The guitar player, Tori Ruffin, lives here in Tulsa so Ive seen him play quite a bit. The dude fucking shreds. He has his own band called Freak Juice and not he’s also the lead guitar in Morris Day and the Time.
It's weird seeing high def widescreen clips of this on my phone when I remember it square and like 240p resolution on my 10" tv/vcr combo I had in my room back when I was an unsupervised 8 year old totally not watching this masterpiece on repeat
I haven't seen it so I don't know the details but I really don't like the idea that there was anyone for Akeem in NYC besides Lisa. The original text is very clear on this point.
There wasn’t anyone else. The event happened before Lisa, while the guys were still acclimating to the dating scene. The Powers That Be chose under the influence and non consensual for comic relief for their plot point. They could have done better by Leslie Jones, who is usually fun, but set to 11 for this and too much. The rest of the movie was the typical fare.
I should clarify, Akeem was the victim. I don’t think they dwelled on the flashback too much in the movie. I just feel like it could have been done with a little more sensitivity and maybe addressed as problematic for even a moment. But maybe it was true to the lifestyle back then. 🤷🏽♀️
Since I first watched this movie, I’ve wondered a couple few things that really bother me and don’t make sense.
1. Lisa was the bad choice between the McDowell sisters. Her sister was the catch. She was blah.
2. Did anyone at any point find Louie Anderson funny, or. entertaining? Maybe I was too young to understand what people liked. His voice? Ehh, whatever.
3. I will never understand how the old Jewish guy in the barbershop was played by Murphy. Blows my mind to this day. “He whooped Joe Lewis’ ass.
4. And finally, we all believe Semmi as Akeem’s friend and personal aide, yet he is wearing the same clothes as Akeem, is waited on by the servants like Akeem is, has unlimited money, acts kinda like he can do whatever he wants without consequence, the king tolerates his presence while the queen seems thrilled to see him. It makes more that he would be the queen’s son from a previous marriage and making him the King’s step son. “AAAAnd Semmi, wat is it nw?
Aleem and Semmi being stepbrothers makes more sense than friends.
“His mama called him Clay, I’mma call him Clay.”
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He’s on the T-shirt I’m wearing right now
I'm pretty sure every single time my wife and I hear Lewis Capaldi come on the radio in a store or in the car one of us says "that boy can sing!" Still one of the funniest movies of all time. I feel like so many comedies from the 80s and 90s have aged so poorly compared to this one.
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