Roxanne Roxanne|Roxanne Shante Biopic (starring Mahershala Ali, Nia Long ) (Discussion)

[pickles]

The coli a hip hop forum and nobody watched this movie?




This movie was great.

Nia Long, breh from Moonlight M Ali, ol'girl that plays Shante, cute too ( no pedo).

 

[*Angel*]

Roxanne Roxanne was good. Nia and Chante did a good job. I was side eyeing her mama for giving that man that much money. That was dumb as hell. I really wanted Cross fkd up too. He was entirely too old to be pressed over a 15yr old child the way he was. And her road crew.....smh.....them nikkas. I wanted to see more battles and moments from her career but movie was still decent.
@ lil Nas.

 

[Maxine Shaw]

Agree with the criticisms here. For all the good Roxanne Shante brought to hip-hop, this really could've been any woman's story. Still, it was well-acted, especially Nia. And seeing Nelsan Ellis one last time hurt my heart.

 

[KalKal]

It was dope, but surprised they left so much of her Juice Crew stuff out. Nothing at all on "The Bridge is Over?". According to KRS she ran up on him in the bank one day and cussed him out, leaving him like

Movie ended before she even dropped her first album... weird

Nia Long killed the bitter black woman role

I actually expected that this would be a main focus of the movie. If you think about her age at the time, the line about her is kind of ....

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

I'm gonna watch this later tonight. The Writer/Director, Michael J. Larnell is from The Lou and I've been wanting to see what he does next after seeing 'Cronies'.

We bout to get that Ryan Coogler push.

Cronies was aight

 

[Guvnor]

Cronies was aight

Do you know where I can see that film? Is it on netflix?

 

[FromStLouis]

Cronies was aight

Yeah for being his thesis film, and three guys who never acted before it was a cool slice of life film.

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

Do you know where I can see that film? Is it on netflix?

Was on Netflix when I saw it (I think a year ago) Don't know about now

 

[kareem929]

The ending could’ve been longer... but the surprise at the end!!

 

[FromStLouis]

Great performances, great film and story, with a message to take to heart.

 

[RickyGQ]

I was hoping to see more about how Shante, as a 16 year old girl, may have been the top battle emcee
in NYC in the mid 1980s.

The movie gave no indication on just how big the Roxanne, Roxanne phenomenon was. There
were 25 answer records to UTFO's original song, including Shante's.

How'd she go from Queensbridge to doing a collab with Rick James? (Not in the movie)

Very little focus on the music. It was more like a really low-budget Lifetime movie about
domestic abuse, with my man from Moonlight bringing in the Moonlight ghetto depression
feel.

Classic battle:

Not a single mention of BDP either. I don’t think the words Juice Crew were even mentioned. I would have preferred a movie about that beef instead. It was a cool flick tho, definitely an above average lifetime movie, which is just an average movie.

The kid who played Nas in this movie was supposed to play Nas in the BET movie they announced after the success of the New Edition one. Wonder if it’s still happening.

 

[Atlrocafella]

I enjoyed the movie a lot.

 

[laughslikebig]

I just didn’t see the motivation in a lot of the characters to do anything they did.

U could say her moms pushed her out the house because of her issues after that dude left. But she was already pretty strict prior to him leaving.

Her moms didn’t hit her or do anything abusive really... they showed her drunk sleeping once... that just wasn’t enough to me.

A lot of blank spots and lack of follow up on some things.

Why did this dude just randomly try to rape her??? Then give her 10,000 later!?!?!?!?!

Why was her son 4, and her sisters didn’t age at all...

She just went on one tour? Then retired? (I know this isn’t true).

shyt was choppy and the ending was very abrupt.

Just my take.

No real message to it.

 

[8WON6]

I just didn’t see the motivation in a lot of the characters to do anything they did.

U could say her moms pushed her out the house because of her issues after that dude left. But she was already pretty strict prior to him leaving.

Her moms didn’t hit her or do anything abusive really... they showed her drunk sleeping once... that just wasn’t enough to me.

A lot of blank spots and lack of follow up on some things.

Why did this dude just randomly try to rape her??? Then give her 10,000 later!?!?!?!?!

Why was her son 4, and her sisters didn’t age at all...

She just went on one tour? Then retired? (I know this isn’t true).

shyt was choppy and the ending was very abrupt.

Just my take.

No real message to it.

i liked the movie for the hiphop historical aspects, but i agree with everything here.
And it was funny with the Nas stuff they should have had a moment when he said his name was Nasir where they all just stared into the camera. shyt was so on the nose and corny.

 

[BXKingPin82]

These older brothers dont get their asses kicked enough fukking with these young girls.

Roxanne Roxanne was good. Nia and Chante did a good job. I was side eyeing her mama for giving that man that much money. That was dumb as hell. I really wanted Cross fkd up too. He was entirely too old to be pressed over a 15yr old child the way he was. And her road crew.....smh.....them nikkas. I wanted to see more battles and moments from her career but movie was still decent.
@ lil Nas.

thats the hood kid.
how you think alotta these girls end up alone with a child, kid with no pops?
these older nikkas that aint about shyt, dont do shyt be having these young girls gassed.
shyt happened to my older sister.
these girls dont know no better.

"young bytches with attitudes pushing baby strollers."
-Lil Fame