Notorious

I haven’t been getting any value out of my Netflix account thanks to this movie and Milk. Both movies I feel like I should watch so I don’t send them back but I kept holding off on them so long that I wondered why they were in my queue in the first place. As I was watching this movie, I glanced over the production credits for Born to Die, which really is, despite all the hype, a fantastic album. I’d never looked at the credits before and was mildly surprised to see that some guy named Easy Mo Bee produced half the tracks. I’m a big hip hop fan but I don’t know all the producers like I should and I’d definitely never heard of this guy. Then I tried placing him in the film and I couldn’t figure him out. A quick search revealed that he’s not in the movie. What the hell? Surely a guy who produced Biggie’s first single and half his classic album should be in the biopic. Apparently, Puffy has some sort of beef with him and that’s just stupid.

So you can’t take this movie seriously as a biopic because of bull like that and as entertainment it’s only as good as the songs. The main guy does a pretty good job of rapping but really I would have preferred a solid, independent documentary with the original tracks as the soundtrack. The other thing that’s weird is that the music is by Danny Elfman. Huh? Pretty cool effects on the end credits though.