The Ferret

Hapgilmore - maybe you've been exposed to a lot of Friday lovers, but I'm 19 and never seen the movie. I've heard about it but also never heard anybody I've met mention it. I don't think it's in the public conscious as much as you think, maybe just within your circle of friends.

GoldenJCJ

I'm 27. I was about 15 or 16 when Friday came out which I'd guess put me right in the middle of the target demographic audience for the movie. I saw it when it first came out. I remember Chris Tucker was in it. Aside from that nothing about the movie stands out. I didn't even realize Smokey was his name until this thread popped up. Chris Tucker was, is, and always will be a second rate actor. Nothing against the guy but if he's not a star by now he never will be. In my opinion, if there's any movie that Tucker is famous for it's Rush Hour. His characters in everything else he's ever been in are pretty forgettable.

tylergfoster

Friday is a popular, but small movie. The sequels weren't that big either. You may like Smokey, and he may be funny in the movie, but he's really not as well-known as you think. I would say, even barring the fact that the movie just happens to have been made more recently, Harold & Kumar rank higher in awareness among stoner characters than Smokey, not to mention Jay and Silent Bob and the perennial classics Cheech and Chong.

dsa_shea

....in his spare time.

antennaball

This thread took a hilarious turn. I'm 26 and think he's a decently humorous character, but nowhere near a "legend". That's ludicrous.

I kinda picture hapgilmore as a stoner, hanging around with a bunch of stoner friends and, in their own little universe, Smokey is King.

mndtrp

Smokey is not a legend, but was missing from the sequels. Even if Smokey comes back, I don't see this movie being all that great.

The guys from Half Baked were better stoners than Smokey, any day.

James Hardy

Just because someone was young when the movie came out doesn't mean they couldn't see it when it first came out. I was 8 when Friday came out, and I saw it for the first time on PPV the year it was released.

Smokey is not an Iconic legendary movie character, but he is a pretty popular character, and the original Friday is considered a classic movie to a lot of people I know, my self included

I'm sure people from suburban areas may look at cheech and chong, jay and silent bob, harold and kumar ect. ect as better stoner characters with better movies, but for me, and all my friends, Friday is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen, and is in my top five favorite movies. And Smokey is a great character. And I'm not a Chris Tucker fan at all, I only really liked him as Smokey.

The Bus

Friday is a suburban movie.

hapgilmore

Do you realize that every movie Tucker was the star of (Money Talks, Rush Hour 1 and 2) were HUGE successes? How can you say he's not a star? Sure, he doesn't appear in many movies, but that doesn't make him any less of a star. It is his choice not to appear in many films, but the ones he does appear make a TON of money.

hapgilmore

This gets my vote for most ridiculous statement of the year. Most of Chris Rock's movies were profitable, but nothing smashing the box office. Money Talks and both of the Rush Hours made a ton of money because people like Chris Tucker, bottom line. People like Jackie Chan too, but none of his movies released in America did any of the box office CLOSE to what both the Rush Hours made. They were successful because of Tucker and this is why he gets 20-25 million a movie now. Does Chris Rock make that much? No, he does not.

tylergfoster

Only the Rush Hour movies broke $100m in the US and only one other broke even $50m in the US (The Fifth Element), which is clearly not a Chris Tucker movie but a Bruce Willis movie. "HUGE" successes his movies are not.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/...hristucker.htm

Deftones

Keep it civil in here people. I want to be able to laugh at this thread for weeks to come.

Timber

Count me in the camp that thinks Friday After was much better then Next Friday.

Yes I love Smokey (31) He was the best part of the first movie.

FantasticVSDoom

Pretty much explains why he hasnt done a movie since 2001...

jjcool

So, I'm confused. Did this movie open this past Friday? or does it open next Friday, or the Friday after next? or did it open last Friday?

jdpatri

Hell, I really enjoyed Friday but when people start talking about Smokey, all I'm thinking about is...



[note: for anyone confused... I do not mean the goofball on the right]

Chrisedge

All this coming from hapgilmore....

hapgilmore

It is Tucker's own choice not to be in many movies. Do you really think he doesn't get offers? All the Tucker naysayers on here need to realize he still is a very bankable star.

tylergfoster

OVER THE LINE!

Peep

He's not in many movies because he knows he can make 30 million every time New Line farts out a "Rush Hour" sequel. He's not stupid enough to make anything else and ruin that gravy train. People are excited about "Rush Hour xx", not "The next Chris Tucker" movie.

hapgilmore

take Chris Tucker out of the next Rush Hour movie and see how much it makes...

jdpatri

Mark it eight, Dude.

mndtrp

People hate change.

A better way to make the statment would be:
Replace Chris Tucker in all of the movies, and see how much it makes.

acubfaninmd

the first one was the only good one, should have stopped then

Randy Miller III

He meant "white".