Spin: Has there been a good performance that made a bad movie tolerable

Ed MOTHEREFFING G

Chances make champions
Joined
Sep 27, 2012
Messages
15,899
Reputation
3,923
Daps
56,699
Reppin
206 x 734
And I haven't even mentioned the awesome set pieces like the entire Jamaica act (especially the dancehall scene and the driving scene), the 10/10 visuals, and use of music.

There is a very good movie in Belly behind poor acting.
 

Cladyclad

Veteran
Supporter
Joined
Jun 3, 2012
Messages
49,345
Reputation
5,480
Daps
125,242
Reppin
Detroit Lions, Michigan Wolverines & LWO
You said that like it doesn't have a coherent thought. It does. It just has poor performances by tboz and Nas. Dmx, method man, Lennox, all did very well.

Do you think the plot is nonsense or you just don't like the plot?

That plot is similar to any crime drama...storywise what's the difference between that and The Town other than the heroin subplot?
I never said nothing. I just asked to describe the plot
 

Doobie Doo

Veteran
Joined
May 2, 2012
Messages
62,923
Reputation
25,001
Daps
406,120
Reppin
Raleigh, NC
Two friends are NYC based robbers who do heists with a small crew of friends. After a heist at a night club, an altercation occurs and one of their colleagues feels slighted and disrespected.

They hear about a new type of heroin and one of them, Bundy, is very interested in buying said heroin and expanding out of state. He visits a possible distributor in Jamaica, and earns his blessing to buy heroin and distribute it as he pleases.

When word gets out locally and in New York that they're selling heroin in Nebraska, their enemies locally and former partners who feel wronged seek to end this distribution channel and kill one of the leaders, Bundy. Bundy recruits young criminals to work for him, when costs them their life, and much violence follows.

While Bundy is dealing with the drug operation in Nebraska, his partner Sincere, is losing interest in continuing his life of crime. Bundy ends up getting arrested following a shooting, and after he is released he is approached by an unidentified man who is seemingly a clandestine agent, or other mysterious figure. Because of the charges Bundy is facing, he is compromised, and agrees to infiltrate an NOI-like religious organization, and assassinate it's leader before a speech on new years eve.

While he is running his COINTELPRO in the organization, the messages of said leader relate to Bundy, and he chooses not to kill the leader, and improve the outlook of his life. Similarly, Sincere (following an attempt on his life by the afformentioned former partner) gets inspired to move his family to Africa and further escape the wages of crime and violence they have created.

It is a pretty clear story.

If you want the plot on the back of a napkin or TLDR format:

Two NYC criminals expand their enterprise while also dealing with their growing desire to escape their life of violence.

Any decent movie's plot can be summed up in a few sentences
 

Peter Popoff

PROTECT YA NECK!! ❤️🖤💚 🙏🏽
Joined
Dec 25, 2012
Messages
35,191
Reputation
25,480
Daps
102,578
Reppin
BRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOKKKKKKLLLLLYYYYYNNNN
Eddie Murphy in Golden Child. Movie is classic, without him, it's trash.

Eddie carried a lot of movies in the mid-late 80s, early 90s.

Also Denzel Washington in out of time. Movie would've been straight to VHS without him.
 
  • Dap
Reactions: IVS

Ed MOTHEREFFING G

Chances make champions
Joined
Sep 27, 2012
Messages
15,899
Reputation
3,923
Daps
56,699
Reppin
206 x 734
Its incredibly true. You didn't read TV guide growing up?
...i literally gave a tv guide description of belly as well


But you cant describe the “PLOT” of every movie in ‘a couple sentences’. You can give a brief synopsis to let the reader know its theme but please give me the plot of Total recall, blade runner, pulp fiction, or once upon a time in the west in a sentence
 
Top