![]() In retrospect this form of direction aided in my bond with other aspects of the film, acting as the connective tissue between me and the characters on screen. When comparing this to a movie like “Boyz n the Hood”, which while “fiction”, portrays an honest and personal look into the streets of Los Angeles during a similar time frame, I can safely say that I remember finding myself absolutely immersed in John Singleton’s depiction of said setting to the point where by the end I felt as if I knew the neighborhood without even setting foot in the neighborhood. Not to say that there aren’t guns in this movie (or drugs or police brutality for that matter) but the fact that “Straight Outta Compton” looks so cinematic is an issue. album is one carries a gritty, raw authenticity, and the other stars Paul Giamatti. Here’s the problem: The difference between “Straight Outta Compton” and an actual N.W.A. But it was the acting which was undoubtedly the stand-out aspect of this movie, highlighted by a performance from Ice Cube’s own son, O’Shea Jackson Jr., who, in his first ever acting gig, hits it out of the park playing his father. There were a few sequences that made me lean forward in my seat (The live performance of “F- the Police”, for one) and the script itself from Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff (World Trade Center) does its job even going above and beyond at times, inserting a few “audience winks” throughout (I mean, there’s even a “bye Felicia” joke thrown into the mix). Gary Gray (Friday, Set It Off) seems to choose over subtlety more often than not. ![]() Problem is (much like that last sentence) the movie is just too damn long! And once Eazy-E starts coughing, the whole thing turns into an after school special, primarily due to an overarching repetitive atmosphere which director F. Kicking off on the streets of Compton, California 1986 and documenting the groups rise as the pioneers of “gangsta rap”, their tumultuous break up, allegedly due to underhanded management from Jerry Heller (Paul Giamatti) and introducing branches of rap legends which expanded from the N.W.A. Dre, Ice Cube, Eazy-E, MC Ren, Dj Yella). “Straight Outta Compton” tells the story of revolutionary rap group, N.W.A. If you’re interested, then this movie will be interesting at least for a while (more or less the first 90 minutes of this 2 ½ hour bio-“epic”. It’s Ice Cube who may have the film’s most overtly sexist moment, shoving a nearly naked woman out of a hotel room and quipping, “Bye, Felicia”-an improvised nod to the Friday line that became an Internet meme, but, as Vulture points out, an uncomfortable bit of misogyny that’s intended as a laugh line.Rated R for language throughout, strong sexuality/nudity, violence, and drug use Dre has trouble with the mother of his child, and is shown leading Los Angeles cops on a high-speed chase, but is also the right-minded crusader against his Death Row Records partner Suge Knight, trying to shut down dog fights and get back to work. ![]() That lack of detail has done little to soften a comment about Barnes-whom he attacked at a party-to Rolling Stone in 1991: “It ain’t no big thing-I just threw her through a door.” The film’s version of Dr. Dre has been open in recent interviews about what he’s called “fucking horrible mistakes in my life” but he hasn’t gone into specifics. Dre’s ex-fiancée, the R&B singer Michel’le, who said in another recent interview that she was left out of the film because, “I was just a quiet girlfriend who got beat up and told to sit down and shut up.”ĭr. There are a lot of women along the fringes of Straight Outta Compton-mothers encouraging their sons to make something of themselves, wives and ex-wives and baby mamas lending support and/or criticism, and-especially-women in bikinis, thongs, or nothing at all, background decoration at N.W.A.’s many wild parties.Ībsent from the film are the women who have accused members of the group of abuse-including Dee Barnes, who on Tuesday wrote about her experience for Gawker, and Dr.
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