Check out this trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRgua3A3XOE

I don't mind saying it, Tupac was a beautiful dude with a lot of presence and a commanding voice.

This dude looks like them dudes you use to see at the club who were trying to pull off the Tupac look and were responsible for a lot of Tupac sightings in the early 2000s.


If they cast dude just because he looked similar to Tupac and not because he was a strong actor than you know this movie will be straight trash.

SMH.

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

Just get any wide bodied dude with a full beard and bald head off the street, and he is Suge Knight lol

>Just get any wide bodied dude with a full beard and bald head
>off the street, and he is Suge Knight lol


Same Suge from the NWA flick....At least they are consistent....

Weirdly fulfilling to see (a version of) Suge Knight getting his ass whomped.

Big dude, baldie, beard, kinda light-ish, cigar.

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the Michelle 'bio-pic' on TV earlier this year.

I'm like, "hey, way to milk that type-casting, go 'head playa!" lol

I'm mad they didn't use him for this.

Better Suge

Dominic L. Santana (All Eyez on Me)
http://ll-media.tmz.com/2016/04/22/0422-tupac-movie-bts-primary-1200x630.jpg
http://legacy.blavity.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Actor-Dominic-L.-Santana-is-Suge-Knight-e1453257236190.png

or

R. Marcos Taylor (Straight Outta Compton & Surviving Compton)
http://tinyurl.com/m7blwnr
http://www.blackfilm.com/read/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/R.-Marcos-Taylor-Suge-Knight.jpg

They should have just used the Tupac actor from Notorious and kept it moving

Pac, Suge, Big, Puff, Faith

his face is too fat, they look a little a like but what takes me out of it is his face just looks fatter than Pac's, really he looks to have more weight on him in general than Tupac but he actually looks younger to me.

I think they cast Afeni well though, Danai Gurira could play Lauryn Hill too.

I'm also one of those people that think Jeff Goldblum and Orlando Jones look a like so you can ignore me lol

>his face is too fat, they look a little a like but what takes
>me out of it is his face just looks fatter than Pac's, really
>he looks to have more weight on him in general than Tupac but
>he actually looks younger to me.
>
>I think they cast Afeni well though, Danai Gurira could play
>Lauryn Hill too.
>
>I'm also one of those people that think Jeff Goldblum and
>Orlando Jones look a like so you can ignore me lol

I am here with you, even though they're Black & White, those dudes look just alike"

to the tune of, "You Are Not Alone"

cuz they do lol

are spitting images of each other

i doubt theres some Pac unicorn out there that had the voice, looks and acting chops

if there was we wouldve known bout him

im glad they aint pick that one weirdo who was semi viral awhile back on twitter who dedicated his life to looking like Pac

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>RE: i think he pulls it off pretty good based off the trailer
>i doubt theres some Pac unicorn out there that had the voice,
>looks and acting chops
>
>if there was we wouldve known bout him

He's got enough of the look, and from the trailer it looks to me like he did a decent job with the mannerisms. Can't be an easy dude to master, he was so uniquely eccentric in look, facial expressions, vocal tone, mannerisms...I actually can't imagine anyone there'd be more than a couple of people who have even a little bit of all of that, like this dude does.

i mean, biopics are ALWAYS corny on a level

the only one so far that managed to skip past a lot of corn was Straight Outta Compton but even then...those edges were looking mighty corn like

I don't use micromanaging in a negative way either
I mean they were involved all the way and it showed
that's a good thing, even with the Dre as an angel gloss over

Even when we get the benefit of someone who was there for the whole thing (Notorious)
the end result was trash

But Pac had enough drama for 2 movies, we'll see

>I don't use micromanaging in a negative way either
>I mean they were involved all the way and it showed
>that's a good thing, even with the Dre as an angel gloss over
>
>Even when we get the benefit of someone who was there for the
>whole thing (Notorious)
>the end result was trash

...for the whole thing, as you say, is trash himself. So the end result could only reflect that person.

Whereas Dre and Cube are not trash, hence Straight Outta Compton not being so.

>Whereas Dre and Cube are not trash, hence Straight Outta
>Compton not being so.

Not their personal lives.

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There are young people around who actually remember and witnessed how beautiful and charismatic that dude was.

Tupac was a supernova. It's hard for anyone to be cast in this role and not look like trash in comparison.

>There are young people around who actually remember and
>witnessed how beautiful and charismatic that dude was.

Very true. Can't really wait til that generation is gone tho cause then no one will know who he is or care to watch it.

LOL

Kudos.

Hahaha thanks.

>>There are young people around who actually remember and
>>witnessed how beautiful and charismatic that dude was.
>
>Very true. Can't really wait til that generation is gone tho
>cause then no one will know who he is or care to watch it.

The whole 90's AARP run is coming up fast as shit....

Guess he was chosen for the looks.
I'll still check it out, but I do
hate when I can tell someone is
"acting."

casting for presence and skill over looks.

Denzel BECAME Malcolm X. What would have happened if they casted for light skin and red hair first? Terrence Howard as Malcolm X would have been a national disaster.

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you can't have a nigga acting like Tupac who can't act as good as Tupac acting like other people.

https://media.giphy.com/media/10YS3ooFq0neiA/giphy.gif

>you can't have a nigga acting like Tupac who can't act as
>good as Tupac acting like other people.

http://i.imgur.com/x4yqX.gif

nm

https://media.giphy.com/media/iQGaM35rHA3Be/giphy.gif

>you can't have a nigga acting like Tupac who can't act as
>good as Tupac acting like other people.

When Pac spoke you felt it. I feel NONE of that in this portrayal. At least in the trailer. That's dope that Gravy is playing BIG though. Good idea.

Of course getting over the lack of resemblance but dude is such a good actor who has never had that role to make it all that apparent.

Closest thing is his role in Sucka Free City which no one saw of course.


Similarly, I think Lakeith Stanfield did a nice snoop in South Central without having the full on resemblance.


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

Sucker Free City is slept on tho.

Sucka Free City is indeed slept on. gave me all the history on SF that I needed.

haven't thought about that movie SFC in a while. weren't they trying to spin that into a show?

It was a bit part in a not great movie.


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

He actually had the intensity down, but unfortunately he was killed a few years ago.

Dat Terrence Howard shit got me
DYIN!

Joker's that ain't and can't will always tell you that they would do better than the next man.



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Wake up, Pray! Go to work, Pray! Go home, Pray! Love, Pray! Eat, Pray! Live, Pray!

so somehow they skip mad stuff (source awards? did the east/west beef even happen?) but then still drag thru other scenes

and those scenes drag because....

the writing/dialogue wasnt good
like they had the setups for the songs (obviously the best part), but never fully nailed it on any of em


lol @ snoop doing his own voiceovers
jada was the best actor, by far
typecast biggie got slim. i guess he figure he done with the part now.... unless a badboy biopic come out in the next 2 years


overall not horrible, but didnt really show pac beyond the surface
and glossed over most of the later controversies


i prolly shoulda watched it in the hood, woulda been more entertaining

>lol @ snoop doing his own voiceovers

Like, we've been hearing Snoop on a consistent/constant basis since '93, so hearing his voice and seeing some dude mouth the words was like those weird, disorienting VR demos that throw your equilibrium off.

Faith's actress was V.O.'d, too.

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/movies/2017/06/all_eyez_on_me_the_new_tupac_biopic_reviewed.html

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

https://twitter.com/jadapsmith/status/875747603601686528



Like, they didn't even bother trying to get simple things right.

SMH

Let that man rest.

"I wasn't backstage when..."

"He never really read me the..."

These shits ain't ever exact factual documentaries.

The movie likely ain't good, but the stuff Jada going off bout ain't material to that.

I think a big part of the problem is we were there, we remember all this shit, vividly even

So when SOC completely skips Dre/Dee Barnes beating
(It was a huge scandal at the time, and this was before Internet/social media)
we're like WTF?

or like someone pointed out, this Tupac skips over Source awards and East/West (Milked by the "hip hop media" and contributed to his death)
c'mon son

1) that's a long list for just one person/ one
aspect of the flick.

2) shows their lack of detail/research, cuz
clearly jada would have given insight if
asked.

Who else did they not bother to consult?

3) it's a film, but a few of the Outlawz are
playing their 20 year old selves?? (Lol)


4) So the movie is sh!tty AND inaccurate??

And really my point is to let that man rest.

People have made enough money off him.

particularly the part where John Singleton got booted from the project because he and the producer couldn't agree on how Pac should be represented.

Benny Boom has the best intentions but Singleton (even now) would've been the better filmmaker for the job if not only because he worked with Pac and helped to cement the influence that the West Coast had on the culture with Boyz N The Hood.
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where singleton wanted to imply Pac was raped in jail or have his mom in a lesbian love scene for no reason? or have a scene where Pac was talking to his own severed head?

If that's true then he should have been booted

>or have a scene
>where Pac was talking to his own severed head?

Seriously what in the blue fuck.

>or have a scene
>where Pac was talking to his own severed head?

I havent seen it so I cant vouch, but I hope its not true.

did a phenomenal job. I thought that WAS him.

lol, I thought it was him too.

and I thought they had snoop do voiceover lines bc the nigga that played him sounded JUST like him.

i havent seen it yet, will catch it streaming or on tv or whatever

is 25 years older, so he looks like he could be Shock and Pac's dad.

It fucked with me so bad lol

by the filmmakers promoting it on Combat Jack's show.

So, this weekend I bought tickets--to support--but went instead to see 'It Comes At Night' after the Wesley Morris praise of its excellent direction. The movie is horrible! A horror/thriller that is somehow boring--exactly what you don't want from that genre.

I was screaming at the TV and shit.

and when ole girl was talking shit in the street, I was rolling.

The Kid Demetrius Shipp Jr did a good job playing Tupac and can ell that he grew more confident in the role as the movie went on.

All of these entertainers that are complaining should have offered input instead of trying to trash the movie



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"The unexamined life is not worth living." - Plato

Dude looked like Pac but didn't really capture him

The use of Snoops real voice for his character, we couldn't stop laughing every time he talked. i didn't know that was coming.

it felt very made for tv

Saw bits and pieces the other nite as well but kept cringing.

I couldn't even get half way through this movie

>Saw bits and pieces the other nite as well but kept
>cringing.

There's a decent amount of cringy stuff in Notorious, but really it's not close.

You guys are right.

Both cringy but yea this I couldn't even get through 20 mins.

I compare it to SOC because of the similarity (musically driven larger than life subject matter)

But this one felt more like set pieces:

"Here's Afeni the militant"
"Here's Afeni the struggling single mother"
"Here's Afeni the addict"

No story telling, no character development, no narrative that tells the audience HOW and WHY she went from the Panthers to copping crack

It was all very scene 1- cut, scene 2- cut, on and on

Same with the Tupac story

All the scenes felt very much ripped from headlines
very video driven, and facing the same problem that SOC and Notorious have: We remember the most minute details
It wasn't that long ago, and it's not even about nitpicking scenes
these movies miss the larger back story, focusing instead on
the media highlights

Now I see what John Singleton was talking about on Drink Champs

I will say after watching this movie it really hit home

Dude died over a chain...a f'n chain fam

Wasn't horrible, also wasn't masterpiece theatre either

The issue is...any of the posthumous documentary releases were better.