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Straight out of Compton- A suburanites Review
With biographies the risk is often run of makeing a legend out of the subject or else of failing entirely to convey the importance of what they were doing. Not so with Gary Gray's piece. Dare I say this is one of the few films based on true events that reveals it's subject's warts and all.
rating 4/5 I liked it
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What if "It's Raining Men" and 'Let the bodies hit the floor' are both about the same event but from different perspectives 🤔
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Indeed, saw it a few weeks ago when I was Stateside, well worth the ticket.
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It's a good film and I'm glad I watched it as Straight Outta Compton is one of my all time favourite albums. But "warts and all" is very far from the truth, there isn't a single mention of Deep Barnes (even though F. Gary Grey was her camera man on Pump It Up!), Dre's former partner partner or why she really left him.Originally Posted by Cassandra
Not to mention how he really left Death Row. At most Straight Outta Compton is a very biased sugary version of what happened.
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the story of hip hops rise is that of one thing. The story of black women whilst important goes back further and with no disrespect to Dee Barnes given the M.O of rap groups such as N.W.A what sort f representation did she expect? That's an entirely different story which deserves it's pwn telling and if she was on her grind top get it told instead of just riding this films' coat tails I'd have so much more repect for her.
What if "It's Raining Men" and 'Let the bodies hit the floor' are both about the same event but from different perspectives 🤔
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the death row thing could make a film in its own right
there has been a few books released about it
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the warts where well hidden
there is plenty missing from it
2pac didnt do California love until 96 but the film says 94
also there was domestic voilance /general voilance that was left out
the chronic wasnt even mentioned
the doc wasnt mentioned
it was good but the was alot missing form it
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