Delirious DVD! Finally!
Filed under: Comedy
I bet some stickler out there will post a comment reminding me that Eddie Murphy: Delirious was an HBO concert film and NOT a theatrical release, and therefore I should not be posting about it on Cinematical, which is a movie blog. By that logic I could legally post about Eddie Murphy: Raw, which opened theatrically on December 18, 1987 and went on to gross just over $40 million in domestic box office, even if it was only half as funny as Murphy's first concert flick.But I'm so excited I just don't care! Eddie Murphy: Delirious is finally coming to DVD! One of the most popular and oft-quoted concert films of my generation, Delirious was the subject of much online gossip over the years. "Murphy bought the rights and will never let it show up on DVD" was the rumor most often floated about -- and I'll admit I started to get a little worried for a while there.
But now it looks like Entertainment Studios / Starz / Anchor Bay has the DVD locked and ready to roll. Delirious will hit the shelves on February 6 and the DVD will come complete with interview segments and some deleted scenes! Cool! So while it's true that Delirious contains some truly off-color material and a few AIDS jokes that seem more than a little cringe-worthy these days, this concert is an absolute classic -- and one I cannot wait to add to my collection.
[Thanks to DavisDVD.com for the press release!]
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12-06-2006 @ 9:23AM
waggss said...
Hell yeah it's about time. I've come close at least 5 or six times to buying the bootleg one on ebay. Just to have it on dvd. Now if only Monster Squad would come out.
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12-06-2006 @ 11:37AM
Alex said...
Monster Squad, seriously!
OK...
Delirious? Check.
Original versions of Star Wars? Check.
Eraserhead? Check.
Midnight Madness? Check.
Richard Donner cut of Superman II? Check.
Waggss is right. All that's missing IS Monster Squad and then I think all of us will be set with everything we've ever wanted on DVD.
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12-20-2006 @ 11:32AM
Matthew Rettenmund said...
The AIDS jokes are more than just cringeworthy—they're absolutely vicious and even for the time were unparalleled. Michael Richards has nothing on this man. I think a lot of his AIDS and gay jokes were coming from that place inside of Eddie, you know the place, the place that urges him to pick up transvestite hookers just to offer them a ride. But regardless, if the DVD is released without Murphy prefacing it with comments contextualizing at least some of his comments as coming from a very ignorant young kid whose opinions have changed, it's no different from him making AIDS jokes now and black leaders in particular should deplore him for that.
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12-31-2006 @ 12:02AM
Richard Head said...
Well, I personally deplore the defacing of us gay peoples in this awful dvd. I mean, how can anyone possibly think it's funny to make jokes about gays? What could be funny? I think we should all boycott this dvd & only watch it if they cut out all the gay stufff!
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