What’s Aged the Best?
Taggart and Rosewood; Brigitte Nielsen; opening theme music; I Want Your Sex; Chris Rock; Simpson and Bruckheimer; deleted laser scene; Playboy Mansion filming; Alphabet Crimes concept; Paul Reiser’s Playboy’s Sisters magazine
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- Taggart and Rosewood are named first, with a wish that Beverly Hills Cop movies had kept coming every two years, seven in all, to add more of them.
- Brigitte Nielsen is raised next, and this is judged the best part she ever had, better than her earlier Schwarzenegger film and definitely better than Cobra.
- An opening song thematically drawn from the movie is praised as something no longer done.
- Shakedown was reportedly meant for Glenn Frey until his voice gave out, so Bob Seger sang it; Harold Faltermeyer’s score is compared to 48 Hours, Escape from New York, Miami Vice, and Fletch.
- Shakedown is called Bob Seger’s only number-one hit, a late peak after Springsteen pulled ahead of him around 1981.
- George Michael’s I Want Your Sex is called an amazing ‘80s song used perfectly.
- Chris Rock’s early appearance has aged best, especially in light of the Will Smith incident.
- Asked about Jürgen Prochnow, the answer is lukewarm: he and Dean Stockwell step on each other as villains, and Paul Guilfoyle’s character is barely developed.
- A scene at the villains’ apartment revealing their strange relationship is wished for, and the debt-driven alphabet scheme is called too cute by half.
- Simpson and Bruckheimer have aged best; Simpson reportedly had Paramount pull writer Larry Ferguson off The Presidio to work on this film.
- A deleted gun-club scene where Axel, Rosewood, and Taggart sneak past lasers should have been kept.
- It was reportedly the first movie filmed at the Playboy Mansion after Hugh Hefner had long refused.
- The Alphabet Crimes concept could be a Fincher-style limited Netflix series with one letter per episode; the crimes ran through the jewelry store, Bogomil, City Deposit, and the racetrack, and should have reached J.
- Paul Reiser appears to be reading a Playboy’s Sisters magazine in several scenes, possibly a payoff for mansion access.