Get On Up

2014 • 138 minit

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In his follow-up to the four-time Academy Award-nominated blockbuster The Help, Tate Taylor directs 42's Chadwick Boseman as James Brown in Get On Up. Based on the incredible life story of the Godfather of Soul, the film will give a fearless look inside the music, moves, and moods of Brown, taking audiences on the journey from his impoverished childhood to his evolution into one of the most influential figures of hte 20th century. Boseman is joined in the drama by Nelsan Ellis, Dan Aykroyd, Viola Davis, Craig Robinson, Octavia Spencer, Lennie James, Tika Sumpter and Jill Scott. (Original Title - Get On Up)

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This is the second film in as many weeks that without question deserves academy nominations, in multiple categories, including BEST PICTURE (though again sadly i fear it shall not be so) nevertheless WATCH THIS! its not just a simple biography and if you'll see Mr Boseman in a best actor role.. Who'd of thought it, knowing only the snidbits of his latter years that JAMES BROWN at least deserves a second look! Anyway you slice it, brilliant film!

Story-Line is slow and the acting is mediocre at best. Should have been a big budget film with top-tier actors. Jamie Foxx would've killed this but he already did the Ray Charles biopic.

I'm a big James Brown fan and really digged the film. I felt it was a very honest betrayal of a man who came from nothing and obtained greatness. And I really liked how it did not show him as this perfect nice guy but as a man with some hang ups but his talent shined. He was a great American original right up there with Elvis Presley and Jimi Hendrix.