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Straight Outta Compton
In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking us back to where it all began, Straight Outta Compton tells the true story of how these cultural rebels—armed only with their lyrics, swagger, bravado and raw talent—stood up to the authorities that meant to keep them down and formed the world’s most dangerous group, N.W.A. And as they spoke the truth that no one had before and exposed life in the hood, their voice ignited a social revolution that is still reverberating today.
Release : | 2015 |
Rating : | 7.8 |
Studio : | Universal Pictures, Legendary Pictures, Cube Vision, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Production Design, |
Cast : | O'Shea Jackson Jr. Corey Hawkins Jason Mitchell Neil Brown Jr. Aldis Hodge |
Genre : | Drama History Music |
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Simply Perfect
Good story, Not enough for a whole film
Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Dear loyal followers, Its time for an accurate, real and correct review of this off the scale 11/10 masterpiece. Lets start by analysing the techniques used to bring us this joyous, heartbreaking, emotionally warming and politically correct societal blockbuster hit. The use of actors was rather exciting, especially O'shea Jackson Jr playing the Angel of the lord himself - Ice Cube. Now many of you out there may criticise my beliefs and ideologies of how the genius Cube himself, is portrayed on his past experiences and work but not forgetting his colleagues who have made big success. Being a black man in the 80s was known to be quite traumatic and racist, so to see a group of young black rappers succeed was simply absurd but developed to be iconically phenomenal and game changing for the music industry as a whole. The music can I say made me feel quite peaceful and the classic hit '*UCK THA POLICE' is a song I listen to every morning for my daily meditation but also what I share with my clients to show them whatever you are going through is not that bad and it will be okay in the end. To all the haters out here I have one message 'go suck a duck', I shall change that word by simply replacing with a 'd', because most of you have 7pm bed curfews, and can not restrain from powerful language. This movie was beautifully crafted to reveal the true struggles of ethnic minorities. I will tell y'all a little secret, me and Ice go back a long way we have had our arguments over creative talent - ice always wins, which I think is fairly evident in this review of our lives. Now I have his digits on my cell, I won't hesitate to give him a call and arrange a little meet up with all you dictators. Cause Patricia B is crazy! Kind disregards Her Majesty Patricia Bateman Vanilla the 8thI gotta say it was a good day. P.s me and homeboy remember writing this back in 92' Peazy P outIts very hypocritical for this post to be declined multiple times due to other reviews being considered racist and patronising!
This movie was excellent showing how LA treated African Amercians in the late 80s early 90s. i am a fan of political rap and this movie shows it. it not only shows the rise and fall of N.W.A but also what they had to go through to get to the top. i think straight outta compton came out in the right time with everything that happened between 2015 to 2016. it shined light and made everyone understand just a little bit. other than that the movie was excellent but i just had one problem with it. when N.W.A was recording straight outta compton Dr Dre went outside and was having baby mama trouble and then the cops drove by and looked out the window. After Dre's baby mama drove off the rest of nwa came out and asked what he did wrong and about 3 cop cars came from around the corner and harassed the group when everything was said and done cube comes up to Dre and thats how fuk da police came about. but thats not how the real story went
Dre and Ice cube are producers and so one can see the the way they whitewash certain aspects of their early lives. Having said that, the movie is done reasonably well. Ice Cube's son is pretty good casting as he resembles and sounds like his dad. The highlight of the movie is Jason Mitchell who is great as Easy E. JAson Mitchell deserved an acting nomination as he is one of our emerging great actors and has a very engaging screen presence as one can see in this movie and the TV series Chi. Paul Giamatti is good, but i wish they showed just a little more nuance in his shady character in the second half of the movie.
In F. Gary Gray's docudrama biopic, Straight Outta Compton, it tell's the story how six men from Compton, California (Eazy-E (singer), Ice Cube (songwriter, singer), Dr.Dre (DJ), DJ Yella (backup vocals), MC Ren (backup vocals), and The D.O.C. (backup vocals)) rose to fame their debuting album Straight Outta Compton by their band N.W.A. previously they all worked together on the hit- single Boyz In Da Hood by Eazy- E. After Boyz In Da Hood blow up, Eazy-E met with music manager Jerry Heller who was played by Paul Giamatti who I think did a great job playing the manager. Ice Cube's son O'Shea Jackson Jr. play's his father in the movie and does a good job at it acting like his old man and capturing his charm, eventually the manager Jerry doesn't pay Ice Cube the money he deserves and the legal representation to sign a record contract. So Cube leaves the group and start's his own music label and becomes a film actor starring in Boyz N the Hood and also becoming a film writer for the 1995 movie Friday and the film show's both these event's. Before Ice Cube splits the group their controversial song f the police show's the crew getting arrested and fighting for their freedom of speech. Leading to other rapper's basing their material to what N.W.A. did. Dr. Dre would leave and would discover Snoop Dogg, Tupac, 50 Cent, and Eminem which I personally loved how they introduced them. N.W.A. would now just be Eazy-E, MC Ren, and DJ Yella, Eazy-E now finally realizes that Jerry was screwing him over from the beginning and Dre and Cube were trying to tell him but he didn't listen, he tries to reunite N.W.A. without Jerry being involved which I think is pretty cool, he reconciles with Ice Cube and Dr. Dre but find's out he has HIV/AIDS dying shortly after he's diagnosed causing the group to grieve, but people will always remember him, finally Dr. Dre leaves Death Row Records because Suge Knight wasn't fair to him and starts his own label Aftermath which becomes very successful. The music for the movie was perfect, what wasn't was they never explained what happened to Jerry Heller after he was fired by Eazy-E. N.W.A. led a movement of modern day rap to let it be what it is, N.W.A. wasn't afraid to have changes in music which is what's great about the group.