Never understood the love?

How dare you.

It's never done anything for me.

Well, that's one way for someone starved for attention to get it.

The soundtrack is great, for one, [imo].

I often wonder (this might be a famous theory everyone knows about but me) that seeing certain films at a certain age, or at the peak of their popularity, among other factors might influence one's opinions on films many of a certain age/generation hold dear as "classics."

For instance, I'm relatively sure I saw this as an early teen, probably in theater, as a big Eddie Murphy fan from SNL and his early stand-up albums, and I still love it.

However, I was well in to adulthood when I finally got around to watching The Goonies (1985), and I was not impressed at all. I know it's "a classic" but do all who think that saw it at a young age? In the theater?

Anyway, that is my theory, which is mine.

Its a great film for what it is but probably seems off to most now seeing it for the first time. Films use to be fun and have positive endings unlike these days where everything has become dark and perverted. The protagonists were likeable and the antagonists were repulsive. Thats all basically changed now and film have become loaded with completely obvious propaganda.

Might help to research some of the history of this film. Eddie Murphy was basically thrown into this production VERY short notice and improvised a LOT. Its entertaining, upbeat, and at the time very different. I would say this paved the way for most of the humor in 80s Cops films. 48 Hours has elements of humor but it is a much DARKER film than Beverly Hills Cop. Culturally it had a HUGE impact on American Cinema.

Yes I would consider it a classic. IMO only an idiot wouldnt even if its not their type of film. If you think this is "Dogshit" you have not seen many bad films LOL because Martin Brest is a very underrated director these days that covered a lot of genres. I would have liked to see his original vision for Wargames although I like Badham's version as well. Brest's Wargames was to be a much darker film. I could see it being more like "Colossus the Forbin Project" but IDK.

The Second Beverly Hills Cop is a Classic as well IMO but its a little more amped up and serious than the first. 3rd one I didnt care for and Im not going near this new version when its released.

Both the Score and Soundtrack are also classics.

I probably sound like fanboy on this but Im not. I dont even really like Eddie Murphy (Or Comedies really) but for what this film was going for its top notch. It would have been very easy to screw up this film and Brest basically pulled a rabbit out of the hat. Nobody expected this to be as good as it was when it was released.

Murphey is likeable in the film obviously. I would say this is him at his MOST likeable and entertaining.

48 Hrs was the much better action film, mostly because of Walter Hill's direction and Nick Nolte being there to basically carry the weight and let Murphy do his comedy shtick.

This movie was at least better than the sequel directed by tony scott, which was really, really crap.