Gr8t Mile

Advantages: Story, Acting, Soundtrack
Disadvantages: Not for those that do not like hip-hop/rap

...8 Mile Movie: Life has not been kind to Jimmy 'B-Rabbit' Smith (Eminem). His pregnant girlfriend broke up with him and he gave her his car, although he finds out that she was just pretending. He has a dead end job in a car manufacturing plant and because he is homeless he has to move in with his mum and baby sister in a trailer park. But B-Rabbit has a dream, he wants to be a rapper and we see him at the beginning of the film preparing for his "battle" in the grimy toilets of a dilapidated night club called The Shelter, he is nervous and actually vomits in the toilets before making his way through the hyped up crowd to the stage, the crowd is mainly black youths, the other rapper he is battling against is black as are his crew, with the exception of his friend Cheddar Bob (Evan Jones) he is the only white guy there; a white guy in...

sjp1966 30.11.2008 · Read review
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8 Mile Film Review

Advantages: Rap Battles
Disadvantages: Uninteresting plot and characters

...If hearing Eminem's voice on numerous radio stations and music television channels wasn't enough, director Curtis Hanson decided to create the rags-to-riches Hip-Hop musical 8 Mile to exhaust all mainstream possibilities and tell the world how great the white rapper is. I don't really hate Eminem: Admittedly, I did enjoy some of the tracks on The Marshall Mathers LP (which I regard as the height of his career as a music artist). It's just that anything he has done since then seems like an excuse to make Hip-Hop more acceptable to a commercial audience. Gone are the days of him wanting to "Kill You": He now prefers to dress up as a superhero for the video of "Without Me", declaring himself as the saviour of popular music. After all, a white face at the forefront of the culture means more money for the A & R offices of the music industry...

andycarrington 20.08.2009 (22.08.2009) · Read review
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8 Mile

Advantages: Rapping is wicked
Disadvantages: None really

...Controversial rapper Eminem (real name Marshall Mathers) starss in the film 8 MILE. This is a drama directed by the Curtis Hanson. It is set in 1995 in Detroit, and follows the life and struggles of a young man who desperately wants to better his life. Eminem plays Jimmy Smith, Jr., better known as Rabbit, who has grown up in poverty and squalor living in a trailor park with his Mum who is played by Kim Basinger. Rabbit has a job in a factory to make what money he can. Rabbit offloads his stresses and struggles through hip hop. He is a talented freestyle rapper, Rabbit still hasn't managed to do anything with his talent. However his best friend Future (Mekhi Phifer) is determined to make sure that he does. Future gets Rabbit to enter a freestryle battle that he failed the week before. This is a great movie giving an idea...

Lisab3410 07.01.2008 · Read review
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Eminem DVD - 8 Mile

Advantages: Good storyline and cast
Disadvantages: None

...8-Mile - Every moment is another chance I'm doing this review based on the DVD version of this film. 8-Mile is rated a 15 so it is only suitable for people aged over 15 due to some sexual scenes in the film. The Cast The main characters within the cast of this film are the famous white rapper Eminem, Kim Bassinger, Brittany Murphy, Mekhi Phifer. All the cast within this film are brilliant actors making the film realistic and helping you really get into the film. Each character is well suited to the part they play making the people within the film realistic helping drag you in all most like you are part of the film. Story Line The film is mainly about a group of young people in an American rapping community, Rabbit played by Eminem is a brilliant rapper working his way up trying to get himself known and make...

Hsaxo 02.04.2008 · Read review
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The Eminem Show...His life story? * 8 Mile *

Advantages: Good film, I liked it.
Disadvantages: None.

... 8 MILE Running Time: 115 minutes Certificate: 15 I like a fair bit of Eminem's music so when this film came out I was interested, but happy enough to wait until it came out on DVD. I picked it up from eBay at the bargain price of £3.00 inc. postage. Must say I was very impressed how well Eminem performed because singers/wrestlers and the like don't always transfer well into the world of film. What it's about... 8 Mile is a semi-autobiographical film based on Marshall Mathers life before he became the famous rapper we know today, basically a gripping gritty tale of a poor-white-trash boy who wants to make it big. Eminem gives a great performance in the role of Jimmy 'Bunny Rabbit' Smith Jr. a white kid from the wrong side of Detroits 8 Mile who is having a hard life and struggling to realize his dream...

The-ex-Raven 03.02.2008 · Read review
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Lose Yourself in 8 Mile

Advantages: Realistic, gritty and entertaining stuff
Disadvantages: Kim Basinger!

...Whether you like Eminem or not, not many people can deny that the guy has some serious talent. I personally thought his early stuff was pretty dire, although some of the lyrics were very clever, but his last two albums have really grown on me. I'm not into this kind of music at all generally, but I have purchased the 8 Mile soundtrack, due to watching this film. Ah yes, the film! 8 Mile is kind of a 'semi-autobiographical' tale of young Marshall Mathers III. Although it doesn't tell the story of Eminem's life and meteoric rise to fame, the actor/singer/performer admits that the film has many parallels with his own life. It charts the life of one Jimmy Smith Jr, who is know to everyone (including his own mother!) as B-Rabbit. ("When he was born he had these big ears and buck teeth... just like a widdle wabbit!") Jimmy was living...

daddycash 22.07.2003 (23.07.2003) · Read review
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8-Mile: Excellent movie

Advantages: Good plotting, Excellent acting,
Disadvantages: Not suitable for young folks because of the frequent foul languages used.

...In 8 mile, multi-platinum rapper Eminem plays Jimmy Smith, Jr., known to everyone (including his mum, played Kim Basinger) as Bunny Rabbit. Growing up in the ?ghetto? area of Detroit, he dreams of making it big as a rapper. Only a few of his friends know that he has the potentials for his dreams to come true. His best pal ?Future? (Mekhi Phifer) is the MC of a rap contest, wherein locals compete by insulting each other in the form of rhymes. Bunny?s first appearance in this competition results in an extreme embarrassment, as he froze on the stage and used the 45 seconds he was given, staring at the audience as they laugh at him. Everyone in Detroit, except for Bunny?s friends think he cannot have a better life than he has. Truthfully, his life wasn?t right, from his classmate sleeping with his mum, and his black enemies having sex...

flashy01 27.05.2004 · Read review
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8 MILE (2002) [FILM ONLY REVIEW]

Advantages: Appealing performance from Eminem, good cinematography
Disadvantages: Predictable conclusion, the hard road to glory cliches abound

...Curtis Hanson's 8 MILE was released in 2002, two years after WONDER BOYS with Michael Douglas propelled him to the balmy heights of a great director. What, then, would a recently initiated great director make of controversial rapper Eminem's acting debut in a down-and-dirty story of the rap world? Eminem is a bum rapper with ambitious aspirations of Hip Hop success. His dreams, however, in no way whatsoever mirror his down-and-out life. He lives on the outskirts of a miserable city, known as 8 Mile Road separating the working class city from the middle class suburbs. Thoroughly miserable, working a low-paid dead-end job in a miserable sweat shop of a factory, and thoroughly disillusioned, having flunked a freestyle rap battle he believed he was good enough to win, things get even more miserable for him when he breaks up with his...

Charles_Strickland 08.02.2007 · Read review
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8 Mile - Suprisingly good

Advantages: Great rapping and amazing actors, make this a storyline not to be missed
Disadvantages: Bad language, some sex scenes - depending on what you like/dislike!

...pointed out to me, the character was made for Eminem to play as it was based around his life. It would be interesting to see if he was as good an actor in another character. But he works well in this, so no complaints! should you want more information about the film, the web-site is: www.8-mile.com...

daisy1111 10.03.2003 (11.03.2003) · Read review
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Ipod Touch 8Gb with engraving

Advantages: All the features of the iphone but without the massive price tag
Disadvantages: battery life could be better

...--Background-- I bought the iPod touch for my son for his 10th birthday. Before he alerted me to the item I knew nothing at all about it. Having played around with it for a few hours, I can now see what all the fuss is about as this item is so addictive. The touch comes in 3 guises, namely 8Gb, 16Gb and 32Gb versions. These are all identical apart from, obviously the storage capacity. --In the box-- I must admit that then the box came, I thought half the order had been missed as it is minute! Along with the ipod itself, you get the headphones, a usb to pc charger and a quick setup guide. Although this seem very little, it is actually enough to get you up and running in next to no time. As we bought this direct from the Apple store we were entitlted to free engraving on the back of the device. We took the decision to have his...

craggybuk 13.05.2009 (15.05.2009) · Read review
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