really looking forward to this . if its half as good as the Ray film [Ray Charles] it will be brilliant. dont know too much about Chadwick Boseman in the title roll, but with cast members like Dan Aykroyd , Jill Scott Aloe Blacc and Mick Jagger scattered among the cast its got to be worth a watch. how can you shoe horn a life as action packed as the Godfathers into a 138 minute film. YOU CANT . one of the true icons . seems to be on release november 21st in the Manchester area. looking forward to it .whilst on the subject of our heroes given the Hollywood treatment . what happened to the Marvin Gaye movie . i know Lenny Kravitz dropped out of the project . is it still going ahead ? seems to have dragged on for ever. shorty

saw this on the weekend, did not hate it.

Not a bad effort.

James Brown's life story is quite something.

Boseman is a pretty decent dancer too.

Looking forward to it too….

It's good, deffo worth watching.

I've previously posted up on here somewhere as a recommendation to watch.

It's a really good effort.

Not a spoiler, but considering he was mad as a box of frogs, he didn't half have some clever business acumen.

Enjoy the movie.

It needed subtitles for half of James Brown's lines

  On 31/10/2014 at 17:50, Pete S said:

It needed subtitles for half of James Brown's lines

 

Yeah, but that was true of JB himself too, didn't you think the young actor playing him very was good Pete?

I thought he nailed it, not an easy feat.

The track Superbad is brilliant in this, like being hit by a cricket bat

 

I enjoyed it immensely and it didn't shy away from the fact that he was a real son of a bitch when he wanted to be   

 

It got an 8/10 from me.

  On 31/10/2014 at 16:33, Dave Moran said:

Not a bad effort.

James Brown's life story is quite something.

Boseman is a pretty decent dancer too.

Is he black or blacked up ...

 

I hope they had the budget to get a real brother, then i would look forward to this big time....... 

  On 31/10/2014 at 19:05, little-stevie said:

Is he black or blacked up ...

 

I hope they had the budget to get a real brother, then i would look forward to this big time....... 

 

No Stevie, he is a black actor called Chadwick Boseman, big star of the future me thinks.

great to see most of the reviews are positive. hate to see them make a real dogs dinner on this project. so much drama in J.Bs life . they probably could have made five films. looking forward to it

the opening scenes where he`s got the pump action rifle and he`s threatening to shoot someone for using his toilet.hahahahahaha

  On 31/10/2014 at 18:04, MrsWoodsrules said:

Yeah, but that was true of JB himself too, didn't you think the young actor playing him very was good Pete?

I thought he nailed it, not an easy feat.

 

Yeah I thought he was great, and really enjoyed the film, just found some of the dialogue a bit tricky to hear

  On 01/11/2014 at 10:08, Pete S said:

Yeah I thought he was great, and really enjoyed the film, just found some of the dialogue a bit tricky to hear

It's a big problem Pete on many TV shows and movies these days ...and it's not just our failing hearing as we get older.....

 

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/may/01/jamaica-inn-bbc-strategy-chief-sound

  On 31/10/2014 at 17:50, Pete S said:

It needed subtitles for half of James Brown's lines

like that film airplane 

Looking forward to this.

On a macabre tangent....anyone see that report in the news today that they haven't actually got round to burying him yet??? Doesn't seem a very reliable source but the Guardian have it on their site.