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I’ll watch it but this seems to be full with surface level white vs black jokes
Seems like the perfect time for a movie about whose had it worse? Blacks or Jews? 
I wonder if Kenya added some Kanye jokes post production
I wonder if Kenya added some Kanye jokes post production
You’d think with the cast this would be great
But these trailers just ain’t HITTIN like that
But these trailers just ain’t HITTIN like that
Fanservice
Bih call me senpai
desjardins
Veteran
Looks trash, subject matter is just boring to me at this point
Saw this yesterday in theaters
it's really good, yes, it goes down very familiar and well worn romantic comedy tropes, but it's often very funny, and smarter than a lot of similar movies, and a lot sharper
again, the audience of about 8 people rarely laughed. There were several assumedly Jewish couples, but I can see where they wouldn't laugh, they were too old, and it's a hip hop movie, at it's heart. I don't get seeing this and not laughing, I can be a harsh critic, and I can say it was often really funny. But, lot of the jokes are just timely and insider rap references, so it's just fun to see that on the screen sometimes, and maybe people missed that. Would be a pretty dull experience to see this and miss 70% of the jokes.
Probably plays a little too broad, and there's a missed opportunity or two, to cut a little deeper, but it really worked for me. Eddie Murphy was just stealing every scene, effortlessly. Loved his performance. His acting was really impressive.
Yes, the courtship is rushed, and you never truly see real chemistry between London and Hill, the movie plays this fast and loose, because it's less of a romance, and more of a set piece for some conversations about identity and race, racism. Murphy gives a hilarious, tightly wound performance, and delivers every line as either hilarious/true/uncomfortable, and often all three.
From within realistic expectations of this movie, and Kenya Barris, he's a first time director, as far as movies, right? He did a great job, but you can tell he came from TV, everything just moves, quickly, and it has all the standard sitcom scenes
If there was a missed opportunity, I would say look at WHY was Jonah Hill's character so able to love and dissect rap, but have this disconnect from other elements of black culture? And WHY that would lead to conflict with Murphy's character. Expanding on this, how maybe Drake, Future, Meek Mill are a a part of black culture, but would stand kind of opposed or conflicted with like a James Baldwin, or the kind of Panther militancy. How maybe it's easier to understand an artist like Drake and WHY that is, as opposed to others, who takes a lot from black culture, while never veering into the kind of content that Pac excelled in. He plays very much to the suburbs.
Yes, it gets serious and then sappy, and it's all very predictable, but it's a fun movie. Also, a very LA movie, if you know those spots. A scene I liked a lot, though, yes, seen it in a dozen other movies, is the barbershop scene, where Murphy monolouges a prison slippery slope, and ends with Hill saying, "there's a commissary here?", I know that no crips are going to care about a white dude in a red sweatshirt, but it's still a funny scene, which mainly works because of Murphy's conviction in his delivery.
Everyone in cameo and supporting roles was excellent, Mike Epps, Julia Louis Dreyfuss, David Duchovony
it's really good, yes, it goes down very familiar and well worn romantic comedy tropes, but it's often very funny, and smarter than a lot of similar movies, and a lot sharper
again, the audience of about 8 people rarely laughed. There were several assumedly Jewish couples, but I can see where they wouldn't laugh, they were too old, and it's a hip hop movie, at it's heart. I don't get seeing this and not laughing, I can be a harsh critic, and I can say it was often really funny. But, lot of the jokes are just timely and insider rap references, so it's just fun to see that on the screen sometimes, and maybe people missed that. Would be a pretty dull experience to see this and miss 70% of the jokes.
Probably plays a little too broad, and there's a missed opportunity or two, to cut a little deeper, but it really worked for me. Eddie Murphy was just stealing every scene, effortlessly. Loved his performance. His acting was really impressive.
Yes, the courtship is rushed, and you never truly see real chemistry between London and Hill, the movie plays this fast and loose, because it's less of a romance, and more of a set piece for some conversations about identity and race, racism. Murphy gives a hilarious, tightly wound performance, and delivers every line as either hilarious/true/uncomfortable, and often all three.
From within realistic expectations of this movie, and Kenya Barris, he's a first time director, as far as movies, right? He did a great job, but you can tell he came from TV, everything just moves, quickly, and it has all the standard sitcom scenes
If there was a missed opportunity, I would say look at WHY was Jonah Hill's character so able to love and dissect rap, but have this disconnect from other elements of black culture? And WHY that would lead to conflict with Murphy's character. Expanding on this, how maybe Drake, Future, Meek Mill are a a part of black culture, but would stand kind of opposed or conflicted with like a James Baldwin, or the kind of Panther militancy. How maybe it's easier to understand an artist like Drake and WHY that is, as opposed to others, who takes a lot from black culture, while never veering into the kind of content that Pac excelled in. He plays very much to the suburbs.
Yes, it gets serious and then sappy, and it's all very predictable, but it's a fun movie. Also, a very LA movie, if you know those spots. A scene I liked a lot, though, yes, seen it in a dozen other movies, is the barbershop scene, where Murphy monolouges a prison slippery slope, and ends with Hill saying, "there's a commissary here?", I know that no crips are going to care about a white dude in a red sweatshirt, but it's still a funny scene, which mainly works because of Murphy's conviction in his delivery.
Everyone in cameo and supporting roles was excellent, Mike Epps, Julia Louis Dreyfuss, David Duchovony
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OJ Simpsom
Superstar
Classic.
Jonah Hill cant miss.
Eddie killed this shyt.
Nia and Lauren still fine like wine.
Elaine from Seinfeld and Mulder did their thing too
Jonah Hill cant miss.
Eddie killed this shyt.
Nia and Lauren still fine like wine.
Elaine from Seinfeld and Mulder did their thing too
daemonova
hit it, & I didn't go Erykah Badu crazy, #yallmad
Your Friday night movie now on NetflixClassic.
Jonah Hill cant miss.
Eddie killed this shyt.
Nia and Lauren still fine like wine.
Elaine from Seinfeld and Mulder did their thing too.
My New-New starting to get Old-Old and that ass wide for no reason but she still so gorgeous to me.
Like @re'up said it's a fun movie but a lot of missed opportunity to go deeper on certain issues, I can see why they didn't go deeper, it would have turnoff half the ordinance it was going for because that wig snatch and n-word world have got Jew mom stump the fukk out.
Like @re'up said it's a fun movie but a lot of missed opportunity to go deeper on certain issues, I can see why they didn't go deeper, it would have turnoff half the ordinance it was going for because that wig snatch and n-word world have got Jew mom stump the fukk out.
beenz
Rap Guerilla
is this worth watching????
daemonova
hit it, & I didn't go Erykah Badu crazy, #yallmad
It ain't horrible