Get On Up (2014)
Directed by Tate Taylor
A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
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His biggest hit to date is the period dramedy The Help, for which Spencer won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar, and he’s also directed the James Brown biopic Get On Up and The Girl on the Train.
Director Tate Taylor has made some good flicks, including “The Help” and “Get on Up;” screenwriter Scotty Landes is a TV guy doing his first feature film script.
He then grew as a director in his unjustly overlooked follow-up film, “Get On Up,” a James Brown biopic, with an extraordinary performance by Chadwick Boseman, that was my choice for best film of 2014.
At a reported $5 million budget, there’s only so much room to work with, but Taylor seems to have used that as a proper challenge compared to what was afforded to him for his trashy thriller The Girl on the Train , or even his music biopic Get on Up .
Taylor, on the other hand, comes from a background of blandly competent crowd-pleasers like Get On Up and The Girl on the Train, and one senses a hesitation to embrace the nuttiness of the concept.
Directed by Tate Taylor ( The Help , Get on Up ), the new horror movie Ma is messy in ways both large and small — sometimes to its benefit, sometimes not.
There are so many subplots mentioned by “Gods of Egypt” that could have been better movies, like when Horus talks of battling more than 40 demons to secure Hathor’s freedom and when God of Wisdom Thoth (Chadwick Boseman, of “Get On Up”), mentions seeing how the world was created before even other gods and mortals were around.
The script is frequently read in staccato, particularly by Chadwick Boseman’s (Get on Up) Thoth.
Bek and Zaya are the only likable characters; meanwhile, poor Chadwick Boseman will have to rely on the goodwill of his portrayals in 42 and Get On Up to erase the memory of his terribly affected God of Wisdom, Thoth.
Naturally, there’s a different kind of chemical reaction going on between the two lifelong friends, even though Bianca insists she has a crush on emo singer-songwriter Toby ( Nick Eversman , who played Mick Jagger in “ Get On Up ”).
They strike a deal: She’ll help him pass chemistry and save his threatened athletic scholarship, and he’ll teach her how to attract the guitar-strumming artiste she pines for (Nick Eversman, who appeared briefly as Mick Jagger in Get on Up).
The mostly true story, written by brothers Jez and John-Henry Butterworth (“Edge of Tomorrow,” “Get On Up”) and Jason Keller, concerns the mid-1960s rivalry between the two titular automakers.
At its core, the Ford v Ferrari script credited to Jason Keller (Machine Gun Preacher) and Jez and John-Henry Butterworth (Get on Up) is part American corporate myth and part real-life story about a ragtag group of artists in their profession who're trying to stay true to their vision while working for a company that's far more concerned about public image and selling their products to the masses.
Brothers Jez and John-Henry Butterworth, who wrote the remarkable script for the James Brown biopic Get On Up , bring British class consciousness to enhance this drama.