What the corpus says about Beverly Hills Cop (1984)

The 59 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’ · 0:07:52 · 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."
  2. [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."
  3. [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"
  4. [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."
  5. [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."
  6. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:32:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Mean Streets · lineage · 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."
  7. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:32:37 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Detroit 9000 · lineage · The Detroit opening is joked to be Detroit 3000 part two if you did not know the title. · "It's Detroit 3000 part two."
  8. [Blank Check · After Hours · 0:49:52 · unknown host (0.35)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Coogan's Bluff · theme · Scorsese would have heard the Beverly Hills Cop pitch as a retread of Don Siegel's Coogan's Bluff. · "oh, you mean like the Don Siegel picture Coogan's bluff?"
  9. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:21:53 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Stripes · theme · 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"
  10. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:24:43 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Purple Rain · theme · 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."
  11. [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:27:52 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Working Girl ↔ Beverly Hills Cop · craft · 'I'm So Excited' is in Working Girl and Beverly Hills Cop: a ten-year pop-culture run. · "It's in Beverly Hills Cop."
  12. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:37:17 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Beverly Hills Cop · craft · Impersonating people over multiple phones to outwit annoying people peaked in Ferris, Beverly Hills Cop, and Fletch. · "This was peak trying to outwit really fucking annoying people by pretending to be different characters and using different phones."
  13. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:49:22 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ The Goonies · craft · Taggart and Rosewood's cropped sweatshirts echo the Josh Brolin Goonies look. · "Because that was also like the Josh Brolin Goonies look."
  14. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:51:50 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Magnum, P.I. · craft · 1984 stunt work with masked doubles is on Magnum PI level. · "we were still on like magnum PI level stunts."
  15. [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?"
  16. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:52:32 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ John Wick · contrast · Tumbling stunts like these are not what you see in John Wick. · "That's usually not what you see in John Wick."
  17. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:58:43 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] 48 Hrs. ↔ Beverly Hills Cop · contrast · 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."
  18. [The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:17:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Do the Right Thing ↔ Beverly Hills Cop · contrast · Beverly Hills Cop is a comfort rewatch whose social import is extra-textual; Do the Right Thing is working hard to be important and disrupt comfort. · "it's working hard to be important, and it's working hard to disrupt your feeling of ease and comfort."
  19. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:06:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ The Nutty Professor · career · 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."
  20. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:12:13 · Wesley Morris (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ The Golden Child · career · After Axel Foley, The Golden Child was a disappointment. · "Golden Child, uh, which was which was definitely a disappointment."
  21. [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"
  22. [Blank Check · Dune · 2:51:29 · unknown (0.30)] Dune ↔ Beverly Hills Cop · industry · Dune opened number 2 behind Beverly Hills Cop its opening weekend. · "It is called Beverly Hills Cop."
  23. [The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ · 0:43:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Fletch ↔ Beverly Hills Cop · industry · Once Beverly Hills Cop hit, Fletch could be sold as an action comedy with Faltermeyer music and two action sequences. · "as soon as Beverly Hills cop hit, this movie made a lot more sense because you could put 2 big action sequences in it"
  24. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:07:50 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Flashdance · industry · 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."
  25. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:10:32 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Colors · industry · 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."
  26. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:10:46 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Commando · industry · The same mansion appears in this film and Commando a year later. · "used in this movie and the commando a year later."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

  1. [pairs] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Beverly Hills Cop II · said 4 times in 3 episodes

Fun items about it (6)

  1. [Blank Check · After Hours · 0:49:12 · unknown host (0.35)] Beverly Hills Cop · fun · Scorsese was offered Beverly Hills Cop with Stallone and the pitch is lampooned as a Coogan's Bluff remake. · "he was offered that. With Sylvester Stallone, you know, back when it was Sylvester Stallone."
  2. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:01:53 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop · fun · 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."
  3. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:18:16 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Beverly Hills Cop · fun · 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?"
  4. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:38:07 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Beverly Hills Cop · fun · 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."
  5. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:48:52 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop · fun · 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."
  6. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:52:01 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop · fun · 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."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (20)

  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. [Blank Check · Dune · 2:54:20 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · 2010 was made because the novel sequel existed, a movie made just because they had to. · "Because Arthur C. Clark had come out with a 2010 novel."
  3. [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"
  4. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:15:52 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Colors ↔ Internal Affairs · lineage · Colors is a renegade-cop movie, not a dirty-cop one, and has aged badly while Internal Affairs holds up. · "Well, I mean, they're, they're, in colors, they're more renegade cops than they are dirty cops because they still have some cop type ethos."
  5. [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."
  6. [Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:02:34 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · 2010 is the sequel to 2001; the speaker's reaction to the Kubrick film is the benchmark throughout. · "And I said, oh, you know, 2010, the sequel to 2001 and they were like, the what?"
  7. [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."
  8. [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."
  9. [Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:17:20 · unknown (0.40)] 2010: Odyssey Two (novel) ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · The film exists because Clarke published the sequel novel. · "Arthur C. Clark, of course, did publish a sequel to 2001 called 2010."
  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 · ‘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."
  12. [Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:18:44 · unknown (0.35)] Hannibal ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · lineage · The sequel arriving a decade-plus later after audiences demanded it, over the original team's refusal, is called a real Hannibal situation. · "It's like a real Hannibal situation."
  13. [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."
  14. [Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:18:58 · unknown (0.30)] The Silence of the Lambs ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · lineage · Jokes that Clarke's sequel is a straightforward explainer while Thomas Harris went for the most hateful story imaginable. · "But of course, I would say Arthur C. Clark wrote a pretty sort of straightforward sci-fi sequel book that does try to explain what was going on in 2001, whereas Thomas Harris ripped his guts open"
  15. [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."
  16. [Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:11:43 · Jordan Hoffman (0.70)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · The film has a sequel, and Clarke wrote three sequel novels. · "Obviously, the sequel exists."
  17. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:38:34 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Bob Seger ↔ Beverly Hills Cop II · craft · Seger's 'Shakedown' praised as an opening song drawn from the film's crime-in-the-city theme. · "the opening song of a movie being thematically drawn from the movie itself."
  18. [Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:06:48 · unknown (0.35)] 2010: The Year We Make Contact ↔ Interstellar · theme · The speaker finds 2010 closer in feel to Interstellar than to 2001. · "I found it interesting that in a lot of ways this movie feels less like dumb 2001 to me and more like dumb interstellar."
  19. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:40:56 · Bill Simmons (0.45)] George Michael ↔ Beverly Hills Cop II · craft · George Michael's 'I Want Your Sex' is called an amazing 80s song used perfectly in the film. · "It's used perfectly in this."
  20. [Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:07:48 · unknown (0.35)] 2010: The Year We Make Contact ↔ Creed · theme · The Zarathustra cue at the end is likened to Gonna Fly Now at the end of Creed: a movie that earned the right to the cue. · "It almost feels like fucking gonna fly now playing at the end of Creed where you're like, the movie's worked this hard to earn the right."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (4)

  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] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
  4. [speaker] Wesley Morris · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · Loves Marisa Tomei, the grits scene, and the clothes; is a sucker for Fran Drescher. Dislikes car-driving-away endings and thinks the film has done harm by encouraging self-representation. · stances: Tomei deserved the Oscar; Race in courtroom movies matters, and this one is warmly integrated; The Nanny is basically Mona Lisa Vito

The shows' running bits (2)

  1. [bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
  2. [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 (1984) 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 (1984) 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’ · 0:07:52 · 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 · ‘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’ · 0:23:34 · 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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:32:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Mean Streets · lineage · 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’ · 0:32:37 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Detroit 9000 · lineage · The Detroit opening is joked to be Detroit 3000 part two if you did not know the title. · "It's Detroit 3000 part two."
[Blank Check · After Hours · 0:49:52 · unknown host (0.35)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Coogan's Bluff · theme · Scorsese would have heard the Beverly Hills Cop pitch as a retread of Don Siegel's Coogan's Bluff. · "oh, you mean like the Don Siegel picture Coogan's bluff?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:21:53 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Stripes · theme · 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’ · 0:24:43 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Purple Rain · theme · 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 · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:27:52 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Working Girl ↔ Beverly Hills Cop · craft · 'I'm So Excited' is in Working Girl and Beverly Hills Cop: a ten-year pop-culture run. · "It's in Beverly Hills Cop."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:37:17 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Beverly Hills Cop · craft · Impersonating people over multiple phones to outwit annoying people peaked in Ferris, Beverly Hills Cop, and Fletch. · "This was peak trying to outwit really fucking annoying people by pretending to be different characters and using different phones."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:49:22 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ The Goonies · craft · 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’ · 0:51:50 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Magnum, P.I. · craft · 1984 stunt work with masked doubles is on Magnum PI level. · "we were still on like magnum PI level stunts."
[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?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:52:32 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ John Wick · contrast · 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’ · 0:58:43 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] 48 Hrs. ↔ Beverly Hills Cop · contrast · 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 · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:17:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Do the Right Thing ↔ Beverly Hills Cop · contrast · Beverly Hills Cop is a comfort rewatch whose social import is extra-textual; Do the Right Thing is working hard to be important and disrupt comfort. · "it's working hard to be important, and it's working hard to disrupt your feeling of ease and comfort."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:06:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ The Nutty Professor · career · 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’ · 0:12:13 · Wesley Morris (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ The Golden Child · career · After Axel Foley, The Golden Child was a disappointment. · "Golden Child, uh, which was which was definitely a disappointment."
[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"
[Blank Check · Dune · 2:51:29 · unknown (0.30)] Dune ↔ Beverly Hills Cop · industry · Dune opened number 2 behind Beverly Hills Cop its opening weekend. · "It is called Beverly Hills Cop."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ · 0:43:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Fletch ↔ Beverly Hills Cop · industry · Once Beverly Hills Cop hit, Fletch could be sold as an action comedy with Faltermeyer music and two action sequences. · "as soon as Beverly Hills cop hit, this movie made a lot more sense because you could put 2 big action sequences in it"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:07:50 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Flashdance · industry · 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’ · 1:10:32 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Colors · industry · 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’ · 1:10:46 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Commando · industry · The same mansion appears in this film and Commando a year later. · "used in this movie and the commando a year later."
[pairs] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Beverly Hills Cop II · said 4 times in 3 episodes
[Blank Check · After Hours · 0:49:12 · unknown host (0.35)] Beverly Hills Cop · fun · Scorsese was offered Beverly Hills Cop with Stallone and the pitch is lampooned as a Coogan's Bluff remake. · "he was offered that. With Sylvester Stallone, you know, back when it was Sylvester Stallone."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:01:53 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop · fun · 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’ · 0:18:16 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Beverly Hills Cop · fun · 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’ · 0:38:07 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Beverly Hills Cop · fun · 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’ · 0:48:52 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop · fun · 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’ · 0:52:01 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop · fun · 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 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."
[Blank Check · Dune · 2:54:20 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · 2010 was made because the novel sequel existed, a movie made just because they had to. · "Because Arthur C. Clark had come out with a 2010 novel."
[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 · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:15:52 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Colors ↔ Internal Affairs · lineage · Colors is a renegade-cop movie, not a dirty-cop one, and has aged badly while Internal Affairs holds up. · "Well, I mean, they're, they're, in colors, they're more renegade cops than they are dirty cops because they still have some cop type ethos."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:02:34 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · 2010 is the sequel to 2001; the speaker's reaction to the Kubrick film is the benchmark throughout. · "And I said, oh, you know, 2010, the sequel to 2001 and they were like, the what?"
[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’ · 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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:17:20 · unknown (0.40)] 2010: Odyssey Two (novel) ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · The film exists because Clarke published the sequel novel. · "Arthur C. Clark, of course, did publish a sequel to 2001 called 2010."
[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 · ‘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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:18:44 · unknown (0.35)] Hannibal ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · lineage · The sequel arriving a decade-plus later after audiences demanded it, over the original team's refusal, is called a real Hannibal situation. · "It's like a real Hannibal situation."
[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 · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:18:58 · unknown (0.30)] The Silence of the Lambs ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · lineage · Jokes that Clarke's sequel is a straightforward explainer while Thomas Harris went for the most hateful story imaginable. · "But of course, I would say Arthur C. Clark wrote a pretty sort of straightforward sci-fi sequel book that does try to explain what was going on in 2001, whereas Thomas Harris ripped his guts open"
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:11:43 · Jordan Hoffman (0.70)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · The film has a sequel, and Clarke wrote three sequel novels. · "Obviously, the sequel exists."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:38:34 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Bob Seger ↔ Beverly Hills Cop II · craft · Seger's 'Shakedown' praised as an opening song drawn from the film's crime-in-the-city theme. · "the opening song of a movie being thematically drawn from the movie itself."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:06:48 · unknown (0.35)] 2010: The Year We Make Contact ↔ Interstellar · theme · The speaker finds 2010 closer in feel to Interstellar than to 2001. · "I found it interesting that in a lot of ways this movie feels less like dumb 2001 to me and more like dumb interstellar."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:40:56 · Bill Simmons (0.45)] George Michael ↔ Beverly Hills Cop II · craft · George Michael's 'I Want Your Sex' is called an amazing 80s song used perfectly in the film. · "It's used perfectly in this."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:07:48 · unknown (0.35)] 2010: The Year We Make Contact ↔ Creed · theme · The Zarathustra cue at the end is likened to Gonna Fly Now at the end of Creed: a movie that earned the right to the cue. · "It almost feels like fucking gonna fly now playing at the end of Creed where you're like, the movie's worked this hard to earn the right."
[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] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] Wesley Morris · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · Loves Marisa Tomei, the grits scene, and the clothes; is a sucker for Fran Drescher. Dislikes car-driving-away endings and thinks the film has done harm by encouraging self-representation. · stances: Tomei deserved the Oscar; Race in courtroom movies matters, and this one is warmly integrated; The Nanny is basically Mona Lisa Vito
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[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 (1984); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Beverly Hills Cop (1984) 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.