8 Mile

[DarleneIllyria]

Anybody see it? How was it?

[Mr. Stefani]

I saw it. It SUCKED. Way too much hype, just because of Eminem. He's not a bad actor, but I swear it was like watching paint dry.

[Swimfan85]

it didnt suck...I liked it a lot, I guess I was expecting a lot more, but it was good, the middle was a little slow, but for the most part it kicked ass...

[Ewan's My Man]

I MADE THIS TOPIC A WHILE BAK!!! COPYCAT!!!

JK :joke:

I wanna see it but it's R.

[Swimfan85]

IT WAS AWESOME!!!!!!!!

[cablejockey]

If you weren't a fan of eminem, would you still like this movie?

[DarleneIllyria]

Originally posted by cablejockey
If you weren't a fan of eminem, would you still like this movie?

Well, I haven't seen the movie yet. I prob. would go see it whether it had Eminem in it or not.

[Swimfan85]

Originally posted by cablejockey
If you weren't a fan of eminem, would you still like this movie?


yep:) cuz there is all mekhi...;) but I mean it looked good in the previews

[Mijada]

I'm not a big fan of Eminem. I only want to see the movie because it takes place near where I grew up and I'm curious to see how they portray it.

[Swimfan85]

like my whole school or atleast seriously half of my school saw it yesterday cuz we had a half day

[Babes_Cat]

I'm going tonight so I'll have to be my own judge!

[Babes_Cat]

Originally posted by Babes_Cat
I'm going tonight so I'll have to be my own judge!

Gooooooooooooooooooooood movie. I loved it. I'd see it again.

[Blonde Hoochie Mama]

Yes, it was GREAT! I lovvvvvvvvvved it! ! ! !

[Warm & Fuzzy]

Can someone post the plot, minus the ending? :D

[Mr. Stefani]

Can someone post the plot, minus the ending?

I found this, hope it helps.


SYNOPSIS

The people of Detroit know 8 Mile as the city limit, a border, a boundary. It is also a psychological dividing line that separates Jimmy Smith Jr. (Eminem) from where and who he wants to be. 8 Mile is a provocative fictional examination of a critical week in Jimmy’s life, starring multi-platinum recording artist Eminem in his first leading role in a feature film, along with Kim Basinger (L.A. Confidential) as Jimmy’s mother, Mekhi Phifer (O, Shaft), Brittany Murphy (Don’t Say A Word) and Eugene Byrd (Dead Man).:

[Swimfan85]

im seeing it again with my friends who didnt see it:)

[britt britt]

I saw it last night. it was pretty good.

[ABlairican Pie]

8 Mile 's Lie --by Geov Parrish

Every generation has its 8 Mile , the widely acclaimed new movie by rap star Eminem.
Mine was Purple Rain , a 1984 movie starring Prince in a thinly fictionalized version of himself. Before that, there were, among others, the Beatles (Help! ) and Elvis (Love Me Tender ). Hollywood knows how to make money off the latest
youth culture phenom, whoever he (or, in Madonna's Desperately Seeking Susan, she) is.
As with Prince, the Beatles, and Elvis, one of the major goals of Eminem's movie from the corporate side--we're talking product here, not art--is to legitimate the young star in the eyes of outraged adults. From Sinatra to Elvis to Prince, the outrage was over sex. But nowadays, it seems impossible to push public sexuality to any kind of level that would outrage us (please, don't test that). Instead, Eminem has added a new twist: public outrage over not sex, but the violent homophobia and especially misogyny in his music. Eminem's raps about wanting to kill "fags and lezzes" and beating or killing women from his mother to his
girl "friend" aren't isolated missteps; his virulent anger is one of the defining qualities that rocketed him to superstardom.

(continued)

[ABlairican Pie]

8 Mile 's plot is identical to Purple Rain : Young musician
character in a grungy upper Midwest city first fails then succeeds
in musical battle against a hated rival musician. At least Eminem
didn't hire Morris Day and the Time.
Along the way, the back story not only portrays the Prince/Eminem character as likable, but the antithesis of what they're notorious for; Purple Rain took pains to show Prince's innocent courtship. Such scenes served to reassure new
audiences, familiar only with Prince's reputation, that he really didn't spend all day every day doing the beastie with whatever
warm flesh was nearby. And, of course, it reassured us that said warm flesh really found him quite attractive. (And Purple Rain 's babe--the forgettable Appollonia--wasn't exacty cast for her singing ability, either.)
In 8 Mile , similarly, we learn that Eminem really a nice guy.
He defends a gay guy from taunting; his behavior with women is exemplary. He even suffers nobly with a crazy mother--suggesting, not too subtly, not only where the rage in Eminem's
might come from but also that it might be justified. Eminem insists
that his misogynistic, homophobic lyrics are stories and characters, and that he really doesn't feel that way; 8 Mile is, among other things, his case for that claim. Its theme song would probably start, "I never meant to hurt nobody...," except that Prince already did it in Purple Rain 's title song.
As it happens, both pop music and the musicians themselves are more salable when they are believed "authentic". We very much want to believe both Eminem's lyrics and his on-screen character, but at least one cannot be true--either the music he made as a struggling, unknown musician, or the movie character
he portrays now that he's an industry unto himself.

(continued)

[ABlairican Pie]

(Seattle Weekly continues...)

I wrote, sang, and played in bands for years, and what I and almost every other unknown musician knew did was to start writing about what we felt and knew best, and to work out from there. But in the end, intent doesn't matter; what matters is what hundreds of millions of teens and young adults are hearing, memorizing, and reciting and dancing, partying, and, er, romancing to. To that end, no matter how good the music and its craftsmanship (and Eminem is a very, very good songwriter), nothing redeems the consistently hateful images in Eminem's music. Nothing.

(to be concluded)

[~LadyJess~]

I didn't see it yet, but the night it came out my friend and I cruised the actual 8 mile just for the hell of it. One of the joys of living in Michigan. :lol:

[ABlairican Pie]

It's hard to imagine a movie like 8 Mile could be made about a music act like, say, Public Enemy or Rage Against the Machine were they popular enough to warrant a movie. It's not enough to be notorious or outrageous; you must be notorious or outrageous in such a way as to be useful to people with far more
money and power than you have. Madison Avenue loved sex, even as Elvis-era moralists fumed. Rage or PE couldn't get the 8 Mile treatment if they wanted it. Fighting the power isn't useful to power; killing fags and hoes, on the other hand, works just fine.
Pop culture is a tricky balace between validating things people already feel and relate to and selling, selling, selling. Plenty of young men--and more than a few women--relate to Eminem's lyrics. But unless they, and the slick image polishing of
8 Mile , are challenged, his lyircs will continue to so a disturbing amount of selling--and teaching.

Seattle Weekly, Nov. 27-Dec. 3, 2002

[Lil g 05]

Originally posted by ILoveLucyfan4eva
I didn't see it yet, but the night it came out my friend and I cruised the actual 8 mile just for the hell of it. One of the joys of living in Michigan. :lol:

hahahaha i wanna do tht!

[Babes_Cat]

Originally posted by ILoveLucyfan4eva
I didn't see it yet, but the night it came out my friend and I cruised the actual 8 mile just for the hell of it. One of the joys of living in Michigan. :lol:

:D

[Mijada]

Originally posted by ILoveLucyfan4eva
I didn't see it yet, but the night it came out my friend and I cruised the actual 8 mile just for the hell of it. One of the joys of living in Michigan. :lol:
You call cruising 8 mile a joy? I had to take that road a few nights ago on my way home from Hamtramck. I couldn't wait to get out of there. :lol: