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Downtown 
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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 Posted - 01/05/2007 : 15:19:25
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Yep, it's me again!
I'm trying to resubmit a decline with an explanation for why it's not generic, but first I need to make sure I'm right. Are there any films other than the Beverly Hills Cop series featuring a cop, detective, investigator, private eye, etc, named "Foley?"
Also, did BHC 3 feature an overly elaborate criminal scheme that doesn't really make any sense to the audience like BHC 2, or was it a simpler, cut-and-dry plot like the original Beverly Hills Cop, where it was nothing but your run-of-the-mill 80s cocaine smuggling operation? |
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turrell 
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Posted - 01/05/2007 : 17:29:24
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Downtown - I'd like to help, but your explanation is a little too vague. Perhaps let us know the review (if you edit what you have now, I believe you still get credit for the early date stamp) and anyway we won't steal it, that said, based on your description, I think its nearly impossible to know if your review is generic or if we can help you tweak it.
That said, here are some Foley Police Officers (from imdb):
Billy Morts (FBI Agent Foley) . . . Minority Report (2002)
Robert F. Simon (Insp. Nicholas Foley) . . . Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
Ruble Blakey (Detective Foley) . . . Miracle in Harlem (1948)
Richard Bradford (I) (Captain Foley). . . Hoodlum (1997)
Michael Bowen (I) (Frank Foley). . . Hostage Negotiator, The (2001)
Victor Brandt (Theatre Cop Foley). . . I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978)
Cliff Clark (I) (Inspector Foley) . . . Patient in Room 18, The (1938)
I. Stanford Jolley (Sheriff Ben Foley) . . . "Gunsmoke" (1955)
Don Meredith (I) (Detective Foley) . . . Police Story: The Freeway Killings (1987) (TV)
Garry Walberg (Officer Foley). . . One of My Wives Is Missing (1976) (TV)
L. Warren Young (Police Officer Foley). . . Trespass (1992)
Gregory Walcott (Deputy Jess Foley) . . . Texas Lady (1955)
James Anthony (I) (Detective Foley). . . Gone in the Night (1996) (TV)
Also while not himself a cop, George Clooney's character in Out of Sight (one of my all time favorite movies) was Jack Foley and was involved with many varieties of cops. |
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Sal[Au]pian 
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Posted - 01/05/2007 : 17:37:15
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| A folio o' Foleys |
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turrell
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Posted - 01/05/2007 : 18:04:07
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| I smell a Officer Foley accolade. |
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Downtown
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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Posted - 01/05/2007 : 18:16:42
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quote:
Originally posted by turrell
Downtown - I'd like to help, but your explanation is a little too vague. Perhaps let us know the review (if you edit what you have now, I believe you still get credit for the early date stamp) and anyway we won't steal it, that said, based on your description, I think its nearly impossible to know if your review is generic or if we can help you tweak it.
I hesitate to do that because I don't want it to appear as though I'm arguing for the review here in order to get around the 100 character limit, I really just wanted to make sure that I wasn't wrong when I resubmitted it with reasons why it's not generic. But I guess there wouldn't be any harm in revealing it. The review was for Beverly Hills Cop 2 and it was "Foley foils incomprehensible conspiracy." I've seen that movie about a dozen times and I still don't understand what the whole "alphabet crimes" nonsense is really about, except that it's somehow some sort of cover or distraction for the REAL criminal activity...but how or why is either never adequately explained or I'm just dense.
Of course if anyone can really figure out what that alphabet stuff was about, I guess the review will become factually inaccurate. But I'm not too worried about that happening. |
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turrell
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Posted - 01/05/2007 : 19:23:35
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| as a suggestion - maybe take out the incomprehensible conspiracy and focus on alphabet crimes - i realize you are editorializing on why the movie is no good, but it does bring an air of genericism into the review. |
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Downtown
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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Posted - 01/05/2007 : 19:29:52
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| But that removes the alliteration, which isn't what I want to do. Okay, it's not REAL alliteration, but I've decided in "in-" prefix before the 'C' is soft enough that it counts as alliteration. Plus, the reason I came here asking about BHC 3 is that the "incomprehensible conspiracy" is supposed to set the review apart from the other films featuring a guy named Foley foiling a conspiracy, the other ones not being incomprehensible. I know that BHC 1's conspiracy was easy to comprehend, but I just don't remember about BHC 3. |
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turrell
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Posted - 01/05/2007 : 19:34:00
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Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)
Plot Outline: Axel Foley, while investigating a car theft ring, comes across something much bigger than that: the same men who shot his boss are running a counterfeit money ring out of a theme park in Los Angeles.
It seems a little incomprehensible - but I admit forking over $8 for this movie seemed incomprehensible to me. |
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Downtown
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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Posted - 01/05/2007 : 19:37:13
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| Whatever. It's not that great a review, anyway. Thanks for your time. |
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Help downtown with a generic review (again!)
