Eddie Murphy To Play Rudy Ray Moore In 'Dolemite Is My Name' Bio Pic For Netflix

[agent999]

Eddie Murphy started out so well with 48 Hours and Trading Places, but I can't recall a film of his that I've liked since then (okay, I liked the first Shrek). Never been a big fan of RRM, so I'm not salivating over this. But, as it's Netflix and I've already paid for it, might as well give it a try.

[The Silly Swede]

I'll watch this.

Not getting my hopes up though, cause you know... Netflix.

Murphy was so good back in the day, but he really hasn't made a single watchable film since the previous millenium. If someone is due to break out of his slump, it is him, haha.

[Scott]

I agree these modern day biopics are just awful in their mediocrity. But Eddie Murphy is a more charismatic star than what these films usually get, and it's nice seeing him do something that's closer to his old comedy than his recent films.

[SuperDevilDoctor]

Looks like fun!

[Darcy Parker]

I guess that's what I am then.

In MAN ON THE MOON there's a moment where Andy Kaufman is having a meal with his manager and he excitedly tells him - and us - that what he's doing with his comedy is "like punk rock". Kaufman never said that, and while I'm certain that 90% of the exchanges people had in that script were nowhere near verbatim if they weren't just totally fabricated, it's indicative of what I really dislike about biopics - the insistence on characters continually telling the audience how IMPORTANT everything they're seeing is. This trailer felt like nothing but those types of exclamations:

"I'm going to make a COMEDY record!"

"I've got to be TOTALLY OUTRAGEOUS!"

"I want the WORLD to know I EXIST!"

Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski are the kings of this kind of writing and it gives me a swift pain. Their brand of distilled, sugar coated history isn't for me.

Seeing comedians play out scenes from Moore's flicks doesn't do anything for me either. I'll sit down with the original films again before I'll watch actors pretend to be shitty actors who had no illusions about being shitty actors. Sending up movies that were comedies in the first place seems pretty redundant.

I know I'm being a curmudgeon but using this trailer as a barometer of what to expect in the actual film (which is what trailers are supposed to do) my gut tells me this will just make me upset. I know pretty much for certain that I'll have a better time watching DISCO GODFATHER again instead.

The do that and let the rest of us enjoy what will likely be entertaining, if not accurate, you rat soup-eating motherfucker! :)

[Toyboy]

Anyone who doesn't want to see this is a rat soup-eating motherfucker!

I guess that's what I am then.

In MAN ON THE MOON there's a moment where Andy Kaufman is having a meal with his manager and he excitedly tells him - and us - that what he's doing with his comedy is "like punk rock". Kaufman never said that, and while I'm certain that 90% of the exchanges people had in that script were nowhere near verbatim if they weren't just totally fabricated, it's indicative of what I really dislike about biopics - the insistence on characters continually telling the audience how IMPORTANT everything they're seeing is. This trailer felt like nothing but those types of exclamations:

"I'm going to make a COMEDY record!"

"I've got to be TOTALLY OUTRAGEOUS!"

"I want the WORLD to know I EXIST!"

Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski are the kings of this kind of writing and it gives me a swift pain. Their brand of distilled, sugar coated history isn't for me.

Seeing comedians play out scenes from Moore's flicks doesn't do anything for me either. I'll sit down with the original films again before I'll watch actors pretend to be shitty actors who had no illusions about being shitty actors. Sending up movies that were comedies in the first place seems pretty redundant.

I know I'm being a curmudgeon but using this trailer as a barometer of what to expect in the actual film (which is what trailers are supposed to do) my gut tells me this will just make me upset. I know pretty much for certain that I'll have a better time watching DISCO GODFATHER again instead.

[Darcy Parker]

Anyone who doesn't want to see this is a rat soup-eating motherfucker!

[Todd Jordan]

I cant NOT watch this. I still laugh at Eddie Murphy and I love Blaxploitation. Win win.

[Scott]

This looks great!

[Ian Jane]

I will watch this.

[Alex K.]

Dolemite is my Name

[Ian Jane]

Pictures from the set.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...970s-garb.html

I wanna see this.

[Alex K.]

Black don't crack.

[Mark Tolch]

Didn't realize Rudy was that old. Cool.

[Ian Jane]

RRM was almost 50 when he made Dolemite, Murphy is currently in his late 50s. Makeup will fix it.