Slept on Cinema

If you know me, you know I am not a fan of animated movies, although I still want to see Toy Story 3, AND Princess and the Frog was pretty BAWSE but besides the point I really just dont do animated movies. I don't care how cool it looks, or how cute the story is, unless I have nowhere else to go and nothing else to do, I will not watch an animated movie. Well sunday morning I had nowhere else to go and nothing to do so I watched Up. First off it starts as a TOTAL DOWNER. Killing off the wife right off the top of the movie!? How Disney of you! Anyways to make a long story short the movie Up is one of the most touching movies I have watched ever. I was really into this movie, it was great. And the only reason I titled this "Slept on Cinema" was because I was the one who slept on this movie. Even if your not a fan of animated films this movie was freaking amazing, you should watch it. The end.

Kiss My Converse

**First off hey, how YOU doin? I havent blogged in a bit, really didnt feel like it, its like that sometimes. Happy december. On with the blog post**
Randomly a few moments ago I thought "What happened to the supposed remake of Barry Gordy's The Last Dragon" well after a little bit of digging, and I do mean a little, I have not found anything. But I would like to share on who I think should be cast in the movie:
Leroy Green: Originally played by Taimak I think Leroy should be Chris Brown, I am not the only one, RZA has also stated that Chris would make a good Leroy. I also think Taylor Lautner would make a good Leroy too, sure Taylor is not black but Taimak was kinda racially ambiguous as I feel like Taylor is.




Laura Charles: Laura the host of the video dancing show "7th Heaven" was orginally played by former "nasty girl" Vanity. I think this role should go sort of a singer-sort of an actress-kinda model-diddy's china doll Cassie. Some people are saying the role should go to Rihanna, I vote no. Especially since it seems Chris is a shoe in for Leroy, that's just awkward.


Shonuff the Shogun of Harlem: The role of Shonuff was masterfully portrayed by Julius Carry (RIP) and Samuel L Jackson has already been confirmed to play Shonuff. THIS IS BRILLIANT! I could not have cast this part better myself! Although Busta Rhymes would have a genius fit as well as he displayed in his "Dangerous" video.



Eddie Arkadian: Eddie Arkadian was the bad guy who had a lot of money from peddling arcade gear and just wanted to put his girlfriend on the billboard charts...it didnt work. Originally played by some dude named Christopher Murney, I think Danny Devito would fit the bill and build of this character.


Angela Virraco: Angela was Eddie's girl, sweet and naive all she wanted was to be a pop star. This was played by Faith Prince, for this role, I dont know...maybe...Lady Gaga? Or prolly Kellie Pickler?




All the other parts are minor roles and can be filled with whomever. I really do hope this film is made soon. I wonder which one will come first. The remake of this movie or Dr Dre's "Detox" its almost like asking how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop. The world may never know.

Slept On Cinema: The Five Heartbeats

My bestie since middle school recently got back in touch with me through facebook and this makes me very happy. Back in middle school we used to talk about this movie The Five Heartbeats all the time which inspired me to write this blog. The Five Heartbeats is one of my favorite movies of all time! Seriously. The movie is about a fictional group based on several artists from the 50s and 60s. The movie takes us through the journey of the group over a few decades. Although marked as a "musical drama" they movie was directed by Robert Townsend and Co written by Kenan Ivory Wayans, both whom are comedians. Either way if you have not seen this movie, you have not lived. And if you don't get goosebumps from the second half of this upcoming video....you don't have a pulse!
This is pretty much the best scene of the movie, observe:

This is one of the saddest yet funniest parts of the movie. This is me and Quana's (middle school bestie) favorite part!

And another awesome scene.

The Oscars could be getting a Hangover

Saw this piece over on Fox News where "we report, you decide." about how "The Hangover" could be Oscar worthy. I say YES. Because the Oscar's had changed the rules a bit where there can 10 movies in the running of Best Picture instead of the usual 5. Check out the story here

Obsessions are healthy

So this weekend I rented some movies cause since I have like this membership thing at Hollywood video I can take out up to 3 movies at a time for as long as I want for $25 a month, I figure, not too bad. So last week I rented Milk and Zack and Miri Make A Porno, I thoroughly enjoyed them both. This week I rented Pinapple Express (which ive seen before) and The Wackness which ive heard a lot about. Which brings me to this week's obsession...

Yeah Josh Peck, yeah the "chubby kid" from Drake and Josh. I mean all the girlies were gawking over Drake, I've always been a Josh girl. Also he's grown up to be frigin hawt. And in The Wackness he is too cute. The movie takes place in the summer of '94 the year that hip-hop was at its absolute finest, like hip-hop climaxed in '94. Josh plays the character Luke Shapiro and recent high school graduate who smokes and sells pot to help his family from getting evicted, befriends his client whom is a psychiatrist but whacked out of his own mind and falls for the psychiatrist's step-daughter. Its a cool movie, you should check it out. Anyways yeah Josh it too cute. The end.

Today is a great day for Music

That's right kids. I have not been excited about a tuesday...possibly ever. So for starters my new obsession Chester French's long awaited debut album Love the Future is being released today. Because I have pre-ordered it, I already I gots that joint in the iPodage. Can't wait to go home and give it a good listen. I will give my critique sometime in the near future.



Second up we have the living legends Depeche Mode with Sounds of the Universe so excited to go to my local record store conglomerate aka FYE and cop that.

Also the DVD release of Notorious is today as well.


AANND a new Kid Cudi mixtape has been released.

Today is a GREAT day for music.

And im done

Movie Review

On friday Beth and I went to go see "Observe and Report". I wanted to see it cause I am a Seth Rogen fan and I try to see all the stuff he's in cause he's awesome. Yes I would smash, moving on. So going in to it I thought it was just going to be a funny movie about a mall cop.Like Paul Blart but waaay funnier cause it is Seth. Well it was way more than I expected it to be. I dont want to give it away but it turned out to be a dark comedy which I had no idea it was a dark comedy. The way it was promoted on tv was like this bumbling mall cop is in love with this 'hot girl' and all the mischief he gets into to win her heart. That's not what the movie is about at all. Later on this week im going to go see is again. I enjoyed it that much, I suggest you do the same.
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Blade is going to be The Godfather of Soul?

Mmmm nothing like some armpit hair in the morning eh?
Ummm yeah. So apparently Wesley "Taxes? What Taxes!?" Snipes will take on the role of the late great James Brown in biopic directed by Spike Lee. But to alleviate some of our pain Wesley will not sing. “I want to hear James Brown’s voice. That’s just my personal taste,” Lee told MTV News. “I know Joaquin Phoenix in ‘Walk the Line’, he did some of the singing. I’m a purist.”
. I dont know what to think of Wesley playing James Brown. I dont know who else could play him though. I mean my mind automatically goes to Samuel L Jackson, cause well I that's just how my mind works.

Why!!???

Why was Paul Blart: Mall Cop. number 1 at the theaters this weekend!? Really! Really? I just wanted to say that I really. REally!?

No-No-No-Notorious

So this weekend my brother and I plus pretty much all the ghettos across the nation went to go see "Notorious" the Biggie Smalls biopic. I thought it was a good movie. I mean hip-hop heads already know about the life of Biggie so pretty much anything they were going to put in the movie was no surprise. However I thought it was very well put together. Gravy played Big very well. It depicted Biggie as a really sweet guy who really loved his mother and just wanted to do good. He was funny and charismatic, the chicks like really loved and I could see why. I honestly have a posthumous crush on biggie, kind of weird, kind of well... weird. I don't know what Lil Kim was biatching about. I dont think she was depicted badly at all, I think she was depicted as well Lil Kim. She seemed sort of innocent enough till big told her to up the sex appeal thus creating the Lil Kim we came to know. You kind of felt bad for her cause she really loved big but she really couldnt have him like she wanted. At the end before his death it seemed big was really getting his stuff together. He wanted his kids to come out to Cali to visit him, he wanted to sit down and talk to Kim and end all the drama, he was really coming into his own. As we all know some douche decided to end all of that. And for what!? Anyways all in all I enjoyed it. It was soo funny cause the hood was all up in that theatre. Anytime a song came on everybody was singing along, and nobody got shot! Even though one dude in the front kept gettin really loud, but it was beautiful though. Notorious we are we are, notorious, he is he is.

Notorious

So Notorious comes out next week and I am so stocked about it. People want to gripe about who's playing who and what not, I say just bask in the fact that this movie was made. MTV posted a clip from the movie when Diddy had to tell Big that he got fired from Uptown Records for being...well he got fired for being Diddy(of Puffy at the time). Gravy the up and coming rapper who plays Big believes it was this event that made big write "Everyday Struggle" which is my personal favorite Biggy song. Here is the clip:

Jungle (crackhead) Fever.

So I stumbled upon Jungle Fever about halfway through yesterday. For those that don't know about Jungle Fever the movie, first, go to the corner, sit indian style facing me, and listen. It is a Spike Lee Joint (so you know its kinda wacked out)and about a black dude played Wesley "taxes what taxes?" Snipes having an extramarital and interacial affair with an italian woman and the craziness that ensues. A side story is Wesley's brother played expertly by Samuel L "snakes on a plane" Jackson is a crackhead. So the clip I will post at the end is titled "Gator's last dance" where..well you'll have to see it for yourself. Anyways, nowadays I don't think the content of Jungle Fever is so adamant today, at least i'd like to think so. Sure some people have the thoughts in their heads and conversations in their living rooms amongst their peers that took place in the movie, but speaking and acting out on interracial dating is so old. I mean come on already it's 2-00-9. Or maybe I am naive and interracial coupling still bother people, either way, sorry for ya, get over it, we're all the same color on the inside (eww but true). Alright enough with me trying to sound intelligent here is the clip that Sammy should have gotten an Oscar for.


PS: Stevie Wonder did the whole soundtrack and many of his songs were used throughout the movie brilliantly in my opinion, check out the song "Feeding off the Love of the Land" performed by Stevie, one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard.

Industry, Charity, Faith Jammie

When it comes to movies I only like a few kinds: Gangsta movies,spike lee movies, comedies and musicals(but im very picky on that one). So im not into romantic comedies unless they are the only thing on cable at that moment, and chick flicks. Sometimes however there are just movies that just grab you. Maybe cause you used to watch it all the time as a kid so it holds a special place in your heart. That is the case with Beaches. This movie along with Steel Magnolias are like the ultimate chick flicks. Maybe I liked Beaches so much cause it had music in it, eh I dont know.Bette is bad ass biotch, definite GC. Anyways here is one of my favorite parts from the movie "Oh Industry"

When You Got That Glow

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So apparently hollywood continuously runs out of original ideas and keep re-making movies. This time they are looking to re-make the amazingly-bad 80's kung fu classic "Barry Gordy's The Last Dragon"
Premise:A black kid by the name of Leroy Green Jr is an up and coming super martial arts dude who is obsessed with Bruce Lee and wants to find "The Glow" along the way he has villans like some video dude and of course Sho-Nuff the sho gun of HArlem. Then of couse there's a chick. You know what just watch the movie! Anyways so yeah hollywood plans on remaking that. The only good point to this is that they tapped Samuel L Jackson to play Sho-Nuff! I mean I think Sammie was born and bred to play Sho-Nuff, his whole career has been leading up to this paticular role. If he does not win an Oscar for his performance as Sho-Nuff the Sho Gun of Harlem World I I I just dont know what im going to do. Im going to pull a "Do the Right Thing" move and throw a trashcan into a pizzaria, real talk son.
And I bid you Ado with a montage of sho-nuff.

Movies I wanna see

"Zach and Miri Make A Porno" Starring Seth Rogen and some chick who I think was the really freaky lady from 40 Year Old Virgin, who worked in the bookstore, but I could be wrong. So the set up goes like this Zach and Miri have been besties since high school and they are also roomates. They have fallin upon hard times and had the brilliant idea of making an "adult film feature", from then im quite sure hilarity ensues. This is Seth's first non-appatow film. It is being directed by KEVIN SMITH! YES (Clerks, Mallrats, Jay and Silent Bob Strikes Back etc.) Looking at the trailer it just looks like a lot of people who have been in Apatow films and a lot of people that have been in Smith films just came together, hey no complaints from me! It comes next friday which is Halloween, I probably wont catch it that night or maybe I should go to the movies dressed in my nun costume, yeah that sounds cool
Trailer: