I'm not totally sure if I've seen 87's top-grossing movie Beverly Hills Cop II, so maybe I'd seen parts of it. More likely I just remember parts from seeing the trailer a bunch of times. I think I'd only seen the first movie one time anyway.
It is so 80s. There's a hyper-violent Judge Reinhold, whose penchant for bigger and bigger weapons is a running joke until it all pays off when he rains destruction upon the baddies. John Ashton's running gag is the dissolution of his marriage, though that seems like it will work out by the end. And Murphy is a force of nature, but somehow never over-the-top.
I was most pleased to see Ronny Cox in a nice-guy role.
In my first-time viewing of The Last Emperor, Best Picture winner, I was certainly fascinated enough by the unique world it led the audience into, but most happily I found that the movie got better as it went, and that world became more and more interesting as it expanded. In short, I was quickly a little tired of the idea that Puyi is fascinated by all things Western, and I was much more intrigued by his philosophical and political concerns and quests.
His personal life, such as we may relate to it, is a mess insofar as relationships go, but I don't suppose a child emperor could be expected to grow up to what your average non-emperor would recognize as healthy, mutually beneficial partnerships. Still, the tale of his maturing and alternatingly refusing and adapting the trappings of his position was quite engrossing.
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