Straight Outta Compton [Dir: F. Gary Gray, RT: 87%, out 8/14]
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In the mid-1980s, the streets of Compton, California, were some of the most dangerous in the country. When five young men translated their experiences growing up into brutally honest music that rebelled against abusive authority, they gave an explosive voice to a silenced generation. Following the meteoric rise and fall of N.W.A., Straight Outta Compton tells the astonishing story of how these youngsters revolutionized music and pop culture forever the moment they told the world the truth about life in the hood and ignited a cultural war
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F5WcFPDzko
Rotten Tomatoes: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/straight_outta_compton/
Really looking forward to this. Looks good too. Unsure if it'll actually be in any cinema near me though.
Also, Grantland did an interview with Jerry Heller, which, apparently, is really hard to get:
Also, shamefully, I didn't realize the guy playing Ice Cube was Cube's kid. I was wondering how they nailed the likeness.
These days, getting to Jerry Heller is a peculiar kind of challenge. In the past few years, his public appearances have been limited to interviews with obscure Internet-radio personalities and the occasional TMZ check-in. Poking around for contact information via the radio DJs would lead to lightly attempted extortion. Asking a friend in L.A. who’s worked for DJ Quik and Snoop Dogg would lead to low-level shock. “Man,” he says, pausing. “You gotta understand: That’s kind of like, you know, asking to find the Devil.”http://grantland.com/features/jerry-heller-nwa-straight-outta-compton/
After N.W.A broke up, first Cube, then Dre attacked Heller in their music with lacerating imagery. They represented him as the torchbearer for the legacy of Colonel Tom Parker or the original Svengali: an enterprising but domineering, two-faced show business crook. The last time Heller had any sizable slice of the public imagination was when his name was leaving Cube’s and Dre’s mouths. Their characterization was brutally effective.
This week, after six years of on-and-off development, the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton finally arrives, and with it, Heller is back in the consciousness. Executive-produced by Cube, Dre, and Eazy-E’s widow, Tomica Woods-Wright, the movie contains a surprising and quasi-sympathetic portrayal of Heller. For the first half of the movie, Paul Giamatti plays Heller as a pudgy ball of ambition and stubborn pride — a Borscht Belter with balls and a Fila jumpsuit. But by the end, he has met his inevitable fate: reduced to a whimpering louse, abandoned by our heroes and shamed for his sins. F. Gary Gray, the movie’s director, and Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff, its screenwriters, all did primary reporting, conducting hours of interviews with the principal characters and a long list of background players. To no one’s great surprise, Heller was not invited to these sessions.
“I was given a list of people that they recommend I speak with,” Berloff explained, “and he was not on it.”
Also, shamefully, I didn't realize the guy playing Ice Cube was Cube's kid. I was wondering how they nailed the likeness.
By Apollo Go To PostWait the Black Widow helped produce this? Fuck that bitch.who?
Just saw it today and I really enjoyed the movie. I didn't understand some parts but I did appreciate the heart of it. There are pacing issues and the way they ended was kind of weird but I guess the credits make up for it?
Ice Cube was on point and I enjoyed Dr. Dre but he looked kind of thin.
Ice Cube was on point and I enjoyed Dr. Dre but he looked kind of thin.
people almost teared up. Also our showing paused and the white controller panicked like hell to fix it while being yelled at by a black guy
I liked it, even though it's pretty much made of the same contrived moments as every other music biopic.
That No Vaseline scene was my favorite part. Don't fuck with Ice Cube.
That No Vaseline scene was my favorite part. Don't fuck with Ice Cube.
It was good. A little romanticized and some shoddy editing and pacing issues, but otherwise enjoyable and a good summary of their movement.
I liked it.
Our showing people got loud as hell for the opening scene and the No Vaseline scene and someone was smoking weed in the back,
Our showing people got loud as hell for the opening scene and the No Vaseline scene and someone was smoking weed in the back,
By Shun Go To PostIce Cube was on point and I enjoyed Dr. Dre but he looked kind of thin.Better be on point... pops might cut him out the will if not...
Also No Vaseline is the greatest dis track of all time
By Moris Go To PostI liked it.
Our showing people got loud as hell for the opening scene and the No Vaseline scene and someone was smoking weed in the back,
Haha, I think I would've enjoyed the movie with a livelier blackier audience. Once the beat for Nigga Ya Love to Hate come on it took a lot of self control not to start rapping along.
By blackace Go To PostBetter be on point... pops might cut him out the will if not...
Also No Vaseline is the greatest dis track of all time
QUESTION TIME: Other favorite diss tracks besides No Vaseline?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0UPhZk7mG0
This beat alone is a diss track, it's too fucking nasty. Like they could have released just the instrumental and MC Eiht still couldn't have responded.
By Pizza Go To PostQUESTION TIME: Other favorite diss tracks besides No Vaseline?">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0UPhZk7mG0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0UPhZk7mG0
This beat alone is a diss track, it's too fucking nasty. Like they could have released just the instrumental and MC Eiht still couldn't have responded.
Hit Em Up was too vicious... dude fucked your wife and bluntly said it
By blackace Go To PostHit Em Up was too vicious... dude fucked your wife and bluntly said it
"that's why I fucked your bitch you fat motherfucker" gotta be the funniest single line in rap.
Movie was dope as hell. They did skip some years towards the end though. But apparently the original cut of the movie is just over 3 hours long, so here's hoping for the Blu-Ray.
"Straight Outta Compton" | Talks at Google: https://youtu.be/2kNJsRjUqKQ
Movie just flew by. Didn't feel like two and a half hours and was entertaining as hell.
All of the Suge Knight scenes were hilarious
All of the Suge Knight scenes were hilarious
By Trey Go To Post"that's why I fucked your bitch you fat motherfucker" gotta be the funniest single line in rap.It's up there.
By Vlatko Go To PostMovie just flew by. Didn't feel like two and a half hours and was entertaining as hell.
All of the Suge Knight scenes were hilarious
Would truly be down for a mini series in the same vain. Every time someone was introduced people lost their shit. The Snoop and Tupac cameos got the theater so hype
An essay about the women Dre beat up back then, by one of them, and how the movie does not portray it.
http://gawker.com/heres-whats-missing-from-straight-outta-compton-me-and-1724735910
Another victim
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dr-dre-ex-on-abuse-in-straight-outta-compton_55d33b55e4b0ab468d9e580c
And some commentary
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/08/dr-dres-abuse-women-dee-barnes-straight-outta-compton/401744/?utm_source=SFFB
I read somewhere someone say in the age of the Bill Cosby scandal, this should be talked about more. I agree.
http://gawker.com/heres-whats-missing-from-straight-outta-compton-me-and-1724735910
Another victim
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dr-dre-ex-on-abuse-in-straight-outta-compton_55d33b55e4b0ab468d9e580c
And some commentary
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/08/dr-dres-abuse-women-dee-barnes-straight-outta-compton/401744/?utm_source=SFFB
I read somewhere someone say in the age of the Bill Cosby scandal, this should be talked about more. I agree.
In a sign that the uproar was threatening not only his reputation but also his business dealings, Dr. Dre, who has previously spoken dismissively or vaguely about the allegations, which are decades old, confronted them on Friday in a statement to The New York Times. While he did not address each allegation individually, he said: “Twenty-five years ago I was a young man drinking too much and in over my head with no real structure in my life. However, none of this is an excuse for what I did. I’ve been married for 19 years and every day I’m working to be a better man for my family, seeking guidance along the way. I’m doing everything I can so I never resemble that man again.”
“I’ve been talking about my abuse for many, many years, but it has not gotten any ears until now,” said Michel’le, who was romantically involved with Dr. Dre from the late-’80s until the mid-’90s. (They have an adult son.)http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/22/arts/music/dr-dre-apologizes-to-the-women-ive-hurt.html
During that time, she said, he was often physically abusive, hitting her with a closed fist and leaving “black eyes, a cracked rib and scars.” Michel’le said she never pressed charges because, “We don’t get that kind of education in my culture.”
She added, “Opening up and finding out there were other women like me gave me the power to speak up.”
Tairrie B (her real name is Theresa Murphy) said that Dr. Dre punched her twice in the face at a Grammys after-party in 1990 after she recorded a track insulting him.
She connected with Ms. Barnes through Facebook last year. “I said, ‘Hey girl, I think we have something in common, and we’ve never talked about it,’ ” Ms. Murphy said.
Might be too little too late. Should have addressed it in the movie.
An honest look at Dre was never going to happen with him being involved in the production. My main complaint about the movie (other than it being about wack ass jerry curl rap) was that it made Dre look like a damn saint. I really enjoyed it though, and it was educational for me since I didn't really fuck with west coast hip hop at that time. I had never heard most of the songs in the first half of the movie.
http://radio.com/2015/08/24/jerry-heller-reveals-eazy-e-plot-to-murder-suge-knight/
it was straight gang warfare in the 90s music business
it was straight gang warfare in the 90s music business