This is an interesting story that I was unaware of – like totally unaware of – but unfortunately it’s made by a rapper who doesn’t know how to direct a movie.
Ice Cube has clearly seen a bunch of sports docs he really likes, and he tries his hardest to emulate those films, but he really misses the mark a number of times. He spends too much time as an interviewee, and him and Snoop Dogg have some pretty inane conversations about how cool the Raiders were. He has some really interesting stuff to tackle:
the connection between hip music and sports (and marketing), the politics of moving teams from city to city, and, most of all, the Rodney King riot.
And unfortunately he sort of touches on all of those, but doesn’t really dig into them. He seems more concerned with the fashion connection.
And that’s too bad because this is a missed opportunity. It certainly feels like there’s a lot of material here for a great documentary, but Ice Cube is not a filmmaker.
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This is an interesting story that I was unaware of – like totally unaware of – but unfortunately it’s made by a rapper who doesn’t know how to direct a movie.
Ice Cube has clearly seen a bunch of sports docs he really likes, and he tries his hardest to emulate those films, but he really misses the mark a number of times. He spends too much time as an interviewee, and him and Snoop Dogg have some pretty inane conversations about how cool the Raiders were. He has some really interesting stuff to tackle:
the connection between hip music and sports (and marketing),
the politics of moving teams from city to city,
and, most of all, the Rodney King riot.
And unfortunately he sort of touches on all of those, but doesn’t really dig into them. He seems more concerned with the fashion connection.
And that’s too bad because this is a missed opportunity. It certainly feels like there’s a lot of material here for a great documentary, but Ice Cube is not a filmmaker.