8 Mile

This movie was amazing! I was pleasantly surprised! I wasn't an Eminem fan going into the movie but I'm certainly one now. Seeing how different things are on the 'other side of the tracks' was a big eye opener for me. I loved the script, the actors, the music - basically I loved everything all the way down to the lighting. It's got everything for everyone in it! Comedy, drama, action, fighting, guns, drugs, sex, and of course - Bunny Rabbit. I loved the movie. I laughed so hard I cried at times and then I just flat out cried at others. I would HIGHLY recommend it to everyone whether they are an Eminem fan or not. Do be careful trying to get into it though. We had to go to four different movie theaters before my 16-year-old friend could get in. They're checking I.D.'s on this one BIG time. Anyway - go see the movie! You'll love it! I swear on my grave it's the best movie that I've seen in a long time!

May contain spoilers************************ This is one of the most overrated movies in history. There was nothing redeeming about this cinematic disaster. I guess to save money making sets they decided to film 75% of the movie from the inside of a car that looks like it was salvaged from the bottom of the Atlantic ocean. Eminem driving around, very exciting, see Eminem as he drives from place to place in Detroit, the car scenes in the movie Mitchell were more exciting than this. This is your definition of a bad movie, bad acting, bad writing, bad dialogue, bad directing, you couldn't have made a worse movie if you tried. This movie had so many things that made no sense at all. IM stunned and shocked a prostitute isn't a loyal girl, come on; not just any prostitute a prostitute with the worst hair style since Hillary Clinton. As annoying and stupid as Eminem's character is; his friends still manage to be annoying in their own way. The most annoying character since jar jar binks: cheddar bob. Why did the films writers and producers, in their infinite wisdom pick cheddar for bobs name? Why not Swiss bob? mozzarella bob? Or provolone bob? Muenster bob maybe? and the movie fails to specify what type of cheddar he is, is he mild or sharp? Well, we know he isn't sharp, I think his expiration date is a few years past. I am tired of hearing how great his rhymes are, a kindergarten class could write better stuff than he has in this movie. who does this stuff? Who shoots painballs at cops? who sees a group of 10 people coming to beat you up and just sits there? Who falls in love with a hooker with bad hair? who shoots themselves? Is that you moldy mild cheddar bob? can I not have your autograph? The fact that people like this movie says something very sad about our society.

Jimmy 'B-Rabbit' Smith (Eminem) is desperate to be a rapper. It's 1995 Detroit. With the support of his friend David 'Future' Porter (Mekhi Phifer), he aims to overcome his personal problems. His mother Stephanie (Kim Basinger) is a drunk. He leaves his girlfriend Janeane (Taryn Manning) when she tells him that she's pregnant. He chokes on a head-to-head rap battle. He has no place to go but to move back into his mother's trailer. His mom's boyfriend Greg (Michael Shannon) is a jerk. He has a part-time grimy auto parts job and then he meets Alex (Brittany Murphy). Eminem is basically playing himself and he does a good job. He's surrounded by good actors. The sense of the place is the standout of this movie. The Detroit locations have the proper grittiness. The desperation is palpable. The rap battles are exhilarating. The story is relatively standard with nice touches. This is a matter of the perfect story for the perfect lead. He's not really acting as much as being himself.