This movie is slow and boring. Its dark and grainy and full of factories it's also depressing. The only highlight was the sex scene in the factory.
This movie is BOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGG!
You dont understand hip hop (real hip hop. Not that lil wayne bs). It's all about how he overcame the fact that everyone was doubting him and came out on top. Everytime someone wanted to bring him down, he was able to "flip the script" on them. He took his weaknesses and made them his strengths. Watch the movie more carefully and with an open mind please.
shareif it was'nt for the rap battle I'd agree with u 100%. otherwise it was boring.
fried ice cream is a reality
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you are probably a retarded white 30 year old who had cases of schizophrenia as child.
shareI lol'ed at jeff garcia...
I'm a white 33 y/o female...23 when it came out.
Not retarded and never had schizo *or diagnosed...I have been known to blurt out cuss words for no apparent reson ;)
Anyways.....I loved this movie, I record it every time it comes on, if it's been a while, I fast forward to the rap to Sweet Home Alabama//then to the fight and Cheddar hurts himself//then to the rap battles at the end!!
My husband can not stand rap but will watch this when it comes on with me!!!
you have no skjaljflakf patience do you?
i bet your fave movie is twilight.
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Agree with the OP, I can't believe I waited eight years to watch this and what a stupid movie it was. Probably just became successful because of eminem's persona, and not the quality of the movie itself.
shareI think its interesting that just because someone doesn't like a movie , it becomes he likes twilight or the sound of music ( which is a classic by the way ,but most critics standards ) . The person wasn't into the movie not that big of a deal , he isn't the only person I know who didn't like it . That doesn't mean they have bad taste in movies , they just didn't like this movie . It was very slow ,except for the battle parts .
shareHere's my original review from 2002. I also found the film boring:
I thought my life was boring untill I saw how boring a life eminem has.share
Saw it Friday night and so far it is the worst film I've seen this year. I was so drasticly disapointed in this movie I don't even know where to start.
Number one, it commits the worst sin a film like this, aimed at a youth demo and popular appeal, can commit: IT IS *beep* BORING AS ALL GET OUT!!!!
Nothing happens for 1hr. 45min. then there is some rapping for 10min. and the movie is over. The plot is exactly like Rocky, except instead of seeing the relatively interesting sequences of rocky training for the fight, all we get in 8 Mile is Eminem driving around with his friends and doing nothing.
Now I like "driving around with friends and doing nothing" movies. I love Dazed and Confused and American Graffiti. But those films have incedent and good dialogue, AND THEY ARE FUNNY!!! This film is humorless, it has poorly writen dialogue, and when these characters hang out their lives have so little dramatic incident that the filmmakers resort to clumsy interludes where they burn down a house or shot a paintball gun out of a car. No drama + no suspense + no depth + no ambiguity = total auto-pilot wretchedness.
Then to top it all off THERE IS NO MUSIC IN THE MOVIE. I really like eminem and I thought this would be a musical that injected a half dozen or so song performances into the film (like its equally boring but nontheless MUSICAL cousin, Purple Rain, did so well). To discover that the whole movie is freeform rap battles was a real disapointment. There is only one Eminem song and it is over the end credits.
The packed theater I saw it with did not seem enthusiastic about the film, and they HATED Britney Murphey and (unlike Eminem) never forgave her for cheating. The guys and girls behind me were calling her a ho and a bitch up untill the last frame of the movie.
Total garbage. Total letdown. Biggest disapointment of the year. Waste of top tallent. Waste of eminem's musical tallent. Don't waste your money at the theater or on a rental.
Horrible Horrible Horrible Horrible Horrible Horrible Horrible Horrible Horrible
And what the hell happened to Basinger's character. Talk about an underwriten part! She disapears 25min. before the end of the movie. Given Eminems well publicized battles with his mom I thought the film would explore more conflict betweent the mother and son. Instead her story is neatly (and hapily) wraped up and she disapears never to be seen again.
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