The Reason that "Ali" was a boring ass mess was becuz of Will Smith

[The Devil's Advocate]

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/mar/09/news.spikelee



http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0058720/



Will has stated that he picks movies off of a formula that seeks mainstream success, going with someone that wouldn't make a controversial film with racial elements fit that formula.

If Spike said he would add explosions and aliens and shyt he would've been selected

didn't will get nominated for an oscar for this shyt too?

i'm thinking will doesn't give any fukks about the movies he makes... just the money and numbers it puts up

 

[StraxStrax]

Best biopic acting ever
OP is a troll

 

[GunRanger]

Honestly mann is a great director but his filmography is hit or miss.


My problem with ali is the same problem i have with miami vice and public enemies. They have such a strange narrative choice and ultimately feel like collections of scenes instead of a fluid movie

Public Enemies is great. It's a Western in a gangster setting. The outlaw driven out by technology and civilization.


I love that isn't a-b-c in terms of plot of progression. I love movies that wander a bit, and let you just take in the setting, and characters.

U right. Just looked it up, they didn't surpass the budget

It was too black for whites, and the movie was killed by the competition. They should have released it in November or October. It had no chance against Lord of The Rings, Ocean's 11, Vanilla Sky, and then A Beautiful Mind.

 

[Jello Biafra]

I never got the praise heaped on Smith for this role. He was basically doing a bad Ali impression instead of actually acting. shyt was cringe worthy to watch.

 

[pete clemenza]

When you think about it Ali should've been a classic. There's never ever a discussion, a thread, or even a good memory about this film whatsoever. Damn shame

 

[ML29]

Spike been wack. I Dont blame Will...

The time period where "Ali" came out was still when Spike was still putting out good films tho.

 

[Danie84]

I didn't know Spike was slated to be the director

...but, I actually liked the bio-pic

 

[kp404]

Lemme quote myself



Will really didn't want Spike to direct it but wanted sum garbage cac to do it. And imo it turned out being boring and wack as fukk. I've given Will a side eye ever since for that shyt

truth. I've said this numerous times on this site, but Michael mann was the wrong fukking decision to handle this material...it was a mediocre film because of Mann. Period.

 

[BlackMajik]

The only controversial shyt Will has done in his career is playing a faq

Think about that. And he doesn't even wanna come close to offending cacs smh

And Will also thought it would be a great idea for M Night Shakalakalaka to direct After Earth fukk Will

 

[kp404]

The only controversial shyt Will has done in his career is playing a faq

Think about that. And he doesn't even wanna come close to offending cacs smh

And Will also thought it would be a great idea for M Night Shakalakalaka to direct After Earth fukk Will

yea. Dude is an amazing actor in terms of skills, but has a very bytchass personality...he's always in movies chasing white women or aliens...that's it. I'm not counting that seven pounds garbage or that fake ass Pursuit of Happyness mess...he has more money than he will ever need, so he should do movies that challenge him as an actor

 

[BlackMajik]

yea. Dude is an amazing actor in terms of skills, but has a very bytchass personality...he's always in movies chasing white women or aliens...that's it. I'm not counting that seven pounds garbage or that fake ass Pursuit of Happyness mess...he has more money than he will ever need, so he should do movies that challenge him as an actor

He needs to just give up on The Last Pharoah and let another actor do that. Knowing Will he would pick a cac to fukk up the direction of the film smh

 

[BlackMajik]

Ali by the numbers

Budget- $107 Million
Box Office- $87 Million

FAILURE

 

[ML29]

The only controversial shyt Will has done in his career is playing a faq

Think about that. And he doesn't even wanna come close to offending cacs smh

And Will also thought it would be a great idea for M Night Shakalakalaka to direct After Earth fukk Will

and that was his 1st big serious film role. Which was the only reason he took that risk.

 

[Jazzy B.]

The only controversial shyt Will has done in his career is playing a faq

Think about that. And he doesn't even wanna come close to offending cacs smh

And Will also thought it would be a great idea for M Night Shakalakalaka to direct After Earth fukk Will

Don't get it twisted, After Earth was all Will Smith®. M. Night was just there to be the scapegoat in the possible event of things going wrong commercially and critically.

 

[spliz]

Honestly I ALWAYS felt this movie was "off"..didnt even seem to capture the time frame right and I dont even think they used alotta music from that time frame either which made it even more dull..