Peter Canavese
2009-04-15 05:54:00 UTC
You can't stop him or crop him/He's in widescreen and large/<br />He ain't playing when he's baggin' Curtis Hanson for Sarge...
A lot of people ask me...what's up with 8 Mile?
A lot of people think that Eminem's infantile
Rap alarmist, an artist, he's rhyming it madly
Fistin', pistol-whippin', love-hating his fam'ly
You can't stop him or crop him
He's in widescreen and large
He ain't playing when he's baggin' Curtis Hanson for Sarge
Well, who's bagging who?
Wonder Boy feeling old?
F*** the QT, hush-hush, Confidential, he's sold
Wait! Give it up, he's got balls
In his sockets, admit it
Check the motor city griming, composition he hits it
Stoking moments of warmth in this cold Detroit story
Here's some laughs, there's some sex, sympathy for the poor, see?
Scott Silver's the scribe, and you losers take note
There's life after writing Mod Squad by rote
But the concession impression: Eminem be a Hessian
Singing to a tot and backing up gays
That last thing I said, Em, don't take it the wrong way
A sort-of biography, but who are you kidding?
I gotta hand it to ya, Silver's doing your bidding
Credit where it's due, if Em-man wants to,
He can make you feel something with each baby blue
He can make a go of acting--he's got credible focus
To couple with the buzz of the media locusts
Mekhi Phifer does the job, so does Brittany Murphy
Til the plot twistin' of her character hurt me
Work, play, home, all the characters jam in
Just coming alive when the poetry's slammin'
Call him Shady? Eminem? "Loner"'s hitting the mark
No riding into sunsets, just a walk in the dark
So if you love Curtis Hanson, go ahead and peep it
If you love Eminem, okay, it's a keeper
But if you're on the 8 Mile fence
Go back to your homes
There's nothing to see here
But Sylvester Stallone
In Rocky
Yeah, the critics all know it
But Marshall Mathers, Curtis Hanson, Scott Silver done showed it
No, you ain't bombing like its Nagasaki,
But was it too much to ask for a surprise party?
They called you aggro, homophobic,
Untalented whore
But the Eminem Show was never bo-ring before.
References to you being Elvis the next
Recall some lame-ass pop-star movies...there's the end of the text.
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In its Blu-ray debut, 8 Mile looks mighty fine. A clean print and spot-on conversion result in a transfer that doesn't show the film's age in the least. The image is detailed without sacrificing film grain, handles the film's many shadows with aplomb, and accurate renders the original color palette. Audio impresses with a very nice DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 mix that sends the rap-battle lyrics and beats through loud and clear.
Bonus features are limited but welcome. First, there's "The Making of 8 Mile" (10:02, SD), a brief EPK featurette with Eminem, Curtis Hanson, Mekhi Pfifer, and producer Brian Grazer contributing interviews amidst behind-the-scenes interviews.
"Exclusive Rap Battles: Uncensored" (23:39, SD) includes interview clips of Hanson and Eminem prefacing auditions by Animal Chief, Nicholas Hunter, Marcus Luss, Cornelius Kirby, Louis Smith, Kamal Lukatta, Harmony Graham, Joaquilla Nevelshon, David Lee Wilson, Fahla Salan, Robin Person, Romel Willis, Big Keith, Matthew Alfonzie, Ryan Ransom, Travis Harper, Kilo Parker, Keith Wilson, Cricket, Billy Beemer. The twenty finalists are then put through a rap battle as a callback audition: these auditioners include Marvin O'Neal, Jasmine Thompson, Parker, Angie Davis, Wilson, Myron Johnson, Robert Falconer, Michael the Kid, Subliminal, Super MC, Samuel Grissom, Jiwad Mohammed, Kevin Bailey, Dapper Dan, T A S, Animal Chief, Robert Sommers, and Maurice Grant. Finally, we see the filming of rap battles with Eminem.
Last up is the Uncensored Music Video "Superman" (5:02, SD). Universal includes its My Scenes bookmarking feature, but the disc is not BD-Live enabled.
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