What the corpus says about Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)

The 56 lines php artisan corpus:ask hands a model, in the order it gets them, and nothing else. The model writes a clerk's answer from these and only these.

What was said about it (26)

  1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:10:45 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Police Academy 4 · lineage · Cop II was the only sequel in the 1987 domestic top 20-25; the next was Police Academy 4 at 44th. · "This is the only sequel in the top 20, top 25, where it's not until Police Academy 4, which was the 44th biggest movie that year."
  2. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:13:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · lineage · The studio floated a TV series version like what happened with Ferris Bueller. · "they were talking about making it into a TV show, which was kind of like the way Ferris Bueller went and stuff like that."
  3. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 1:05:28 · Craig Horlbeck (0.80)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Austin Powers · lineage · Craig is unsure whether the sequel is better than the first, like Austin Powers. · "I don't know if the 2nd one's better than the first, like Austin Powers, but I enjoyed it very much."
  4. [The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ · 1:11:17 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Fletch Lives · lineage · Chris cites Beverly Hills Cop 2 as a sequel better than its original; Fletch Lives joins 48 Hrs 2, Godfather 3 and Caddy Shack 2 as disappointing late-80s sequels. · "a really good example is Beverly Hills Cop 2, which is better than Beverly Hills Cop one."
  5. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 1:00:18 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ⇒ The Rock (the host's read) · theme · The abandoned England/Scotland Yard concept with Sean Connery became the backbone of The Rock a decade later. · "initially written Beverly Hills Cop 2 to be Eddie Murphy in England, solving crimes with Sean Connery, actually, which basically, I think, winds up being like essentially the backbone for what the rock is 10 years later or whatever."
  6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 2 · 1:01:49 · unknown (0.30)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Beverly Hills Cop · craft · The first is workaday in the Walter Hill style; the Tony Scott second is overcranked and stylized. · "Walter Hill style, you know?"
  7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 2 · 1:01:16 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Iron Man 2 ↔ Beverly Hills Cop II · contrast · Iron Man 1 was a straight movie subverted from within by a loose lead, like Beverly Hills Cop; the sequel was written as comedy from the start, like Beverly Hills Cop II, so nothing is subversive. · "The problem with this movie is they tried to write it from as a comedy from the get go."
  8. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:13:34 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Top Gun · people · Tony Scott came to Cop II fresh off Top Gun, the biggest movie of 1986. · "Tony Scott has Top Gun, which is, you know, the biggest movie of 1986, basically."
  9. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 1:03:31 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Lethal Weapon · people · By the mid-90s sequels learned to add stars (Pesci in Lethal Weapon, Jackson in Die Hard 3); Cop sequels just ran it back. · "You have to have Joe Pesci join Lethal Weapon, and you have to try to bring in Chris Rock. You get Sam Jackson in Die Hard 3."
  10. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:16:51 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Beverly Hills Cop II · verdict · 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"
  11. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:43:38 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Zodiac · what-if · Fincher could have taken the alphabet-crimes concept further, and the idea is likened to a limited series with an endgame of Z. · "I think Fincher could have taken this to a whole other level."
  12. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:52:27 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ The Last Boy Scout · what-if · Simmons's Lisa Bonet revenge subplot is called a competition of 48 Hrs. and The Last Boy Scout. · "Essentially, I'm competition of 48 hours and last Boy Scout."
  13. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 1:00:42 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Beverly Hills Cop III · what-if · Both suggest cop three should have sent Rosewood and Taggart to Detroit, with Axel in a hospital bed. · "I kind of think they always missed out on sending Rosewood and Taggart to Detroit."
  14. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:05:01 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Beverly Hills Cop II · fish out of water vs showcase · The first film has a coherent story and fish-out-of-water appeal; the sequel is a showcase of Eddie doing bits. · "The 1st movie has like a much more coherent story."
  15. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:16:55 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Fast & Furious (series) · star power on set · Cop II is likened to the domino that taught stars they can be late, improvise, and force productions to scramble, as with Vin Diesel's approval of action sequences. · "You could be late. You can improvise and like they just have to scramble to make it work because you're the price of admission."
  16. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:17:01 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Cobra · set behavior · The Stallone Cobra stories about nobody being allowed to talk to him mirror the star-run chaos on Cop II. · "And we did Cobra a few months ago and there was the Stallone stories about nobody in the set was allowed to talk to them or interact with them and it just everybody had lost their mind at this point."
  17. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:18:26 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ 48 Hrs. · Eddie Murphy run · The Rewatchables has covered 48 Hrs., Cop I, Cop II, Coming to America; only Trading Places is left; Simmons prefers 48 Hrs. personally. · "I think, the 48 hours is my personal favorite."
  18. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:20:04 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Hobbs & Shaw · spinoff idea · Rosewood and Taggart could be a limited series spinoff today, like a Hobbs and Shaw. · "there's definitely a rosewood and Taggart, like, limited series. Like a Hobbs and Shaw type of thing."
  19. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:21:30 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Beverly Hills Cop · rewatchability · Not better, but more rewatchable than the first because sleeker with no dead spots or open questions. · "I don't think it's a better movie, but I actually think it's a more rewatchable movie because it's sleeker."
  20. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:26:21 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Dirty Dancing · top-20 neighbors · The 1987 top 20 includes Fatal Attraction, Lethal Weapon, RoboCop, Predator and others, putting Cop II as the third biggest. · "Three Men and a Baby, Fatal Attraction, Beverly Hills Cop 2."
  21. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:35:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Cobra · Brigitte Nielsen / Tony Scott · Nielsen wore a terrible wig in Cobra, a film the show covered, and had worked with Stallone and Schwarzenegger before this one. · "She's in Cobra with a terrible wig on, which we covered in the Cobra watchables than this."
  22. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:47:57 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Midnight Run · that-guy graduation · John Ashton was a that guy until Midnight Run. · "John Ashton, I think, was that guy until Midnight Run."
  23. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:54:28 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Cobra · easter egg · Rosewood has a Cobra poster in his apartment, which is funny given Scott and Nielsen's off-screen story. · "He's got the Cobra poster in his room, and meanwhile, Tony Scott is..."
  24. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 1:01:03 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Fast & Furious (series) · limited-role star · Eddie in four scenes for Cop III is compared to The Rock's reduced role in Fast Six. · "I can only be in 4 scenes."
  25. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 1:07:47 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Internal Affairs · next-episode tease · The hosts tease dirty-cop episodes coming up including Internal Affairs. · "until we do internal affairs."
  26. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:07:16 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Harold Faltermeyer ↔ Beverly Hills Cop II · craft · Faltermeyer's score opens the robbery with suspense before the comedy loosens up. · "It just kicks off with the, da, da, da, na, na, na, na, na, na, it's, it just feels, there's a little suspense in it."

Films put beside it more than once (3)

  1. [pairs] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Beverly Hills Cop · said 4 times in 3 episodes
  2. [pairs] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Cobra · said 3 times in 1 episode
  3. [pairs] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Fast & Furious (series) · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

  1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:03:53 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Beverly Hills Cop II · fun · A Premiere magazine piece says the script was rewritten dozens of times, finalized three weeks before production, with a 10-week shoot stretching to 20. · "Cop 2 ate up the energy of 2 executive producers, 2 producers, one director, 6 writers, and various productive production executives of personnel at Paramount."
  2. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:12:43 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Beverly Hills Cop II · fun · Murphy's original pitch was a Testarossa and a Beverly Hills gun club; the studio first considered England/Scotland Yard and a TV series, but Murphy refused both. · "Murphy's ideas was that that Folish should have a testeras, Rosa Ferrari, and that there should be something at the Beverly Hills gun club."
  3. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:16:54 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Beverly Hills Cop II · fun · Eddie Murphy himself called it the most successful mediocre picture in history, a half-assed rehash that was less spontaneous. Both hosts disagree and say they love it. · "Beverly Hills cop 2 was probably the most successful mediocre picture in history."
  4. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:28:29 · Eddie Murphy (0.90)] Beverly Hills Cop II · fun · Most rewatchable scene: Axel flashes a badge, claims to be from the city, and shuts down a construction site because the Andersons changed the plans; the foreman says the house is as round as a donut. · "They're not supposed to be any right angles on this building."
  5. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:30:04 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Beverly Hills Cop II · fun · Most rewatchable scene: Axel at the gun club pleading for his daughters Monique and Unique; Simmons calls it a fucking classic. · "I'd like to see my kids, Monique and Unique again, fucking classic."
  6. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:31:52 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Beverly Hills Cop II · fun · Best quote candidate: the Gerald Ford lookalike in the strip club; Simmons says he still doesn't know why it's funny after all these years. · "President Gerald Ford is so fucking funny."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (15)

  1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:09:37 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop ⇒ Shawn Ryan (the host's read) · programming · 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."
  2. [The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ · 0:28:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Tombstone ↔ Cobra · craft · The film's intense indiscriminate killing is the Cosmatos effect, like Cobra. · "It's like, it basically turns into cobra for 5 minutes."
  3. [The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 1:51:14 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] Twister ↔ Fast & Furious (series) · theme · Craig says some movies, like Twister and the Fast and Furious films, are better when watched on a plane because turbulence heightens them. · "I feel like all the Fast and Furious movies are like that."
  4. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:08:38 · Wesley Morris (0.60)] Gilbert Hill ↔ 48 Hrs. · lineage · 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"
  5. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:57:26 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! ↔ Austin Powers · lineage · Naked Gun in 1987 had the first long-pee scene, beating Austin Powers and A League of Their Own, answering a Twitter correction. · "that was the 1st long piece scene. That beats Austin Powers and League of their own."
  6. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:09:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Brandon T. Jackson · programming · In the pilot Brandon T. Jackson played Axel Foley's son. · "Brandon T. Jackson was Axel Foley's son."
  7. [The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ · 1:03:52 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Tombstone ↔ Cobra · craft · The last third mirrors Cobra's final act: heroes killing everyone. · "Cobra, the last 30 minutes was basically like this cult has lost its mind and they're just killing everybody."
  8. [The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:55:07 · unknown (0.30)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ 48 Hrs. · craft · 48 Hrs. has the same joke about a bad guy liking shooting cops more than getting laid. · "48 hours has that with Ganz."
  9. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:07:52 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] 1970s cop movies ⇒ Beverly Hills Cop (the host's read) · lineage · The first film feels like an extension of 70s cop movies, especially the Detroit material, while the sequel feels glossy and 80s. · "There's a world in which that almost feels like an extension of like 70s cop movies."
  10. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:37:28 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] 48 Hrs. ⇒ Ferris Bueller's Day Off (the host's read) · craft · Ferris's impersonation bit is the suburban white guy riff on Eddie Murphy in 48 Hrs. · "it's the suburban white guy riff on, on, uh, Eddie Murphy in torchies in 48 hours, right?"
  11. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:08:03 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Dirty Harry · lineage · 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."
  12. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:08:03 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ The Outfit · lineage · 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"
  13. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:08:19 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Richard Roundtree · lineage · 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."
  14. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:23:34 · Wesley Morris (0.70)] The French Connection ⇒ Beverly Hills Cop (the host's read) · lineage · 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."
  15. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:27:42 · unknown (0.40)] In the Heat of the Night ⇒ Beverly Hills Cop (the host's read) · lineage · 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."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (5)

  1. [speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
  2. [speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
  3. [speaker] Craig Horlbeck · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · First-time viewer of the series; expected Jason and was thrown by Mrs. Voorhees. Rates the film a 4 or 5 and singled out the canoe ending as the best scene. Prefers the Chain Saw's intensity. · stances: Rug-pulled by the killer-mom reveal; The ending saves the movie
  4. [speaker] Eddie Murphy · no sketch
  5. [speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases

The shows' running bits (1)

  1. [bits] The Rewatchables: 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)

The whole prompt

As the model gets it, from app/Ai/Prompts/CorpusAsk.md 
You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:10:45 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Police Academy 4 · lineage · Cop II was the only sequel in the 1987 domestic top 20-25; the next was Police Academy 4 at 44th. · "This is the only sequel in the top 20, top 25, where it's not until Police Academy 4, which was the 44th biggest movie that year."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:13:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · lineage · The studio floated a TV series version like what happened with Ferris Bueller. · "they were talking about making it into a TV show, which was kind of like the way Ferris Bueller went and stuff like that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 1:05:28 · Craig Horlbeck (0.80)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Austin Powers · lineage · Craig is unsure whether the sequel is better than the first, like Austin Powers. · "I don't know if the 2nd one's better than the first, like Austin Powers, but I enjoyed it very much."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ · 1:11:17 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Fletch Lives · lineage · Chris cites Beverly Hills Cop 2 as a sequel better than its original; Fletch Lives joins 48 Hrs 2, Godfather 3 and Caddy Shack 2 as disappointing late-80s sequels. · "a really good example is Beverly Hills Cop 2, which is better than Beverly Hills Cop one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 1:00:18 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ⇒ The Rock (the host's read) · theme · The abandoned England/Scotland Yard concept with Sean Connery became the backbone of The Rock a decade later. · "initially written Beverly Hills Cop 2 to be Eddie Murphy in England, solving crimes with Sean Connery, actually, which basically, I think, winds up being like essentially the backbone for what the rock is 10 years later or whatever."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 2 · 1:01:49 · unknown (0.30)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Beverly Hills Cop · craft · The first is workaday in the Walter Hill style; the Tony Scott second is overcranked and stylized. · "Walter Hill style, you know?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 2 · 1:01:16 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Iron Man 2 ↔ Beverly Hills Cop II · contrast · Iron Man 1 was a straight movie subverted from within by a loose lead, like Beverly Hills Cop; the sequel was written as comedy from the start, like Beverly Hills Cop II, so nothing is subversive. · "The problem with this movie is they tried to write it from as a comedy from the get go."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:13:34 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Top Gun · people · Tony Scott came to Cop II fresh off Top Gun, the biggest movie of 1986. · "Tony Scott has Top Gun, which is, you know, the biggest movie of 1986, basically."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 1:03:31 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Lethal Weapon · people · By the mid-90s sequels learned to add stars (Pesci in Lethal Weapon, Jackson in Die Hard 3); Cop sequels just ran it back. · "You have to have Joe Pesci join Lethal Weapon, and you have to try to bring in Chris Rock. You get Sam Jackson in Die Hard 3."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:16:51 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Beverly Hills Cop II · verdict · 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 II’ · 0:43:38 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Zodiac · what-if · Fincher could have taken the alphabet-crimes concept further, and the idea is likened to a limited series with an endgame of Z. · "I think Fincher could have taken this to a whole other level."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:52:27 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ The Last Boy Scout · what-if · Simmons's Lisa Bonet revenge subplot is called a competition of 48 Hrs. and The Last Boy Scout. · "Essentially, I'm competition of 48 hours and last Boy Scout."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 1:00:42 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Beverly Hills Cop III · what-if · Both suggest cop three should have sent Rosewood and Taggart to Detroit, with Axel in a hospital bed. · "I kind of think they always missed out on sending Rosewood and Taggart to Detroit."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:05:01 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Beverly Hills Cop II · fish out of water vs showcase · The first film has a coherent story and fish-out-of-water appeal; the sequel is a showcase of Eddie doing bits. · "The 1st movie has like a much more coherent story."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:16:55 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Fast & Furious (series) · star power on set · Cop II is likened to the domino that taught stars they can be late, improvise, and force productions to scramble, as with Vin Diesel's approval of action sequences. · "You could be late. You can improvise and like they just have to scramble to make it work because you're the price of admission."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:17:01 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Cobra · set behavior · The Stallone Cobra stories about nobody being allowed to talk to him mirror the star-run chaos on Cop II. · "And we did Cobra a few months ago and there was the Stallone stories about nobody in the set was allowed to talk to them or interact with them and it just everybody had lost their mind at this point."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:18:26 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ 48 Hrs. · Eddie Murphy run · The Rewatchables has covered 48 Hrs., Cop I, Cop II, Coming to America; only Trading Places is left; Simmons prefers 48 Hrs. personally. · "I think, the 48 hours is my personal favorite."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:20:04 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Hobbs & Shaw · spinoff idea · Rosewood and Taggart could be a limited series spinoff today, like a Hobbs and Shaw. · "there's definitely a rosewood and Taggart, like, limited series. Like a Hobbs and Shaw type of thing."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:21:30 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Beverly Hills Cop · rewatchability · Not better, but more rewatchable than the first because sleeker with no dead spots or open questions. · "I don't think it's a better movie, but I actually think it's a more rewatchable movie because it's sleeker."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:26:21 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Dirty Dancing · top-20 neighbors · The 1987 top 20 includes Fatal Attraction, Lethal Weapon, RoboCop, Predator and others, putting Cop II as the third biggest. · "Three Men and a Baby, Fatal Attraction, Beverly Hills Cop 2."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:35:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Cobra · Brigitte Nielsen / Tony Scott · Nielsen wore a terrible wig in Cobra, a film the show covered, and had worked with Stallone and Schwarzenegger before this one. · "She's in Cobra with a terrible wig on, which we covered in the Cobra watchables than this."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:47:57 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Midnight Run · that-guy graduation · John Ashton was a that guy until Midnight Run. · "John Ashton, I think, was that guy until Midnight Run."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:54:28 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Cobra · easter egg · Rosewood has a Cobra poster in his apartment, which is funny given Scott and Nielsen's off-screen story. · "He's got the Cobra poster in his room, and meanwhile, Tony Scott is..."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 1:01:03 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Fast & Furious (series) · limited-role star · Eddie in four scenes for Cop III is compared to The Rock's reduced role in Fast Six. · "I can only be in 4 scenes."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 1:07:47 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Internal Affairs · next-episode tease · The hosts tease dirty-cop episodes coming up including Internal Affairs. · "until we do internal affairs."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:07:16 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Harold Faltermeyer ↔ Beverly Hills Cop II · craft · Faltermeyer's score opens the robbery with suspense before the comedy loosens up. · "It just kicks off with the, da, da, da, na, na, na, na, na, na, it's, it just feels, there's a little suspense in it."
[pairs] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Beverly Hills Cop · said 4 times in 3 episodes
[pairs] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Cobra · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Fast & Furious (series) · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:03:53 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Beverly Hills Cop II · fun · A Premiere magazine piece says the script was rewritten dozens of times, finalized three weeks before production, with a 10-week shoot stretching to 20. · "Cop 2 ate up the energy of 2 executive producers, 2 producers, one director, 6 writers, and various productive production executives of personnel at Paramount."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:12:43 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Beverly Hills Cop II · fun · Murphy's original pitch was a Testarossa and a Beverly Hills gun club; the studio first considered England/Scotland Yard and a TV series, but Murphy refused both. · "Murphy's ideas was that that Folish should have a testeras, Rosa Ferrari, and that there should be something at the Beverly Hills gun club."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:16:54 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Beverly Hills Cop II · fun · Eddie Murphy himself called it the most successful mediocre picture in history, a half-assed rehash that was less spontaneous. Both hosts disagree and say they love it. · "Beverly Hills cop 2 was probably the most successful mediocre picture in history."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:28:29 · Eddie Murphy (0.90)] Beverly Hills Cop II · fun · Most rewatchable scene: Axel flashes a badge, claims to be from the city, and shuts down a construction site because the Andersons changed the plans; the foreman says the house is as round as a donut. · "They're not supposed to be any right angles on this building."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:30:04 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Beverly Hills Cop II · fun · Most rewatchable scene: Axel at the gun club pleading for his daughters Monique and Unique; Simmons calls it a fucking classic. · "I'd like to see my kids, Monique and Unique again, fucking classic."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:31:52 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Beverly Hills Cop II · fun · Best quote candidate: the Gerald Ford lookalike in the strip club; Simmons says he still doesn't know why it's funny after all these years. · "President Gerald Ford is so fucking funny."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:09:37 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop ⇒ Shawn Ryan (the host's read) · programming · 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 · ‘Tombstone’ · 0:28:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Tombstone ↔ Cobra · craft · The film's intense indiscriminate killing is the Cosmatos effect, like Cobra. · "It's like, it basically turns into cobra for 5 minutes."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 1:51:14 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] Twister ↔ Fast & Furious (series) · theme · Craig says some movies, like Twister and the Fast and Furious films, are better when watched on a plane because turbulence heightens them. · "I feel like all the Fast and Furious movies are like that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:08:38 · Wesley Morris (0.60)] Gilbert Hill ↔ 48 Hrs. · lineage · 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 II’ · 0:57:26 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! ↔ Austin Powers · lineage · Naked Gun in 1987 had the first long-pee scene, beating Austin Powers and A League of Their Own, answering a Twitter correction. · "that was the 1st long piece scene. That beats Austin Powers and League of their own."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:09:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Brandon T. Jackson · programming · In the pilot Brandon T. Jackson played Axel Foley's son. · "Brandon T. Jackson was Axel Foley's son."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ · 1:03:52 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Tombstone ↔ Cobra · craft · The last third mirrors Cobra's final act: heroes killing everyone. · "Cobra, the last 30 minutes was basically like this cult has lost its mind and they're just killing everybody."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:55:07 · unknown (0.30)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ 48 Hrs. · craft · 48 Hrs. has the same joke about a bad guy liking shooting cops more than getting laid. · "48 hours has that with Ganz."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:07:52 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] 1970s cop movies ⇒ Beverly Hills Cop (the host's read) · lineage · The first film feels like an extension of 70s cop movies, especially the Detroit material, while the sequel feels glossy and 80s. · "There's a world in which that almost feels like an extension of like 70s cop movies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:37:28 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] 48 Hrs. ⇒ Ferris Bueller's Day Off (the host's read) · craft · Ferris's impersonation bit is the suburban white guy riff on Eddie Murphy in 48 Hrs. · "it's the suburban white guy riff on, on, uh, Eddie Murphy in torchies in 48 hours, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:08:03 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Dirty Harry · lineage · 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’ · 0:08:03 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ The Outfit · lineage · 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"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:08:19 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Richard Roundtree · lineage · 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’ · 0:23:34 · Wesley Morris (0.70)] The French Connection ⇒ Beverly Hills Cop (the host's read) · lineage · 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’ · 0:27:42 · unknown (0.40)] In the Heat of the Night ⇒ Beverly Hills Cop (the host's read) · lineage · 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."
[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] Craig Horlbeck · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · First-time viewer of the series; expected Jason and was thrown by Mrs. Voorhees. Rates the film a 4 or 5 and singled out the canoe ending as the best scene. Prefers the Chain Saw's intensity. · stances: Rug-pulled by the killer-mom reveal; The ending saves the movie
[speaker] Eddie Murphy · no sketch
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[bits] The Rewatchables: 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)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Beverly Hills Cop II (1987); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.