notorious 7/10
i had tears in the end.
Hey man, fucking notorious man.
Notorious was a big fucking waste of money, the only redeeming factor of it was the music!
Jesus man, the pacing was way way off, none of the scenes seemed to flow or tie together. Characters were all over the place and no connection was fully established. Biggie hit women, we got that, but he was also a good father right? Sure, he told his girl "don't let no one call you a bitch" in a 2 minute scene. Half the movie rides of the tight relationship between Wallace and Shakur, but the film does an awful job of telling us how great of friends they were besides YEAH WE TALKED INTO A VIDEO CAMERA TOGETHER. That alone pretty much ruins the entire second half. The guy who goes to jail for Bigs come off as JUST A GUY, and when he comes back later he shares ONE 2 MINUTE SCENE WITH BIG TELLING HIM HOW GR8 HE IS.
ALL THE CHARACTER RELATIONSHIPS ARE FUCKED UP
FUCKED UP PACING FUCKED UP CONVERSATIONS FUCKED UP TUPAC
They focus all this shit on his relationship with women, which also affects all the other shit in his life. Seriously they skipped half of his life, including his second arrest, that might have fit if they didn't put in so much shit about him and Lil' Kim fucking.
Oh, and don't even get me started about when they made fun of the Asian guy at the autograph signing.
I really wanted to like the movie too.
EDIT:
I just saw Once Upon a Time in the West. Fantastic movie. I find Harmonica more bad ass than Blondie. I love how Sergio Leone can focus the viewer on a single shot for 5 minutes while constantly building up tension... Then releasing it like a rubber band.
EDIT 2:
Man the fucking ending of Notorious with Violetta Wallace reading that narration, looking out the window out at the world...
Fucking awful, all I saw was a bunch of hooligans jumping on cars with boom boxes. Seriously, it was just awful.