Funny that in the 80s, they took other people's serious scripts (Beverly Hills Cop, Golden Child) and made them funnier for Eddie, while in the 90s, Eddie insisted on making originally funny scripts (Vampire in Brooklyn, Beverly Hills Cop III) into more serious projects.
It isn't a "cult classic" by any measure. I love it too, but it was a box office hit when it was released. That alone disqualifies it from being a 'cult' film. Same for movies like The Warriors, or The Lost Boys that also get called "cult classics".
I absolutely agree, it is a cult classic. It's largely overlooked or forgotten (compared to Murphy's bigger hits and other 80's classics) but is much loved by what I feel is a small fanbase. It's highly quotable, surprisingly dark at times and has a a great OST that I'm grateful to own. Plus, we get to see James Hong and Victor Wong outside of Little China.
Eddie's career is an enigma to me. With a good script he can be the funniest comedian in the industry, when he has control of every aspect of a film, It gets without form or over the top. And he can go from be in some of the worst movies, and still be charming in it, to a really great comedy.
Harlem Nights is a good example of this. Getting Murphy, Richard Pryor, and Redd Foxx to star in a film was a great idea; Murphy deciding he could write and direct said film wasn't. The result was all three getting outclassed by a scene in which Arsenio Hall cries and screams for five minutes.
lets be honest. he was popular because its difficult to find handsome "ghetto" "smart" people. he knew how to ride the line. and we loved him for it. but its a niche character.. you cant be a smart ass ghetto dude for more than 8 hours worth of comedy. im sure he tried. he was the king. but tbh.. the bullshit ghetto edge brilliant guy isnt easy to write for, without getting stale as fffffc
@@Halbared yes, he also choose to work with famous directors with styles that don't go well with his comedy chops, BHC2, it's a perfect example: the style is classic Tony Scott, beautiful to look at, but it's so serious that the shift the tone of the movie, so the comedy feels awkward. Eddie also put his ego first and every character that's not Axl, it's a complete idiot. The one he did with Wes Craven is another example. Even today, he did a great comeback with Dolemite. And his new movie with Jonah Hill is dated and bad.
Remember when Tracy Morgan used to do “Astronaut Jones” on SNL? Where Tracy just kinda played himself going to space and meeting alien life? That’s pretty much The Golden Child, but for 90 minutes.
I remember for many years, my family would quote the " I want the knife " bit without telling me where they got it from and eventually they showed me it and yeah, it's an true almost cult classic.
I really liked this movie as a kid. The blood porridge freaked me out as a kid.--I think especially because Quaker Instant Oatmeal was doing a thing where you got a packet of jam to swirl into the oatmeal....it just reminded me of that.
My favorite scene from this is when they do the whole "bad guy tries to claim the item is actually stolen from him" trope and Eddie Murphy plays it in a way I still haven't seen again, and IT IS GLORIOUS!
Hopefully we get a Forgotten Failures/Almost Cult Classics video on Harlem Nights in the future (Eddie's first and only directorial effort). It's insane to think about how much star power that movie had aside from Eddie and it failed to resonate for very long.
Harlem Nights is actually my favorite Eddie Murphy movie. Never understood why it never gets any credit and NOBODY ever even mentions it! Stone cold classic imo!
@@eatmysteel It was a different time when it was released and one of the things that did it no favours was that it had by far the most amount of swearing in a movie ever at the time, it put a lot of people off. Nowadays you can swear every other word an very few people give a shit in comparison. Look at something like The Wolf of Wall Street which I think holds the record now, nobody cares.
I was obsessed with seeing this film as a kid. When I finally saw it, I was not disappointed. Seriously underrated. Perfect in the middle of a triple bill of Karate Kid, going into Big Trouble...
This might be the most successful movie to ever appear in this series, really showcases the type of star power Eddie Murphy had back then. Hearing how much they changed the film tho made me sad, the executives really tried to press this movie into a Beverley Hills Cop shaped hole that it was never supposed to fill. Ironic how people in a creative industry can be so afraid of change and not giving audiences the same thing over and over again.
Call me insane, The Golden Child is a classic to me, I watched it all the time growing up, and I watched Big Trouble a few years ago, and really couldn't click with it.
The only reason this isn’t a cult classic is cause, like the video says, people don’t realize this film was actually a hit. It destroyed BTILC in theaters. Usually to be a cult classic, you have to fail in theater.
I loved watching The Golden Child on VHS as a kid. As I got older I started to see the flaws but ya know what… I still think it’s a fun movie to watch.
Growing up in our household, this film was a cult classic!! My mom introduced my lil bro & me to this film, & we both fell in love with it!! It's so quotable, & I've always found everything Eddie says in the Golden Child, to be absolutely hilarious!! Interesting to find out what the original ideas for this flick were, though. Wow, had no idea that Charlotte Lewis was only 18, at the time she did this!!
I’m surprised you didn’t mention this was the first Eddie Murphy film where he really clamped down on the cussing and replaced every “f**k and s**t” with “ass” and suddenly he had a pg-13 movie that the whole family can see! Personally I love the improvised parts of the film and synth soundtrack, and the film’s off-balanced tone against all odds works to enhance this already-strange supernatural stew. I always thought since the film got trashed by critics and there was no sequel that it was also a box office failure, thanks for clearing that up for me! Shame we didn’t see a series lean into the “comedic Indiana Jones” idea even further.
I love this movie so much. My dad showed it to me one day when it was on TV somewhere. He'd loved it when it first came out. We spent weeks quoting it at each other, especially the "Nobody's gonna die 'just like that!'" line.
I used to feel like this movie and Big Trouble in Little China were in the same universe, because somehow I got it in my head that the guy who plays the dude who runs the temple in this movie was playing the same character when he was helping out Kurt Russell in Big Trouble in Little China, but he had just decided to leave Tibet and wander the world a little after this whole Golden Child incident. Lulz, don't remember why.
It was so difficult for Asian actors at that time, so glad these movies existed, and yes with so many great character actors in both why not? This could have been my first intro to Tibet 💡
Yeah, especially when you compare it to Big Trouble in Little China, which The Golden Child actually destroyed in theaters. Just goes to show you that no one can ever predict how the tides will turn in time.
BROTHER NUMSI! Joe, I love your content. You take my entire childhood and present it in such a honorable, loving, respectful way introducing it to the new generations in such a way that i don't think many others could. The "I want the knife" scene is one of the best scene's in movie history. i humbly thank you for all your hard work sir, for reminding us of a certain age and for introducing to those of a younger generation these wonderful "almost cult Classic's"
Love this movie - I’d watch this with my father whenever it was on tv a every time I would take the train home from college, he would say ‘Noomsy!’ as I got off the train - great movie!
This has always been a childhood favourite and I snatched it up on DVD the moment it hit the shelves. I love the special effects and stop motion, plus Frank Welkers voice as the devil is fantastic.
Saw this after school back in the day . I remember two things , the scene where charles dance makes the room hes in fall away to communicate with the devil ( the effects looked good ) and the hot female lead 😂
This is such a well paced FUN movie that if it's on regardless of what point in the movie it is I will watch the remaining movie because it lifts my spirits everytime.
I've never seen this movie, but it reminds me of a funny story from my childhood. Every Christmas my aunt would buy my sister a new, expensive gift because she never had a daughter. Me on the other hand would always get my older cousin's (her son's) hand me downs that she would try to pass off as "new". For Christmas one year she wrapped and gifted me a Member's only jacket which she again tried to pass off as brand new. However, when I wore it for the first time I found a ticket stub for The Golden Child in one of the pockets.
"the golden child" is right up there with "the last dragon" and "terminator" and "the last starfighter" and "the neverending story" as an all time GREAT 80's movie.
@@2buxaslice AGREED! i forgot about "buckaroo bonzai", and SOMEHOW "big trouble in little china" too "remo williams" was great! i wish i did see it as a kid, but somehow i didnt ever see it till around 2010
I honestly thought that it was a Beverly Hills Cop sequel the first time that I saw it. I was sure that it was Beverly Hills Cop 2: The Golden Child. It took me a while to figure out why Beverly Hills Cop 2 didn't have the fun supernatural parts I remembered when I rewatched it.
This movie is one of the biggest 80s jams in my opinion, here in Brazil it's called a classic, everybody remembers it playing on TV and it was very popular, to me it is in the same level as Eddie's other works feom the same era like trading places and coming to america
When I was a kid, I remember they always used to show this on TNT back in the mid 90s. I dont remember watching it the whole way through ever. I remember getting bored by it really quickly, probably b/c it was on tv and I could just change it if I felt like it. I feel like this is a forgotten or overlooked Eddie Murphy movie from that period of his career. You have the heavy hitters of 48 hrs, trading places, and Beverly Hills cop and then The Golden child is mentioned along those and it's like "Oh yeah, that one exist too."
I really enjoyed this movie when I was younger. The library had it for checkout and it meant we could watch it all we wanted to without paying (great for a poor family). I haven't really seen it since probably my teens, so it's been a while. I'm almost afraid to revisit it, but do think a purer original version would hold up much better.
This has always been one of my favorite Eddie Murphy movies along with Coming to America and Harlem Nights (the latter another underrated Murphy classic!)
I haven’t seen this film since I saw it in the cinema as a teen. I’m in the UK and in those days we’d get the Hollywood blockbusters a few months after their American release. A BBC show at the time called Entertainment USA was useful as it showed us clips of films we wouldn’t see for a while. I remember the presenter saying how that that week millions of Americans has seen The Golden Child, then added, “But try and find anyone who actually liked it.” At the time, I quite enjoyed it. In hindsight it was like those old Bob Hope films, where a wisecracking hero would enter a supernatural world that everyone else took deadly seriously. I must rewatch it soon.
Golden Child is a great movie. I've always loved it and never got the hate. Charles Dance is excellent as well. What are toy doing this weekend because your silhouette is kicking!
I love this movie. When it came out on video my sister rented it and never returned it which is probably why you needed a rental card eventually at Blockbuster and Hollywood
Speak for yourself. The Golden Child was my favorite movie as a kid, I wore the VHS out. Has many good scenes, one-liners and the adventure is fun. I still watch it from time to time
Even though it wasn't a box office smash, I still love this classic and the soundtrack. Though John Barry's score was removed, there are still two pieces of it in the film. Those being "Dancing Tin Can Man (Puttin' On The Ritz)" and "Wisdom of the Ages". I do like Michael Colombier's score though. Sure, it is similar to the classic "Beverly Hills Cop" soundtrack, but still works well.
It really has some of the best SURPRISE HORROR imagery - Sardo Numpsa in hell, the fact that you can see his demon form when he morphs from a rat, the entire final encounter - all surprisingly well-shot.
This movie makes some success on Brazil on television re-aired. It was so Common to see It Playing randomly at the afternoon movie Sessions on tv that never ocurred me that this movie wasn't that much Of a hit. Definitively must rewatch as an adult. I loved this one when I Was a child but, after seeing as an adult Beverly Hill Cop and 48hs ... We'll these Don't age that well for me. But Big Trouble in Little China is pure Gold ❤️
I remember watching this one as a kid (on tv or dvd I think?). I haven’t watched it in years but I remember the Tibetan mythology/mysticism stuff being super fascinating. The coupling of that with some really cool stop motion effects and Eddy Murphy’s performance and comedy style gave this film a really unique feel in my opinion. I should track it down and rewatch it sometime tbh.
I legit love this movie despite what people say. I loved this movie when I was a kid and my continuing love is not nostalgia. I watched it recently and I still enjoy it, unlike a lot of my other childhood favourites.
I had no idea he was so young back then. I thought he was just aging fantastically but he's actually just only... uhh.. wow, 61? Okay so he is *also* aging fantastically. and the 80s were a very, very long time ago and that kinda hurts.
I did a lot of regional theatre plays with director Michael Ritchie's sister Elsie (who passed some years ago), and she referred to this as "the shitty one"
I loved this movie when I was growing up. I thought it was connected to Big Trouble in Little China when I was a kid! Definitely worth a watch if you haven't seen it.
Oh man....if you only just recently watched it, then you missed out on the funniest scene of the movie. I don't know why they won't show it anymore (ok, I do) but the funniest scene is when he is on the plane, and he puts on the good old "airplane headphones" and is listening to some random "local" song and being Eddy Murphy starts ad-libing the words to the song as if he knows it. I cannot find that scene anywhere in current years, and I'm not imagining it. Some of my friends remember it also, and I can always get a laugh from them whenever I act it out.
I'd like to make an official suggestion for this series: Troop Beverly Hills starring Shelley Long (1989) It is charming, funny, and even featured an animated intro by the creator of Ren and Stimpy (pre Ren and Stimpy.) Which features the same iconic animation style. I think it would be a perfect addition to this series!
I love the inter-cuts between Eddie Murphy and scenes from Star Trek and Rodger Rabbit. Gives us a fascinating glimpse of what could have been! Keep em' coming man!
The Golden Child will always be a true Eddie Murphy classic to me & it's a shame that it wasn't better received at the time. I loved the eastern dark fantasy theme, blended with an urban, 1980s L.A. aesthetic. It also has a pretty great and distinctive soundtrack. Most importantly though, it featured Eddie Murphy in his comedic prime, who was absolutely great throughout the film. With so many quotable lines, he carries the film with his charisma & comedic timing. It may not have been the hit that Beverly Hills Cop was but growing up, The Golden Child has always been my personal favorite Eddie Murphy & remains so to this day. Honorable mention goes to a younger Charles Dance (Future Tywin Lannister) who maintained a great, intimidating presence throughout the film as main villain, Sardo Numspa aka Sardo "My sweet brother" Numpsey
Funny that in the 80s, they took other people's serious scripts (Beverly Hills Cop, Golden Child) and made them funnier for Eddie, while in the 90s, Eddie insisted on making originally funny scripts (Vampire in Brooklyn, Beverly Hills Cop III) into more serious projects.
never thought about it that way but you're right
What an insight, thank you
The Golden Child is NOT almost a cult classic. It IS a cult classic…it’s a staple of my childhood. I always loved that movie. Great movie!!!!
It isn't a "cult classic" by any measure. I love it too, but it was a box office hit when it was released. That alone disqualifies it from being a 'cult' film. Same for movies like The Warriors, or The Lost Boys that also get called "cult classics".
I absolutely agree, it is a cult classic. It's largely overlooked or forgotten (compared to Murphy's bigger hits and other 80's classics) but is much loved by what I feel is a small fanbase. It's highly quotable, surprisingly dark at times and has a a great OST that I'm grateful to own. Plus, we get to see James Hong and Victor Wong outside of Little China.
Eddie's career is an enigma to me. With a good script he can be the funniest comedian in the industry, when he has control of every aspect of a film, It gets without form or over the top. And he can go from be in some of the worst movies, and still be charming in it, to a really great comedy.
Harlem Nights is a good example of this. Getting Murphy, Richard Pryor, and Redd Foxx to star in a film was a great idea; Murphy deciding he could write and direct said film wasn't. The result was all three getting outclassed by a scene in which Arsenio Hall cries and screams for five minutes.
Murphy needs a tight reign and solid co-stars to work with. He was a victim of his own success post BHC2.
@@IsmailofeRegime especially when the 2 guys are firing off machine guns and the third guy shoots a pistol. I never get tired of that part.
lets be honest. he was popular because its difficult to find handsome "ghetto" "smart" people. he knew how to ride the line. and we loved him for it. but its a niche character.. you cant be a smart ass ghetto dude for more than 8 hours worth of comedy. im sure he tried. he was the king. but tbh.. the bullshit ghetto edge brilliant guy isnt easy to write for, without getting stale as fffffc
@@Halbared yes, he also choose to work with famous directors with styles that don't go well with his comedy chops, BHC2, it's a perfect example: the style is classic Tony Scott, beautiful to look at, but it's so serious that the shift the tone of the movie, so the comedy feels awkward. Eddie also put his ego first and every character that's not Axl, it's a complete idiot.
The one he did with Wes Craven is another example.
Even today, he did a great comeback with Dolemite. And his new movie with Jonah Hill is dated and bad.
Remember when Tracy Morgan used to do “Astronaut Jones” on SNL? Where Tracy just kinda played himself going to space and meeting alien life?
That’s pretty much The Golden Child, but for 90 minutes.
I remember for many years, my family would quote the " I want the knife " bit without telling me where they got it from and eventually they showed me it and yeah, it's an true almost cult classic.
That's some f*cked up oatmeal.
@@BuJammy you're on the internet, jammy! you can say fuck! it's okay, we won't tell grandma.
"To Monty. A toast." 🥃
This movie was in standard rotation in my families VCR when I was a kid. We said that line all the time. Still do sometimes.
I do the "I want the knife" bit soooooo much. No one knows what I'm talking about anymore and I dont care.
I really liked this movie as a kid. The blood porridge freaked me out as a kid.--I think especially because Quaker Instant Oatmeal was doing a thing where you got a packet of jam to swirl into the oatmeal....it just reminded me of that.
Holy shit I thought that same thing
Wilford Brimely: "Uh-oh, if that blood has diabeetus, that's probably my oatmeal."
Brother, that shit was traumatic! Jesus, I haven't thought of that in years. Thanks a million. 😐
My favorite scene from this is when they do the whole "bad guy tries to claim the item is actually stolen from him" trope and Eddie Murphy plays it in a way I still haven't seen again, and IT IS GLORIOUS!
You left out the best part of the "I want the knife" joke = " . . . Pleassssse". 😂😂
Hopefully we get a Forgotten Failures/Almost Cult Classics video on Harlem Nights in the future (Eddie's first and only directorial effort). It's insane to think about how much star power that movie had aside from Eddie and it failed to resonate for very long.
You're in luck, I believe that's the next episode of their Almost Cult Classics podcast this month, so stay tuned!
Harlem Nights is actually my favorite Eddie Murphy movie. Never understood why it never gets any credit and NOBODY ever even mentions it! Stone cold classic imo!
@@eatmysteel it gets mentioned by people all the time. I bet you think you're the only person who listens to Ween too. 🤦
@@eatmysteel It was a different time when it was released and one of the things that did it no favours was that it had by far the most amount of swearing in a movie ever at the time, it put a lot of people off. Nowadays you can swear every other word an very few people give a shit in comparison. Look at something like The Wolf of Wall Street which I think holds the record now, nobody cares.
Always been a classic in my eyes. Love this film!
I have quoted the “I Want the Knife” and “My Dear Brother Numpsay!” scenes so many times over the year, it will always be funny to me.
I was obsessed with seeing this film as a kid.
When I finally saw it, I was not disappointed.
Seriously underrated.
Perfect in the middle of a triple bill of Karate Kid, going into Big Trouble...
Only saw this once as a kid, but the image of Charles Dance turning into that flying demon thing has stuck with me for thirty odd years!
Yes Charles Dance deserves more credit!
This is a sadly underrated movie, I have always had a soft spot for it.
This might be the most successful movie to ever appear in this series, really showcases the type of star power Eddie Murphy had back then.
Hearing how much they changed the film tho made me sad, the executives really tried to press this movie into a Beverley Hills Cop shaped hole that it was never supposed to fill. Ironic how people in a creative industry can be so afraid of change and not giving audiences the same thing over and over again.
Call me insane, The Golden Child is a classic to me, I watched it all the time growing up, and I watched Big Trouble a few years ago, and really couldn't click with it.
I'm surprised that this isn't a cult classic. This and Big trouble in little China were some of my Dads first VHSs
You just described my childhood.
The only reason this isn’t a cult classic is cause, like the video says, people don’t realize this film was actually a hit. It destroyed BTILC in theaters. Usually to be a cult classic, you have to fail in theater.
I loved watching The Golden Child on VHS as a kid. As I got older I started to see the flaws but ya know what… I still think it’s a fun movie to watch.
Growing up in our household, this film was a cult classic!! My mom introduced my lil bro & me to this film, & we both fell in love with it!! It's so quotable, & I've always found everything Eddie says in the Golden Child, to be absolutely hilarious!! Interesting to find out what the original ideas for this flick were, though. Wow, had no idea that Charlotte Lewis was only 18, at the time she did this!!
I’m surprised you didn’t mention this was the first Eddie Murphy film where he really clamped down on the cussing and replaced every “f**k and s**t” with “ass” and suddenly he had a pg-13 movie that the whole family can see!
Personally I love the improvised parts of the film and synth soundtrack, and the film’s off-balanced tone against all odds works to enhance this already-strange supernatural stew.
I always thought since the film got trashed by critics and there was no sequel that it was also a box office failure, thanks for clearing that up for me! Shame we didn’t see a series lean into the “comedic Indiana Jones” idea even further.
I’ve always loved The Golden Child
Definitely my Classic!
I love this movie so much. My dad showed it to me one day when it was on TV somewhere. He'd loved it when it first came out. We spent weeks quoting it at each other, especially the "Nobody's gonna die 'just like that!'" line.
I'm early. Happy Friday everyone, I love this channel
I used to feel like this movie and Big Trouble in Little China were in the same universe, because somehow I got it in my head that the guy who plays the dude who runs the temple in this movie was playing the same character when he was helping out Kurt Russell in Big Trouble in Little China, but he had just decided to leave Tibet and wander the world a little after this whole Golden Child incident. Lulz, don't remember why.
It was so difficult for Asian actors at that time, so glad these movies existed, and yes with so many great character actors in both why not? This could have been my first intro to Tibet 💡
Fascinating to me that a movie like this made a lot of money in its time but is almost forgotten now.
Yeah, especially when you compare it to Big Trouble in Little China, which The Golden Child actually destroyed in theaters. Just goes to show you that no one can ever predict how the tides will turn in time.
Introduced my wife to this film years ago. Sheltered kid. Anyhow, she effing loved it and we still quote it frequently. Great movie all around!
BROTHER NUMSI! Joe, I love your content. You take my entire childhood and present it in such a honorable, loving, respectful way introducing it to the new generations in such a way that i don't think many others could. The "I want the knife" scene is one of the best scene's in movie history. i humbly thank you for all your hard work sir, for reminding us of a certain age and for introducing to those of a younger generation these wonderful "almost cult Classic's"
I was the only kid I knew that liked this movie.
Love this movie - I’d watch this with my father whenever it was on tv a every time I would take the train home from college, he would say ‘Noomsy!’ as I got off the train - great movie!
This has always been a childhood favourite and I snatched it up on DVD the moment it hit the shelves. I love the special effects and stop motion, plus Frank Welkers voice as the devil is fantastic.
I remember seeing this movie in the theater with my mom so I always had a soft spot for it.
Criminally underrated.
Saw this after school back in the day . I remember two things , the scene where charles dance makes the room hes in fall away to communicate with the devil ( the effects looked good ) and the hot female lead 😂
This is such a well paced FUN movie that if it's on regardless of what point in the movie it is I will watch the remaining movie because it lifts my spirits everytime.
"Why can't someone chose me to go to the Bahamas, I gotta get chosen to go to Tibet".......HILARIOUS 😆😅😂🤣😭!!!!!
I've never seen this movie, but it reminds me of a funny story from my childhood. Every Christmas my aunt would buy my sister a new, expensive gift because she never had a daughter. Me on the other hand would always get my older cousin's (her son's) hand me downs that she would try to pass off as "new". For Christmas one year she wrapped and gifted me a Member's only jacket which she again tried to pass off as brand new. However, when I wore it for the first time I found a ticket stub for The Golden Child in one of the pockets.
Dont spill any water...
This movie is a classic
"the golden child" is right up there with "the last dragon" and "terminator" and "the last starfighter" and "the neverending story" as an all time GREAT 80's movie.
Love the Last Starfighter and Neverending Story.
Add Commando, Road House, and Remo Williams to that list.
The Last Dragon is my favorite movie of all time!
@@2buxaslice AGREED! i forgot about "buckaroo bonzai", and SOMEHOW "big trouble in little china" too
"remo williams" was great! i wish i did see it as a kid, but somehow i didnt ever see it till around 2010
and Big trouble in little China
@@stapuft trivia: Big Trouble in Little China was written by the director of Buckaroo Banzai
Golden Child is a great movie.
I honestly thought that it was a Beverly Hills Cop sequel the first time that I saw it. I was sure that it was Beverly Hills Cop 2: The Golden Child. It took me a while to figure out why Beverly Hills Cop 2 didn't have the fun supernatural parts I remembered when I rewatched it.
I watched it one day years ago in the middle of the night when I was having wicked bad heartburn, and honestly this was freaking awesome imo.
The airport scene is an absolute pisser. Dare I say that this is my favorite Eddie Murphy movie
I love The Golden Child.
It’s funny, unique and has some pretty good effects for it’s time.
“There’s a Ground Monty!”
Such a great movie!!! Incredibly underrated, and deserves so much more love
This movie is one of the biggest 80s jams in my opinion, here in Brazil it's called a classic, everybody remembers it playing on TV and it was very popular, to me it is in the same level as Eddie's other works feom the same era like trading places and coming to america
When I was a kid, I remember they always used to show this on TNT back in the mid 90s. I dont remember watching it the whole way through ever. I remember getting bored by it really quickly, probably b/c it was on tv and I could just change it if I felt like it. I feel like this is a forgotten or overlooked Eddie Murphy movie from that period of his career. You have the heavy hitters of 48 hrs, trading places, and Beverly Hills cop and then The Golden child is mentioned along those and it's like "Oh yeah, that one exist too."
I really enjoyed this movie when I was younger. The library had it for checkout and it meant we could watch it all we wanted to without paying (great for a poor family). I haven't really seen it since probably my teens, so it's been a while. I'm almost afraid to revisit it, but do think a purer original version would hold up much better.
This has always been one of my favorite Eddie Murphy movies along with Coming to America and Harlem Nights (the latter another underrated Murphy classic!)
I haven’t seen this film since I saw it in the cinema as a teen. I’m in the UK and in those days we’d get the Hollywood blockbusters a few months after their American release. A BBC show at the time called Entertainment USA was useful as it showed us clips of films we wouldn’t see for a while. I remember the presenter saying how that that week millions of Americans has seen The Golden Child, then added, “But try and find anyone who actually liked it.” At the time, I quite enjoyed it. In hindsight it was like those old Bob Hope films, where a wisecracking hero would enter a supernatural world that everyone else took deadly seriously. I must rewatch it soon.
Golden Child is a great movie. I've always loved it and never got the hate. Charles Dance is excellent as well. What are toy doing this weekend because your silhouette is kicking!
I love this movie. When it came out on video my sister rented it and never returned it which is probably why you needed a rental card eventually at Blockbuster and Hollywood
It's a classic to me. My sweet brother Numsi
Speak for yourself. The Golden Child was my favorite movie as a kid, I wore the VHS out. Has many good scenes, one-liners and the adventure is fun. I still watch it from time to time
Loved this movie since I was a kid in the 80’s. Classic
Even though it wasn't a box office smash, I still love this classic and the soundtrack. Though John Barry's score was removed, there are still two pieces of it in the film. Those being "Dancing Tin Can Man (Puttin' On The Ritz)" and "Wisdom of the Ages". I do like Michael Colombier's score though. Sure, it is similar to the classic "Beverly Hills Cop" soundtrack, but still works well.
Big trouble in little china & the golden child makes an excellent double feature.
Thanks for a thoughtful assessment, as always. Wish I could hear the rest of the John Barry score...
I honestly feel like this movie is the most well known compared to the other "almost cult classics" on the list.
Man, I was obsessed with this film as a kid.
It really has some of the best SURPRISE HORROR imagery - Sardo Numpsa in hell, the fact that you can see his demon form when he morphs from a rat, the entire final encounter - all surprisingly well-shot.
This movie makes some success on Brazil on television re-aired. It was so Common to see It Playing randomly at the afternoon movie Sessions on tv that never ocurred me that this movie wasn't that much Of a hit.
Definitively must rewatch as an adult. I loved this one when I Was a child but, after seeing as an adult Beverly Hill Cop and 48hs ... We'll these Don't age that well for me. But Big Trouble in Little China is pure Gold ❤️
I waaaannnt the kniiiife. Loved this as a kid.
One of my favorite Eddie Murphy movies.
I always remember the dancing Pepsi can when I think of this movie
I vaguely recall briefly watching this movie when I was little, but I never finished it.
This movie was well-enjoyed by my wife the first time she watched it. The '80s got so many other fun movies either bombed or hit.
I remember watching this one as a kid (on tv or dvd I think?). I haven’t watched it in years but I remember the Tibetan mythology/mysticism stuff being super fascinating. The coupling of that with some really cool stop motion effects and Eddy Murphy’s performance and comedy style gave this film a really unique feel in my opinion. I should track it down and rewatch it sometime tbh.
I'm amazed by how many film buffs love to watch your videos, Hats off to you. Keep up the good work as always!
I legit love this movie despite what people say. I loved this movie when I was a kid and my continuing love is not nostalgia. I watched it recently and I still enjoy it, unlike a lot of my other childhood favourites.
Loved this movie growing up.
I’ve always been a fan of this movie and I’ve always described it to people, as pretty much Beverly Hills cop on vacation
LOVE this movie
Cool to see you tackle an underrated Eddie Murphy movie. Keep up the great work Joe!
Thank you so much for making a video about this movie!
I had no idea he was so young back then. I thought he was just aging fantastically but he's actually just only... uhh.. wow, 61? Okay so he is *also* aging fantastically. and the 80s were a very, very long time ago and that kinda hurts.
I’ve lost count of how many times he says “ass” in this move 😂
This is a classic, from where I'm from!!
I did a lot of regional theatre plays with director Michael Ritchie's sister Elsie (who passed some years ago), and she referred to this as "the shitty one"
These videos are great, thank you for the hard work.
6:13 This my favorite part in the movie, the way he waves his wallet around is just classic.
"MY DEAR BROTHER NUMSEY!!!"
Just had my best friends watch this for the first time :)
I loved this movie as a kid.
I loved this movie when I was growing up. I thought it was connected to Big Trouble in Little China when I was a kid! Definitely worth a watch if you haven't seen it.
Oh man....if you only just recently watched it, then you missed out on the funniest scene of the movie. I don't know why they won't show it anymore (ok, I do) but the funniest scene is when he is on the plane, and he puts on the good old "airplane headphones" and is listening to some random "local" song and being Eddy Murphy starts ad-libing the words to the song as if he knows it. I cannot find that scene anywhere in current years, and I'm not imagining it. Some of my friends remember it also, and I can always get a laugh from them whenever I act it out.
I'd like to make an official suggestion for this series: Troop Beverly Hills starring Shelley Long (1989) It is charming, funny, and even featured an animated intro by the creator of Ren and Stimpy (pre Ren and Stimpy.) Which features the same iconic animation style. I think it would be a perfect addition to this series!
Yeah, I noticed he doesn’t do “girly” type movies, lots of great ones like that!
I love the inter-cuts between Eddie Murphy and scenes from Star Trek and Rodger Rabbit. Gives us a fascinating glimpse of what could have been!
Keep em' coming man!
One of my favorite movies
5:33 I like the daft riffing. I would not of remembered this movie without it. I saida' ah tah ha atta ha ha, want the riffing.
This video was so good it almost made me late for work. Good job.
One of my favorite movies from childhood. Great cast and typical Eddie Murphy humor. I still quote this movie a ton.
Fun fact: The Golden Child is a boy in the movie is actually played by a girl in real life.
Great video as always my dude. 👊👊
The opening song in the Golden child is pretty damn awesome, also the movie introduced me to ratt when I was like 8 or 9 haha
Now I gotta rewatch this
Oh man, George Miller Golden Child would really have been something
The Golden Child will always be a true Eddie Murphy classic to me & it's a shame that it wasn't better received at the time. I loved the eastern dark fantasy theme, blended with an urban, 1980s L.A. aesthetic. It also has a pretty great and distinctive soundtrack. Most importantly though, it featured Eddie Murphy in his comedic prime, who was absolutely great throughout the film. With so many quotable lines, he carries the film with his charisma & comedic timing. It may not have been the hit that Beverly Hills Cop was but growing up, The Golden Child has always been my personal favorite Eddie Murphy & remains so to this day.
Honorable mention goes to a younger Charles Dance (Future Tywin Lannister) who maintained a great, intimidating presence throughout the film as main villain, Sardo Numspa aka Sardo "My sweet brother" Numpsey