Archive for November, 2002

8 Mile

Friday, November 22nd, 2002

short review.

Eminem was good at playing himself (Marshal Mathers that is, rather than Slim Shady)… the battle scenes were the best part of it. A lot of it felt TV Movie-ish. Kim Bassinger is fucking worthless and it’s disgusting and wrong that she’s got an Oscar on her mantle. I simply didn’t get what we were supposed to be seeing in Britney Murphy… I guess she was kinda attractive in that “hooker” way… like… that “dirty hooker” way… that “retarded dirty hooker” way.

The whole movie felt scattered and kinda random. I don’t really know exactly what story they were trying to tell.

Nice to see Eminem outside of the Shady character. I think he’s trying to take a right turn where Andy Kaufman took a wrong. You can only stay in the spot light by pissing people off for so long before they get tired of you or just start seeing you as kinda pathetic and sad. He’s taken this movie and said “hey, that whole ‘pissing people off’ thing isn’t all I can do. I actually am a real person”… it’s just a matter of if people will pay attention or not. I think they will. Eminem is one of the most important artist of the last thirty years or so, and no matter what he does, people will listen.

Britney Murphy needs to go back to playing the weird girl all the time. She’s hot, but only in a “weird girl who’s hot because she’s so weird” kinda way… not in a “super sexy sexbomb” kinda way.

Oh, and what the fuck happened with Eminem’s ex-girlfriend in the movie? They just kinda left that hanging.

And while I certainly have no objections to sex in movies…. was that one scene really necessary? I mean, really… who the fuck was that chick supposed to be? She just kinda shows up outta no where, Eminem decides he likes her trashy lookin self for some reason… and then all of a sudden they’re fucking at the car parts plant? I dunno if it was supposed to be sexy or romantic or what… it just seemed kinda like all of a sudden we were watching a porno movie with a porno story line, but without the Britney Murphy breasticles that would have made seeing Shady’s “i’m cumming” face worth it.

the end.

Current Music: Eminem – Lose Yourself