President Donald Trump will apparently be getting his wish for a new installment in a long-dormant buddy cop movie franchise.The president has been pitching projects to Paramount owner Larry Ellison, the world's second-richest man and major Trump donor, as he takes over Warner Bros. Discovery, and P...
I just do not like Chris Tucker. Like, at all. I just don’t get the appeal.
I hated his character in Fifth Element. Just the worst. Ruined the movie for me.
I remember watching the Rifftrax version of Fifth Element and laughing at how they groaned at his parts, LOL. I could not agree more. I don’t know if it’s possible to make a cut that excludes him, but I’d sure like to see that…
Anyway, I didn’t even know they made three Rush Hours already. Clearly, I’m not the target demo for this franchise. If the world has a fourth, I guess I’ll care about it as much as I cared about the first three, LOL.
He is completely fucking annoying, and I have refused to watch him in anything else, but somehow Ruby Rhod just works for me. With all the ridiculous stuff in that movie, he feels right at home.
It’s a scenario where Tucker’s main schtick makes sense in context. Ruby Rhod is basically Space Tucker with a gossip podcast, and his hyper-annoying behavior serves to illustrate how different he, the other passengers, and celebrity obsessed people in that universe are from Corbin’s grounded and sane everyman character.