Quote: (08-16-2015 08:52 AM)SHANbangs Wrote:
Quote: (08-15-2015 12:46 PM)MidWest Wrote:
This movie was the shit!!!
i watched it yesterday with a couple of my guys. I loved it! Seriously great. I couldn't wait to watch it. Ice Cube's son killed it in portraying his father. I liked the fact that Dr. Dre was there making sure that every scene was accurate as possible.
One thing I didn't know was that even though artists became rich back in the day, they still kept it real gangster, as in they killed people who posed a threat to their albums. Almost like some Mafia, cartel type business.
I was also interested to see how the Jerry Heller character was going to be portrayed. I heard in the news that Jerry Heller went to the movies last night with lawyers, ready to sue if he was portrayed in a negative light.
All in all, I liked the movie. Two of my white friends were taken a little bit back at the portrayal of the white cops. They thought they made them look exaggeratedly evil. It is what it is though.
That movie was tight. Probably the best biopic i've seen in the last twenty years.
I mean, this did involve surge knight, and it was pre-Biggie vs. Pac. So some of that violence made sense.
And the cops - well, probably some exaggeration, but hey, rodney king happened. An unnecessary drug war happens. You can't argue with that, you know? It's funny how small government conservatives lambast government bureaucracies for being corrupt (rightly so), but they always have a blindspot for the PO-LICE, a generally underpaid bureaucracy with a lot of power ie. the recipe for corruption.
Really powerful at the end how you see the entire progeny of these guys. The influence they had on hip hop, and by that extension, modern pop music is profound - Pac, Snoop, Eminem, 50 Cent. Really makes you appreciate Dre.
Not a popular opinion, but do you know the REAL reason of the Rodney king beating? A black feminist activist on the city council banned the police from using humane techniques like wrestling suspects and forcefully putting their hands behind their backs. No joke. That's why the cops won the first trial. They literally weren't allowed to do anything other than hit him, ask him to comply, and hit him again when he didn't.
They also had 100% perfect proof that if you DID comply, you didn't get hit at all (the other passenger, who cooperated and was arrested without incident).
Even in the highly politicized second trial after the riots, only one guy that actually hit him got convicted. They frame by framed it and only found 3 strikes (by one officer) that were against policy (these were the 3 headshots). They also put the Sergeant in prison because he was present when these 3 shots landed.
Who would have thought that insane policies would have insane results?
You've got to keep in mind, if you honestly believe that a 120lb female is as useful in subduing a 250lb man as another man is, then all this manly wrestling stuff is just worthless macho bullshit.