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Saw 8 Mile last Sunday - and only now can I bring myself to tell you how utterly crap I thought it was. Some spoilers on the way if you haven't seen it.
Nothing happens of any real importance in the whole movie. Nothing I could bring myslef ot care about whatsoever.
I think the director was trying to understate everything, to try to make it seem more real, but, it my opinion, it left me not giving a damn. You've got to play up to these momemnts, make them memorable, and maybe then you've got a movie. For example, the beating scene. Not exactly horrendous, was it? Like everythign else in the movie, it just happened, and we ambled on with the rest of the movie.
Britney Murphy's character was completely rubbish. I don't like Britney at the best of times, with her smacked-out look, but Chrst, here she was truly awful. Her role in the movie didn't even work. What did she do, spoke to Rabbit, screwed him at work, then went off with some other bloke. Now I don't think he has any right to get upset when he realises that she's a little loose, after all, she went with him because he rapped real good at lunch time. It's not like they were a couple or anything. Stupid and pointless.
As for the whole rapping during lunch thing, wasn't that a great? Rabbit raping about how this one bloke is bad bacause he's a homophobe. Er, isn't Eminiem clearly homophobic, as is apparent from his own lyrics?
Kim Basinger was rubbish too. She was supposed to be a drunk? Couldn't really act that way, could she? Oh, and the way everythign turned out nice for her, "Oh, I won at Bingo!" yeah, excellent.
Plus the film lacked any real score. Any action scenes, and the awful sex scene, had they been accompanied by soime fitting music, they may have been effective, but as it was, they just happened, they were nothing. Understatement is not a good thing in this kind of movie, it doesn't work.
Heh, funny how I can go on for much longer about a film I didn't enjoy, than I could about one I did? So I thought it was dire, anyone going to defend it?
Nothing happens of any real importance in the whole movie. Nothing I could bring myslef ot care about whatsoever.
I think the director was trying to understate everything, to try to make it seem more real, but, it my opinion, it left me not giving a damn. You've got to play up to these momemnts, make them memorable, and maybe then you've got a movie. For example, the beating scene. Not exactly horrendous, was it? Like everythign else in the movie, it just happened, and we ambled on with the rest of the movie.
Britney Murphy's character was completely rubbish. I don't like Britney at the best of times, with her smacked-out look, but Chrst, here she was truly awful. Her role in the movie didn't even work. What did she do, spoke to Rabbit, screwed him at work, then went off with some other bloke. Now I don't think he has any right to get upset when he realises that she's a little loose, after all, she went with him because he rapped real good at lunch time. It's not like they were a couple or anything. Stupid and pointless.
As for the whole rapping during lunch thing, wasn't that a great? Rabbit raping about how this one bloke is bad bacause he's a homophobe. Er, isn't Eminiem clearly homophobic, as is apparent from his own lyrics?
Kim Basinger was rubbish too. She was supposed to be a drunk? Couldn't really act that way, could she? Oh, and the way everythign turned out nice for her, "Oh, I won at Bingo!" yeah, excellent.
Plus the film lacked any real score. Any action scenes, and the awful sex scene, had they been accompanied by soime fitting music, they may have been effective, but as it was, they just happened, they were nothing. Understatement is not a good thing in this kind of movie, it doesn't work.
Heh, funny how I can go on for much longer about a film I didn't enjoy, than I could about one I did? So I thought it was dire, anyone going to defend it?
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ha ha.
that reminds me - cheech and chong
"How's my driving man?"
"I think we're parked ..."
that reminds me - cheech and chong
"How's my driving man?"
"I think we're parked ..."
I though 9 mile was better. It had Vanilla Ice and Scoop scoopy scoops in it. They had an ice cream van in which they used as a front for selling drugs to people...big cones.
No hang on I'm thinking of Cheech and Chong.
9 Mile was about a Hip Hop Ice rink, called Ho's Zone Lay Her, and the message of the film is about the melting of the ice caps due to the big thingy going less and stuff (9 miles above the planet).
In the end the ice rink melted just as Scoop scoopy scoops was going to give a special kid an ice cream, made of ice. The ice sculpture that Vanilla Ice made of his ass also melted, as did the woman he was courting. She was made of ice too!
It certainly got me thinking.
No hang on I'm thinking of Cheech and Chong.
9 Mile was about a Hip Hop Ice rink, called Ho's Zone Lay Her, and the message of the film is about the melting of the ice caps due to the big thingy going less and stuff (9 miles above the planet).
In the end the ice rink melted just as Scoop scoopy scoops was going to give a special kid an ice cream, made of ice. The ice sculpture that Vanilla Ice made of his ass also melted, as did the woman he was courting. She was made of ice too!
It certainly got me thinking.
it is a poor movie.
I think the DVD is saved from crapness by the Superman video *Nods*
I wouldn't say 8 Mile is crap, but, well, maybe I would. I don't know.
I enjoyed the freestyles more than anything. Some of those lyrics were fantastically put together (even though they were more than likely written down as part of the script).
I don't think I could sit through the entire movie again though, the boring parts are incredibly dire and make me want to switch off at times.
All in all, I'd say it's an average movie, saved from 'crap' status by the impressive lyricism and style.
Rent it if you don't want to waste money/reddies.
I enjoyed the freestyles more than anything. Some of those lyrics were fantastically put together (even though they were more than likely written down as part of the script).
I don't think I could sit through the entire movie again though, the boring parts are incredibly dire and make me want to switch off at times.
All in all, I'd say it's an average movie, saved from 'crap' status by the impressive lyricism and style.
Rent it if you don't want to waste money/reddies.
I thought it was good, sure it ain't the best movie ever and there's never any massive world changing events, but it's enjoyable. The freestyle battles are excellent and Eminem is a suprisingly good actor.
I was going to order it as a free gift with my reddies, but now I don't think I'll bother.
Paradox: wrote:
> on another note, why in Gods name is
> "spídérmán" in the swear filter you
> f**king idiots?
That was mystique with her special favours. You can beat it though.
SPlDERMAN!
> on another note, why in Gods name is
> "spídérmán" in the swear filter you
> f**king idiots?
That was mystique with her special favours. You can beat it though.
SPlDERMAN!
I thought it was ok.
Some scenes made me go, "wha?" But others were better.
Some scenes made me go, "wha?" But others were better.
on another note, why in Gods name is "spídérmán" in the swear filter you f**king idiots?
*shakes fist menacingly*
I almost lost my post there, good job I copied it before I posted.
*shakes fist menacingly*
I almost lost my post there, good job I copied it before I posted.
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