50 Cent gives Terrence Howard kudos for Hustle & Flow, the better rap movie.

Get Rich or Die Tryin'

directed by Jim Sheridan (The Boxer)
written by Terence Winter ("The New Adventures of Flipper")

produced by Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine (8 Mile), Chris Lighty, Heather Perry, Paul Rosenberg, Jim Sheridan (The Boxer)

starring 50 Cent, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, (Congo), Joy Bryant (The Skeleton Key), Omar Benson Miller (Sorority Boys), Tory Kittles (Against the Ropes), Terence Howard (Glitter)

lowdown: The rise of a gangster rapper.

low expectation:   
There is nobody better to write a script about a gangster rapper than Terence Winter.  Afterall, he was a writer for that latest Flipper television show.  Oh wait, that's right, he's since been writing episodes of "The Sopranos".  After handling the mafia, 50 Cent's life should have been like writing a mundane kids' movie.  Unless I'm just confusing the prospects of this masked bio to the other one starring Eminem, which might as well have starred Fred Savage and a Nintendo for all its misguided and fortuitous encouragements amidst cheap melodrama. 

Actually its too bad that this film comes on the heels of 8 Mile and Hustle & Flow.  The former makes me expect something as bad and the latter makes me expect nothing as good.  But Get Rich or Die Tryin' has Jim Sheridan, the man who has directed Daniel Day-Lewis to enormous success.   

So this film about black thugs has an Emmy-winning writer of Italian thugs and an Oscar-nominated director of Irish thugs.  So why do I still expect the worst?  Because it still comes off as being familiar territory and it looks slow and boring and 50 Cent is one of the few rappers who isn't also a talented actor.

website:
GetRichorDieTryingmovie.com

official synopsis:
     Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, one of the biggest and most popular stars in hip-hop, is the charismatic driving force behind "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" a hard-hitting drama directed by six-time Oscar® nominee Jim Sheridan about an orphaned street kid who makes his mark in the drug trade but finally dares to leave the violence behind and become the rap artist he was meant to be. Marcus (Jackson) has always known he was going to be a rapper, but when his mother is murdered, he turns to dealing - hustling drugs pays the rent. As his world spirals out of control, he begins to apply the same manic intensity to his writing as he does to dealing; he has to write down his words to stay sane. For years, he endures this living hell until a tragedy that nearly kills him gets Marcus to change his life.

--© Paramount Pictures

Expectation Key


there's no possible way I will ever see this

I might eventually see this but I'm not really expecting much

anticipating the release of this one but I'm sure to be left unsatisfied

such high expectation of this film only leaves room for disappointment