Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005) Movie Review

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[00:00:23]And this is for Get Rich or Die Tryin', the 2005 film starring Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson.

[00:00:32]Now, I've said this before, I'll say it again, 50 Cent is a shitty actor.

[00:00:40]Ain't worth 5 cents. He ain't worth a dime.

[00:00:46]Even this film where he's playing a version of himself, he sucks. I mean, how the hell does that work?

[00:00:53]Is he just that boring of a person in real life?

[00:00:58]He's a terrible I mean, and what's funny is that I looked up the director of this and he did films like My Left Foot and In the Name of the Father, like these critically acclaimed films and I'm sure the success of 8 Mile helped get this film made.

[00:01:17]8 Mile I would definitely say is better than this. Cuz Eminem actually has a little bit of a good spunky attitude to play off even though he's playing a version of himself.

[00:01:30]Which 50 Cent doesn't.

[00:01:32]But the director was saying in an interview about how yeah, he has a very blank [clears throat] face.

[00:01:39]No emotions. And for some reason he had compared that to John Wayne.

[00:01:45]Well, John Wayne, you know, has that too and uh but then I I made a mistake, you know.

[00:01:53]You know, he's I'm like, yeah, I could have told you he's not 50 Cent, that's [ __ ] John Wayne. I could have told you that, dude.

[00:02:00]He said, "Well, you know, I empathize with him, but a lot people didn't." And I'm like, "Yeah, probably, cuz his film didn't do that well. And I don't know if it's really looked upon that well fan-wise.

[00:02:15]In fact, when you look it up, I've heard more people say it's a bad movie during than anything else.

[00:02:23]50 Cent I mean it's more entertaining him trying to [ __ ] up Puff Daddy with I haven't seen that documentary, but I've heard and just how he's just really kind of funny and vindictive in a funny way.

[00:02:42]Like that'd be more of the movie to make on him than this.

[00:02:47]But the story of the film it starts with 50 Cent and Terrence Howard before he went [ __ ] cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.

[00:02:59]They do a robbery.

[00:03:01]They get out of there.

[00:03:03]They split up.

[00:03:05]And Dime Store Cent get shot the [ __ ] up.

[00:03:15]And they do this a lot, not all of them, but a lot of these type of films where they have an event.

[00:03:20]And then we're going to do a flashback of their childhood.

[00:03:24]I know they did that in the next film about the Tupac about Tupac, All Eyez on Me.

[00:03:30]Only that's an interview and then we stop and we flash back to when they were kids. Other films have done that.

[00:03:35]It's a common trope. It's got even at this point I'm going a trope that's bit tiresome.

[00:03:42]But whatever.

[00:03:45]So it flashes back to him as a kid with his mom.

[00:03:48]His mom [ __ ] she's into drugs.

[00:03:54]I one point, the kid tries to protect his mom and the mom's like, "Hey, don't grow up too fast."

[00:04:00]Well, stop being a [ __ ] then. Stop being a hoe. Stop storing the rock.

[00:04:05]I'm not talking about Dwayne.

[00:04:09]Eventually, the mom is found dead and burnt up.

[00:04:13]And he has to go with his like other family members.

[00:04:18]Looks like there's [ __ ] 10 kids in there and they're ready to lie on top of each other. They're feeding other people's faces.

[00:04:26]So, I don't blame young Quorson to get pissy about it. I would, too. He finally went to Oh, it looks like a basement.

[00:04:41]But, honestly, it looks like a better place than where he was at because there's actually room to breathe and [ __ ] and [ __ ] in there.

[00:04:48]I'd be like, "Why the [ __ ] didn't you put me in here in the first place?"

[00:04:53]And the the artist he puts on is Rick James.

[00:04:57]Now, it doesn't go into what it why he likes Rick James so much.

[00:05:03]But, he does.

[00:05:09]There's a girl that he liked named Charlene, but her parents or like her stepdad have found some song that he was trying to do that was a bit vulgar and that helps make the decision for them to move away and they take Charlene with her.

[00:05:28]He decides to deal with drugs like his mom and such was involved with in order to buy shoes and stuff like that.

[00:05:38]He buys a gun.

[00:05:40]The next thing we know, he's grown up.

[00:05:44]Eventually, he's one of the grandparents, whatever, finds the gun, so he has to leave.

[00:05:51]He finds a new place, and then he starts being with people. This is guy he's known for a while, Majestic.

[00:06:00]I think >> [laughter] >> I think who it was, but someone said, "That sounds like a stripper name." And I'm like, yeah, sounds like a stripper name. Here comes Majestic.

[00:06:10]Okay, are you going to be intimidated by a [ __ ] gangster called Majestic?

[00:06:16]What's next? Cherry?

[00:06:19]Here comes Cherry Bomb.

[00:06:21]Majestic.

[00:06:26]How about one called Phenomenal?

[00:06:29]Majestic.

[00:06:32]I'd be like, are you a [ __ ] Are you transtesticle?

[00:06:38]Majestic. Oh, here comes Majestic.

[00:06:42]How about Suck My Dick?

[00:06:44]>> [clears throat] >> Majine Dick.

[00:06:54]But then he's also gets kind of a group together. He has this guy named Antoine, who's really only there for a plot point of there's a club he gets shot and he's gets paralyzed and put into a wheelchair.

[00:07:09]There's really nothing else to his character.

[00:07:12]Omar Benson Miller, he's just there in the background. And of course, I recognize him because he's the voice of Raphael in the last Ninja Turtles cartoon, Rise of the TMNT.

[00:07:27]And he's been in a lot of other stuff. I think he was later in one of the CSI shows and then other stuff, but I think he doesn't have a whole lot to do. He's pretty much there in the background the whole time. And then there's this guy named Justice.

[00:07:43]I said Justice, but Justice.

[00:07:47]Which I'm like At least they think of Justice. I think they have Shannon Elizabeth and Jay and Silent Bob strike back.

[00:07:55]What's his name?

[00:07:57]Okay, obviously I've never been in the hood, but do they really you know, have names like Majestic and Justice?

[00:08:05]They make you funny at Justice.

[00:08:08]That sound like what a white guy thinks a [ __ ] gangster sounds like, but maybe they are.

[00:08:15]I don't know if I ever became a gangster, I'd never use the [ __ ] name Justice.

[00:08:24]He's the guy who seems to be cool with 50 Cent for a while, but then later is a turncoat snitching [ __ ] And then gets what he deserves.

[00:08:35]It kind of shows like them selling crack. Crack becomes a new thing.

[00:08:43]Dime store sense.

[00:08:44]Talks about how power means war and it's them versus the Colombians.

[00:08:49]This Korean store shot two kids.

[00:08:53]I guess that ended the war for a bit.

[00:08:56]I'm like, really? It doesn't I would figure it would start a war with the Koreans.

[00:09:02]Korean war part two, electric boogaloo.

[00:09:05]But no.

[00:09:08]Bill Duke is in the film. I love Bill Duke. He was in Predator, he was in Commando. This green beret store kicked your ass. Action Jackson as the boss.

[00:09:19]Carl Weathers boss.

[00:09:22]He's great.

[00:09:24]He has that voice. Son.

[00:09:27]I am God. I'm like I I You're right, Bill Duke. You're right, I believe you.

[00:09:34]If you talk to me like that, yeah, I would say, "Yeah, you're God. I I believe you, buddy."

[00:09:40]I don't want to [ __ ] with Bill Duke.

[00:09:43]That's a guy that can scare the [ __ ] out of you.

[00:09:46]So, great to see Bill Duke.

[00:09:51]Needed more Bill Duke.

[00:09:53]He's only in a couple scenes.

[00:09:56]But I just it's always great to see him.

[00:10:03]And then goes to like him you know 50 Cent buying a car, he reconnects with Charlene.

[00:10:09]His buddy like say Antoine get shot.

[00:10:15]He finds the guy or one of the Colombians that did it, but instead of killing him he shoots the [ __ ] out of his legs.

[00:10:23]Later on, the cops come and they find out that they've been [ __ ] over and some drugs and guns were like stuff was put there that wasn't there in the first place.

[00:10:35]So, it gets 50 Cent in prison.

[00:10:48]So, it gets to this scene which is a scene I never need to see in my life.

[00:10:54]We're [ __ ] everybody's butt ass naked, their schlongs are all around in my face. I did not appreciate that.

[00:11:03]I didn't ask for that. And you know, I put my you know I look at my schlong, but I don't want to look at a bunch of guy schlongs in prison.

[00:11:13]Cuz they're taking showers, people try to kill 50 Cent meter.

[00:11:21]And he tries to fight them off and then Terrence Howard's there and he decides to help. And so there's Terrence Howard's dick flopping around, there's 50 Cent's dick flop it around.

[00:11:33]Or 50 Cent and as many you know 5 Cent.

[00:11:37]They everyone's flopping around and I'm they did they going to be a sword fight.

[00:11:44]And then the guards come in and stop it and that's where 50 Cent meets Terrence Howard.

[00:11:54]Now Terrence Howard he's one of the better parts of the film. I do think at this time he was a good actor.

[00:12:02]He's an interesting character where you he helped out a bit and then later becomes the manager and he doesn't trust these guys that 50 Cent used to deal with and he had a good reason not to.

[00:12:21]And then it shows that 50 Cent's in solitary and he's coming up with lyrics.

[00:12:27]He I guess they allow him to have a little bit of thing to tape the song.

[00:12:34]Then people are able to hear it and like it.

[00:12:45]During that time Majestic [ __ ] over Bill Duke and puts Bill Duke in prison.

[00:12:50]He becomes leader of the the empire. He starts [ __ ] with people.

[00:13:02]So then 50 Cent gets out of jail and he tells Majestic he doesn't want to be part of that lifestyle anymore. He wants to make music. He gets laughed at.

[00:13:12]Now why Majestic doesn't just leave 50 Cent the [ __ ] alone, I don't know why.

[00:13:17]Just leave him the [ __ ] alone. Okay, he wants to do that. Just let him do it.

[00:13:21]You got your own [ __ ] You got your own business. You got your own empire.

[00:13:25]If he's not [ __ ] with you, who cares?

[00:13:29]Buy maybe Cent really is in love with the Maybe he wants to make him a full dollar.

[00:13:35]Here's my 50 cents in your ass.

[00:13:41]Butt theater, we'll call it.

[00:13:43]That'll be the new porn, butt theater.

[00:13:49]And then that's where the movie gets really choppy. And I know I've been just giving you the [ __ ] stuttering, boring as I usually do it, synopsis.

[00:14:02]I do that because number one it's the best way for me to kind of pinpoint bits I like or dislike and try to follow the the narrative.

[00:14:15]And also just directing-wise story-wise this wasn't that interesting to me.

[00:14:31]Maybe because it was the lead, 50 Cent.

[00:14:35]I don't give a [ __ ] about the rapper.

[00:14:38]I don't give a [ __ ] about his story, let alone how much of this was made up for the movie.

[00:14:45]He just always comes out as [ __ ] boring and bland. And sometimes he tries to have dialogue that maybe sounds a bit too melodramatic than it should.

[00:14:54]And you know, stuff like the the [ __ ] prison shower dick whining fight that I didn't need to [ __ ] see.

[00:15:07]And it's like it wants to be a biopic, but then it wants to be like a just a movie where okay, well, that probably didn't happen due to X, Y, and Z reasons.

[00:15:22]And it like you compare it to 8 Mile, 8 Mile just felt a bit more I don't want to say down-to-earth, but I think just Eminem just had a little bit more of a dynamic presence compared to someone like 50 Cent.

[00:15:46]Like Terrence Howard had a little bit of that, and I wish the movie was more about his character.

[00:15:54]Eventually, some stuff happens, and they're [ __ ] with 50 Cent, so 50 Cent makes a song to fire back and embarrass Majestic.

[00:16:11]So, he say, "Fuck that. Get him rid of him."

[00:16:14]Justice, the two-timing bitch-ass snitch, helps get the guy shot, shot nine times.

[00:16:24]But the last time, he gets interrupted by 50 Cent's grandma, so he shoots him in the face and not in the head.

[00:16:32]Runs off.

[00:16:35]Little bit of rehabilitation, where he could barely talk, and they got wires his mouth shut, and then they got put all these wires in his teeth.

[00:16:42]His teeth looks like a [ __ ] piano.

[00:16:49]And then he's in the snow, and like, is he doing a [ __ ] train to fight Ivan Drago?

[00:16:55]Is that why you see his bits in the snow?

[00:16:58]He's going to go "Adrian!" you know.

[00:17:02]And it's just it really It's like the film tried to have a bit of a build-up, and then it was to rush through his rise to fame.

[00:17:12]Cuz it didn't show like how did he get so so famous? Why are there so many people at the end at this concert?

[00:17:21]What were the public's perception of him and you know, people becoming fans of him and people hearing about him or him playing the smaller clubs or whatever the hell his life happened and then people heard about him more and more.

[00:17:36]No, it's just all of a sudden he's famous.

[00:17:39]All of a sudden this going to do a concert. All of a sudden there's a [ __ ] load of people there. I mean, how do these people even know who the [ __ ] he is at this point?

[00:17:50]And then Majestic, in typical action villain fashion, kills Justice, kills his henchmen stab by stabbing them.

[00:18:03]And then the idea is that oh, if you do this concert, something bad will happen.

[00:18:07]Why was he not? Because he's ready to do the concert, but Majestic gets there. I was thinking Majestic would have a bunch of his [ __ ] guys with him.

[00:18:16]Because wasn't didn't feel like 15 minutes ago he was like the head of this empire?

[00:18:22]And all these people under him control, you know, controlled by him.

[00:18:27]And now all of a sudden this weird dynamic shift of power is feels as if 50 Cent is not even bothered by this guy. Like he can't do anything with him. I'm like, aren't you worried that he has like a [ __ ] load of people?

[00:18:45]And it rushes through him having kids.

[00:18:47]It's like he did with Charlene and all of a sudden she's having a [ __ ] baby.

[00:18:51]Then all of a sudden like maybe a What's that? Second baby?

[00:18:56]He's holding his baby in the poster.

[00:19:00]Well, maybe not the poster I'll use. Like there's there's multiple posters.

[00:19:09]Well, let me see.

[00:19:13]Wait, telling them both posters from the front and the back? He's holding a kid, but that kid is barely a thing in the film.

[00:19:21]It sound like, okay, the how precious having a baby and moments where he's helping with the baby and that should be a that should be a pretty important part to really showcase his life and him being a father and No, that's not really focused on. It gets so choppy. It just jumps from this to this to this to this to this. Now he's famous. Now what about the rise?

[00:19:44]The [ __ ] that. We don't need to see the rise. He just is famous now. Now he has his group. How did he get this group? It doesn't [ __ ] matter. Okay, now she's pregnant. Okay, and having a kid. Okay, what about like help raising the kid? No, we only get like one little scene, little family scene, that's it.

[00:20:01]I mean, hold it. Now you're like you're trying to go on slow, now you're going fast forward. Hold the [ __ ] the phone here.

[00:20:13]Why are you now like so powerful at the end and Majestic seems like the [ __ ] whiny piece of [ __ ] [ __ ] Or now he's trying and he's like, "I killed your mother."

[00:20:29]And then he 50 Cent charges him and they fight for a little bit.

[00:20:35]Brighten up.

[00:20:37]And then Majestic is like trying Daddy. Daddy.

[00:20:41]Don't go out there, man. Don't go out to that [ __ ] concert, man.

[00:20:46]I mean, don't you have like 50 [ __ ] guys on your payroll that you just shoot the [ __ ] out of them or just do whatever you want or I'll I'll [ __ ] up your wife, [ __ ] up your kids, whatever the case.

[00:21:04]Doesn't he?

[00:21:08]Like before that there was one bit where there's like all these like protesters or or whatever the hell and Majest is like looking and he's a little bit worried. But I mean, where the [ __ ] did these people come from?

[00:21:18]I should be I'm like, what the Did I Did they cut like half an hour out of this [ __ ] movie?

[00:21:24]That would have better explained some of this [ __ ] And then Majest is just crying. Like, why is he being such a baby [ __ ] now?

[00:21:37]I love you, man.

[00:21:41]What the [ __ ] Like Majest felt like he did like a 180 character change.

[00:21:49]Where now he's this blubbering baby [ __ ] I mean, where the [ __ ] did this come from?

[00:21:58]Felt like it just came out of [ __ ] nowhere.

[00:22:04]Where is this big power they he had you know, 15 minutes before?

[00:22:12]So he's just wounded. 50 Cent won't tell him. He walks away, but then the idea is that Terrence Howard finished him off.

[00:22:21]So I guess Majest's men just sat there and watched and didn't do [ __ ] I guess.

[00:22:27]There's going to be no further retribution, I guess.

[00:22:34]Okay.

[00:22:37]So then 50 Cent goes out. He has a bulletproof vest. He takes the vest off and then he starts doing his concert and then the movie's over.

[00:22:49]>> [snorts] >> The story I thought the second half just felt very choppy. It felt like there's big parts missing where they're skipping through seemingly what what I would think important parts.

[00:23:04]I'm like, wait, how did we get to here and why is that character acting that way?

[00:23:15]I like Terrence Howard.

[00:23:18]Then we just to be part of the film.

[00:23:21]Like when they're outside, he's his manager.

[00:23:24]Sometimes I didn't think they utilized him the best way.

[00:23:31]It felt like they tried to do too much in the second half with not enough time.

[00:23:40]And 50 Cent himself is just kind of like always blank, bland, emotionless.

[00:23:52]And a terrible [ __ ] actor.

[00:23:54]If he's playing a version of himself, says a lot.

[00:24:03]He was shot nine times. Okay, Michael Myers.

[00:24:07]I get the uh I I appreciate that. You know, I respect that.

[00:24:13]I'm sorry that happened to you.

[00:24:16]I still think, you know, you suck ass as an actor.

[00:24:21]I don't know what to tell you. This film I don't think did much at the box office. I can see why.

[00:24:28]And not only is that much of a [ __ ] film.

[00:24:32]It's bet- I mean, it's better than the next film I'll talk about because at least this is under 2 hours and I could give credit to Terrence Howard and Bill Duke.

[00:24:43]And maybe a few others in supporting roles.

[00:24:50]I think I think it's Michael T.

[00:24:52]Williamson plays the stepdad of Charlene. He's in a couple scenes. I like him.

[00:24:59]But he's not in it much.

[00:25:02]Good voice of Omar Benson.

[00:25:07]Good you know, I'm a Ninja Turtle fan, so hey, there's the voice of Raphael.

[00:25:11]Cool.

[00:25:12]But one of the Raphaels.

[00:25:20]>> [snorts] >> I don't know what to tell you.

[00:25:28]Dear Richard Diatrine, I'll take the dear rich, please.

[00:25:34]Thanks for watching. Take care. We'll see you guys later.

[00:25:38]Bye-bye for now.