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That whole season. I was watching the Pistons thinking they had Prince and Sheed and could slow Kobe and Shaq down *enough* to take a game over.

He described hearing about a Michael Mann movie being made as a kid in being "Dope". He's used the phrase before

I loved Bad Boys 1. It was like watching Axel Foley (Marcus Burnett) team up with John Shaft (Mike Lowrey).

The fact that the Bad Boys movie actually had an original Bad Boy from the Pistons is lowkey brilliant!!!

Need more of it

Martin was the More established Celebrity at the time, was also more "Adult" between the 2. Also His show was more Urban. Will Smith was PG level around the time the Movie was Made, and wasn'ta Big Star around that time. It's Strange now, but back then if you remembered when this Movie came out, it made perfect sense Why Martin got 1st Billing

@@myronsanders4563 You made some good points. Martin did more adult humor in his comedy and on his show, while Will's show and rap music was more clean. So it makes sense that Martin would be top-billed in this R-rated film. Plus, Martin was more like Eddie Murphy, which is something I think producers Bruckheimer and Simpson wanted to capitalize on. I think Will was more mainstream popular than Martin around this time because his sitcom was more popular than Martin's sitcom and his rap music was big, but Martin was featured in more movies than Will at this time, such as Boomerang, House Party 1 and 2, and Do The Right Thing. He even had his own movie Talking Dirty After Dark, his own standup film You So Crazy, and he was a Def Jam host, which gets into your point about Martin being more adult and urban than Will. Prior to Bad Boys 1, Will had a small part in Where The Day Takes You, he was the comic sidekick to Nia Long in Made in America, and had one lead role in the drama Six Degrees of Separation. Plus, Martin got into acting earlier than Will by playing a regular on What's Happening, Now? in 1987, which was three years before The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air premiered. It just made sense to make Martin Lawrence more the lead than Will Smith in Bad Boys 1.

May not be Hanks level but those are certified classics with incredible performances

Alexander Khlapov yeah I thought that too, I guess that’s why Michael Bay fell in love with Megan Fox

She was the Megan Fox of the 90s

I think he got a lot of money but invested wisely to maintain wealth for so many years.

The first Bad Boys will always be the best because Martin and Will were in their prime, comedically. Plus, they were both doing their own hit black sitcoms at the time, so the team up was just perfect.

I was the same age as you. 12 going on 13 and in the 7th grade. It remember my brother telling me about how Will and Martin were going to play cops in a movie. I thought it was going to be strictly a comedy. But the trailers I saw blew my mind. I loved how serious the movie looked and how serious Martin and Will looked. The close-up on Martin's face when one of Fouchet's henchmen shoots through Max's apartment. Will saying "Sup?" when holding the shotgun. Martin telling Julie, "You ain't with the bad guys now. You're with the cops." Martin jumping on the cab. I was completely sold!

The only thing I saw Tea Leoni in before this movie was the sitcom Flying Blind, where she played the sexy redhead girlfriend of Corey Parker's nerdy character. I honestly was surprised to see her in a movie with two black leads, based on seeing her in Flying Blind. But I liked her in this movie. We get to see Martin and Will save her fine ass throughout the movie, and I thought she was pretty funny, particularly in her scenes with Martin. You could tell that Tea really bonded with Martin and Will. I think she should have had a cameo in Bad Boys For Life. Same with Nestor Serrano.

Tea Leoni was basically the Megan Fox of the 90s (Not a Coincidence that both would be in Micheal Bay Movies) who's only jobs are to be lifeless love interests with blank expressions on their face and only jobs are to be good looking Women. Even watching this for the 1st time as a kid I thought she stuck out like a Sore Thumb. Plus her character is Dumb. Putting herself in Danger because she keeps wandering off. Even back as a kid I thought they should have recasted that part

She didn't trust any cop but Mike Lowrey, and if Marcus revealed who he really was, then she would have been even more distrustful. Marcus had to carry on the act.

@@mistercool3859 once she spent the night at Mike's house it was okay to just let her know "hey i'm mike he had to cover for me because u wouldn't go to him" .. they did not have to keep the act going. It was pretty pointless at that point. Just so they switch lives lol.

@@ninobless6919 Marcus (Martin Lawrence) had to keep the "Mike Lowrey" act going. When Julie called the police department, there was only one cop she trusted: Mike Lowrey (Will Smith). Mike was the cop Max told her about, and after seeing (ex) cop Eddie Dominguez snorting heroin and working with drug dealers, Julie had no intention of seeking protection from a cop other than Mike. When Marcus tries to take her into protective custody, Julie said "no way, I'm only dealing with you" (thinking Marcus was Mike). That is why Marcus had to be Mike and Mike pretended to be Marcus because if she knew that she was being lied to by either or both cops, she would have ran off on her own (like she tried to do before the big footchase), and Mike and Marcus would no longer have a witness.

What Van said. Martin has never been funnier. I think this is his peak. Thoroughly enjoying this podcast episode

@@esosa13 This was Martin Lawrence's best movie. Martin said himself that Bad Boys 1 is the closest he's gotten to playing a dramatic role.

Martin’s best film to me is Life with Eddie Murphy.

Hahahaha I noticed that too

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