| 8-Mile |
| OK, we've all heard it. 8-Mile is good! Eminem can act! But do you really trust whoever told you this? Even if you do, it's hard to just take their word for it. I'm here to clear these confusions up, but then again, I'm just another one of those guys who you're not sure you can trust. From what I could tell, this was a semi-autobiographical movie, which was probably a good choice. This way, the people who have heard Eminem's life story through his song get some new stuff, while the people who don't know anything about Eminem get to see some of what he's about. I'll point out a couple of the small differences: instead of having a baby daughter that he takes care of, Eminem has a baby sister that he takes care of. Instead of hating his mom a lot, he hates his mom a little bit. If I knew more about Eminem, I would be able to pick out some more subtle differences, but since I don't know much about him, for all I know, the rest could be either perfectly true or totally different from his life. Am I convincing you that you should listen to my review yet? First of all, this is cool just for what it is. I find a look into the world of "underground rap", where people constantly freestyle rap fascinating. I'm not sure how accurate this aspect of the movie is, but I wish people had to rap while doing everything. Especially standing in line at the lunch truck. I wonder if there are really people who can freestyle like this. Probably. It's kind of heartbreaking to me. Like when I wanted to break the Guiness record for pushups and then saw that some tool did 46,001 in a day. I then decided to try to memorize pi, but someone memorized that to 40-something thousand digits. Anyway, it is devestating to white people around the world who have ever played around and freestyled something. It puts a serious damper on this kind of exchange, because now we know we have no business trying: barroomhero69th: bitch barroomhero69th: u there still? SexyJoeSutton: yessiree barroomhero69th: can barroomhero69th: you barroomhero69th: please barroomhero69th: bust a freestyle? SexyJoeSutton: my name is joe SexyJoeSutton: I like to take it nice and slow SexyJoeSutton: with my hoe SexyJoeSutton: and then i let her go below SexyJoeSutton: and give me blows SexyJoeSutton: if she say no SexyJoeSutton: i throw SexyJoeSutton: her out the window SexyJoeSutton: word barroomhero69th: awwwwwww SexyJoeSutton: my name is joe SexyJoeSutton: and i like math barroomhero69th: pick it up SexyJoeSutton: my name is joe barroomhero69th: pick it up joe SexyJoeSutton: i don't take baths SexyJoeSutton: but women want me SexyJoeSutton: they're so attracted SexyJoeSutton: to my body barroomhero69th: i said he dont lather! SexyJoeSutton: and if they act like they don't want me SexyJoeSutton: lol SexyJoeSutton: i go SexyJoeSutton: and throw barroomhero69th: this aint no marshall mather SexyJoeSutton: them out the window SexyJoeSutton: word barroomhero69th: and if you got some beef, rather barroomhero69th: you can lick his nuts barroomhero69th: cold like steel barroomhero69th: they dont freeze barroomhero69th: killer beeees! barroomhero69th: joe freestyle raps in tha HIZEEEE I also liked that certain things were put into the movie for apparently no reason. It keeps you guessing, and keeps an element of "that's how life is". Some examples of this are Eminem's useless girlfriend and when Eminem gets caught in the burning building (and when he shoots the cop car). That's just life. Not nearly as predictable as a movie I've recently seen and reviewed. I'm sure you can find out which one that is if you research through the two movies I've reviewed so far. Oh yeah. In this movie, I finally realized why Eminem includes D-12, or whatever they're called, in some of his songs. Just the friendship thing. I used to hate it, but now I'm going to listen to it from a different perspective. My least favorite part of the movie: when Jacob tried to tell me what was about to happen in the very last battle. I can't imagine wanting to ruin it for someone. Why would he want to tell me when I'm gonna see it in 3 minutes?!!?? I just can't fathom why anyone would ever tell someone what was about to happen in a movie, especially when he obviously doesn't want to hear it. I'm about to see! Don't ruin it! I could type three more paragraphs on this subject alone, which would just repeat the last 2 sentences in different ways a bunch of times just like I just did. Anyhoo, they leave the end pretty open, which has me really hoping for a sequel. I can't think of anything else I wanted to say, which means I'm done, even if I remember stuff later. 8-Mile was unexpectedly good. 7.1 |