What's Love Got To Do With It? | Angela Bassett, Rae'Ven Larrymore Kelly

What's Love Got To Do With It? | Angela Bassett, Rae'Ven Larrymore Kelly | Rougher!

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	What's Love Got To Do With It? Angela Bassett, Rae'Ven Larrymore Kelly Walt Disney Video, 1996 average customer review:based on 74 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

What a GREAT Movie !

Tina Turner's life is quite interesting to say the least. Prior to watching this movie I wasn't that much of a fan, however NOW I totally think she is awesome, the movie showed great strength within her. I completely recommend this movie!

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Most of us agree that this was a great film. However, it's the acting of Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett that keep me coming back to watch it over and over again. Although Tina Turner's life proves of interest, it is of more interest to me to see how the actors bring their versions of Ike & Tina to life. Clearly Bassett had the easier role because Tina's the one everyone is rooting for. Fishburne on the other hand didn't want this role. He thought it was too one dimensional. Isn't the job of every good actor to find the other dimensions of a character though? Once he found out that Bassett was in he signed on. Fishburne's performance digs deep and lets us see a few glimpses into the mind of a man that treats women the way Ike treated Tina. Fishburne's Ike Turner shows us an inner rage, jealousy and insecurity that another actor might not have thought to expose to us. Just after a performance of Proud Mary the audience begins to scream, applaud and call out Tina, Tina, virtually ignoring Ike. Fishburne shines as he interprets what Ike's reaction to that might have been (all done by facial expression). Bewilderment, confusion, anger and jealousy. The audience pours out love and affection for Tina but Ike stands in the shadows. He is ignored again. He's well known but not famous in his own right. His fame is nonexistent without Tina. He knows this deep down and it fuels his ever increasing hostility towards her. Fisburne is particularly brilliant here. Right after that scene comes the rape scene. I don't know if that's when it actually happend but for continuity's sake it makes for a great transition from one film scene to the next. Aside from all of that going on inside of the man, is the drug use which of course, makes everything ten times worse. Fishburne is also responsible for some comedy relief as well. Some of his lines are very funny. Ike to Tina in the ambulance after Tina tries to commit suicide; "If you don't make it I'll kill you, you hear me b***h, I'll kill you".
Ike to Tina after she comes home from the hospital (by herself) "Oh hey Ann, feelin alright? Listen, next time you want to take some time off, give a n****r some notice..."

Angela Bassett is divine. She works hard to give accurate perfomances. She had Tina's moves down pat. Although she can sing, her singing was dubbed with Tina's voice for obvious reasons. Tina's voice is just too distinctive to be copied. Laurence on the other hand did do his own singing) Bassett and Fishburne work very well together and I hope to see them in film together more in the years to come ( she probably would have been great in The Matrix). Bassett never gives us anything less than extraordinary.

The rape scene in the film is so well done that I can't watch it. It's too disturbing for me but it's brilliant. It's full of rage and anger and it had absolutely nothing to do with sexual gratification. There is another sex scene in the film just so that you're forewarned. Bassett and Fishburne do not object to sex scenes but neither of them do nude scenes I'm happy to say. I could do without the sex scenes altogehter but that's just my personal preference.

The timeline in the film is not accurate. You have to read I Tina to realize that though. And of course, the film takes liberties with things and tends to spin in some things that did not happen the way you see them on screen. The first child that Tina gave birth to was fathered by a member of the band, not Ike. Also, Tina states that she thought Ike was kind of ugly when she first saw him but the film turns that around to make a better film I suppose. The film is acccurate in terms of the fashions as the decades go by. Fishburne goes from processed hair to Beatle cut to afro and finally a natural style much as you would see him today. Much attention was paid to the costumes as well. Bell bottoms, miniskirts and platform shoes,etc.

I suppose we must give Ike credit for recognizing Tina's talent even if he did try to parlay that into a career for himself. In the end though he did not reap the benefits of all that. You can't gain talent by osmosis. It has to be inside you to start with. While it is true that without Ike there wouldn't be a Tina Turner, it is also true that no one would know who Ike Turner is if there had been no Tina!

My pet peeve with this film is it's ending. During the last concert scene, the scene cuts from Bassett to Tina singing What's Love Got to do With It. This is a diservice to Bassett and I find it insulting for Bassett not to have been allowed to follow through. In fact, it annoys me so much that I stop the movie right after Fishburne's last scene cuts.

I find the flaws in this film forgivable due to the quality of the project as a whole. All being said and done this film is powerful and I reccomend it to you highly.

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Fabulous!

I love Tina Turner and this was one of my favorite movies. I have been looking for it on DVD for a long time and was very happy to finally find it.

excellent

This was a very good movie. The characters were very real and phenomenal. I love this movie

this is da movie a fake ike and tuna should have both won oscars for their roles

this movie is almost 3 and 1/2 stars da story is told well angelia basket one of da top female actress should have took home an oscar because she played da whole of tuna tuner 2 perfection larry fishburn another good actor was great in this film as while playing da greedy and abuse husband of tuna tuner some of da scenes n da movie was a little disturb like when ike was gettin angry when he thought tuna kept on missin up da word it was kind of funny but not 2 much than he ask da people from some privacy time when he sort of rape tuna n da studio room while he had a lot of drugs n his system and tuna tuner was helpless as she couldn't escape away from ike it looked like she nearly die which was great actin but n another scene she stands up 2 ike n da limbo and beats him up pretty good but she also received a bad beatin from ike which cost her 2 miss her concert at da casino one of my favorite parts is when she finally files for a divorce and wants nothin but 2 only keep her name but ike say he deserves 2 take da name away because he discover him and give her that name angelia baskett was in terrific shape playin tuna tuner she worked out a lot u can tell she had a lot of muscle while not lookin like a he she she looked 2 b n wonderful shape 2 b on a working out show destine austin ,workout trainer on channel 28, move out da away and give da show 2 angelia that's is how good her body looked other actors/actress Jenifer Lewis plays tuna's greedy mother 2 Chi McBride who is ike music partner and friend Vanessa Bell Calloway tuna's singmate and best friend that left da group of ike and tuna because she didn't like how ike was treating tuna and herself Penny Johnson ike's former wife who shot herself because she saw that ike now was in love with tuna da funny part was when ike, tuna and their friends was at fast food joint and had some cake ike was high as usual and wanted tuna 2 eat some cake but tuna didn't want any cake so ike push da cake down tuna's throat but she was mad and threw juice at ike when tuna's best friend tried 2 stop ike from going crazier ike hit her and then a big argument happen she left after ike threw her purse and ike still wanted tuna 2 have some cake after all that happened tuna's face was all cover with cake while ike was soaked with juice on his clothes da final thing is i liked they made it look like da time period when tuna started out as a child and then made her way 2 fame da clothes were correct and everything just click like it should have joe brown

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