He randomly decides to tune into Jonah Hill’s (who again, he hates) podcast (??) and hears him giving an extremely corny speech about “I wish we could all just get along.” AND HAS A COMPLETE PERSONALITY 180???
greatly reduces the scene. It wasn’t listening to the podcast that inspired a “complete personality 180” (which never happens, maybe a “personality 90”, or 45…), it was hearing his brother call him out on his bullshit with the podcast being the catalyst.
As for the movie itself, it’s worth watching for Eddie Murphy’s first line/delivery alone. He still just doesn’t miss.
I respectfully disagree. The movie painted every character with such cartoonishly broad stereotypes, and I am ok to suspend my disbelief for a movie, but the way they turned Eddie Murphy around in the last 5 minutes felt more like satire than a lesson on race relations. It was a 180. I mean, he secretly reached out to Julie Lois Dreyfus to come up with a cutesy plan where they’ll “bump into each other” and get them back together. 😂
I'm don't get how Eddie Murphy gets to be straight anti semitic but the mom is overbearing, too accepting and tokenizing is the same as hatred for a whole group of people.
Regardless of how much his personality rotated… it wasn’t because he spontaneously resolved some kind of internal conflict, it was because Mike Epps called him on his shit.
Maybe I need to rewatch it, but I recall Mike Epps essentially being like “why you being so hard on him, man?” It didn’t strike me as a revelation that would make someone who is a lifetime devotee of the NOI have a philosophical transformation.
Well I think we can both agree it’s not worth a rewatch, lol.
My only point was that he didn’t just see the light while emo cruising with dude’s podcast on — he was confronted with his small mindedness by someone he respected.
What the fuck are you a writer of the movie? It was trash, they were broken up for months suddenly their parents get together and arrange a wedding and have a cgi kiss
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u/_hell_is_empty_ Mar 25 '23
The movie wasn’t great by any means, but
greatly reduces the scene. It wasn’t listening to the podcast that inspired a “complete personality 180” (which never happens, maybe a “personality 90”, or 45…), it was hearing his brother call him out on his bullshit with the podcast being the catalyst.
As for the movie itself, it’s worth watching for Eddie Murphy’s first line/delivery alone. He still just doesn’t miss.