watching now. i don't know why people were saying 'whitney was already big before bobby brown' as if the movie showed otherwise (people on twitter to be more clear)
it starts off with them showing that she's a super star.
the movie seems like bobby only gave permission for them to use him if they showed him a certain way and angela bassett obliged
yaya studied whitney you can tell and she was GREAT like she really nailed that shit and had she not the movie probably would not have been as enjoyable as it was
dude who played bobby was cool too.
they didn't show enough REAL bobby brown. i feel like we got one real side of him but not the OTHER real side of him. he was very tame in this.
it shoulda been called bobby & whitney: an unlikely love story or some shit
over all tho this goes down as one of the best black music biopics, period. i won't argue or debate that with anybody.
all of the best biopics have its unintentional comedy and twists in the story i won't let that take away from what angela bassett gave us with that movie. i fux with it.
the casting was on point, the acting was good, deborah fucking cox, i fux with it.
11. "I thought about you when I saw Wesley Johnathan as Babyface lol" In response to Reply # 10
I share many of your opinions. Bobby may not have been the devil the media portrayed him to be but he was no saint either.
The interview was reslly good too I love how he still didn't trash Whitney to this day, and said he just wants to give her mom a hug. Siunds like him and Bobbi Kristina have a decent relationship too.
12. "LOL i was mad hype when my boo showed up on screen! " In response to Reply # 11
but yea the interview was surprisingly good. a lil bit of awkwardness but i blame that more on the lady giving the interview. she asked way too much about the addictions IMO after a certain point its like if you don't know these people were on drugs you've been living under a rock.
but bobby was def mad gracious about the whole thing and he seems to be doing well despite being chubby his skin look clear and his jaw looks mostly back in place
all in all the movie and the interview gave me good feels. i enjoyed it the whitney performances tho, when she did all the man i need, i cried lol
15. "it hard to make a biopic. this shit was boring" In response to Reply # 0
Yaya was VEY GOOD the wardrobe was on point kid playing Bobby was borderline terrible
but most importantly... I don't know what story they were trying to tell about Whitney: they touched on the drug use, stuck to a "period" of her life -- I guess, tried to show how much they loved each other, the tension with her momma, but idk, nothing clicked
17. "Bassett clearly takes Bobby's side in the Brown v. Estate fight." In response to Reply # 0 Tue Jan-20-15 07:53 AM by SoWhat
as the movie makes him appear sainted and makes Whitney out to be the troubled one. plus the movie kinda sorta went there w/the Robin thing. i'm sure Cissy and Pat didn't appreciate that at all.
and Deborah Cox's singing threw me off. she was like one octave too low on everything. it just felt wrong.
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