5 |
Eriq La Salle, Coming to America |
Before he was punching the air in the credits to ER, La Salle was Darryl, the evil greasy-haired boyfriend in Coming to America. At the end of the movie his ex-girlfriend’s little sister wants to get her paws into that greasy hair, and La Salle can only look to the audience for help.
4 |
Jon Cryer, Pretty in Pink |
When Duckie finally gets his happy ending at the prom, and shares it with the audience, it almost makes up for the fact that the ending doesn’t make any sense at all.
3 |
Rick Moranis, Spaceballs |
Moranis talking directly to the audience? That’s an eighties peak for me right there.
2 |
Matthew Broderick, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off |
Nobody has yet bettered Ferris’s skill at talking to the camera, and that includes Matthew Broderick.
1 |
Eddie Murphy, Trading Places |
The moment when the evil Duke brothers are patronizing Billy Ray Valentine about commodities, and he looks dead at the camera. Total Murphy perfection.