Straight Outta Compton

[aud19]

Going to give it 6/10.

The beginning was good, some of the touring/media stuff was good but then it seemed to veer off of telling the story of the birth of NWA to selling a brand and it went downhill from there (and ran too long IMO). If they'd not made it so obvious an attempt, this could have easily been an 8+ out of 10 movie.

Even worse was the increasing polishing of the 3 main characters that occurred simultaneous with the downhill story/brand selling. That and Ren and Yella are pretty much foot notes (as well as the secondary characters of family/wives/girlfriends etc feeling like glorified extras). What is there is largely well acted though.

It has it's moments but IMO they dropped the ball on making a more honest, grittier film even if it exposed some warts.

[wkhanna]

thanks Jason.
i will skip this one based on your impressions.

[aud19]

thanks Jason.
i will skip this one based on your impressions.

It's funny, I actually watched this in two parts, the first 30-45 minutes a few nights ago and the rest last night. Based on what I saw the first night, it would have gotten a MUCH better review :lol:

I'd say if you're at all a fan (I grew up with them), it's worth a watch but the further along the movie gets, the further it strays from fact and the less enjoyable it becomes.