> > > > We watched a DVD of "Daddy Daycare" last night.
> > > > Awful. How can a good actor like Eddie Murphy get involved in a mess like that?
> > > > Howard
> > >
> > > Coming to America, Vampires of Brooklyn, Pluto Nash, The Nutty Professor...
> > >
> > > He has a long and distinguished history of getting involved in messes like that.
> >
> > Coming To America? BURN.
> >
> > That, Trading Places, and Bowfinger are about the only Eddie Murphy comedies I *have* liked. Admittedly, Coming To America is probably the weakest of the three, but browsing his filmography on the IMDb reveals even more titles than I remembered that I couldn't bring myself to see and wound up getting pretty abhorrent reviews. The guy's got talent, but it's not in picking scripts, that's for sure. Has *any* other actor with talent in the first place been in such a high number and percentage of duds?
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> I agree that he can't pick a script to save his life, but you *liked* Coming to America? There's something wrong with that. It was just excoriable.
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> I've always thought that the three best Eddie Murphy movies were Trading Places, The Golden Child and Harlem Nights. I don't think I'm counting the Beverly Hills Cop movies there, but I'm not entirely sure.
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> Strangely, I compiled that top three a couple of years ago after a charavter in a sit-com described Mulan as "Possibly Eddie Murphy's third best movie". Which started me thinking about exactly how few good movies he'd been in...
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> wintermute

I haven't seen all of Murphy's films, but liked Beverly Hill Cop, Coming to America, and Trading Places. I thought each showed a different facet of his talent. BHC II was a dud, but not as bad as Daddy Day Care.

Now I'm going to go look up "excoriable."
Howard