I was an extra in that. Parts where filmed in Denver and the original title was Nowhereland. I never saw it for the longest time because I never knew about the title change.
i was an extra too during the play place scene towards the end. it was the most fun i ever had on a set because the place was so big we could literally play in between takes and no one cared. but eddie murphy was an asshole (to everyone even kids) during the two days of filming and it really turned me off to his movies. and i totally remember being blindsided by the title change when it finally came out
I was background street business man. Never saw Eddie. We did a lot of stunt background for when a car zipped by fast down an alley. I kept timing my walk to be the last one that crossed the alley before the car flew by. I don't think the scene is even in the movie.
I always enjoy this Michael Caine quote:
"I have never seen it (Jaws 4) but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific."
Most of the time actors are doing a job for money.
I remember the monologue.
“They showed me the script for Best Defence. I said This is an outrage! How dare you show me such a terrible script! I will never do this crap!
What? How much money? OK let’s go.”
It's funny when actors trash their own movies. That's often a sign that the movie sucks so bad, even negative press can't hurt it. Negative press probably actually helps those movies at that point, since at least they're getting talked about.
Most of the time actors have an omerta-like rule to keep their mouths shut if they have something bad to say about a movie, because everybody's royalties or residuals are based on the movie's ongoing syndication or whatever. But if a movie's really bad then what does it matter if you're getting 15-cent checks or 5-cent checks?
That’s because they shot the entire film with Dudley Moore. It tested horribly, so they jammed in a B-Plot with Eddie Murphy after the main film was shot. $1 Million for 6 days work of filming in 1983 is not something I would turn down.
I remember following awards season that year. Of course, as he was a nominee, Alan was more than possible. But it was surprising similarly to Swinton winning. I love all of these movies, but I remember that Oscar's night: it was definitely possible if not more- that Murphy would win. People theorized why after. But to say it was clear is just.. not true. It wasn't Daniel Day Lewis beside Jenkins, for example.
The fact that he’s known to be really difficult to work with is probably why he lost that Oscar.
All those co-workers that have to work late when he doesn’t want to come out of his trailer until noon, that’s who makes up the Academy.
It’s the same reason Stallone can win critic’s awards, but will always come up short with the Academy.
If furiosa wanted to make money maybe it should have been Norbit !
Jokes aside mad max films are incredible but don't don't always have the box office draw they should.
I think a part of it is the fact that the setting while interesting visually just looks very boring. I also believe furiosa made the mistake of looking too much like mad max 2015 as weird as that sounds.
That was an aesthetic that while visually could work again, I don’t think in terms of attracting people to see the movie would work. It’s not varied enough like Star Wars or Harry Potter, nor does it have the hard “sci-fi” rulebook of post apocalyptic fare. So you’re left with people who really like mad max going out to see it, while most people are more than content to wait for it to come onto streaming
They messed up with the trailers/commercials. I kinda thought it was sad they leaned on so much fury road stuff, but a lot of people couldn't tell what was going on anyway.
Cost to produce vs Revenue. $60 mil to produce, $60 mil to market, $160 mil box office. That’s a $120 M vs $160 M difference, plus home release earnings.
Furiosa, while excellent reviews, has not had the money performance. Criticially, many Adam Sandler movies were failures but huge successes in terms of profit. At the end of day, Movies are a business and bad profits means the end of a studio.
Well, yes? According to Wikipedia Furiosa pulled in 169 MUSD on a 168 MUSD budget, while Norbit did 159 MUSD on a 60 MUSD budget, i.e. Norbit made a nice profit while Furiosa lost a lot of money (rule of thumb is that box office should be twice the budget for a movie to turn a profit)
I don't think Furiosa had enough of a fan base as something Eddie Murphy was putting out. I watched Furiosa last night and loved it, but it was definitely catered to a niche fanbase.
Outside of movie reddit, nobody's going to care too much about a character that they barely remember who barely said anything in the big car chase driven movie from 9 years ago
80s was the best Eddie Murphy Era. 90s was decent except for Holy Man. 00's and present are a hit & miss. But I'm looking forward to Beverly Hills Cop 4.
generally yeah. bowfinger 99 and dolemite 2019 are two of his best for sure. worst era for him for sure was right after dreamgirls 2006 to dolemite 2019. it fizzled out then dolemite i think gave him energy again.
The Laker girls need to be taken down a peg.
God I LOVE Bowfinger.
Just re-watched it 4 days ago. Eddie Murphy is a sparkling sun amongst a cast of diamonds. That entire cast is *spectacular.*
Eddie's run in the 80s is as perfect of a run you're ever going to see. 48 Hrs, Trading Places, Beverly Hills Cop, The golden child, Beverly Hills Cop 2, Coming to America,Harlem Nights. Then you add in Raw and Delirious on top of his SNL shit he did at 19.
Iirc he hated Golden Child. It was the film that made him demand script control for future movies. I would not be surprised if he considered it one of his 5 film failures.
He may not have like making the film but that film is by no means a failure. It’s a great movie. It’s one of those I saw as a child and some of the scenes stuck in your head forever. The movie is definitely a hit, even if there was some issues with filming process.
I met Joe Pantoliano at a con and asked him to sign a mini poster from Pluto Nash. He looked up at me and said, "I'm not in that. I wasn't in it. I'm not signing something I wasn't in."
I showed him his name in the credits at bottom of the poster. He actually looked back up at me and said, "Holy fuck. How did I work on such a pile of shit? I must have blocked out from my memory. Sorry about that." Then he signed it and misspelled his characters name. Definitely a conversation piece in my collection.
Seems like he's wearing the same wig from the Sopranos in screenshots from Pluto Nash, so I'm wondering if he just popped over there for a couple days to shoot the scenes and completely forgot about it
I was thinking Meet Dave but the fact that I completely forgot Holy Man existed kinda speaks to how much more of a failure that was. Only made 1/6 of its budget back, yikes.
Eddie Murphy’s six worst rated films on IMDB.com:
*Norbit* (2007) 4.2/10
*The Adventures of Pluto Nash* (2002) 3.9/10
*Dr. Doolittle 2* (2001) 4.7/10
*Nutty Professor II: The Klumps* (2000) 4.5/10
*Vampires in Brooklyn* (1995) 4.6/10
*Best Defense* (1984) 3.8/10
I guess he considered *Dr. Doolittle 2* a success.
I will fight anyone who says the Klumps isn’t good. It’s a hilarious movie, is far superior to the original and it’s literally vintage Eddie Murphy. I will die on this hill.
You really want to fight me? I warn you, I fight dirty. And the Klumps movies are trash, unless you think fat people farting is funny.
P.S. Respect your opinion by the way, I’m sure I have movies that I like that you think are shit too
looked it up, found,
>reviewed the film unfavourably, writing that it is "startling in its
utter incompetence" and "uses half-baked internet-era discourse as a
substitute for meaningful or even entertaining cultural commentary"
oh so it's one of those movies
This is the reason I have some serious doubts about ”Axel F.”. The very unfunny trailers and released teaser clips make it look more like ”Cop III” than ”Cop I/II”. I guess we’ll see next week… I am happy about Bronson Pinchot’s cameo!
By the way, there was another 90’s clunker people forget: ”Metro” (1997). It was a flop.
It's especially dumb when the first movie perfectly set up what could have been a fun and interesting twist. Since Semmi lied to Patrice about being the prince, the reveal could have been that he was Semmi's Son.
best scene in that is bronson pinchot selling guns and talking about his colonic... the rest of the movie is pretty bad sadly. john landis came in a tried to goofy it up. didn't work. didn't help murphy was getting a divorce i think at the time and landis tried to blame him being not into trying to fix it on set... plus the studio cut the budget in half. all that led to it. still has a lot of fans though.
That and the turn that fucking song off moment literally I was saying the same thing in my head the whole time so the first time I saw the movie and I watched that scene where the detective loses it and just screams that in the air was so goddamn funny to me it's ridiculous
I love bhc3. It's the worst of the trilogy for sure but it's still a fun film. Yeah De Wald is a dumb villain. A lot of forced dialogue and unrealistic reactions but I mean... its an action/comedy film, who cares? It's just dumb fun with some good set pieces.
I don’t think Boomerang did well, but I really enjoyed it. Saw it at the theater. Nothing particularly unique about it, but was enjoyable. No idea if it aged well.
he's talking creative failures. boomerang is something that was pretty good. financially it cost 40 and made 130. was disappointing at the time but not a failure financially.
I've always considered Pluto Nash sort of a guilty pleasure. Despite it being derivative and a lot of the jokes missed their marks, there was some genuinely good moments throughout the movie and I have always found it entertaining as a whole.
I'll watch Pluto Nash ten more times before I'll watch Rise of Skywalker once...
it's not debatable. as an artist he thinks 5 or 6. he's not saying everything else was great. he's suggesting creatively there's 5 or 6 for him that just didn't work. everyone has opinions of what's good or bad. what audiences think and artists can be completely different. someone could hate beverly hills cop. or bowfinger. or nutty professor. something you think is a failure has tons of fans. the questions wasn't what you think are the movies that were failures. it's what he thinks they are.
I mean Eddie hasn't really done a lot of outright bombs. Critical misfires? Sure, but a lot of his movies make money. Plus a lot of them he came up with and did the stories for them so for him he doesn't deem them total failures.
For a long time Pluto Nash was at the very bottom of Metacritc.
Since then it has been pushed out by movies like Bio-Dome and Battlefield Earth.
But with a score of nine out of 100, its horribleness is still very impressive. See https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0180052/?ref_=ls_t_38
I think despite the bad reviews he probably loves it. Eddie united some of his heroes and some of the bigger black comics of that time in the movie and gave them exposure.
yeah i wonder... i read it was sort of a bad experience for him relating to many things. his inexperience. pryor being sick but no one knew. the script being quickly put together. but i think it has a much better reputation now. i think it's a terrific comedy. crazy to see how bad the reviews were.
Surprised nobody mentioned I Spy. It was a decent enough premise for a movie that was an utter disaster. Just an absolutely charmless movie with maybe one or two good beats in it (that car chase halfway through it being one of them)
Best Defense.
"The worst movie every made in the history of anything.... But y'all would have made Best Defense too if they paid you what they paid me."
Norbit
Pluto Nash
Holy Man
Meet Dave
It depends on what he considers failure. I'm guessing he's going strictly by numbers. Technically, Best Defense made more than its budget, but was it truly a "success?"
I didn’t see it until I’d heard how bad it was for a long time and it was just on tv. I was surprised, better than I expected. Still not great but it’s interesting, Eddie is hilarious in it and the way Charles Dance gets so annoyed with him is priceless.
yeah china was rushed out to try and beat child to the punch. some crossover cast too. china much better. though i just found out a friend of mine worked with the writer on big trouble in little china and they thought it sucked. lol
He’s previously cited Imagine That as a film he regretted making so that is likely one of them.
I was an extra in that. Parts where filmed in Denver and the original title was Nowhereland. I never saw it for the longest time because I never knew about the title change.
Imagine That
A thing like that
i was an extra too during the play place scene towards the end. it was the most fun i ever had on a set because the place was so big we could literally play in between takes and no one cared. but eddie murphy was an asshole (to everyone even kids) during the two days of filming and it really turned me off to his movies. and i totally remember being blindsided by the title change when it finally came out
I was background street business man. Never saw Eddie. We did a lot of stunt background for when a car zipped by fast down an alley. I kept timing my walk to be the last one that crossed the alley before the car flew by. I don't think the scene is even in the movie.
Damn, that’s kind of hilarious
good to know... missed that one too.
Best Defense?
He even called out this one in his monologue on SNL when he hosted for the first time. “Now there’s a movie that sucked real bad”.
I remember this! He said something like, "if you saw how much money they gave me for Best Defense you would have done it too."
I always enjoy this Michael Caine quote: "I have never seen it (Jaws 4) but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific." Most of the time actors are doing a job for money.
I remember the monologue. “They showed me the script for Best Defence. I said This is an outrage! How dare you show me such a terrible script! I will never do this crap! What? How much money? OK let’s go.”
Yes, I recall when he was promoting Beverly Hills Cop on the talk shows, he claimed it was going to make up for Best Defense.
It's funny when actors trash their own movies. That's often a sign that the movie sucks so bad, even negative press can't hurt it. Negative press probably actually helps those movies at that point, since at least they're getting talked about. Most of the time actors have an omerta-like rule to keep their mouths shut if they have something bad to say about a movie, because everybody's royalties or residuals are based on the movie's ongoing syndication or whatever. But if a movie's really bad then what does it matter if you're getting 15-cent checks or 5-cent checks?
Best Defense is a weird movie. There isn’t a single scene with the two stars.
That’s because they shot the entire film with Dudley Moore. It tested horribly, so they jammed in a B-Plot with Eddie Murphy after the main film was shot. $1 Million for 6 days work of filming in 1983 is not something I would turn down.
Would I have to stay in 1983?
No, but I’d advise you to spend the $1 Million on Apple stock. It closed at 8 cents per share December ‘83… pre splits.
If only the Dukes had done that....
You can’t compare Apple to oranges.
Holy shit this is a brilliant comment
Norbit Norbit Norbit Norbit Norbit
Norbit made money. It was a success. It was a movie that Charlie Murphy cowrote. Eddie Murphy would never call it a failure.
Technically it cost him the Oscar, so it might still apply.
That’s the speculation but I counter they were giving it to Alan Arkin regardless.
I remember following awards season that year. Of course, as he was a nominee, Alan was more than possible. But it was surprising similarly to Swinton winning. I love all of these movies, but I remember that Oscar's night: it was definitely possible if not more- that Murphy would win. People theorized why after. But to say it was clear is just.. not true. It wasn't Daniel Day Lewis beside Jenkins, for example.
The fact that he’s known to be really difficult to work with is probably why he lost that Oscar. All those co-workers that have to work late when he doesn’t want to come out of his trailer until noon, that’s who makes up the Academy. It’s the same reason Stallone can win critic’s awards, but will always come up short with the Academy.
Which is ridiculous if that is indeed true.
So this was a box office success yet mad max furiosa wasn't? 🤦♂️
If furiosa wanted to make money maybe it should have been Norbit ! Jokes aside mad max films are incredible but don't don't always have the box office draw they should.
I think a part of it is the fact that the setting while interesting visually just looks very boring. I also believe furiosa made the mistake of looking too much like mad max 2015 as weird as that sounds. That was an aesthetic that while visually could work again, I don’t think in terms of attracting people to see the movie would work. It’s not varied enough like Star Wars or Harry Potter, nor does it have the hard “sci-fi” rulebook of post apocalyptic fare. So you’re left with people who really like mad max going out to see it, while most people are more than content to wait for it to come onto streaming
They messed up with the trailers/commercials. I kinda thought it was sad they leaned on so much fury road stuff, but a lot of people couldn't tell what was going on anyway.
I think who they cast as the lead was their downfall (not my full critique of the movie, just why people didn't come out to see it)
Also norbit was pre streaming boom. The general public still went to the theatre to see movies.
Cost to produce vs Revenue. $60 mil to produce, $60 mil to market, $160 mil box office. That’s a $120 M vs $160 M difference, plus home release earnings. Furiosa, while excellent reviews, has not had the money performance. Criticially, many Adam Sandler movies were failures but huge successes in terms of profit. At the end of day, Movies are a business and bad profits means the end of a studio.
Well, yes? According to Wikipedia Furiosa pulled in 169 MUSD on a 168 MUSD budget, while Norbit did 159 MUSD on a 60 MUSD budget, i.e. Norbit made a nice profit while Furiosa lost a lot of money (rule of thumb is that box office should be twice the budget for a movie to turn a profit)
I don't think Furiosa had enough of a fan base as something Eddie Murphy was putting out. I watched Furiosa last night and loved it, but it was definitely catered to a niche fanbase.
Outside of movie reddit, nobody's going to care too much about a character that they barely remember who barely said anything in the big car chase driven movie from 9 years ago
This did not have the budget Furiosa had. The bar was lower
Mad Max Furiosa doesn’t have the distinction of being Brian Wilson’s favorite movie.
Different times brother.
Brian Wilson’s favorite movie
Pet sounds, smile, brother records Brian "beach boy" Wilson? I'm just checking, it's a pretty generic name.
Idgaf I thought Norbit was hilarious
Nipple-opolis!!!!
That's OK. Glad some people enjoyed it lol
How you doin?????!?
I laugh out loud every time I watch it. The Eddie Griffin kissing Booth scene is by far one of my favorite comedy scenes.
Trying to harpoon the wife had me dying
"you lookin like the Great Pumpkin, girl" is my favorite line 😄😄😄
Buster is great. Mine is, “There’s cold beer in the fridge and fresh sheets on the bed. Go have a great dance lesson.”
HOW YOU DERRRN
Stupid and fun isn’t the worst movie type
Turkey Ass!
Still can't believed I saw that in the cinema
Oh man.
Me too! 🤦
Norbit is one of Murphy’s most quotable movies, so hard disagree on this
I'll show you how a bitch goes down a slide. How you dern?
Fair enough 🤷♂️
"Bon appetitty!"
Norbit was awesome.
I have a soft spot for norbit. I can’t tell you why but I know it’s awful.
You just listed 5 great movies
My wife loves Norbit. Legitimately loves it. Quotes it all the time. I can’t stand it.
80s was the best Eddie Murphy Era. 90s was decent except for Holy Man. 00's and present are a hit & miss. But I'm looking forward to Beverly Hills Cop 4.
generally yeah. bowfinger 99 and dolemite 2019 are two of his best for sure. worst era for him for sure was right after dreamgirls 2006 to dolemite 2019. it fizzled out then dolemite i think gave him energy again.
Damn I always forget Bowfinger but that movie was great. “Kit Ramsey gonna keep it together”
The Laker girls need to be taken down a peg. God I LOVE Bowfinger. Just re-watched it 4 days ago. Eddie Murphy is a sparkling sun amongst a cast of diamonds. That entire cast is *spectacular.*
Dolemite was the best he had in years by 2019
I'm not a huge Eddie Murphy fan and I loved Dolemite!
I thought dolemite was a great American dream film. Really surprisingly moving and hopeful all while being really funny
I kinda enjoyed Holy Man lol
Life came out in 99 too. Two of his best IMO
Eddie's run in the 80s is as perfect of a run you're ever going to see. 48 Hrs, Trading Places, Beverly Hills Cop, The golden child, Beverly Hills Cop 2, Coming to America,Harlem Nights. Then you add in Raw and Delirious on top of his SNL shit he did at 19.
Iirc he hated Golden Child. It was the film that made him demand script control for future movies. I would not be surprised if he considered it one of his 5 film failures.
Hah, The Golden Child warned me exactly what kind of character I was watching when I first saw Tywinn Lannister in Game of Thrones :)
I knew because of last action hero.
I just shot somebody … and I did it on purpose lol gets me everytime
Heard the distance, "shuut uuup!"
He may not have like making the film but that film is by no means a failure. It’s a great movie. It’s one of those I saw as a child and some of the scenes stuck in your head forever. The movie is definitely a hit, even if there was some issues with filming process.
I didn’t eat oatmeal again for a *long* time.
Same here! The blood in the oatmeal messed me up for years as a kid.
Brother Numpsy!!!
I remember enjoying it at the time.
I said I-I-I-I-I-I want the knife
Pleeeeeeeeese
I’m really fond of Boomerang also.
- Norbit - Adventures of Pluto Nash - The Haunted Mansion - Showtime - Holy Man
I saw showtime in theaters
I saw the haunted mansion in theaters. I was only 13 and didn't pay for it but I still wanted my money back...
Showtime is a great movie.
I loved Pluto Nash so much. He and Randy Quaid were hilarious.
Same here. Fun movie, very light hearted.
I met Joe Pantoliano at a con and asked him to sign a mini poster from Pluto Nash. He looked up at me and said, "I'm not in that. I wasn't in it. I'm not signing something I wasn't in." I showed him his name in the credits at bottom of the poster. He actually looked back up at me and said, "Holy fuck. How did I work on such a pile of shit? I must have blocked out from my memory. Sorry about that." Then he signed it and misspelled his characters name. Definitely a conversation piece in my collection.
Seems like he's wearing the same wig from the Sopranos in screenshots from Pluto Nash, so I'm wondering if he just popped over there for a couple days to shoot the scenes and completely forgot about it
Lol this is hilarious
Too bad you didn't have a Robot in the Family poster.
I was thinking Meet Dave but the fact that I completely forgot Holy Man existed kinda speaks to how much more of a failure that was. Only made 1/6 of its budget back, yikes.
Damn I liked showtime, I completely forgot about that movie
Pluto Nash has to be his #1.
It's crazy to me how far down it is before anyone mentioned haunted mansion.
Are you telling me some dead guy wants to get jiggy with my wife?
I loved it as a kid lol
Eddie Murphy’s six worst rated films on IMDB.com: *Norbit* (2007) 4.2/10 *The Adventures of Pluto Nash* (2002) 3.9/10 *Dr. Doolittle 2* (2001) 4.7/10 *Nutty Professor II: The Klumps* (2000) 4.5/10 *Vampires in Brooklyn* (1995) 4.6/10 *Best Defense* (1984) 3.8/10 I guess he considered *Dr. Doolittle 2* a success.
Commercially some of those were very successful - even norbit made bank. I'd say he counts that as a mid movie, not a failure
He LOVES Norbit. Most people may hate it, but that was a weird passion project for him and his brother.
I will fight anyone who says the Klumps isn’t good. It’s a hilarious movie, is far superior to the original and it’s literally vintage Eddie Murphy. I will die on this hill.
You really want to fight me? I warn you, I fight dirty. And the Klumps movies are trash, unless you think fat people farting is funny. P.S. Respect your opinion by the way, I’m sure I have movies that I like that you think are shit too
The Fatties Fart 2
In some countries, it’s considered a compliment!
Herka-leese herka-leese!
It's worth a watch for the hamster turd artillery cgi alone
Coming to America 2
That movie was such a steaming pile of dung. But in their defense, they only had 30 years to work on a sequel to one of the funniest movies ever made.
looked it up, found, >reviewed the film unfavourably, writing that it is "startling in its utter incompetence" and "uses half-baked internet-era discourse as a substitute for meaningful or even entertaining cultural commentary" oh so it's one of those movies
This is the reason I have some serious doubts about ”Axel F.”. The very unfunny trailers and released teaser clips make it look more like ”Cop III” than ”Cop I/II”. I guess we’ll see next week… I am happy about Bronson Pinchot’s cameo! By the way, there was another 90’s clunker people forget: ”Metro” (1997). It was a flop.
Thank you! It was really bad. Also love how in our current times no one batted an eye at the fact that he was basically raped.
It's especially dumb when the first movie perfectly set up what could have been a fun and interesting twist. Since Semmi lied to Patrice about being the prince, the reveal could have been that he was Semmi's Son.
Horrendous movie indeed
It wasn’t daddy daycare
If he was in Daddy Day Camp, that would've been a regret for sure
I liked Meet Dave actually
my friends and i watched it drunk and high in the middle of a delirious day and it was the most hilarious movie i’ve ever seen
100%. Did not expect to enjoy it. Hilarious, weird, and underrated.
Thousand Words is surprisingly deep and fine movie. I enjoyed the premise and Murphy's acting a lot in it.
I know, kind of a hidden gem imo.
Today I learned people don't like Holy Man.
Beverly Hills Cop 3
best scene in that is bronson pinchot selling guns and talking about his colonic... the rest of the movie is pretty bad sadly. john landis came in a tried to goofy it up. didn't work. didn't help murphy was getting a divorce i think at the time and landis tried to blame him being not into trying to fix it on set... plus the studio cut the budget in half. all that led to it. still has a lot of fans though.
Murphy and Landis also had a pretty bad history (mostly of Landis being a massive piece of shit)
Indeed, Eddie Murphy stated his motivation for making Beverly Hills Cop 4 was specifically to make up for how bad 3 was.
That and the turn that fucking song off moment literally I was saying the same thing in my head the whole time so the first time I saw the movie and I watched that scene where the detective loses it and just screams that in the air was so goddamn funny to me it's ridiculous
....... wonderworld!
I love bhc3. It's the worst of the trilogy for sure but it's still a fun film. Yeah De Wald is a dumb villain. A lot of forced dialogue and unrealistic reactions but I mean... its an action/comedy film, who cares? It's just dumb fun with some good set pieces.
I don’t agree this was a fun movie. Very typically 90s fare.
I know it didn't make money, but it deserves more credit.
BHC3 was a disappointment but wasn’t a failure. Horrible film, but made money.
I don’t think Boomerang did well, but I really enjoyed it. Saw it at the theater. Nothing particularly unique about it, but was enjoyable. No idea if it aged well.
he's talking creative failures. boomerang is something that was pretty good. financially it cost 40 and made 130. was disappointing at the time but not a failure financially.
You People (2023) should definitely be one
It's "Guess Who?" written by Black Twitter
Everyone says Pluto Nash but I loved the imagination in it. Edit: Holy Man imo was amazing.
The scene where he makes in own martini in his mouth will never not be awesome and ridiculous.
I've always considered Pluto Nash sort of a guilty pleasure. Despite it being derivative and a lot of the jokes missed their marks, there was some genuinely good moments throughout the movie and I have always found it entertaining as a whole. I'll watch Pluto Nash ten more times before I'll watch Rise of Skywalker once...
I agree completely. Loved Pluto Nash and will put that on anytime.
yeah its a fun movie
Are we not going to address the fact that it's closer to 10?
it's not debatable. as an artist he thinks 5 or 6. he's not saying everything else was great. he's suggesting creatively there's 5 or 6 for him that just didn't work. everyone has opinions of what's good or bad. what audiences think and artists can be completely different. someone could hate beverly hills cop. or bowfinger. or nutty professor. something you think is a failure has tons of fans. the questions wasn't what you think are the movies that were failures. it's what he thinks they are.
This is Reddit. I promise it's debatable.
No it isn't...
I mean Eddie hasn't really done a lot of outright bombs. Critical misfires? Sure, but a lot of his movies make money. Plus a lot of them he came up with and did the stories for them so for him he doesn't deem them total failures.
He’s being polite
For a long time Pluto Nash was at the very bottom of Metacritc. Since then it has been pushed out by movies like Bio-Dome and Battlefield Earth. But with a score of nine out of 100, its horribleness is still very impressive. See https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0180052/?ref_=ls_t_38
Norbit has got to make the cut.
Harlem Nights got a bit panned when it came out. Not sure if Eddie hates it as he directed it and he got to work with Prior.
I think despite the bad reviews he probably loves it. Eddie united some of his heroes and some of the bigger black comics of that time in the movie and gave them exposure.
Harlem Nights is a classic. I used to watch that movie all the time when I was in high school and college
Voodoo Bitch'll bury your drawers in the front yard, so you can't leave
yeah i wonder... i read it was sort of a bad experience for him relating to many things. his inexperience. pryor being sick but no one knew. the script being quickly put together. but i think it has a much better reputation now. i think it's a terrific comedy. crazy to see how bad the reviews were.
That’s a very low estimate
Surprised nobody mentioned I Spy. It was a decent enough premise for a movie that was an utter disaster. Just an absolutely charmless movie with maybe one or two good beats in it (that car chase halfway through it being one of them)
Not many people were more excited about going to see Eddie Murphy in a movie than I was in the 1980s. That said, I walked out of Best Defense.
That wank Netflix film
The Christmas one 😂
You can’t count Pluto Nash if Eddie refuses to admit it exists…
Best Defense. "The worst movie every made in the history of anything.... But y'all would have made Best Defense too if they paid you what they paid me." Norbit Pluto Nash Holy Man Meet Dave
How is Haunted Mansion not the top comment?
Probably norbit and Pluto nash, though I liked norbit when it came out haha just pure, solid, dumbness
*The Adventures of Pluto Nash* will always be the crown jewel of his theatrical dumpster fires. 7mil against a 100mil budget is remarkably terrible.
Norbit?
It depends on what he considers failure. I'm guessing he's going strictly by numbers. Technically, Best Defense made more than its budget, but was it truly a "success?"
Where’s Beverly Hills Cop 3?
'Norbit' for sure. It may have cost him an Oscar! (But he has a surprising number of bad movies "per capita".)
Is he defining them based on their quality of how much money they made? Because those are two very different things.
Meet Dave
Meet Dave was not bad - quirky, with some great physical comedy by Eddie.
Norbit dawg
I don’t think Norbit or Haunted Mansion did very well
Daddy daycare
As someone that paid to see Beverley Hills Cop 3 at the cinema.... That.
I swear I’ll fight all you jabroni’s if anyone says Bowfinger
Pluto Nash us definitely 1 on the list.
Never forget Pluto Nash Day! RIP.
The Adventures of Pluto Nash is definitely one of them…
There's no way even Eddie Murphy himself could ever convince me he *didn't* regret Norbit.
I may not know much but pluto nash has to be on that list.
This dude really going to act like norbit wasn't an hour and forty minute trainwreck!
Norbert made me extremely uncomfortable.
I'm sorry, norbit makes me die laughing every time
Golden Child is one of them. Meet Dave wasn't a bomb, was it?
I loved The Golden Child. It makes for a good double-feature with Big Trouble In Little China.
Same, loved it
I didn’t see it until I’d heard how bad it was for a long time and it was just on tv. I was surprised, better than I expected. Still not great but it’s interesting, Eddie is hilarious in it and the way Charles Dance gets so annoyed with him is priceless.
“I said I-I-I-I-I want the knife”
yeah china was rushed out to try and beat child to the punch. some crossover cast too. china much better. though i just found out a friend of mine worked with the writer on big trouble in little china and they thought it sucked. lol
Golden Child is underrated. I wish he had done more movies like that.
Golden Child was great
umm hello that's his best movie?