Four stars from the NY Daily News. Looking forward to seeing it.

'Get on Up,' movie review

I saw it last night. Very, very good. Mick Jagger is one of the producers, and he selects all the music. They use James Brown's recordings and Chadwick Boseman does a fine lip synch. And they don't sugar coat everything.

Saw it yesterday...it was really good.

can't wait to see it... i don't think it's released here til october though

Oscar worthy for Chad

I saw it on Sunday.I was impressed A very good film.

Thoroughly enjoyed it

good but too much jumping around from different time periods

I can understand how one could be frustrated with the time periods going out of order, at first I thought it was going to annoy me, but it didn't...in fact, I think that's what made the movie more interesting.

missfee said:

I can understand how one could be frustrated with the time periods going out of order, at first I thought it was going to annoy me, but it didn't...in fact, I think that's what made the movie more interesting.

yeah, but why did it bug me that JB didn't have a process when he first performed Sex Machine?

plus, the scene, where the musicians demanded to get paid and JB brought Bootsy and em' on...

it didn't happen that way...

a good scene would've been JB teaching Bootsy "The One"

they missed out on that one still a good movie tho'

missfee said:

I can understand how one could be frustrated with the time periods going out of order, at first I thought it was going to annoy me, but it didn't...in fact, I think that's what made the movie more interesting.

The first half hour or so I was almost ready to bail. But I'm glad I stuck in there

kidmelody2012 said:

good but too much jumping around from different time periods

I totally agree with this. James Brown's story is interesting enough without doing tricked up cutting and breaking the fourth wall stuff (ie, speaking directly into the camera). Every time it happened, it took me out of the story.

Saw it yesterday thought it was really good....But for the life of me I could not understand why Bobby Byrd put up with all of James shit. I would had done exactly what Maceo suggested. KNOCKED JAMES ON HIS ASS..

bobby bird the original jerome benton!

Thebigpill said:

Saw it yesterday thought it was really good....But for the life of me I could not understand why Bobby Byrd put up with all of James shit. I would had done exactly what Maceo suggested. KNOCKED JAMES ON HIS ASS..

Stymie said:

Saw it today. Chadwick was good but the movie was a jumbled mess.

Agree 100%!

A few other opinions...

• One can't pulp fiction one's way through a life so full, James lived enough for 3 lives.

• The lip syncing drove me nuts.

• Skipped his early 80's comeback in Rocky? Living in America isn't the best from JB but to just ignore it? Really?

• Finally, how much more would it have cost to have 2 drummers in the live shots? If you're gonna miss this detail, how many others did you think were not necessary.

Slave2daGroove said:

Stymie said:

Slave2daGroove said:

Agree 100%!

A few other opinions...

• One can't pulp fiction one's way through a life so full, James lived enough for 3 lives.

• The lip syncing drove me nuts.

• Skipped his early 80's comeback in Rocky? Living in America isn't the best from JB but to just ignore it? Really?

• Finally, how much more would it have cost to have 2 drummers in the live shots? If you're gonna miss this detail, how many others did you think were not necessary.

i said the exact same thing about his comeback.

Slave2daGroove said:

Finally saw it last night and, overall, I was impressed and enjoyed it. For all the things that were "missing" in the movie, and there was quite a bit, I'm simply glad that Brown got the major studio biopic treatment instead of some made-for-tv BS.

Biggest complaint- I didn't like how, towards the end of the movie, Brown was portrayed as another old addict that was past his prime. Yes, Brown was doing a lot of weed and PCP in his last days but, unlike his contemporaries, I always suspected that the drug use was a way of self medicating due to being the "hardest working man in show business". In other words, if you were in your 50's and still performing with dropping on your knees, doing the splits, and other hard James Brown dancing in 1982, you too might need PCP to get through those shows.

Random complaint- I didn't see anyone portraying Danny Ray. How can you make a James Brown bio pic without including Danny Ray?!?!?!?

Still, it was a good flick and Chadwick did justice to the role...

CoolMF said:

Finally saw it last night and, overall, I was impressed and enjoyed it. For all the things that were "missing" in the movie, and there was quite a bit, I'm simply glad that Brown got the major studio biopic treatment instead of some made-for-tv BS.

Biggest complaint- I didn't like how, towards the end of the movie, Brown was portrayed as another old addict that was past his prime. Yes, Brown was doing a lot of weed and PCP in his last days but, unlike his contemporaries, I always suspected that the drug use was a way of self medicating due to being the "hardest working man in show business". In other words, if you were in your 50's and still performing with dropping on your knees, doing the splits, and other hard James Brown dancing in 1982, you too might need PCP to get through those shows.

Random complaint- I didn't see anyone portraying Danny Ray. How can you make a James Brown bio pic without including Danny Ray?!?!?!?

Still, it was a good flick and Chadwick did justice to the role...

whothe fuck is danny ray?

CoolMF said:

Finally saw it last night and, overall, I was impressed and enjoyed it. For all the things that were "missing" in the movie, and there was quite a bit, I'm simply glad that Brown got the major studio biopic treatment instead of some made-for-tv BS.

Biggest complaint- I didn't like how, towards the end of the movie, Brown was portrayed as another old addict that was past his prime. Yes, Brown was doing a lot of weed and PCP in his last days but, unlike his contemporaries, I always suspected that the drug use was a way of self medicating due to being the "hardest working man in show business". In other words, if you were in your 50's and still performing with dropping on your knees, doing the splits, and other hard James Brown dancing in 1982, you too might need PCP to get through those shows.

Random complaint- I didn't see anyone portraying Danny Ray. How can you make a James Brown bio pic without including Danny Ray?!?!?!?

Still, it was a good flick and Chadwick did justice to the role...

kidmelody2012 said:

whothe fuck is danny ray?

Hated it, *in fairness i saw the forthcoming documentary weeks before I saw me and the peeps i saw the doc with disliked it also. We preferred the doc.

Yesterday,I went to go see this movie again saw it the day it was released,too.Yes...I liked it that much!

The performance scenes are incredible.It's worth seeing just for that,alone.

missfee said:

I can understand how one could be frustrated with the time periods going out of order, at first I thought it was going to annoy me, but it didn't...in fact, I think that's what made the movie more interesting.

I agree.It seems like the filmmakers didn't want to play it safe and make a 'typical' biopic.I applaud them for that.