scaredsblood

I don't know how to express in words what this movie is "about" because it is about A LOT of different things. It's about the world, it's about life as an adult, it's about marriage and love; it's a story that is prime example of Murphy's Law.

It's life itself shown in an entertaining way with at times very funny and shocking moments. It's "moving" art in a very abstract way (not Kubrick abstract, more of a Shakespearean irony).

This (after 1 viewing) has become one of my favorite movies of the year because of how different it was.

A good movie that's hard to summarize yet I get exactly what it's about, that's one of those movies where you don't mind talking about it with friends later (you may not want to watch this with your significant other) or just chatting online about it.

I could actually see this being done as a Foreign film so it's surprising that this isn't a Foreign film (although now i am going to see where the screenplay came from). It had that story that we neglect these days in our films.

Honestly I can go on and on about the things in this film that just were fantastic but I'd be saying things vaguely because I just don't want to ruin the film for anyone.

This is a movie meant to challenge your way of thinking; yes it is very funny at times but it does a lot of things very clever and if you just pay attention to the surface story you will miss a lot of these things that impressed me so so much.

It's one of the best B movies / Indie films you will ever see

This isn't just about NWA and it's Members and their lives.

This is about everything America is, everything America can be and everything America was. For that I give this movie a 9/10 because if it were just a movie about NWA like a VH-1 "Where are they Now" well, I would've hated it.

At the core of this Movie is something special. I'm sure people want to focus on the language but it wasn't nearly as graphic as I thought it would be and in fact as the Movie progresses and as we see the Members become more Mature the Language and the Violence lessens and lessens. The language wasn't half as bad as what some folks have written and I wonder if they actually watched the movie or if they watched the first 30minutes and said "Well there's a lot of potty mouths in this movie". I've watched movies that were popular and have had dramatically less foul language than this.

I'm saying that the language as a negative is pretty much bullshit. There wasn't really that much bad language and a lot of scenes it was quite the opposite, probably 80% of the movie has nothing to do with being "Gangster" or really anything to do with anything illegal.

What this movie shows are people with a dream trying to rise out of the social accepted "norm" set for them. It's not just about the movie tackling social-political issues but at the core it's about people, people just like me, just like you, just like anyone who wants to be better than just "Surviving", or "Getting by".

It is at it's very core a success story about the American Dream and it doesn't matter the setting or the race of people or anything of that nature. It's about these people struggling to find what all of us are motivated by and what this Country was founded on and how they pressed the times to change and by doing that created a path for them and others who are ambitious enough to try.

I can't say enough about the movie and it's positives FAR outweigh it's negatives (at least anyone willing to look at this for what it is and not what they WANT it to be).

I could write more about everything it did right and it did almost everything right, it is as close to perfect as it could be.

Now for the negatives, very few (hence the 9/10) the only 2 negatives I really have are: Pacing and some of the Characters got lost.

Even though the movie was about 2 hours and some change it didn't really lag at any point, it was very fast and went straight to major events in each characters lives. Some Characters (Dre/E/Cube) had more events of interest and so they got more time but it makes sense because honestly if you know NWA then you know it was those 3 who were the most interesting but having said that, to be unbiased I have to say that Ren (who had some notable scenes and story) got lost as well as Yella and even though DOC wasn't in NWA he was in the Movie and was a bigger deal to the group then the 2-3 scenes we saw him in. Also those 3 had very little speaking lines and felt more like a glorified extra's.

That's fine though because like I said; Cube/Dre/E were the 3 people that were the most interesting and so because of that I only took a few pts off for that but still an overwhelmingly GREAT FILM.

If you have an open-mind, a decent brain and want to see a movie that can inspire as well as provide GREAT ENTERTAINMENT; then I highly recommend this because this movie IS the American DREAM come TRUE and not something from the 1920s either; literally we get to see how people turn nothing into something of legend.

Anyone who doesn't "get" this movie is doing so because they have their own biased to deal with.