Man, ever since I saw him in the BREAKFAST CLUB, ARIHEADS and CSI have I seen him perform SO WELL.. I loved him in NEW JACK CITY!
Very good and underrated actor
Floor, meet Eddy's Brains... Eddy, meet the floor!!!!-Wes Woodfin
That was Emilio Estevez in The Breakfast Club, not Judd Nelson.
shareLook again yeoff, Nelson played John Bender, the criminal. Emilio Estevez played the jock
Floor, meet Eddy's Brains... Eddy, meet the floor!!!!-Wes Woodfin
sorry
sharereally? I thought Nelson's character was very boring and one dimensional.
shareTrue that. Nelson was the worst part of this movie imo
"The saddest thing in life is wasted talent." ~ A Bronx Tale (1993)
Here's the thing I've always felt about Judd Nelson in New Jack City; He looks like he doesn't want to be there, and everyone else looks like they don't want him to be there either.
Personally I think he's fine in the role for what it is-the underdevloped token white guy.
'Cause there's thunder in your heart... every move is like lightning!
But he had to be the one to tell Ice-T that " I was poor white-trash Pookie. This whole drug *beep* it's not a black thing, it's not a white thing. It's a death thing. Death don't give a *beep* about color. You don't have to like me. Hell, I don't even know if I like you. But we're in this together now, partner."
Only a token white boy in a predominantly black drug-culture movie could provide the idea that it crosses the tracks into the suburbs. The white voice needed to confirm what Furious says in Boyz in the Hood, "I know every time you turn on the TV that's what you see, Black People, sellin the rock, pushin the rock, pushin the rock, yeah I know. But that wasn't a problem as long as it was here.
It wasn't a problem until it was in Iowa - on Wall Street where there are hardly any black people."
No, only a badass like Judd could push face with Ice-T and lay it down as truth.
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When I read the Furious Styles lines, I couldn’t help but here Grady from Sanford and Son going, “Mmhmm. Yup. That’s right.”
shareI liked him in this, it was fun to see him in such a different role for him.
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