 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Eddie Murphy → Bill Murray. Murray is calculating about when to pull the rug out from scene partners; Eddie trusts his comedy and does not need to win every moment.
“You can see Bill Murray calculating sometimes when he's gonna pull the rug out from under the people in the scene with him.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:04:31 · Wesley Morris (0.80 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Eddie Murphy → Michael Douglas. Like Michael Douglas, Eddie trusts the movie to be on his side, which lets him take risks.
“he trusts his comedy enough to know that he doesn't have to win all the time”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:04:38 · Wesley Morris (0.80 sure it was them)
career (career): Beverly Hills Cop → The Nutty Professor. In BHC he is not the guy of The Nutty Professor; he has not yet morphed into a persona.
“This isn't the guy who was in the nutty professor.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:06:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Eddie Murphy → Kevin Hart. A scene of Eddie staring down Maitland is real acting; Kevin Hart would just bulge his eyes.
“if Kevin Hart's doing that.”
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contrast (contrast): Eddie Murphy → Arnold Schwarzenegger. Eddie is not like Schwarzenegger or the other 80s action guys.
“it's not like Schwarzenegger.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:08:01 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Beverly Hills Cop → Dirty Harry. The film plays closer to a 70s crime movie like Dirty Harry or The Outfit than to an 80s action blockbuster.
“this movie's way closer to like Dirty Harry or the outfit or 7, like a 70s crime movie than it is like our idea of like 80s action blockbuster.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:08:03 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Beverly Hills Cop → The Outfit. Grouped with Dirty Harry as a 70s crime-movie ancestor.
“this movie's way closer to like Dirty Harry or the outfit or 7, like a 70s crime movie”
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lineage (lineage): Beverly Hills Cop → Richard Roundtree. The film is called a blaxploitation movie with one of the few true movie-star performances, and Roundtree is named as the only true movie star of that era.
“black exploitation movie with like one of the few movie star performances.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:08:19 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Eddie Murphy → Will Smith. The fish-out-of-water star moment is compared to Will Smith making the first Bad Boys.
“when Will Smith made the 1st Bad Boys”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:08:34 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Eddie Murphy → Michael Jackson. In four years Eddie became the biggest star in the world except for Michael Jackson.
“he becomes the biggest star in the world except for Michael Jackson.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:10:16 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Coming to America → Eddie Murphy. After this film Eddie leans back into Gumby-style comedy even in Coming to America, which the speaker loves.
“even coming to America, which I love, you could sense him leaning back into like, I'm the guy who does Gumby”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:10:32 · Wesley Morris (0.60 sure it was them)
career (career): Beverly Hills Cop → The Golden Child. After Axel Foley, The Golden Child was a disappointment.
“Golden Child, uh, which was which was definitely a disappointment.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:12:13 · Wesley Morris (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Eddie Murphy → Jerry Lewis. Jerry Lewis is floated as the only comparable run to Eddie's three years as funniest person.
“maybe Jerry Lewis is the only other comparable person.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:15:44 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Saturday Night Live → Eddie Murphy. Being on SNL meant Eddie brought it every week; his movies were not shot 18 months earlier, he was appointment viewing.
“oh, he was like on television every weekend was appointment viewing.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:16:07 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): 48 Hrs. → Trading Places. Eddie did three huge films in a row and nearly got fired from 48 Hrs.
“It's also kind of amazing that he almost got fired from 48 hours.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:16:11 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Eddie Murphy → Dan Aykroyd. Trading Places was a Dan Aykroyd movie; Eddie got Beverly Hills Cop only two weeks before shooting.
“Trading Places was a Dan Ackroyd movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:16:15 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Beverly Hills Cop → Sylvester Stallone. With Stallone in the cigarette truck the movie weighs 150 pounds more; the star changes the chemical properties of the movie.
“It's just the movie weighs like 150 pounds more.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:17:17 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Eddie Murphy → Sylvester Stallone. With anyone but Eddie, including Stallone, it would be an actively bad movie because the plot is known in the first 30 minutes.
“I think that you could safely say this would be an actively bad movie with anybody besides Eddie Murphy”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:17:22 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Eddie Murphy → Will Ferrell. Eddie's comedy does not evaporate when a joke fails; Ferrell's and Carrey's depend on the laugh.
“He's not gonna evaporate if the joke doesn't work.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:20:16 · Wesley Morris (0.70 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Eddie Murphy → Jim Carrey. Carrey and Ferrell put themselves in the hospital for your laugh; Eddie does not need you to laugh.
“I mean, they are really putting themselves in the hospital for your laugh.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:20:31 · Wesley Morris (0.70 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Eddie Murphy → Chevy Chase. Chase would do anything physically for a laugh, but Eddie seemed more natural.
“Chevy Chase was willing to do anything physically to make you laugh.”
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theme (genre): Beverly Hills Cop → Stripes. Grouped with Stripes, Ghostbusters and Blues Brothers as action comedies where a comic star changed what the movie was.
“they could have made this movie either way, and they just decided to put Bill Murray or Eddie Murphy in it, and then it just completely changes it”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:21:53 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Beverly Hills Cop → The French Connection. Recast Popeye Doyle as Axel Foley and the movie barely changes; the apartments are essentially the same.
“Like you take the French connection and you recast Dean Hackman's, you make Popeye Doyle, Axel Foley.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:23:34 · Wesley Morris (0.70 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Gene Hackman → Eddie Murphy. Popeye Doyle's apartment is essentially Axel's apartment.
“I mean, it's literally, like, the apartment, Popeye's apartment is the same as Axl's apartment, essentially.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:23:52 · Wesley Morris (0.60 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Beverly Hills Cop → Purple Rain. 1984 context: Purple Rain and Prince became massive alongside this film and the Cosby Show.
“You had Purple Rain and Prince become a massive star.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:24:43 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Sidney Poitier → In the Heat of the Night. Poitier's 1967 run of three films is cited as one of the great movie-star years of all time.
“one of the great movie star years of all time in 1967 with those 3 movies in the heat of the night.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:25:43 · Wesley Morris (0.80 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Sidney Poitier → Eddie Murphy. Eddie's fight in 1984 is just to be in a movie with white people without facing the blatant racism Poitier had to face.
“the fight that a person like Eddie Murphy has to have in 1984 to just be in a movie with white people where he doesn't have to face racism.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:26:32 · Wesley Morris (0.80 sure it was them)
theme (theme): In the Heat of the Night → Some Like It Hot. Both named as tried-and-true fish-out-of-water formula.
“this is a quote unquote fish out of water comedy, right?”
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lineage (lineage): Beverly Hills Cop → In the Heat of the Night. Described as In the Heat of the Night meets Beverly Hills; both are fish-out-of-water movies.
“said that the Beverly Hills Cop is essentially in the heat of the night meets Beverly Hills.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:27:42 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Beverly Hills Cop → Roger Ebert. Ebert gave the film 2.5 stars, calling Eddie a victim of the Star Magic Syndrome.
“Eddie Murphy looks like the latest victim of the Star Magic Syndrome, in which it is assumed that a movie will be a hit simply because it stars enormously talented person.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:30:12 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Beverly Hills Cop → Jim Jarmusch. The cigarette-truck pair could have been a Jim Jarmusch movie if it ran an hour and a half.
“if that cigarette deal had gone on for an hour and a half and it just been like a Jim Jarmish movie”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:32:08 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Beverly Hills Cop → Mean Streets. The Detroit opening with the two guys in the truck has a Mean Streets moment that distinguishes it from other 80s blockbusters.
“I love the fact that they just like kind of have this mean streets moment in the beginning of this movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:32:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Beverly Hills Cop → Detroit 9000. The Detroit opening is joked to be Detroit 3000 part two if you did not know the title.
“It's Detroit 3000 part two.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:32:37 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Bronson Pinchot → Risky Business. Pinchot was a friend of Tom Cruise in Risky Business just before this.
“one of Tom Cruise's friends at risk of business, and that's it.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:36:49 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Bronson Pinchot → Perfect Strangers. Two scenes as Serge led to Balki two years later.
“And then Balki, 2 years later.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:36:57 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (people): Lisa Eilbacher → Dana Wheeler-Nicholson. Two hosts share a soft spot for the women of the era: Eilbacher here and Wheeler-Nicholson in Fletch.
“Bill and I both have a soft spot for Jenny Summers for Dana Wheeler, Nicholson and Fletch.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:42:08 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Harold Faltermeyer → Howard Jones. Faltermeyer's synth score fit an era of synth-based musicians like Howard Jones and Wang Chung.
“this was an era where you had synth-based musicians, like the great Howard Jones.”
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career (career): Harold Faltermeyer → Top Gun: Maverick. Faltermeyer is credited alongside Hans Zimmer on Top Gun Maverick.
“he's credited with Hans Zimmer on Top Gun Maverick?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:47:31 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Martin Brest → Gigli. Brest's later career included Gigli and Scent of a Woman.
“He did Geely.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:48:10 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Martin Brest → Scent of a Woman. Brest also directed the Pacino Oscar film (transcribed as 'son of a woman').
“And he did son of a woman.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:48:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Martin Brest → Midnight Run. Brest made two of the best comedies of all time; Midnight Run is perfect, and the speaker never thinks 'Brest classic' about BHC.
“He made 2 of the best comedies of all time.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:48:24 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Beverly Hills Cop → The Goonies. Taggart and Rosewood's cropped sweatshirts echo the Josh Brolin Goonies look.
“Because that was also like the Josh Brolin Goonies look.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:49:22 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (people): Beverly Hills Cop II → Judge Reinhold. Rosewood and Taggart are called heroic performances that could have been nominated in Cop 2.
“Those guys are flat out great in cop 2 and all the seeds are set.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:50:06 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Eddie Murphy → Walter Hill. Eddie mostly worked with really good directors early: Walter Hill, Tony Scott, Robert Townsend, Landis, with Brest the exception.
“Walter Hill, Tony Scott, Robert Townsend, doing shooting the comedy special,”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:50:20 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Michael Ritchie → The Golden Child. Ritchie made The Golden Child, which isn't very good, but he made a lot of great movies.
“but Michael Richie made a lot of great movies.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:50:36 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Beverly Hills Cop → Magnum, P.I.. 1984 stunt work with masked doubles is on Magnum PI level.
“we were still on like magnum PI level stunts.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:51:50 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Beverly Hills Cop → John Wick. Tumbling stunts like these are not what you see in John Wick.
“That's usually not what you see in John Wick.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:52:32 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Beverly Hills Cop → Don Johnson. The movie has pairs of men like Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas driving and looking, only more so.
“entire scenes of Don Johnson and Philip, Michael Thomas driving”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:54:11 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): 48 Hrs. → Beverly Hills Cop. The 48 Hrs. fight with Nolte is intense; BHC softens the formula so Eddie never gets roughed up.
“the fight scene between Eddie and Nick Nolte and how when you watch that, you're like, he's going to fucking kill him.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:58:43 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Beverly Hills Cop → Mickey Rourke. The Rourke gap: a stretch where he could have made Beverly Hills Cop, and instead did Eureka and Year of the Dragon.
“you have the space where you could have had Beverly Hills Cop, and instead you have Eureka and you're the Dragon”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:01:56 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Sylvester Stallone → Saving Private Ryan. Stallone's rewrite aimed for an opening like Saving Private Ryan on the streets of Detroit, which was too expensive.
“The script he wrote, the opening scene from Saving Private Ryan on the beaches of Normandy was what he was going for.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:02:37 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Sylvester Stallone → Martin Scorsese. Stallone was signed and Scorsese was offered the director's job and was bewildered by the script.
“Scorsese offered the director's tour.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:03:21 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Martin Scorsese → The Last Temptation of Christ. Scorsese was trying to get Last Temptation of Christ made at the time he was offered this.
“He was trying to get last temptation of Christ made.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:03:24 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Jonathan Banks → Wiseguy. Known as 'that guy from Wise Guy and Beverly Hills Cop' before anyone knew his name.
“that guy from Wise Guy and Beverly Hills cop, and nobody knew what his name was.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:03:54 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Jonathan Banks → Breaking Bad. Banks was a first-ballot-hall-of-fame 'that guy' from Wiseguy and BHC until Breaking Bad made his name.
“And then Breaking Bad happened and he became Jonathan Banks.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:03:59 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Ronny Cox → RoboCop. Cox's 'that guy' run includes Vision Quest, Cop and Cop 2, RoboCop and Total Recall.
“he ripped off Vision Quest, cop and cop two, Robocop, total recall”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:04:09 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Michael Champion → Total Recall. Champion was in Total Recall and everything in the 80s as the slimy sidekick to the heavy.
“he's in like total recall, history blues.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:04:34 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): James Russo → Michael Cimino. Russo acts in a different era, like he's in a Michael Cimino movie.
“he's in a Michael Cimino movie, right?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:04:59 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Bronson Pinchot → Dion Waiters. Pinchot's two scenes leading to a sitcom is likened to a Dion Waiters-style success story, awarded the Dion Waiters Award.
“The Dion Waiters Award.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:05:34 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Beverly Hills Cop → Michael Eisner. Eisner claims he came up with the idea after a speeding ticket in 1975; Simpson claimed it from 1977.
“in 1975, he got a speeding ticket with a cop, thought the guy was a little bit of a dick”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:06:23 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Beverly Hills Cop → Flashdance. Don Simpson made Flashdance and, asked what's next, said it was time for Beverly Hills Cop.
“No, by the research, he made Flash Dance.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:07:50 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Gilbert Hill → 48 Hrs.. Giving Black actors the most powerful job in a nearly all-white movie with 30 seconds of screen time started with 48 Hrs.
“giving black people in a movie with no black people the most powerful job”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:08:38 · Wesley Morris (0.60 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Beverly Hills Cop → Shawn Ryan. Shawn Ryan tried a Beverly Hills Cop TV show; CBS made a pilot that didn't work.
“that CBS did a pilot for and apparently it didn't work.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:09:37 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Beverly Hills Cop → Brandon T. Jackson. In the pilot Brandon T. Jackson played Axel Foley's son.
“Brandon T. Jackson was Axel Foley's son.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:09:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Beverly Hills Cop → Colors. A lighthearted LA-cop comedy could not be made a few years later: four years on it was Colors.
“Well, 4 years later it was color.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:10:32 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Beverly Hills Cop → Commando. The same mansion appears in this film and Commando a year later.
“used in this movie and the commando a year later.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:10:46 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Raw Deal → Eddie Murphy. Raw Deal is an Eddie Murphy movie with Schwarzenegger doing all the Eddie Murphy stuff.
“it is an Eddie Murphy movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger doing all the Eddie Murphy stuff.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:11:08 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Top Gun → Eddie Murphy. Asked which 80s movie they wish Eddie had starred in, the answer is Top Gun, though everything changes if he does.
“everything changes if Eddie Murphy's the star of Top Gun, right?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:11:43 · Wesley Morris (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Wall Street → Eddie Murphy. Eddie could not have been a supporting character like Bud Fox in Wall Street; he had to be the giant star.
“Eddie hit a point where he couldn't have been like Bud Fox in Wall Street.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:12:07 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Sidney Poitier → Wall Street. If Eddie plays Gordon Gekko, the speaker thinks he would defer to Poitier-type roles.
“But if he makes Sidney Poitier, Gordon Gecko.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:12:15 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Die Hard → Eddie Murphy. Die Hard would be an Eddie Murphy movie in the what-if game.
“I mean, Diehard is an Eddie Murphy movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:12:32 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Beverly Hills Cop → Beverly Hills Cop II. One speaker prefers Cop 2 as the better film but is more fond of Cop 1 for what it meant for Eddie.
“I'm more fond of cop one because of everything it meant, like, for the Eddie Arc”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:16:51 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Beverly Hills Cop → Pauline Kael. Kael disliked the film because she saw Eddie's competence as a joke on white people.
“his stardom was was offensive to her because he was using it in her opinion as a joke on white people and how dumb they were”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:18:06 · Wesley Morris (0.80 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): The French Connection → Pauline Kael. Kael has an interesting take on how black audiences respond to The French Connection, brought up to explain her BHC reaction.
“she's got a really interesting take on, on, on French Connection, for instance”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:19:52 · Wesley Morris (0.60 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Nick Nolte → 48 Hrs.. Even in 48 Hrs. Nolte's girlfriend calls him three times, so the hero has a romantic life.
“Even in 48 hours, Nick Nulty's girlfriend is there to call him 3 times”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:26:31 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Olivia Brown → 48 Hrs.. In 48 Hrs. Eddie gets laid by Olivia Brown and it is his primary obsession, unlike here.
“And Eddie gets laid in that movie from Olivia Brown.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:26:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Will Smith → Six Degrees of Separation. Will Smith's early-career avoidance of romance, including the kissing scene he skipped in Six Degrees of Separation, is compared to Eddie's missing love scene.
“Will Smith didn't help himself when he didn't do the kissing scene in 6 degrees of separation.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:28:00 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items (26)

fun, about Beverly Hills Cop: 1984: highest grossing R-rated film until The Matrix Reloaded in 2003 (19 years).
“was the highest gross cigar rated film for 19 years until the Matrix reloaded in 2003.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:01:53 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Eddie Murphy: Eddie's first reaction rewatch: he is soft and present, not the macho guy people remember; critics of the time were 'scared of Eddie Murphy'.
“People were really scared of Eddie Murphy.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:05:31 · Wesley Morris (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Eddie Murphy: The costume was deliberate: the cropped sweatshirts, jeans and Mumford shirt are what a 24-year-old would wear.
“stuff you would wear when you're 24 years old because they're trying to get across the fact that this dude's 24 years old.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:05:58 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Eddie Murphy: On Letterman after this film, Eddie came on in a Michael Jackson suit and behaved differently; after buying Bubble Hill, the speaker says, a mansion every night is death for comedy.
“He was one of the biggest stars in the world and he had reached a point where there was no way to have normal interactions with anybody.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:11:41 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Eddie Murphy: The 'funny person championship belt': Eddie held it 1982-84, the best three-year run by a funny person ever.
“the best 3 three-year run by a funny person ever.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:15:29 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Beverly Hills Cop: Eddie was hired about two weeks before shooting on a script that had been kicking around since the 70s, and he improvised large swaths of it. Brest said every time they hit a jam he asked Eddie for something.
“every time we got into a jam, I turn to Eddie and say, can you come up with something?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:18:16 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about John Ashton: In the super cop scene, Ashton looks pained but is actually trying not to laugh, Carol Burnett Show style. Ronny Cox can be seen fighting it off too.
“And it looks like he's like in pain.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:29:26 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Judge Reinhold: Reinhold pinched the inside of his thigh to keep from laughing whenever Eddie improvised.
“Judge Reinhold, whenever Eddie was doing his thing, would have to pinch the inside of his thigh to give himself pain so that he wouldn't laugh.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:29:46 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Eddie Murphy: Axel's checking-in-at-the-Beverly-Palms bit: a Rolling Stone writer doing a Michael Jackson cover story, crying racism without saying it, and getting a room at half price. Watch his wordless take when he hears the price.
“he gets like one of the all-time, like, wordless takes where they give him the price of a single room.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:34:54 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Beverly Hills Cop: The banana-in-the-tailpipe line became a playground catchphrase, used at Little League, then revived when Tiger Woods arrived in 1997.
“we used to say it at Little League.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:38:07 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Beverly Hills Cop: Mumford Phys Ed t-shirts were a mid-80s thing and a high school got flooded with requests; Cop 2's lion jacket was intentionally merchandised.
“The Mumford Phiz ed t-shirts were really a thing in the mid 80s.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:48:52 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Beverly Hills Cop: Stunt doubles do not match: the truck driver has a mullet and the guy who jumps out has a bald spot, and Eddie going through plate glass is not Eddie.
“is not the guy who's driving the truck.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:52:01 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Victor Maitland: Maitland's bodyguards: four huge guys carry Axel through the building while a fifth small guy just walks in front, apparently to open doors.
“One of those guys looks like a little mouse in the front.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:56:52 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Beverly Hills Cop: Magazines stand in for mobile phones: Rosewood reads Time, Banks reads National Geographic, Maitland flips through one in the gallery.
“Jonathan Banks is reading National Geographic at one and it's just like, this is just what people did to pass time in 1984 was like, read a magazine.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:00:04 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Mickey Rourke: Don Simpson reportedly tore a picture of Mickey Rourke out of a magazine and said 'isn't he great?'; Rourke then signed a $400,000 holding deal and left the project.
“Mr. Simpson tore it out, held it up and said, isn't he great?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:01:19 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Sylvester Stallone: Urban legend: Stallone demanded a certain orange juice in his trailer, there was a fight, and he quit. His version ended with a Lamborghini racing a freight train.
“He was old, 2 weeks for his filming.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:02:49 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Martin Scorsese: Scorsese was offered the directing job while trying to get The Last Temptation of Christ made, and was reportedly bewildered by the script.
“According to the research, Scorsese was, quote, bewildered by the script.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:03:28 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Bronson Pinchot: Two scenes as Serge led to a sitcom; compared to a role player's 13-game run that earns a five-year deal.
“goes to Bronson Pincho, who has 2 scenes and knocks him out of the park and it's fucking awesome and end up getting a sitcom out of this.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:05:35 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Michael Eisner: Eisner says the idea came from a 1975 speeding ticket: stopped in a beater, he decided he needed a Mercedes. Simpson claimed he had the idea in 1977 and the two argued until Simpson died.
“But they've, they argued about it until Don Simpson died about who came up with that idea.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:07:57 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Harold Faltermeyer: The theme from Beverly Hills Cop hit number three on the Billboard US charts.
“Number three.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:09:06 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Beverly Hills Cop: CBS made a pilot for a Beverly Hills Cop TV show from the creator of The Shield, with Brandon T. Jackson as Axel Foley's son. It didn't work.
“The guy who created the shield, Sean Ryan?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:09:29 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Lisa Eilbacher: Apex Mountain pick: Lisa Eilbacher 'one hundred thousand percent'; she is also named most aged-well and the winner of the movie.
“Lisa Elbacher, 100,000%.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:09:44 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Beverly Hills Cop: The mansion used in this movie reappears in Commando a year later.
“Same house.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:10:50 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Beverly Hills Cop: Nobody understands what bearer bonds are in this movie, nor in Die Hard.
“What is going on with bear bonds?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:13:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Beverly Hills Cop: The movie never lets Axel have a love scene, and the guys read Axel and Mikey as the love story. 'Is Axel Foley gay?' is described as a long-running Reddit conspiracy theory.
“And the axe is Axel gay is like a long term, that's like a Reddit board conspiracy theory thing that's been going on for years.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:24:15 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Beverly Hills Cop: The original ending, as relayed: Axel hangs up his jacket in Detroit, opens the closet, finds Mikey's shirt, and sniffs it.
“and he sniffs it and then it ends.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:25:41 · Wesley Morris (0.60 sure it was them)

Who's talking

Bill Simmons (host): Loves the mid-80s Eddie Murphy and the movie's cultural phenomenon, and has a clear soft spot for Lisa Eilbacher. Is a sucker for Hollywood-excess anecdotes (Simpson, cocaine, Rourke, Stallone) and for sports analogies. Has little patience for plot logic holes but loves list games and categories.
Wesley Morris (guest): Reads the film through race, stardom and Hollywood history, loving how Eddie is present and generous with other actors. He cannot stand critics who missed the sophistication of the film's racial comedy, and is a sucker for the film's subtext. He offers the gay-subtext reading of Axel and Mikey with delight.
Chris Ryan (host): Is the movie connoisseur of dumb action; loves 80s cop-movie rival duos and the Taggart and Rosewood interplay, and the movie-stunt era. He is a sucker for the character-actor 'that guy' game and cannot abide implausible bodyguards.
Sean Fennessey (host): Admires Eddie's subtlety in the film and the Detroit-set opening that sets it apart from other 80s blockbusters. Appreciates sly craft details like pop songs turning down for a scene. He is a sucker for the rival-duo moments and the soundtrack.

The show's recurring bits

Apex Mountain: The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits.
Who Won the Movie: The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off.
The Ebert review: Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show.
Casting what-ifs: Who was almost cast, or who should have been.
Most rewatchable scene: The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels.
Aged best / aged worst: What holds up and what does not.
Picking Nits: The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits.
Double feature: The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick.

Names the transcriber got wrong

'Sean Fantasy' / 'Fantasy' = Sean Fennessey
'Justin Gross numbers' = unclear (a box-office source); 'cigar rated' = R-rated
'Beverly Hills Cott' / 'Beverly O's Cap' = Beverly Hills Cop
'Martin Brass' / 'Martin Breast' / 'Martin Brest' = Martin Brest
'Harold Faltimeyer' / 'Faltermire' / 'Fault tomorrow' = Harold Faltermeyer
'Dean Hackman' = Gene Hackman; 'Schider' = Scheider
'Bogamil' / 'Bogamal' / 'Bug Mill' = Bogomil (Ronny Cox's character)
'Ronnie Cox' = Ronny Cox
'Stephen Burkoff' = Steven Berkoff
'Aislebacher' / 'Islebach' / 'Elbacher' = Lisa Eilbacher
'Bronson Pincher' / 'Pincho' = Bronson Pinchot
'Damon wans' / 'David Wayans' = Damon Wayans
'Gilbert Gill' = Gilbert Hill
'Michael Richie' = Michael Ritchie
'Mickey work' = Mickey Rourke
'Eureka and you're the Dragon' = Eureka and Year of the Dragon
'Geely' = Gigli; 'son of a woman' = Scent of a Woman
'Pauline Kale' = Pauline Kael
'Ibert' = Ebert
'John Simpson' (0:30:24) = Don Simpson
'Detroit 3000' = probably Detroit 9000
'Dan Ackright' = Dan Aykroyd
'Jim Jarmish' = Jim Jarmusch
'Sean Michaels' = Shawn Michaels
'Mumford Phiz ed' = Mumford Phys Ed
'Tandino' / 'Candino' = Mikey Tandino (James Russo's character)
'Cobb' (0:39:10) = probably Inspector Todd
'Sean Ryan' = Shawn Ryan