Straight Outta Compton is a classic movie

[valet]

Just saw the movie...I give a 7/10 (some of the scenes were not factual)...some notes:

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Spoiler: Movie Notes

I loved the opening scene with Eazy. Straight 80's Compton life. Swat teams, battering rams, drug deals gone bad. Crazy shyt.

When MC Ren was introduced they said he was Kelley Park Crip.

The scene with OG Two-Tone from Crenshaw Mafia was crazy. Some of that probably happened back then.

Seems like Lonzo only respected Eazy, treated Dre and Cube like they were kids.

DJ Yella was funny in every scene he was in.

Speaking of that, not enough MC Ren in the movie.

Eazy knew Suge? When they introduced Suge's character, Eazy mentioned Suge being in Vegas...

The part with Felicia's boyfriend was hilarious (Bye Felica).

The crying scene when Dre's brother died looked fake as hell. They should have re-did that part.

They only mentioned Above the Law and Bone Thugs a couple of times each.

They showed MC Ren dissing Cube on Real nikkaz (an underrated diss imo). But the no Vaseline part was funny. They had Ren looking mad as fukk.

I don't see how they could make this movie without showing Dre Day and Real Muthaphukkin' G'z. Didn't hear either song in the movie.

I like how they showed Ruthless goons beating down Ice Cube. I should have had Above the Law in that scene. They were the ones that had Cube running.

Jerry Heller mentioned in an interview earlier this year that Eazy told him that he was going to kill Suge. They had that scene in there.

I liked how they had Eazys Samoan bodyguards towards at the end of the movie.

They showed New York giving love to Eazy in the club. I always read and heard that New York loved Eazy (even though Tim Dog made the fukk Compton song).

The whole Tupac shyt was out of place. They fukked up the timeline. Tupac wasn't on DeathRow while Eazy was alive. They had him recording Hail Mary and California love. That didn't happen until 1996. Eazy died in 1995.

They was showing Dre as being some tough guy. Breaking up DeathRow fights and punching Suge's goons. From everything I read he was always in the corner being still, keeping quiet and staying out of shyt. I don't think he ever did anything to stop the beatdowns.

I don't like how they showed Eazy and Ruthless as broke...Ruthless was still relevant with Bone Thugs coming out and Eazy had just went triple platinum. MC Ren went Platinum and Above the Law went gold. On top of that he was still getting money from DeathRow.

They showed Tomica Wright as some good business woman...she wasn't (hence why Ruthless isn't around anymore). Ask any of the Bone Thugs members what they think about Tomica.

Eazy wasn't no crying type of dude. lol@him choking up at seeing billboards of Tha Chronic. He was making money off that record.

I liked the end of the movie, showing some interviews and music videos from NWA.

From an entertainment point of view, I liked it. But I'm 38...I remember reading interviews in all the rap magazines so I know some of this shyt just wasn't factual. If you don't know the actual history behind all of it, you are probably going to enjoy the film a lot more. I think this movie will do numbers since the general public don't know most of the facts.

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Spoiler

Yep, this is a dope movie but I agree. They shoulda had Eazy die. Then do the part with Pac, and him leaving Aftermath. Then the timeline would fit. My main issue was the way D.O.C. was done. You could easily gave him a little more then this niguh getting into a car accident as the main point. Unbelievable how they underused Ren. I honestly thought they would underuse DJ Yella more. Niguhs was clapping at our theatre with Cube did "No Vasoline".

This was way to Dre centered though. They showed Eazy's flaws which is fine. But they way underplayed Dre's flaws. They could have least shown Dee Barnes. But on the positve, even though dude didn't sound like Eazy to me. He certainly had the swagga of Eazy, sense of humor of Eazy. They could have def. highlighted the positives of NWA post Cube leaving. How can you leave "Automobile", give Ren some shine with "Just Don't Bite". People, teens would be laughing at the silly side of NWA. Cube son didn't have the "bark" of Cube but he was good enough. Especially with him looking like "Boyz in the Hood" Cube. I wonder though was Cube really writing "Friday" that early as the film claims. But again, it's a dope film. But like Marvel nerds are with "superhero" movie being accurate. I couldn't help but feel the same watching this.

 

[Vandelay]

he looked just like Kurupt.. but remember Snoop came in the game without the long hair but still.. I was expecting Kurupt and I was waiting on a Warren G/Nate Dogg appearance as well..

The timelines were starting to screw up by then, I thought that was Dogg Pound being introduced. I was like, "Well, they got Kurupt right but screwed up Daz." Then they were like this Snoop...

Lol

 

[TEKBEATZ]

@hexagram23 can we get this stickied since its the movie of the weekend? I'm surprised in a pro black outfit like this one that no one asked for it to be there

I will do it

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

I will do it

 

[SAJ!!]

I'm seeing it over the weekend.

 

[valet]

After watching this movie, I def. see how much Eminem is influenced by N.W.A. The shock rap, especially Eazy and the crazy stuff he said. Is a direct influence on early Em.

 

[jaguar paw]

The timelines were starting to screw up by then, I thought that was Dogg Pound being introduced. I was like, "Well, they Kurupt right but screwed up Daz." Then they were like this Snoop...

Lol

They could've gotten Wiz to play Snoop a few years ago. Not anymore tho lol.

 

[Skooby]

Spoiler

Yep, this is a dope movie but I agree. They shoulda had Eazy die. Then do the part with Pac, and him leaving Aftermath. Then the timeline would fit. My main issue was the way D.O.C. was done. You could easily gave him a little more then this niguh getting into a car accident as the main point. Unbelievable how they underused Ren. I honestly thought they would underuse DJ Yella more. Niguhs was clapping at our theatre with Cube did "No Vasoline".

This was way to Dre centered though. They showed Eazy's flaws which is fine. But they way underplayed Dre's flaws. They could have least shown Dee Barnes. But on the positve, even though dude didn't sound like Eazy to me. He certainly had the swagga of Eazy, sense of humor of Eazy. They could have def. highlighted the positives of NWA post Cube leaving. How can you leave "Automobile", give Ren some shine with "Just Don't Bite". People, teens would be laughing at the silly side of NWA. Cube son didn't have the "bark" of Cube but he was good enough. Especially with him looking like "Boyz in the Hood" Cube. I wonder though was Cube really writing "Friday" that early as the film claims. But again, it's a dope film. But like Marvel nerds are with "superhero" movie being accurate. I couldn't help but feel the same watching this.

Yeah I'm like the Marvel nerds lol. Since I know all the little intricate details it's keeping me from enjoying it all the way.

 

[Skooby]

yeah movie was dope to me. Maybe best biopic ive seen. But Dre was a world class boxer in this movie every time he punched someone 1 time they got dropped also pushed dude in the hotel after he showed him the gun then he just stood outside the hotel room also the last scene looked like

but those the only knocks on the movie, other than that movie was great


also I thought bone thugs was in the movie ? people said they was in the previews.. but all I seen in the movie was the demo tape

Didn't see Bone Thugs. They were mentioned twice, both by Yella I think about their new upcoming album.

 

[OmegaK2099]

The first half of the movie is AMAZING and it looked like we were headed for a classic biopic then it turned into a complete clusterfukk and fell off a cliff around the time NWA broke up.......and the Death Row era started.

I'm honestly disappointed because the first half of the movie really was that good.....it showed what made NWA revolutionary.....then it's like the movie gets too ambitious and forgets what story it wants to tell.

The era between 92-95 (and 96) is just completely blurred.....it's just all over the place.

Straight Outta Compton felt like the epitome of the phrase, "History is written by the victors." as opposed to the raw truth.....You can feel the guiding hands of it's executive producers, Dre, Ice Cube, Tamika Wright......it paints them in the best light but not the way that would make for the best story......meanwhile they completely assassinated Suge's character (made him look worse off while not taking the time to address many of their own flaws....I left the theater feeling bad for Suge, thinking he had every right to approach them for how they portrayed him in this movie)

There's too much omitted for what they tried to make it be....If they wanted to cover this much maybe they should have done a 4 part HBO special or some shyt.

There were scenes in this movie that weren't necessary to their story at all.

Ending was cheesy as fukk, typical Hollywood end for an unconventional rap group....

I can gather my thoughts a little better on this tomorrow.

this is null

 

[B. Pumpaveli]

Dre walks in while Pac was recording Hail mary and then cuts on California love for 2pac to spit to

but Dre hears so much commotion going on in the studio lobby that he goes and tells Suge and everyone to STFU

But Hail Mary was done way after California Love

 

[Houston911]

Instant classic

 

[OmegaK2099]

Anyway I just saw it, reminded me of a better time, at least the characters actually looked like who they were portraying unlike the biggie flick, i had to take a piss after cube ended that interview with the jew journalist, i walked in when 2 pac was doing hail mary, did i miss any good scenes? i was thinking that probably jerry heller got caught for something because when easy goes to see him one last time hes all "Im sorry about the groupie", 'Tomika? naw its alright....'

LOL@ the bye felicia part

shyt ended like the equivalent of batman begins when suge asks "what you gonna call that weak shyt?" "Aftermath."

 

[Skooby]

I always thought Eazy being sick came out the blue.

It did. At least the AIDS part. There were people who remember him coughing a lot though.

They all thought he had asthma or something. No one figured he would die or anything.

 

[OmegaK2099]

suges dumbass getting arrested for killing people over verbal arguments now