Rewatchables Reference

• Bill: The bus attack at 26 minutes in – Reggie's prison transport bus gets attacked, he's singing James Brown, and the movie suddenly takes off. Also the hospital scene into Reggie's car blowing up with Eddie ripping off lines.
• CR: The motocross scene – 'such an unnecessary use of burning a stuntman near to death.' Also shouts out the payphone scene as his favorite ('let Eddie Murphy cook').
• Van: The payphone scene is his favorite – the most excited he gets rewatching.

• CR: Unironically ordering brewskies and having those beers be Miller Genuine Draft bottles. Also the Iceman using an Uzi.
• Bill: This stage of Eddie's career – he's a little heavier, his hair is starting to go, wearing an oversized suit. He hates watching this movie because he thinks he's fat in it.
• Van: Convertibles in movies. Less convertibles now because less convertibles period – the convertible was phased out in the 90s. Bill blames skin cancer.

• CR: Ball-busting cop talk. 'Now Jack, a cop is a guy, and sometimes a guy steps on his dick.' They don't do chaotic precincts with sarcasm and insults anymore.
• Van: The animus between rural and metropolitan Americans – 'hillbillies, rednecks, all of this stuff. We had it then and we have it now.' Also internal affairs as scumbags in every 80s movie.
• Bill: Evil internal affairs guys, villainous biker gangs ('tell me when that doesn't work in a movie'), and the dead guy's brother coming for revenge as a sequel gimmick.

• CR: Jack's Caddy coming up the hill in San Francisco before Reggie's car explodes – spotlights at the bottom of the hill, beautiful cinematography.
• Van: Low angle shot between the bars when Reggie's getting out of jail, making them look like they're having a conversation in prison.
• Bill: The slow-motion of Reggie getting shot and Keo realizing what's happening, turning back to Jack. 'Very rarely do we have good slow-mo.'

• Bill gives the Birdcage strip club the scene-stealing location award (Denethy's Benihana Award). Could also go with the sand dunes bar from the opening.
• CR: The King My hotel (single-room occupancy) is a sneaky candidate for best scene-stealing location.
• James Horner's score – CR calls it a 'banger.'

• Bill: The plot's incoherent – Jack can't find the Iceman for years but never suspects other cops. 'Reggie's like 29, been in jail for 10 years, and figures it out in a day.'
• CR: The Bernie Casey/Tisha Campbell part felt stapled on at the end.
• Van: The story is the weak link. Also Angel refusing the $75,000 – 'That's not happening. The $75,000 is being taken.'

• CR: The gap between the two movies. 'This movie needed to come out 87 or 88 or something.'
• Bill: Why have them sing Roxanne again? 'Dude, he already did that.' A few lazy callbacks that someone on set should have stopped.
• Bill: The prison visit scene where Jack sees Reggie playing basketball – should have been the best scene in the movie but it's not good.

• CR: 'We got to get back to guys like Cherry Ganz.' A purely psychopathic bad guy – 'I don't have to worry about his childhood or what he really wants in life or who hurt him. He's like, you killed my brother, I'm killing mad cops until I get to you.'
• Bill: This is his #1 'release the cut' movie. #2 would be 'Eyes Wide Shut' because of evidence Kubrick had a different version before he died.

Frank McRae (the yelling sergeant from the first movie) was cut from this one entirely.

• Bill: The hotel clerk in the Chinatown hotel – 'she dials it up for two minutes, she's screaming.' Van adds she runs up to bitch out Nick Nolte during an active gunfight.
• CR also nominates Cherry when he sees that Jack isn't dead.

• CR: Brent Jennings as Tyrone Burroughs. Van helped his early TMZ career by catching Jennings on the street in Beverly Hills and getting an excited interview about a kid in Arkansas who scored too many touchdowns.
• Van: Bernie Casey – 'I can get you out there, Reggie. You will keep your word.' Spoke like a Shakespearean.
• Bill also mentions the hotel bartender: 'Are you going to tell me where I need to know? Are you just going to bitch a little bit more?' 'I'm going to bitch a little bit more.'

• Reggie's friend in the movie is named Willie Biggs – that was Eddie Murphy's original character name in '48 Hrs.' before he had it changed for being 'too intentionally black.'
• There's a book called 'The Films of Eddie Murphy' with the original screenplay: Jack's in a relationship with a female cop who wants to plant a gun at the racetrack to clear his name.
• Bill found a 1990 Premiere Magazine that only had a summer movie preview calling Walter Hill 'Walter Over the Hill.' 'Fuck that.'

• Walter Hill: '48 Hrs.' or 'The Warriors'. Bill and CR debate but settle on '48 Hrs.'
• Guys flying through windows after being shot by a handgun: 'Doesn't get any better than this.' They take off like 20 feet.
• Frustrating but lovable action movie sequels: CR nominates 'Predator' 2.

Clearly Scorsese.

• Reggie shoots a guy in the knee at the bar right after getting out of jail – nothing happens.
• Van: The hotel clerk runs up to bitch out Nick Nolte during an active gunfight. 'Makes zero fucking sense.'
• CR: Every revolver in this movie has 14 bullets. Jack's revolver should hold 6.
• Bill: Cherry Ganz – 'What the fuck name is that?' Cherry should be dancing in North Beach with Angel, not leading a biker gang.
• Bill: Jack was a virulent racist in the first movie but now he's fine? Did he quit racism when he quit drinking?
• Brent Jennings is shot to death, then we're at a police morgue getting ID'd. We lose 10 hours with no cut – nobody goes to sleep in this movie.

Bill would have done the third '48 Hrs.' over a third 'Beverly Hills Cop'. CR's pitch: put Nolte in prison and have Reggie bring him out for 48 hours – flip the dynamic.

• Bill: Wayne Jenkins, Fergie the Florist.
• CR: Tom Brady analyzing Angel – 'KB, first Hickok had his way with Angel, and now you got a question: does she have enough in the tank for Cherry?'

The stunts. Bill says it won the award for best stunts of 1990. CR: 'We should make an Oscar for best motorcycle driving and it should be in for this movie.'

• Bill's alternate sequel pitch: Reggie owns Bromance, Jack gets framed for murder by the biker gang, Reggie mortgages the bar for 72 hours to get him out and find the real killers.
• How does a stripper's reputation first get earned and then spread? 'I just always wonder' (Bill).
• Van: Which is a better movie, Lawyer and Lace or Fleshpot? (The two films on the Chinatown porn theatre marquee.)

• Ganz's motorcycle, Reggie's car. Craig: The pen with the naked woman that reveals herself when the ink goes down.
• Van: Reggie's lighter and Walkman. CR: The James Brown tape.

Craig's best quote: 'If shit was worth something, poor people would be born with no assholes.'

• Bill: '48 Hrs.', obviously.
• Van: Tango & Cash.

Eddie Murphy. All three agree unanimously.

• Craig enjoys this more than the first one. He thought the original was slow, quite racist, and not nearly as funny as it should have been.
• This one cuts out all that – funnier, more enjoyable, 100 minutes of two charismatic people running around a city. 'Not a complicated rewatchable at all.'