Its a good one. Recommended for females due to an emotional type vibe.
This movie is really some sad shit but it doesn't leave you feeling down after watching. I'm not going to lie it was a bit slower for my taste and I had a hard time sitting through it because of my up mood. Maybe it was the sad tone of it and I don't really be feeling like sitting through some depressing shit but a satisfying watch once I completed it.
Not that its really sad in the sense you witness some really fucked up shit to someone you became attached to in the movie like a Ricky in Boys in the Hood. The sad shit already took place and you see the aftermath which is still a shitty vibe, but the delivery eases that.
Becca (Nicole Kidman) and Howie (Aaron Eckhart) are a married couple trying to cope with the premature loss of their son who died in car accident. Now that is a bit of a spoiler given the way this movie is told but you should be able to figure that out in the first 10 -15 minutes because of the 'something ain't right' vibe that is given. They are changed indefinitely from this dramatic occurrence and they are trying to salvage their relationship. They go on the verge of just saying "fuck it then" because counseling among other shit wasn't the way to go for them.
The movie has a great story and is delivered in masterful way. The performances are on point, Kidman drops the best performance I ever seen her give and everyone else is right in line. The story is not traditional you find out shit as the movie progresses and you have to put the pieces together. The director did some good work on this one.
The character progression is good. The characters in general are realistic, believable, and nothing comes of as corny. There is even a point in this one where Becca (Kidman), doing what whites have been known to do, interrupted another lady parenting her child in the Supermarket. A checking and a reaction came about from that scene which is the most live in the movie.
I think this is good but ultimately a chick flick. I can see women watching this shit on lifetime and getting into it with some tears.
My Rating
4/5
This was a trash ass movie.
I cant put my finger quite on the button if it was due to the script or the director but it was weak. I wanted to see this cause it had my nigga Stringer Bell in it. He did his job but something about this movie just wasn't hitting the mark.
Elba has weird psychological trip he is going through. This involves flashbacks and they go back on the story. They bring people in and later on you find that these niggas died earlier. So what is this nigga imagining shit? Come to find out he was on some post traumatic stress shit. I want to say this is in a way like The Black Swan just no where near as intriguing and understanding.
Elba's character is an ex-marine turned hit squad member who's brother is a top senator in the US. He gets set up and blah blah blah... It lost my interest. I sat through this one with about one corny moment away from ejecting it that never came. I think the acting was what kept it in the dvd player.
The acting was cool but this shit was just weak overall.
My Rating;
2/5
THOBACK!!
While I'm on topic of 70's movies I get on one of my favorites from the era of perfect afros.
Trouble Man is a movie I threw in my queue in no particular hurry to get it but when it came through I was thoroughly satisfied and lightweight upset I never heard of from any of my folks. On some Arsenio "how come you didn't tell me the cheese was this good" type shit.
I heard of Shaft alot, and I threw that in my queue too, Netflix refers other similar movies once you get something in a particular genre, I watched Shaft and Mr. T was cooler than that dude. I don't know why this dude ain't get that pub like Shaft or Superfly but T was cooler than both of them niggas, in my opinion. And they had Marvin Gaye on the soundtrack and err'thang.
The movie starts of with this brotha telling one of ladies some slick shit.
One of Mr. T's chicks: When am I gonna see you again, T?
Mr T standing by the edge of the pool straightening out his suit's collar and sleeves
Mr. T : Im gonna have to think about that baby.
Mr T bounces.
Scene ends.
So from the gate, I'm like 'okay, I'm watching a playa movie because she was dealing with a playa who told her ass some playa shit and bounced. Let me see what this old nigga is about. As the movie progressed T's character started aggrandize and he just came off as the epitome of a dope nigga. I mean he was That Nigga in this movie.
Hollywood must have outlawed having niggas come off this dope in the movies these days because it might become contagious in urban society. This nigga didn't deal dope. Didn't like the police. Talked shit to the police. Hustled hustlers. Had women. Had guap. Was sharp for 70's nigga. Changed 2 times a day. Regular folks and gangsters came to this dude for help. He was just the ultimate brotha and played that role to a T.
This is like one of my favorite character movies if not my favorite character movie. It progressed as movies do and nothing spectacular storyline wise occurred just a lot of coolness on T's part and enjoyability. You're gonna get some laughs out of this one too, it's out of the 70's, but that is at its bare minimum.
My rating:
5/5 - T gets 2 points off of keeping it oh so playa alone. The authenticity he exuded in this role could not be exhibited by anything less than a real muthafucka. You can't fake tha bravado, you gotta have it in you.
THOBACK!!
Switchblade Sisters (aka The Jezebels)
Every once in a while I like to get a laugh and watch old movies (1970's and earlier). Not all old movies are corny but I get a good laugh out of each one. Something about the overly seriousness behind a chessy ass line in that era that hits my stomach hard with a humor punch.
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I heard of this one in a song and checked it out because the name sounded cool. After reading up a bit on it it turns out it's what some call a "cult classic". A cult classic is one of those movies that have a specific set of fans (i.e. Cheech and Chong movies, Ferris Bueler's Day Off type of 'ish, The Warriors,). The movie may not have the best type of plot/story but the shit is interesting and liked by a large enough following. So I went on ahead and put it in the queue.
Its about a gang of broads, the Dagger Debs, who are like the first ladies to a gang of dudes, the Silver Daggers. All these bitches carry switchblades and they are white girl wit it. They all hit up a burger spot and punk some folks off a table. One girl ain't moving, Maggie. Some bitch named Patch(because this broad wears an eyepatch) is pressing the issue. Maggie throws pepper in that bitch Patch's good eye then wraps her jacket around her hand, has a blade in her opposite hand and proceeds to get into the old school classic "come oooooonnnn" stance. I thought that shit was funny. Apparently, so did the leader Lace, so she didn't give the call to fuck her up like her group was on standby for the call. I recently came to the belief this is where director Quentin Tarantino came up with that idea in Kill Bill when Kiddo plucked that other bitches eyeball out given this is one of his favorites. It was fucked up both times, but funny both times.
As it progresses of course Maggie gets put on with the Dagger Deb's and is in good graces with the leader but that Patch bitch still doesn't like her ass for that pepper trick. And that's a good reason. If I had only one eye don't throw water near my face and not expect an one-eyed Jack ass whooping coming your way, don't throw with two good ones, but pepper is an automatic fuck up. Patch didn't get to see that fuck up come to fruition so she just ain't like Maggie. Patch further done the line throws salt on Maggie by telling the leader she is sleeping with her man the leader of the Silver Daggers.
yadadadadaya.......
It leads to a silhouette'd knife fight and murder
And voila, you have that 70's shit (pictured above). Its one of those so bad its kinda good movies.
This movie has some raw parts to it that wouldn't make its way to the theaters now. It even had some stereotypical militant 70's blacks in it who were all about sticking it to the capitalists pigs. I enjoyed this shit. 70's movies are funny as shit to me. This is when dudes had tight jeans because that was the only shit on sell. They didn't go looking for em. Mandatory vs. Preference. My how we have progressed as a society.
My Rating
3/5
