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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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It's a film biography of sorts (as it is all meant to be true) so it is told is a passive tone, which doesn't exactly bring it to life much. I found it a bit dull, his friends were boring, his family were terrible and there wasn't a moment that raised my heartbeat. Getting caught in a burning building could be something pretty shocking (see Spider man, frequency or backdraft) but it was just there, "Look, he's in a buidling and its on fire... oh wait, he's going for the window... yup... he's safe".
People have built the film up as an "extraordinary" acting debut because no other musicians can act. Look at Madonna (ooh my husband is a director I must be able to act!). Mr. Mathers wasn't bad in the film, he just wasn't good either.
I'm pretty balanced on this one, it's not wrist-slittingly bad but I can think of better things to do with an hour and a half.
People have built the film up as an "extraordinary" acting debut because no other musicians can act. Look at Madonna (ooh my husband is a director I must be able to act!). Mr. Mathers wasn't bad in the film, he just wasn't good either.
I'm pretty balanced on this one, it's not wrist-slittingly bad but I can think of better things to do with an hour and a half.
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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