Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-28 (Sunday)

The Golden Child (blu-ray) 1986 action comedy starring Eddie Murphy as
an average guy caught up in a magical adventure to save the world.  A
plot point of the movie involves a girl being kidnapped by a gang sold
as part of the villain's evil plan.  The hero gets involved when he goes
looking for the girl instead of the police. Victor Wong co-stars as a
wise old man who helps the hero on his journey.  Peter Kwong pops up as
one of the villain's henchmen who is killed by being impaled by a blade.
 And everyone's favorite character actor James Hong stars as a good
guy.  At the end of the movie the villain tries to stab the hero with a
knife but fails.  The hero takes that same knife and uses it to kill the
villain.  This is such an underrated movie.  It's loads of fun and
Murphy chews the scenery like only 80s Murphy could.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbhF5iwB_vE
Whatever happened to the actress who played the love interest?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

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Originally Murphy was supposed to be in Star Trek the whale one which is
why it takes place in the 20th century (somebody at Paramont figured they
had a contract to make a Murphy movie and the contract to make a Star Trek
movie and why not kill two birds of prey with one stone).  but in much the
same way they would lose Sean Connery in the next movie. They kept delaying
and delaying and never got Murphy his contract and so he decided to do the
golden child instead and he was replaced as Kirks love interest by Tucker’s
Witch.