OP said "when people look at the surface of NWA they often just see disrespectful gangsters, but the movie shows that they are more than that" and you said "but Eazy E and Suge acted as gangster as possible throughout the movie." No one said they weren't gang related either.I'm not sure I understand your point. It's nitpicky, but it kept me for connecting most of the time. Technical things such as out-of-sync drums and grabbing the sticks with open hands comes with the territory of needing an actor more than a musician, so it didn't bother me at all. I get that it easier to convey difficulty and success, respectively, and maybe even a better movie, but it took me out of how they treated it like sports. I've felt like punching a wall after trying polyryhtmic stuff, but never because I was slow.Īlso, they treated the improvised drum solo like some sort of visionary never-before-seen moment, when drum solos are such a common thing, and they are always improvised, even in a big band setting.
Now if it were being able to play 15/16 consistently at 240 bpm, I would've bought it. Playing fast is such a non-problem most of the time. Even with his over-the-top charactere could've let them play at 380 and call them pussies for months.Īlso the emphasis was so physical on playing harder and faster, when the frustrations in Jazz are so much more mental and psychological. Seems like something invented just to add edge to the thing.Īlso, never in the world would a band leader choose to play something at 400 bpm with forced feel instead of 380 with groove. It must be what doctors feel when they watch House. Like if you were watching a foreign movie and a character is named 'shitfacé', and as much as you want to enjoy your serious movie, everyone keeps calling him 'shitfacé' and you can't disconnect from it. If it were like Rocky, where there's only boxing at the end and most of the movie is about the person, then it'd be fine, but that's only sprinkled here and there and stuff like 'double swing' stand out too much. Some people can abstract themselves from it, but OP and I, for example, couldn't, so it almost becomes a 'neutrinos are mutating kind of deal' and removes the tension because it's ruining real-life rules to much for the setting and tone. It's not a bad movie because of it, but there's so many weird things they talk about that don't even exist or aren't handled at all in real life like they portray. Not OP, but Whiplash really had nothing to do with Jazz. Latest Discussions The Batman Texas Chainsaw Massacre Uncharted Roland Emmerich Jamie Dornan Robert Pattinson (2017) The Big List of Movie-Related Subreddits.
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