01/05/07 - 50 Cent New Movie Home Of The Brave Is In Theaters Now!-01/05/07

robby84 · 01-05-2007, 11:28 AM

Home of the Brave (2006) 4 STARS OUT OF 5

Irwin Winkler's Home of the Brave is a contemporary updating of The Best Years of Our Lives that substitutes returning Iraq War veterans for returning WWII soldiers. Other than that, it's a fairly familiar entry in the kind of earnest "scarred soldiers returning home" subgenre that Best Years pioneered, a genre that includes films like The Deer Hunter, Born on the Fourth of July, and Coming Home. Home of the Brave doesn't have much new to offer aside from the specificity of a new war, but its empathy for its characters and a bunch of knockout performances make it worth a look.
The movie follows four soldiers whose lives are changed forever by a brutal ambush in Iraq. Vanessa Price (Jessica Biel) is a mother and P.E. teacher who returns to the U.S. without a hand after her truck is blown up; Tommy Yates (Brian Presley) is haunted by the death of his best friend; Jamal Aiken (Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson) accidentally kills an innocent civilian; and medic Will Marsh (Samuel L. Jackson) is plagued by guilt over the lives he failed to save. When these four veterans return home to Spokane, Washington, they each have severe problems adjusting to civilian life, and their emotional and physical wounds threaten to destroy their relationships with others.

Again, The Best Years of Our Lives is clearly the template here, but Winkler and screenwriter Mark Friedman incorporate one key change that makes their film more similar to Vietnam pictures like Born and Deer Hunter: They show the battle that alters the course of their heroes' lives. Though the combat sequence lacks the immediacy of something like Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers (a far better film about the trauma of surviving a battle in which one's friends have perished), it's still hypnotic and frightening enough to have a real effect on the later scenes set in Spokane. When Marsh hosts a mundane neighborhood barbeque, or Yates and Price meet at a crummy multiplex where Yates works, the contrast with the Iraq material is jarring and gives the viewer a real sense of how out of place these veterans feel—Winkler and cinematographer Tony Pierce-Roberts manage to make the architecture and landscapes that define suburban America look like outer space. When one of the characters makes the decision to return to active duty, it almost seems logical given the alien surroundings in which he finds himself.

It's a bit of a shame, then, that Winkler feels the need to bludgeon the audience with sloppily inserted flashbacks to underline every emotion the characters are feeling. When Price has trouble picking up a soccer ball with her prosthetic hand, Winkler can't resist cutting to a shot of her playing basketball at the beginning of the film—as though we didn't get the point that she's lost something. He does this time and time again, interrupting key emotional moments with material that isn't needed, and which in fact has the opposite of the intended effect. Chopping up the actors' close-ups with redundant flashbacks makes their pain less moving, not more.

Luckily for Winkler, his actors are so good they save him from his own overly obvious technique. All four of the leads are excellent in different ways; in the showiest role, Curtis Jackson has a violent force that's both sad and chilling, while Brian Presley gives a more understated but equally affecting performance. Best of all is Jessica Biel, who obliterates her image as Esquire's "Sexiest Woman Alive" with a stunningly complex turn as a woman who loses not only her hand but her marriage and her sense of self as a result of her tour in Iraq. Hers is the most compelling of the four stories, and when she interacts with the other leads—as in a nicely awkward exchange with Samuel L. Jackson at his office—she makes them rise to her level.

As an ensemble story Home of the Brave has a lot of shortcomings. Some subplots, such as a storyline following Marsh and his teenage son, are far too tidily resolved, while others, like a relationship between Aiken and his ex-girlfriend, seem to be missing key scenes. Yet there are many moving and truthful moments here, particularly in the Vanessa Price story. While the filmmakers give us the expected Born on the Fourth of July-esque scenes in which Price rages against her circumstances, they also provide a lot of quieter moments between her, her son, and her potential boyfriend (played to perfection by Once and Again's Jeffrey Nordling) that are as powerful in their own way as the ambush sequence. Winkler clearly loves these characters, and if he sometimes pushes too hard in his effort to make the audience share his affection it's forgivable under the circumstances.

— JIM HEMPHILL

SOURCE-http://www.reel.com/movie.asp?MID=142839&Tab=reviews&buy=open&CID=13#t abs

ITS IN LIMITED THEATERS...

BME/G-UNIT CLICK · 01-05-2007, 11:30 AM

1st propz doin his thing man

RichBless · 01-05-2007, 12:21 PM

nice.. but I have to wait till it is in holland

tastyme · 01-05-2007, 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by robby84

Home of the Brave (2006) 4 STARS OUT OF 5

Irwin Winkler's Home of the Brave is a contemporary updating of The Best Years of Our Lives that substitutes returning Iraq War veterans for returning WWII soldiers. Other than that, it's a fairly familiar entry in the kind of earnest "scarred soldiers returning home" subgenre that Best Years pioneered, a genre that includes films like The Deer Hunter, Born on the Fourth of July, and Coming Home. Home of the Brave doesn't have much new to offer aside from the specificity of a new war, but its empathy for its characters and a bunch of knockout performances make it worth a look.
The movie follows four soldiers whose lives are changed forever by a brutal ambush in Iraq. Vanessa Price (Jessica Biel) is a mother and P.E. teacher who returns to the U.S. without a hand after her truck is blown up; Tommy Yates (Brian Presley) is haunted by the death of his best friend; Jamal Aiken (Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson) accidentally kills an innocent civilian; and medic Will Marsh (Samuel L. Jackson) is plagued by guilt over the lives he failed to save. When these four veterans return home to Spokane, Washington, they each have severe problems adjusting to civilian life, and their emotional and physical wounds threaten to destroy their relationships with others.

Again, The Best Years of Our Lives is clearly the template here, but Winkler and screenwriter Mark Friedman incorporate one key change that makes their film more similar to Vietnam pictures like Born and Deer Hunter: They show the battle that alters the course of their heroes' lives. Though the combat sequence lacks the immediacy of something like Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers (a far better film about the trauma of surviving a battle in which one's friends have perished), it's still hypnotic and frightening enough to have a real effect on the later scenes set in Spokane. When Marsh hosts a mundane neighborhood barbeque, or Yates and Price meet at a crummy multiplex where Yates works, the contrast with the Iraq material is jarring and gives the viewer a real sense of how out of place these veterans feel—Winkler and cinematographer Tony Pierce-Roberts manage to make the architecture and landscapes that define suburban America look like outer space. When one of the characters makes the decision to return to active duty, it almost seems logical given the alien surroundings in which he finds himself.

It's a bit of a shame, then, that Winkler feels the need to bludgeon the audience with sloppily inserted flashbacks to underline every emotion the characters are feeling. When Price has trouble picking up a soccer ball with her prosthetic hand, Winkler can't resist cutting to a shot of her playing basketball at the beginning of the film—as though we didn't get the point that she's lost something. He does this time and time again, interrupting key emotional moments with material that isn't needed, and which in fact has the opposite of the intended effect. Chopping up the actors' close-ups with redundant flashbacks makes their pain less moving, not more.

Luckily for Winkler, his actors are so good they save him from his own overly obvious technique. All four of the leads are excellent in different ways; in the showiest role, Curtis Jackson has a violent force that's both sad and chilling, while Brian Presley gives a more understated but equally affecting performance. Best of all is Jessica Biel, who obliterates her image as Esquire's "Sexiest Woman Alive" with a stunningly complex turn as a woman who loses not only her hand but her marriage and her sense of self as a result of her tour in Iraq. Hers is the most compelling of the four stories, and when she interacts with the other leads—as in a nicely awkward exchange with Samuel L. Jackson at his office—she makes them rise to her level.

As an ensemble story Home of the Brave has a lot of shortcomings. Some subplots, such as a storyline following Marsh and his teenage son, are far too tidily resolved, while others, like a relationship between Aiken and his ex-girlfriend, seem to be missing key scenes. Yet there are many moving and truthful moments here, particularly in the Vanessa Price story. While the filmmakers give us the expected Born on the Fourth of July-esque scenes in which Price rages against her circumstances, they also provide a lot of quieter moments between her, her son, and her potential boyfriend (played to perfection by Once and Again's Jeffrey Nordling) that are as powerful in their own way as the ambush sequence. Winkler clearly loves these characters, and if he sometimes pushes too hard in his effort to make the audience share his affection it's forgivable under the circumstances.

— JIM HEMPHILL

SOURCE-http://www.reel.com/movie.asp?MID=142839&Tab=reviews&buy=open&CID=13#t abs

ITS IN LIMITED THEATERS...

It will not be in theaters until March, Fif said this on The Howard Stern Show yesterday. It was only release to limited theaters for promotion.

smoke_a_lot · 01-05-2007, 12:26 PM

the movie is gonna flop like all the other g unit projects, g unit is dead RIP

Jack Frost · 01-05-2007, 12:30 PM

propz. hope it comes to the phillipines. G unit gonna come back this year. fuck all the hatin ass muthafuckers!

MaliQ · 01-05-2007, 12:38 PM

aight propzz

i love 50 cent · 01-05-2007, 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by smoke_a_lot

the movie is gonna flop like all the other g unit projects, g unit is dead RIP

its not a g-unit project rele so u cnt say that. and why is it every thred u see u writing on ur hatin ? fukin hell its only a film its quite hard 2 hate like dat man!

*50*CENT*WIFE* · 01-05-2007, 12:49 PM

Thanks I'll See It When It Drops On Dvd :)

.::Renegade::. · 01-05-2007, 12:53 PM

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Originally Posted by smoke_a_lot

the movie is gonna flop like all the other g unit projects, g unit is dead RIP

Why do you have a BWS sig and they never even started?

ns_diplomat · 01-05-2007, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by smoke_a_lot

the movie is gonna flop like all the other g unit projects, g unit is dead RIP

dickryder..............

Hakaroodi · 01-05-2007, 01:29 PM

propz man... but 50 doesn't have an equal role 2 the other 3... samuel l jackson brian presley n jessica biel are the main ppl... they didnt talk about 50s life that much in this film.... but overall it was a decent film.. so thats a good look for Fif......!!

Hip-Hop.Aint.Dead · 01-05-2007, 01:29 PM

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Originally Posted by smoke_a_lot

the movie is gonna flop like all the other g unit projects, g unit is dead RIP

hmmm, and blackwallstreet has ever reay been alive has it? fucking dickryder

C.insidious · 01-05-2007, 01:40 PM

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Originally Posted by smoke_a_lot

the movie is gonna flop like all the other g unit projects, g unit is dead RIP

wow. this isnt a GUnit project idiot.

KingKap1983 · 01-05-2007, 02:18 PM

i got it already bootlegged

P-Mogs · 01-05-2007, 02:22 PM

upload that shit^^^

THREATS · 01-05-2007, 02:24 PM

okay fine.

GunTalk · 01-05-2007, 02:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by smoke_a_lot

the movie is gonna flop like all the other g unit projects, g unit is dead RIP

hate hate hate

Hip-Hop.Aint.Dead · 01-05-2007, 03:09 PM

50 doesnt have like a main role though does he? maybe hell win best supporting act? haha i dont realy think 50 can act

whookid17 · 01-05-2007, 03:11 PM

^^ wot u mean he dosnt have a main role, the movie is about 3 people, 50 cent, jessica biel, and sam jackson, so how can u say 50 dosnt have a major role ???? sum g-unit hater probz

XtennesseeX · 01-05-2007, 03:15 PM

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Originally Posted by whookid17

^^ wot u mean he dosnt have a main role, the movie is about 3 people, 50 cent, jessica biel, and sam jackson, so how can u say 50 dosnt have a major role ???? sum g-unit hater probz

or maybe someone who has read an interview that says that 50 has a smaller role. i think they said that they actually wrote a character in for him after the story was already written.

MaK-DxB · 01-05-2007, 03:24 PM

props ....

Jmac01985 · 01-05-2007, 03:33 PM

i dunno this movie kinda sucked. 50 wasnt even in it that much. just the beginning and a couple scenes after it. Can't really judge his acting that much cuz he didnt really do a whole lot. Pretty boring too. Just my opinion.

faraiking · 01-05-2007, 03:44 PM

do yo thing uncle fif

robby84 · 01-05-2007, 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by tastyme

It will not be in theaters until March, Fif said this on The Howard Stern Show yesterday. It was only release to limited theaters for promotion.

yea i know i said it at the bottom that its in limited theaters.......

01-05-2007, 11:28 AM	#1
robby84 Super Moderator Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Queenz Bred, livin life in Y.O. Posts: 8,583 Repped: 3,247 Repped 13,915 Times in 1,127 Posts Neg Reps: 12 Neg Repped at 8 Times in 8 Posts	01/05/07 - 50 Cent New Movie Home Of The Brave Is In Theaters Now!-01/05/07 01/05/07 - 50 Cent New Movie Home Of The Brave Is In Theaters Now!-01/05/07 Home of the Brave (2006) 4 STARS OUT OF 5 Irwin Winkler's Home of the Brave is a contemporary updating of The Best Years of Our Lives that substitutes returning Iraq War veterans for returning WWII soldiers. Other than that, it's a fairly familiar entry in the kind of earnest "scarred soldiers returning home" subgenre that Best Years pioneered, a genre that includes films like The Deer Hunter, Born on the Fourth of July, and Coming Home. Home of the Brave doesn't have much new to offer aside from the specificity of a new war, but its empathy for its characters and a bunch of knockout performances make it worth a look. The movie follows four soldiers whose lives are changed forever by a brutal ambush in Iraq. Vanessa Price (Jessica Biel) is a mother and P.E. teacher who returns to the U.S. without a hand after her truck is blown up; Tommy Yates (Brian Presley) is haunted by the death of his best friend; Jamal Aiken (Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson) accidentally kills an innocent civilian; and medic Will Marsh (Samuel L. Jackson) is plagued by guilt over the lives he failed to save. When these four veterans return home to Spokane, Washington, they each have severe problems adjusting to civilian life, and their emotional and physical wounds threaten to destroy their relationships with others. Again, The Best Years of Our Lives is clearly the template here, but Winkler and screenwriter Mark Friedman incorporate one key change that makes their film more similar to Vietnam pictures like Born and Deer Hunter: They show the battle that alters the course of their heroes' lives. Though the combat sequence lacks the immediacy of something like Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers (a far better film about the trauma of surviving a battle in which one's friends have perished), it's still hypnotic and frightening enough to have a real effect on the later scenes set in Spokane. When Marsh hosts a mundane neighborhood barbeque, or Yates and Price meet at a crummy multiplex where Yates works, the contrast with the Iraq material is jarring and gives the viewer a real sense of how out of place these veterans feel—Winkler and cinematographer Tony Pierce-Roberts manage to make the architecture and landscapes that define suburban America look like outer space. When one of the characters makes the decision to return to active duty, it almost seems logical given the alien surroundings in which he finds himself. It's a bit of a shame, then, that Winkler feels the need to bludgeon the audience with sloppily inserted flashbacks to underline every emotion the characters are feeling. When Price has trouble picking up a soccer ball with her prosthetic hand, Winkler can't resist cutting to a shot of her playing basketball at the beginning of the film—as though we didn't get the point that she's lost something. He does this time and time again, interrupting key emotional moments with material that isn't needed, and which in fact has the opposite of the intended effect. Chopping up the actors' close-ups with redundant flashbacks makes their pain less moving, not more. Luckily for Winkler, his actors are so good they save him from his own overly obvious technique. All four of the leads are excellent in different ways; in the showiest role, Curtis Jackson has a violent force that's both sad and chilling, while Brian Presley gives a more understated but equally affecting performance. Best of all is Jessica Biel, who obliterates her image as Esquire's "Sexiest Woman Alive" with a stunningly complex turn as a woman who loses not only her hand but her marriage and her sense of self as a result of her tour in Iraq. Hers is the most compelling of the four stories, and when she interacts with the other leads—as in a nicely awkward exchange with Samuel L. Jackson at his office—she makes them rise to her level. As an ensemble story Home of the Brave has a lot of shortcomings. Some subplots, such as a storyline following Marsh and his teenage son, are far too tidily resolved, while others, like a relationship between Aiken and his ex-girlfriend, seem to be missing key scenes. Yet there are many moving and truthful moments here, particularly in the Vanessa Price story. While the filmmakers give us the expected Born on the Fourth of July-esque scenes in which Price rages against her circumstances, they also provide a lot of quieter moments between her, her son, and her potential boyfriend (played to perfection by Once and Again's Jeffrey Nordling) that are as powerful in their own way as the ambush sequence. Winkler clearly loves these characters, and if he sometimes pushes too hard in his effort to make the audience share his affection it's forgivable under the circumstances. — JIM HEMPHILL SOURCE-http://www.reel.com/movie.asp?MID=142839&Tab=reviews&buy=open&CID=13#t abs ITS IN LIMITED THEATERS... __________________ Most loved/Hated Moderator "Stop Bitchin" - Robby

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smoke_a_lot Veteran Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Arizona Posts: 1,603 Repped: 228 Repped 120 Times in 15 Posts Neg Reps: 0 Neg Repped at 0 Times in 0 Posts	the movie is gonna flop like all the other g unit projects, g unit is dead RIP __________________ B.W.S

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BME/G-UNIT CLICK Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: UK Posts: 290 Repped: 181 Repped 119 Times in 12 Posts Neg Reps: 0 Neg Repped at 0 Times in 0 Posts	1st propz doin his thing man

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Hakaroodi G-UNIT SOLDIER Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 30,523 Repped: 14,431 Repped 952 Times in 224 Posts Neg Reps: 0 Neg Repped at 49 Times in 45 Posts	propz man... but 50 doesn't have an equal role 2 the other 3... samuel l jackson brian presley n jessica biel are the main ppl... they didnt talk about 50s life that much in this film.... but overall it was a decent film.. so thats a good look for Fif......!! __________________

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Hip-Hop.Aint.Dead N-Dubz Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 739 Repped: 75 Repped 209 Times in 29 Posts Neg Reps: 0 Neg Repped at 0 Times in 0 Posts	50 doesnt have like a main role though does he? maybe hell win best supporting act? haha i dont realy think 50 can act __________________ " Imagine Going From Being a No-One To Seeing Everything Blow Up and All You Did Was Just Grow Up Mc'eein.. Its Fucking Crazy . . - Eminem .:UNDISPUTED G'Z:.

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whookid17 Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 763 Repped: 330 Repped 7 Times in 3 Posts Neg Reps: 0 Neg Repped at 0 Times in 0 Posts	^^ wot u mean he dosnt have a main role, the movie is about 3 people, 50 cent, jessica biel, and sam jackson, so how can u say 50 dosnt have a major role ???? sum g-unit hater probz

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Jmac01985 Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: CS, Florida Posts: 156 Repped: 116 Repped 1 Time in 1 Post Neg Reps: 0 Neg Repped at 0 Times in 0 Posts	i dunno this movie kinda sucked. 50 wasnt even in it that much. just the beginning and a couple scenes after it. Can't really judge his acting that much cuz he didnt really do a whole lot. Pretty boring too. Just my opinion.

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