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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-28 (Sunday)
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anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:

>> 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=
>
>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.

I did not know that!

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Let's go Brandon!