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Aaliyah... make up! Cruddy movie!

posted 18 years ago by user-153
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I'd love to like this film. Jet Li deserves a good film and as I sat down to watch it a few years after the first time, I thought 'how bad can it be'? Answer. Really bad. Style over substance. Most of the time it looks like a pop video. I'm guessing I'm not it's target audience.

For example, Aaliyah's make up. It changes several times during the same day, and is always freshly applied. And why and how is she made to look so white during the film? I take it she was mixed race? I genuinely don't know. Did this make the film easier to market?

[–] MariMcCabe 18 years ago

White? I don't remember her being pale, not in the least. Aaliyah had a 'caramel' brown complexion.

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[–] samsan_lee 18 years ago

she was 1/4 japanese (grandmother). I think it was just too much foundation per scene and it was affecting Jet Li (alergic to her) in some portions.

I was disappointed in this movie, but appreciate Jet Li taking the chance to do an urban crime thriller, rather than debut in the much more critically praised Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Chow Yun fat role). I understand that Ang Lee wanted Li for that film, but he did Romeo Must Die instead.

It wasnt really career suicide, since Li took chances with Danny the Dog (set in England) and Dragon's Kiss (set in France). I like how he diversified his appearances in film rather than go the traditional historic China angle for his fight scenes.

Romeo Must Die is more urban-contemporary culture clash, that was needed. it gives China(Beijing) an idea of the inner city, class conflict and music influences (hip hop being a little popular in some areas of china).

I commend Li for that foresight.

[–] badgyrl_310 18 years ago

^^^^^^^^^

Actually, Aaliyah's grandmother was Native American.

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[–] blaque108 17 years ago

I think Aaliyah make-up looked nice in the movie, no she isn't japanese, she's native american like the one person said. Her grandmother is native american and something else. Anyways, I loved this movie, I have this movie at the house I watched at least 100 times.

[–] vpoetic-1 17 years ago

Her Grandmother was African American with Native American Ancestry.

[–] MusicLovePoetry 16 years ago

That makes no sense

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[–] BombayBadBoy 16 years ago

she was 1/4 japanese (grandmother). I think it was just too much foundation per scene and it was affecting Jet Li (alergic to her) in some portions.

I was disappointed in this movie, but appreciate Jet Li taking the chance to do an urban crime thriller, rather than debut in the much more critically praised Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Chow Yun fat role). I understand that Ang Lee wanted Li for that film, but he did Romeo Must Die instead.

It wasnt really career suicide, since Li took chances with Danny the Dog (set in England) and Dragon's Kiss (set in France). I like how he diversified his appearances in film rather than go the traditional historic China angle for his fight scenes.

Romeo Must Die is more urban-contemporary culture clash, that was needed. it gives China(Beijing) an idea of the inner city, class conflict and music influences (hip hop being a little popular in some areas of china).

I commend Li for that foresight.

He really should get rid of his agent

"And what am I supposed to do while you're on a yellow brick quest for a brain?"

[–] ToddyEnglish 16 years ago

I think her make up was a little off. Aaliyah's mother is half native American...
So she had a little mixture going on. But in real life she was darker complexioned.

Not I said the cat...

[–] Kelea7 15 years ago

The makeup was off.

Jus cuz I have one, two, maybe two drinks sometime, what I'ma AL-ka-holic now?

[–] TrangPak2 14 years ago

Aaliyah's mother is not half Native American. It was her Grandmother Mintis that was part Native American.

[–] sincerely_raven 16 years ago

How does she look "white"? what do you think we (black women) look like?

I'm really getting some bad impressions of how people view us. I heard someone say the only reason a black person dates or marries outside their race is so their children will have lighter skin. What? What about for love?

That being said, I'm not really mixed, and I'm lighter than Aaliyah was. The fact of the matter is, there are really a lot of different looks and types of black people. She seemed black to me... actually she was my idol back then. And a lot of black people I know act and look similar to her... in the end, we're all Americans, so we basically have the same culture.. just different experiences.

Anyway, I'm not really offended, but she doesn't have to be the color of charcoal to look black. Mariah Carey even looks black. I have cousins around her color that are full black.
(There was mixing in my family, but it's so far back, I don't count it. It pretty much stopped at my great-grandparents.)

I just like to shake things up a bit...

[–] icydayz 13 years ago

what?? so all black people have to look like wesley snipes or some *beep*

[–] meljasper85 13 years ago

I'm black and I was wondering the same thing about her complexion. If you notice in her "sre you that somebody" and "if your girl only knew" videos she was brown skinned but in this movie she does look pale. I'm guessing its the make-up and the lighting but I still wonder why it was done, to be more appealing I guess?

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