Cop Movies

What’s the deal with cop movies? Look into cop movies as a vehicle for comedians and comediennes to ignite their acting careers. Looking into Wikipedia and IMDB.com, Whoopi Goldberg and Eddie Murphy have played detectives. Granted Murphy did more cop oriented movies (Beverly Hills 1, 2, 3 and possible 4 to come soon) and the ass known as Metro. I enjoy most of the movies, they’re cult classics at least in the black community. However, why must the detectives be smoove, jive talking flat foots? Most of the cop I’ve been around are dicks and would rather crack your skull than crack a joke. Even moving forward the buddy cop genre have some of the same characteristics. Martin Lawrence and Will Smith star in the Bad Boys franchise and, again, enjoyable movies, but still unrealistic at least to cops in Baltimore. Rush Hour, the movie franchise that Chris Tucker is famous for has the same situa. Chris Tucker is a wisecracking, ass chaser and atypical to a person of law enforcement. I want to find the town in America where the cops make job and do other funny shit. Just a thought.
Also, what’s the deal with the cop movie cliché’s? Really. I’ve seen enough movies to pick out my top five.
1. Bad guys are bad shots – dude go to a friggin’ firing range or something. It’s like the heroes has these one-in-a-million occurrence all through the movie. I just sit there and laugh at the movie will attempt to suspend my disbelief.
2. Ex-wife/ children – every cop in these movies still loves there ex-wife. “You still love that bitch that’s taking half? She’s getting your pension.” Or the cop has a strained relationship with their children.
3. Chase scene – some great ones but some terrible ones. For a while every cop movie I saw was filmed in San Francisco and the cop would drive some sort of battleship or a car. The cop is chasing the Colombian drug lord (a future issue) and he does down the largest decline in a road known to man and scrapes the undercarriage of his car. WTF.
4. Villains/culture shock – what ever happened to regular white criminals? Usually the criminal is named Escobar or using oil sheen in his hair. If the villain is white they tend to be European. That shit. Some of the movies a street smart cop is paired with an import from another country to take down the Triad (this may indeed be the synopsis of a movie I watched). During the hunt for the bad guys shenanigans ensue. The moral of the story is the audience gets to see Jackie and Chris sing “War!”. Bullocks
5. Bad endings – if its not the possible sequel ending, its not a ending at all. This is an issue. I understand that every movie should be a franchise. I mean why not? I’d be all in if Riggs and Murtaugh got there disheveled asses back together but some movies are just good. I love Die Hard 4 but I need to hear “muthafucker” not see Justin Long play Justin Long. Kevin Smith was cool, though.

With that said, I hope Kevin Smith’s movie ( this will sound more like a Homoerotic snuff film than cop movie) “A couple of dicks” breaks away from some on these chiches.