Saw this movie by accident last night on HBO... Common was pretty good and convincing as a ball player, but his relationship with Queen Latifah was UNbelievable. I was not convinced at all that they had fallen in love with each other and even their kiss scenes seemed extremely awkward, like they were kissing their sister or brother. Eww. Just sayin'. Had to vent a little cuz I can't get my hour and a half back

This movie sucked. Common CANNOT act!

But the REALLY sad thing is that because this movie bombed Fox halted production on all its "black" films by putting them in "turn around."

SCNDLS said:

This movie sucked. Common CANNOT act!

But the REALLY sad thing is that because this movie bombed Fox halted production on all its "black" films by putting them in "turn around."

Aww give Common a chance. His performance wasn't Oscar worthy but it was better than a Boris Kodjoe performance, cuz that dude definitely can't act.

missfee said:

SCNDLS said:

This movie sucked. Common CANNOT act!

But the REALLY sad thing is that because this movie bombed Fox halted production on all its "black" films by putting them in "turn around."

Aww give Common a chance. His performance wasn't Oscar worthy but it was better than a Boris Kodjoe performance, cuz that dude definitely can't act.

Nah, he worse than Boris and he got a lazy eye or something which I never noticed before. I didn't know where to look!

SCNDLS said:

missfee said:

Aww give Common a chance. His performance wasn't Oscar worthy but it was better than a Boris Kodjoe performance, cuz that dude definitely can't act.

Nah, he worse than Boris and he got a lazy eye or something which I never noticed before. I didn't know where to look!

HUH??? I didn't see no lazy eye. You sure you not getting him confused???

missfee said:

SCNDLS said:

Nah, he worse than Boris and he got a lazy eye or something which I never noticed before. I didn't know where to look!

HUH??? I didn't see no lazy eye. You sure you not getting him confused???

Nope. It was several scenes when ONE of his eyes was looking over Latifah's shoulder. I was like, "WTF is this madness?!!!"

SCNDLS said:

Nope. It was several scenes when ONE of his eyes was looking over Latifah's shoulder. I was like, "WTF is this madness?!!!"

He was looking at

Can't say i blame him...

The problem was, Latifah's not "leading lady fine" by Hollywood standards and Common has zero personality, but has the "sexy" factor working for him but that wasn't even enough. Common can act, he just doesn't have a personality, and having swagg is half the battle.

SCNDLS said:

This movie sucked. Common CANNOT act!

certainly not well enough to carry a movie. Maybe bit parts are okay for him, but yeah he was so one dimensional in this movie

missfee said:

Saw this movie by accident last night on HBO... Common was pretty good and convincing as a ball player, but his relationship with Queen Latifah was UNbelievable. I was not convinced at all that they had fallen in love with each other and even their kiss scenes seemed extremely awkward, like they were kissing their sister or brother. Eww. Just sayin'. Had to vent a little cuz I can't get my hour and a half back

Chile when has Latifah ever been convincing as a woman in love with a man. Jus sayin'.

I think she needs to stick to playing Set It Off/Bringin' Down The House type rolls and Common needs to stick to playing a gangsta e.g. Smokin' Aces and Wanted.

Rappers turned actors is never a good thing unless you're LL Cool J. NOw that dude got natural skillz!!!!

Paula Patton was bomb tho. Another talent that we need to see more of. It was however unbelievable that she would just dump Common's character all because he had an injury.

missfee said:

SCNDLS said:

Nah, he worse than Boris and he got a lazy eye or something which I never noticed before. I didn't know where to look!

HUH??? I didn't see no lazy eye. You sure you not getting him confused???

For real...I was lookin' hard too! Wait....I wasn't looking at his eyes.

HotGritz said:

missfee said:

Saw this movie by accident last night on HBO... Common was pretty good and convincing as a ball player, but his relationship with Queen Latifah was UNbelievable. I was not convinced at all that they had fallen in love with each other and even their kiss scenes seemed extremely awkward, like they were kissing their sister or brother. Eww. Just sayin'. Had to vent a little cuz I can't get my hour and a half back

Chile when has Latifah ever been convincing as a woman in love with a man. Jus sayin'.

I think she needs to stick to playing Set It Off/Bringin' Down The House type rolls and Common needs to stick to playing a gangsta e.g. Smokin' Aces and Wanted.

Rappers turned actors is never a good thing unless you're LL Cool J. NOw that dude got natural skillz!!!!

Paula Patton was bomb tho. Another talent that we need to see more of. It was however unbelievable that she would just dump Common's character all because he had an injury.

Now, I don't agree with that at all. Latifah is a more than decent actress and was nominated for an Oscar for Chicago so she ain't no slouch and shouldn't be typecast cuz she's a bigger chick who happens to be a lesbian, she's cute when she cleans up and we need to see big girls get theirs too.

Besides I think she did fine romantically opposite LL in that other dumb movie and in Brown Sugar with MosDef as her love interest. Plus that other movie where she was HIV+ she was married in that and gave a great performance IMO.

But, even more unconvincing than La as Common's love interest was the premise that the Nets would be Eastern Conference Champions. I mean, that shit was too implausible and I can't suspend belief for that long. I just kept thinking that shit would NEVER happen.

On top of THAT BS I was constantly distracted by these non-acting athletes and sports announcers. Hell, I can't stand Stuart Scott and Kenny Smith in REAL life why the fuck I wanna watch them butcher lines in a movie they say in real life all the time???

don't all movies require a suspension of belief?

BlackAdder7 said:

don't all movies require a suspension of belief?

unfortunately they don't see to require acting skill

SCNDLS said:

HotGritz said:

Chile when has Latifah ever been convincing as a woman in love with a man. Jus sayin'.

I think she needs to stick to playing Set It Off/Bringin' Down The House type rolls and Common needs to stick to playing a gangsta e.g. Smokin' Aces and Wanted.

Rappers turned actors is never a good thing unless you're LL Cool J. NOw that dude got natural skillz!!!!

Paula Patton was bomb tho. Another talent that we need to see more of. It was however unbelievable that she would just dump Common's character all because he had an injury.

Now, I don't agree with that at all. Latifah is a more than decent actress and was nominated for an Oscar for Chicago so she ain't no slouch and shouldn't be typecast cuz she's a bigger chick who happens to be a lesbian, she's cute when she cleans up and we need to see big girls get theirs too.

Besides I think she did fine romantically opposite LL in that other dumb movie and in Brown Sugar with MosDef as her love interest. Plus that other movie where she was HIV+ she was married in that and gave a great performance IMO.

But, even more unconvincing than La as Common's love interest was the premise that the Nets would be Eastern Conference Champions. I mean, that shit was too implausible and I can't suspend belief for that long. I just kept thinking that shit would NEVER happen.

On top of THAT BS I was constantly distracted by these non-acting athletes and sports announcers. Hell, I can't stand Stuart Scott and Kenny Smith in REAL life why the fuck I wanna watch them butcher lines in a movie they say in real life all the time???

come on now...Chicago? That was a musical. Who couldn't work that. Personally I thought it was overrated but I get that Hollywood was hungry to bring the stage to the big screen. Zeta-Jones won her oscar and her performance wasn't any better than Latifah's but we won't talk about that. I didn't see her in that movie as an HIV+ chick and will have to check it out. I will reserve referring to her skills as limited until then.

Your last 2 paragraphs have me rolling. It's like that SCNDLS? Girl you harder than I am. The Nets could make EC champs. Anything is possible with God. Dwight Howard kind of did okay for that being his first movie or rather 1st movie with a speaking role. Um Kenny and Stuart...well....they only had like 1 sentence a piece or something. I think they mumbles "you aiight? u get them digits? " or something. I don't care for them as athletes so I wasn't checking for them as actors. Again....with a little more practice and experience...anything is possible with God.

HotGritz said:

SCNDLS said:

Now, I don't agree with that at all. Latifah is a more than decent actress and was nominated for an Oscar for Chicago so she ain't no slouch and shouldn't be typecast cuz she's a bigger chick who happens to be a lesbian, she's cute when she cleans up and we need to see big girls get theirs too.

Besides I think she did fine romantically opposite LL in that other dumb movie and in Brown Sugar with MosDef as her love interest. Plus that other movie where she was HIV+ she was married in that and gave a great performance IMO.

But, even more unconvincing than La as Common's love interest was the premise that the Nets would be Eastern Conference Champions. I mean, that shit was too implausible and I can't suspend belief for that long. I just kept thinking that shit would NEVER happen.

On top of THAT BS I was constantly distracted by these non-acting athletes and sports announcers. Hell, I can't stand Stuart Scott and Kenny Smith in REAL life why the fuck I wanna watch them butcher lines in a movie they say in real life all the time???

come on now...Chicago? That was a musical. Who couldn't work that. Personally I thought it was overrated but I get that Hollywood was hungry to bring the stage to the big screen. Zeta-Jones won her oscar and her performance wasn't any better than Latifah's but we won't talk about that. I didn't see her in that movie as an HIV+ chick and will have to check it out. I will reserve referring to her skills as limited until then.

Your last 2 paragraphs have me rolling. It's like that SCNDLS? Girl you harder than I am. The Nets could make EC champs. Anything is possible with God. Dwight Howard kind of did okay for that being his first movie or rather 1st movie with a speaking role. Um Kenny and Stuart...well....they only had like 1 sentence a piece or something. I think they mumbles "you aiight? u get them digits? " or something. I don't care for them as athletes so I wasn't checking for them as actors. Again....with a little more practice and experience...anything is possible with God.

Chile, it ain't THAT much prayer

Okay, I'ma give you Chicago, but she was also real good in Living Out Loud where her boyfriend was a dude on the DL . . . okay bad example

The movie i'm talking about is Life Support. I didn't realize she won so many awards for that role including a Golden Globe and SAG and was nominated for an Emmy. Makes sense cuz I think it was her best performance ever.

^ I will have to add that to my queue. I watched a film called "Cover" last night that was about DL dudes but it was a murder mystery and had Leon in it and Aunjanue Ellis in it. Now she's an underrated actress if you ask me.

As far as b-movie love stories go...Just Wright was ok. I'm glad to see Latifah producing films now. I think the film would have faired better if say Bill Duke directed and Malcom D. Lee wrote the screen play . It just needed a little more polishing because really, it was straight to DVD film.

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HotGritz said:

^ I will have to add that to my queue. I watched a film called "Cover" last night that was about DL dudes but it was a murder mystery and had Leon in it and Aunjanue Ellis in it. Now she's an underrated actress if you ask me.

As far as b-movie love stories go...Just Wright was ok. I'm glad to see Latifah producing films now. I think the film would have faired better if say Bill Duke directed and Malcom D. Lee wrote the screen play . It just needed a little more polishing because really, it was straight to DVD film.

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that movie cover sucked donkey balls.

SCNDLS said:

missfee said:

Aww give Common a chance. His performance wasn't Oscar worthy but it was better than a Boris Kodjoe performance, cuz that dude definitely can't act.

Nah, he worse than Boris and he got a lazy eye or something which I never noticed before. I didn't know where to look!

Boris treats acting as a modeling shoot.

SCNDLS said:

HotGritz said:

Chile when has Latifah ever been convincing as a woman in love with a man. Jus sayin'.

I think she needs to stick to playing Set It Off/Bringin' Down The House type rolls and Common needs to stick to playing a gangsta e.g. Smokin' Aces and Wanted.

Rappers turned actors is never a good thing unless you're LL Cool J. NOw that dude got natural skillz!!!!

Paula Patton was bomb tho. Another talent that we need to see more of. It was however unbelievable that she would just dump Common's character all because he had an injury.

Now, I don't agree with that at all. Latifah is a more than decent actress and was nominated for an Oscar for Chicago so she ain't no slouch and shouldn't be typecast cuz she's a bigger chick who happens to be a lesbian, she's cute when she cleans up and we need to see big girls get theirs too.

Besides I think she did fine romantically opposite LL in that other dumb movie and in Brown Sugar with MosDef as her love interest. Plus that other movie where she was HIV+ she was married in that and gave a great performance IMO.

But, even more unconvincing than La as Common's love interest was the premise that the Nets would be Eastern Conference Champions. I mean, that shit was too implausible and I can't suspend belief for that long. I just kept thinking that shit would NEVER happen.

On top of THAT BS I was constantly distracted by these non-acting athletes and sports announcers. Hell, I can't stand Stuart Scott and Kenny Smith in REAL life why the fuck I wanna watch them butcher lines in a movie they say in real life all the time???

Thank you so much for the best laugh of the day.

I feel ya, I thought the same thing. (Why couldn't it have been the Knicks?)

I feel that way about Any Given Sunday-I'm convinced they put them in the playoffs with a losing record . . . . But those bodies and the locker room . . . .

HotGritz said:

missfee said:

Saw this movie by accident last night on HBO... Common was pretty good and convincing as a ball player, but his relationship with Queen Latifah was UNbelievable. I was not convinced at all that they had fallen in love with each other and even their kiss scenes seemed extremely awkward, like they were kissing their sister or brother. Eww. Just sayin'. Had to vent a little cuz I can't get my hour and a half back

Chile when has Latifah ever been convincing as a woman in love with a man. Jus sayin'.

I think she needs to stick to playing Set It Off/Bringin' Down The House type rolls and Common needs to stick to playing a gangsta e.g. Smokin' Aces and Wanted.

Rappers turned actors is never a good thing unless you're LL Cool J. NOw that dude got natural skillz!!!!

Paula Patton was bomb tho. Another talent that we need to see more of. It was however unbelievable that she would just dump Common's character all because he had an injury.

In "Last Holiday" with LL Cool J, actually. She has said in interviews that she had a serious crush on him during her teens, and it's obvious in the movie.

Plus, Queen needs a good, tall leading man with great acting skills to play opposite her for romance to be convincing (like LL), and Common just wasn't it. He was the absolute wrong person to put in that role. He didn't even look like a basketball player either, lol.

SUPRMAN said:

SCNDLS said:

Nah, he worse than Boris and he got a lazy eye or something which I never noticed before. I didn't know where to look!

Boris treats acting as a modeling shoot.

SCNDLS said:

HotGritz said:

Chile when has Latifah ever been convincing as a woman in love with a man. Jus sayin'.

I think she needs to stick to playing Set It Off/Bringin' Down The House type rolls and Common needs to stick to playing a gangsta e.g. Smokin' Aces and Wanted.

Rappers turned actors is never a good thing unless you're LL Cool J. NOw that dude got natural skillz!!!!

Paula Patton was bomb tho. Another talent that we need to see more of. It was however unbelievable that she would just dump Common's character all because he had an injury.

Now, I don't agree with that at all. Latifah is a more than decent actress and was nominated for an Oscar for Chicago so she ain't no slouch and shouldn't be typecast cuz she's a bigger chick who happens to be a lesbian, she's cute when she cleans up and we need to see big girls get theirs too.

Besides I think she did fine romantically opposite LL in that other dumb movie and in Brown Sugar with MosDef as her love interest. Plus that other movie where she was HIV+ she was married in that and gave a great performance IMO.

But, even more unconvincing than La as Common's love interest was the premise that the Nets would be Eastern Conference Champions. I mean, that shit was too implausible and I can't suspend belief for that long. I just kept thinking that shit would NEVER happen.

On top of THAT BS I was constantly distracted by these non-acting athletes and sports announcers. Hell, I can't stand Stuart Scott and Kenny Smith in REAL life why the fuck I wanna watch them butcher lines in a movie they say in real life all the time???

SCNDLS said:

But, even more unconvincing than La as Common's love interest was the premise that the Nets would be Eastern Conference Champions. I mean, that shit was too implausible and I can't suspend belief for that long. I just kept thinking that shit would NEVER happen.

I've never seen the movie so I'm obviously missing something, but weren't the Nets already Eastern Conference Champions twice just a few years ago?

sextonseven said:

SCNDLS said:

But, even more unconvincing than La as Common's love interest was the premise that the Nets would be Eastern Conference Champions. I mean, that shit was too implausible and I can't suspend belief for that long. I just kept thinking that shit would NEVER happen.

I've never seen the movie so I'm obviously missing something, but weren't the Nets already Eastern Conference Champions twice just a few years ago?

That was in '02 and '03 and Jason Kidd was on point not Common. But I STILL didn't believe my eyes when they did it then.

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misschestylarue said:

HotGritz said:

^ I will have to add that to my queue. I watched a film called "Cover" last night that was about DL dudes but it was a murder mystery and had Leon in it and Aunjanue Ellis in it. Now she's an underrated actress if you ask me.

As far as b-movie love stories go...Just Wright was ok. I'm glad to see Latifah producing films now. I think the film would have faired better if say Bill Duke directed and Malcom D. Lee wrote the screen play . It just needed a little more polishing because really, it was straight to DVD film.

[Edited 4/4/11 16:54pm]

that movie cover sucked donkey balls.

You were just distracted by Vivica's weave and how old Lou Gossett JR got.

gotta admit that ending was hilarious!!!! definitely an "aw hell naw" moment.

U guys really don't think Common is convincing as a b-ball player? I thought he had decent moves.

SCNDLS said:

sextonseven said:

I've never seen the movie so I'm obviously missing something, but weren't the Nets already Eastern Conference Champions twice just a few years ago?

That was in '02 and '03 and Jason Kidd was on point not Common. But I STILL didn't believe my eyes when they did it then.

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The movie script must have been written a long time ago.

HotGritz said:

misschestylarue said:

that movie cover sucked donkey balls.

You were just distracted by Vivica's weave and how old Lou Gossett JR got.

gotta admit that ending was hilarious!!!! definitely an "aw hell naw" moment.

it certainly was what was that wack ass pick up line that the dl guys would use to pick each other up.