A heartwarming story about 5 gay men living on the streets of inner city Compton, CA. The year is 1986, the setting is the gang world and the story is courageous. These five young African American men come together through the trials and tribulations of the most dangerous city in America. With only one outlet for homosexual, minorities they start an underground knitting club that catches America by storm! The rest they say, is history! Seriously, this movie was awesome! I read a review the other day from an IMDB member who said it was disgusting, pornographic, and was a false depiction of inner city youth. Not where I'm from yo! The streets of Palmyra taught me the game! The acting was excellent, the cast was outstanding especially Eazy-E and Ice Cube. The story brought back some great memories of discovering this group for the first time in the late 80's and thinking they were the coolest thing ever. I did have a few problems of what the movie left out. The 90's war between Dre and Eazy was huge but in the movie they only touched on it for a few minutes. Also, some of the iconic pictures taken weren't shown when they were getting famous. Lastly, the story kind of left out a lot of the contributions MC Ren and DJ Yella gave to the group. It was a little like the Ice Cube and Eazy story. Apparently the original cut was 3 1/2 hours long so they had to edit some. So far, this is one of my favorites of 2015 and would recommend it to anyone who thought they were a gangster in the 90's. Not naming any names, Mark, Jason, Colby, Zach, Hoser!
FYI: The Jheri Curl wigs used in this film were $15,000 a piece!!!
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I also very much enjoyed this movie. Being a white farm boy, how better to rebel from my parents than inner city gangster rap. My homies from NWA knew just how to relate to me. While I did love, Mark is dead one they left out a lot about Yella and Wren, but one thing that I didn't like was how they kind of made it seem that the rappers were great citizens. I am pretty sure Dre beat up several of his baby mammas, but that was left out, among other things. And Paul Giambati(sp) as Jerry Sailer, dead on, that was fantastic. And Easy E may have put up better numbers than Wilt Chamberlin in the hooking up with ladies department. He is hall of fame for sure.
ReplyDeleteHa! Great response! I agree. It was also great to see Snoop, Warren G, and 2 Pac involved as well. I guess there were a lot of scenes showing them as "Bad Guys" but final editing took it out saying, the audience will get the point. I also heard Dre and Cube say most of their hard image was an act to sell the gangster lifestyle. Probably just dont want their kids to know??
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