John Singleton (Writer/Director)
Singleton was all of 23 years old when Boyz n the Hood was released; the comparisons to Orson Welles were inevitable and, in light of his subsequent output, sadly appropriate. Though he’s had some financial successes, Singleton has never again approached the raw emotional power or intelligence of his debut film. His initial follow-ups (Poetic Justice, Higher Learning) mostly fell under the realm of “interesting failures”; his high-profile Shaft remake had its moments, though strangely most of them were provided by supporting players Jeffrey Wright and Christian Bale rather than leading man Samuel L. Jackson. After that, it was all downhill: Baby Boy, his 2001 attempt to return to Boyz territory, was embarrassingly heavy-handed, but that film was a masterpiece compared to its follow-up, 2 Fast 2 Furious. 2005’s Four Brothers, also a pretty witless piece of bullshit male macho posturing, was his last theatrical feature, though he’s got a new film out this fall: the Taylor Lautner vehicle Abduction. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
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Wow, it’s been 20 years since I first screamed, in slo-mo, “Ricky!!!”
A great movie.
R.I.P. Doughboy.
Oh, and for the record, Puff Daddy cannot act.
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I can see that Your Not into Given Very High Praises to African American Actors who have Bust their A** in this Business Called Show Business.Look at What You said about Cuba Gooding Jr the way You talk About Some of his rRole Choices and About Laurence Fishburne being the only high profile actor All these Actors have high profiles and have had Some Very Impressive roles in tv and Movies
@dabosslady- “He’s been the highEST-profile actor in the cast in the years since…”
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/-est:
-est
a suffix forming the superlative degree of adjectives and adverbs: warmest; fastest; soonest.
No One Is Accusing These Actors (African American Or Otherwise) or Not Working Hard. But Cuba Gooding Jr Clearly Can’t Pick A Good Script. Thanks For Reading.
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