The Review: The Players Club

The Players Club 8/10

So L. had me watch this crazy ass movie. I had heard of it and knew Ice Cube made a song for it. I didn't know he was also in the movie and directed it. This movie is fucking crazy. It starts off with this girl named Diana/Diamond standing in front of a burnt ass strip club which did nothing but make me accuse different people of starting the fire until the end of the movie. She wants to go to a certain college and her father disagrees so she leaves. Her mom tries to stop her and by stop her I mean she stops at the porch and begs her not to go. Trifflin' ass mothers. One day at the shoe store she's working at these ladies named Ronnie and Tricks tell her she could make some money stripping. By the way, I would not be going to any club these women worked at. I am too used to the quality of women from P-Valley and would immediately know these women were up to no good. Strike one.

The Review: How Stella Got Her Groove Back

How Stella Got Her Groove Back 5/10

Last on the list of Black films I managed to never see was How Stella Got Her Groove Back. Of course I had heard of this movie and knew what it was about through jokes and such over the years. This about Stella Payne. She works as a stockbroker and is a single mother that works too hard. That is it for her character development. One day she finally takes some time off and goes on vacation to Jamaica with her friend Delilah. Delilah has some men for them but Stella wants none of it. She immediately finds this guy named Winston Shakespeare. He sweeps her off her feet but she doesn't want to deal with him because she is 40 and he is 20. They go back and forth about their age difference and eventually he visits her and everything seems perfect. All kinds of drama happens like Delilah dying (which I knew was gonna happen). Stella loses her job. She begins to feel the age gap more and more. One of her sisters is an asshole who won't shut the fuck up and just go and be pregnant. Winston gets along with her friends and family but when Stella meets his mother she is like “I am 41 and you 40. The fuck you doing with my son?!” It gets to the point where Winston decides that he is going back home to study to become a doctor. He heads to the airport and everything. Suddenly as he is heading to his plane Stella shows up and accepts his proposal from earlier. I forgot to mention that. This movie was fine. I just wish Stella had a personality. I didn't see anything special about her other than her looks that would make someone leave their country and life behind for her. Unless you 20 and dumb.

The Review: Temptations

Temptations 6/10

Next movie on the list for me to watch was the NBC TV movie Temptations. I knew of one scene from this movie and loved the group but had no idea they went through so many different members and drama and health issues. I mean, damn! This movie had everything. Perms. Do wop. Drinking. Devil's dandruff. Arthritis. Alcohol abuse. Suicide. I enjoyed this movie but you could totally tell that this was written from one persons point of view. I was online looking at all the different band members and getting all into their personal business. As fucked up as they seemed at certain points during this three hour epic they were way worse in real life. If this had been on cable or made today it would be one of the messiest movies. I also didn't remember what the band members looked like it real life so I couldn't complain about no one looking like who they were playing. The music, of course, was the best part of this along with Ruffin's performance. I would watch an entire movie about this crazy bastard. It would be like if Ike Turner had his own movie. Even the way they show his death is so disrespectful. They just show him dumped out of a car dead in front of a hospital like “Byyyyye...” This was told and made by Otis so he gets the most screen time even though it seems like Blue was there a lot. Blue dies off screen after eating dinner and rolling out of the room.