Word: soundtracked
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...year. “Get Rich or Die Tryin’,” 50 Cent’s semi-autobiographical tale of rags-to-rap-stardom, promised everything that I look for in a film: drug-dealing, thugged-out raptors (rapper/actor), and a banging hip-hop soundtrack. Unfortunately, the film tells the same story we’ve heard hundreds of times in a manner suggesting that even 50 is bored. Disregarding the fact that “Get Rich” is a Shady/Aftermath production and Marcus (50 Cent) rolls with the same fat dude (Omar Miller) that...
...paper,” and some new combination of the same four or five expletives, a new catchy four-bar hook, a new Scott Storch beat. And, apparently, we love it, because he is still selling better than any other rapper around. The soundtrack to 50’s new movie “Get Rich Or Die Tryin’” is the latest installment, no more and no less. The album pretty much has the same feel all the way through: mildly threatening drums, mid-tempo minor-key keyboards and the occasional generic...
...it.The widespread popularity of the musical was surprising: Not many would have predicted that a gritty depiction of inner-city poverty, drug addiction, and the ravages of AIDS would have broad appeal. (Maybe it had something to do with the show’s rockin’ soundtrack and attractive cast of multi-cultural twenty-somethings.)But all of this success was bittersweet, as the show’s writer and composer, Jonathan Larson, died suddenly from an aneurysm shortly before its debut. The specter of his loss haunted each performance and lent them a funerary solemnity. Unfortunately, Chris Columbus?...
...Robert “The RZA/Ruler Zig-Zag-Zig Allah/ Rzarector Prince Rakeem/” Diggs was cast as its moral center and tragic antihero. The hip-hop MC, best known for his work in the East Coast hardcore crew the Wu-Tang Clan, has also composed film soundtracks, including those of both “Kill Bill”’s and “Blade: Trinity.” While his musical skill and influence on rap is undeniable, his laughable performance as the ex-convict confidante Winston is simply not the crossover stuff...
...pipe dream at Harvard: we live in exceptionally close and crowded quarters, often separated by paper-thin walls, fire doors, and flimsy partitions. But the fire door arrangement is particularly precarious because one push can open up an entirely different world, and even modulated voices can offer a constant soundtrack...