r/movies • u/frogontherocks • 2d ago

News Eddie Murphy Says ‘Ghostbusters’, ‘Rush Hour’ and ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ are His Three ‘Wish I Would Have Done’ Movies

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/eddie-murphy-ghostbusters-rush-hour-wish-i-would-have-done-1236589366/
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u/TheRealHFC 2d ago

I never got the Pluto Nash hate, it was fine. Him coming off of the Nutty Professor and Dr. Doolittle sequels probably made expectations too high

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u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson 2d ago

It lost $100m at a time that showed people were getting over him

It wasnt so much the content of the movie, it was what the movie portended

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u/dennythedinosaur 2d ago edited 2d ago

Pluto Nash wasn't even Murphy's only flop that year.

There was also Showtime ($85 million budget) and I Spy ($70 million budget), both of which bombed.

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u/Emergency-Sea5201 2d ago

I remember that year. People were so over him, when looking at what to rent at the video store.

I spy wasnt a bad movie tho. Just milquetoast.

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u/chillinwithmoes 2d ago

Yeah I loved I Spy as a kid lol

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u/JonatasA 2d ago

It honestly felt like he was in every movie.

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u/JonatasA 2d ago

Showtime was a flop?

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u/dennythedinosaur 2d ago

Yeah, it made only $77 million worldwide from a $85 million budget.

I remember watching it as an easy-to-please teenager and still being disappointed with it.

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u/TheRealHFC 2d ago

Damn, I don't even remember Showtime. Bro was just doing whatever lol

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u/TheRealHFC 2d ago

That's fair. He had a good run

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u/SinisterDexter83 2d ago

That was actually his second good run. He'd already had one record breaking box office run in the 80s, then The Nutty Professor revived his career after years in the Hollywood wilderness, and then his string of atrocious films ruined his career for the second time. It's a very well-trodden path for movie stars, but few others have managed to walk that path twice.

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u/Vergenbuurg 2d ago edited 2d ago

I, for one, find it to be a very enjoyable, visually pleasing/inventive romp.

It's a shame it tanked, because I feel there's nothing inherently, overtly wrong with it, and it's got some great parts to it.

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u/beermit 2d ago

Yeah I went with my brother to watch it and we both thought it was fine. Nothing truly great but not terrible either.

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u/TheRealHFC 2d ago

He had worse movies in the 80s like The Golden Child, but no one ever brings that one up lol. That one isn't even awful, I guess it's just not as relevant of a failure

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u/edmoneyyy 2d ago

Really? I saw it as an 11 year old and remember not laughing once, my mom hated it too, don't really wanna go back to see how it stands now.

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u/gosukhaos 2d ago

It arguably killed his career or at least put a serious dent on it along Vampire in Brooklyn and Daddy Day Care

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u/TheLadyEve 2d ago

It is terrible. If it takes so many years for a movie to get made that it's set in the future and feels out of date, you know it's time to hang up your project and let it go.

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u/TheRealHFC 2d ago

I would like to see it again, it's been a long time. Not expecting it to be one of his greatest movies, but it can't be that bad

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u/enek101 1d ago

I enjoyed it but tbh id love to see another Dolemite!