Straight Outta Compton

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Straight Outta Compton is a film I wanted to watch for a long time. Not because I'm interested in the music of the band in the film (the title is the name of their first album) but because I like Ice Cube. And watched him to a film promotion at Graham Norton talk shaw and suddenly I was interested. And the film is good, despite being very long. I didn't realise how the time passed actually since the characters were very interesting. Ice Cube's son playes Ice Cube and he looks like him and does a credible job. All in all it is yet another band doing a great album and split due to money and some members become more successfull (Dre and Ice Cube) while others lose a lot of things. And the film probably is not really objective since Ice Cube actually is one of the producers (and this character is one of the good ones) but the whole thing was fascinating the way these people rise from extreme situations to fame and money. Also it is dedicated to one of the rappers in the band called Easy E who has died from AIDS (he is a heterosexual but a very active one). Oh one other thing that surprised me is how the film was uncut. Not the violence but there are some very explicist sex scenes and they were all in. Probably the person who put it on Digiturk was a fan of the band or something.