12-02-2005, 04:44 PM
Come on, it's Usher!
This film sucked, but I knew that going in. How can I turn down my godson's choice in movies? Just say No? Hmmmm . . . .
Anyway Usher is a DJ who wants to start his own record company. But while spinning the ones and twos at a party for one of his childhood friends who's come back from law school and is the daughter of a mobboss, he takes a bullet for the mobboss during an assasination attempt. See Usher's father worked for the Mobboss (Poor type-cast Chaz Palmentieri). Fortunately, he has a lucky shoulder wound. I think. The bandage would disappear and reappear from scene to scene. Sometimes from shot to shot within a scene.
In a wacky twist of fate, Usher becomes the bodygaurd for the daughter. Naturally, they fall in love. Or rekindle an old flame. Despite the attempts on the Mobboss's life, Chaz wants to kill Usher when he finds out. It's that interracial tension. Or not really kill but take him really far away and dump him off in the rain.
However, a strange kidnapping ensues and all the participants must meet back at the club where Usher dj's. Now the hiphop talking white son of Chaz comes in to save the day during the gun standoff between Chaz and assassins/kidnappers, but Usher manages to take another bullet meant for the mobboss's daughter. This one lands in the other shoulder.
All is forgiven. Usher marries daughter. The end. Thank god. It was a festival of stereotypes and racism. I thought steppin Fetchit could have played the lead. And I don't think there were any more cliches' to trot out. Once again. poor Chaz Palmentieri.
What made the film really memorable is that the had two of the reels in the wrong sequence. For me it was very jarring when the reels skipped. One second Usher is being dragged off by the Mob boss's goons. The next scene, he's having a pleasant breakfast with the same Mob Boss. I don't know if anybody else picke up on the subtle plot change, but I did mention it to the manager, who gave the fish eye stair when I mentioned the problem.
This film sucked, but I knew that going in. How can I turn down my godson's choice in movies? Just say No? Hmmmm . . . .
Anyway Usher is a DJ who wants to start his own record company. But while spinning the ones and twos at a party for one of his childhood friends who's come back from law school and is the daughter of a mobboss, he takes a bullet for the mobboss during an assasination attempt. See Usher's father worked for the Mobboss (Poor type-cast Chaz Palmentieri). Fortunately, he has a lucky shoulder wound. I think. The bandage would disappear and reappear from scene to scene. Sometimes from shot to shot within a scene.
In a wacky twist of fate, Usher becomes the bodygaurd for the daughter. Naturally, they fall in love. Or rekindle an old flame. Despite the attempts on the Mobboss's life, Chaz wants to kill Usher when he finds out. It's that interracial tension. Or not really kill but take him really far away and dump him off in the rain.
However, a strange kidnapping ensues and all the participants must meet back at the club where Usher dj's. Now the hiphop talking white son of Chaz comes in to save the day during the gun standoff between Chaz and assassins/kidnappers, but Usher manages to take another bullet meant for the mobboss's daughter. This one lands in the other shoulder.
All is forgiven. Usher marries daughter. The end. Thank god. It was a festival of stereotypes and racism. I thought steppin Fetchit could have played the lead. And I don't think there were any more cliches' to trot out. Once again. poor Chaz Palmentieri.
What made the film really memorable is that the had two of the reels in the wrong sequence. For me it was very jarring when the reels skipped. One second Usher is being dragged off by the Mob boss's goons. The next scene, he's having a pleasant breakfast with the same Mob Boss. I don't know if anybody else picke up on the subtle plot change, but I did mention it to the manager, who gave the fish eye stair when I mentioned the problem.
So much for the flickr badge idea. Dammit