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8 Mile(Movie), Boyz n the Hood(Movie), All Eyez on Me(Movie), Notorious(Movie), Friday(Movie), Straight Out Of Compton(Movie), Project X(Movie), Coach Carter(Movie), Creed(Movie), Superbad(Movie), War Dogs(Movie), Menace II Society(Movie)
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straight outta compton works best when it lets the music talk for itself. the incredible music produced by these five individuals, even after the group split up, provides the voices of all of the artists and the generation that they have come to represent and the generation that they so heavily influenced. within that music, you can feel the justifiable rage and the fire that raged inside all of them, not only for racial equality, but for personal success and for a shot to make it to the top of america's soci-economic ladder. the film focuses on this stuff enough to carry the movie but it read
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straight outta compton is a triumphant film that honors the spirit of n.w.a. while effectively telling its story amidst the hard times of their existence. f. gary gray invests the film with the brash, gritty realism that the group brought to its music and to mainstream sensibilities while using their tale to make some salient points about the racial inequality that still exists as strongly in today's society as it did then. the talented cast deliver knockout performances both on stage and off, and despite a bit of whitewashing the characters come together in fascinating, engrossing story of a... read
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