Hustle & Flow : Are you kidding me?

So a movie about a guy too lazy to get a real job, one who sells druges, pimps women is good film? He shoots someone and is lifted to a higher status?

Whtaever.

terrence howard was great at acting like a guy who was "too lazy to get a real job, one who sells drugs, pimps women and shoots someone? yes? It is a movie and did you watch the whole thing?? If you did , you liked it..

i watched the whole thing. it sucked.

wait! those were druges he was selling? i thought he was selling drugs, and pimping women. but, yeah, since he was selling druges, the movie sucked. out of curiosity, how much do druges go for, anyway?

hehei thought he was just hanging out with the girlsout of boredom ya know?? wowim not liking this movie anymore either.

REAL PIMPS DON'T RAP THEY JUST PIMP. HIS HEART WASN'T IN IT. THAT'S WHY IT WAS SO HARD OUT THERE FOR HIM. IF YOU NOTICE HE NEVER REALLY SOLD ANY DRUGS IT SEEMED LIKE HE WAS GIVING IT ALL AWAY AND I NEVER SAW HIM PIMPING ANYBODY BUT THE SNOW BUNNY. HE HAD ONE HO ON MATERNITY LEAVE, AND AN INSUBORDINATE. THE ONLY REAL HUSTLER IN THE HOUSE WAS THE SNOW BUNNY.

great. thanks for clarifying. i'm sure, had he had his head in the game, he would have made his mother proud. he was definitely raising property taxes. i am positive all of the hard working normal people enjoyed having him in their neighborhood.

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REAL PIMPS DON'T RAP THEY JUST PIMP.

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You FEWL! You never heard of Too $hort? He's only the icon of pimp with flows.




Babies taste like chicken

No you are the fewl. I said REAL PIMPS. you are just caught up in what you see on TV and what a rich rapper has told you. A REAL PIMP loves what he does and it's a lifestyle and a way of life not just something that they do on the side. DJ was not a REAL PIMP. He was a hustler. He wanted to make a dollar anyway he could. Whether it's selling weed, sex or music. A REAL PIMP doesn't need to be a rapper. He is happy with what he is doing. It gives them a certain pride that they can break a woman down and have her so caught up that she will give him all of her money. That's what I mean when I say REAL PIMP. Oh, and buy the way, Don't call me names just because u don't understand my statement. If you were mature you would have been more open minded into what I was saying before you rushed to judgement.

Uuuuuhhhh Ice Tea? Anyone ever heard of him?

It's subordinate not insubordinate you moron

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It's subordinate not insubordinate you moron

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I meant what I said you dumb smartass. She was defiant and disobedient, therefore she was insubordinate, you idiot. Brush up on your vocabulary words next time your dumbass try to call someone else a moron because you make yourself look stupid as hell. You dummy.








You may be entitled to your own opinion but you are not entitled to mine.
Arimas, Samira

If your grammar wasn't so fvcking pathetic maybe people would be able to understand what the hell you're saying. The way you worded it makes absolutely no damn sense at all, and typing in all caps Just makes you look like you never made it past the 3rd fvcking grade.

It's not my fault that your stupid, lonesome ass was so eager to pick a fight, just to get a little attention that you stupidly jumped the gun and made yourself look too anxious, completely ignorant and illiterate in the process.

Also, FYI: Reading is more than just reciting words. It also involves comprehension, you IDIOTIC MORON.




You may be entitled to your own opinion but you are not entitled to mine.
Arimas, Samira

that is the best you can come back with? picking out a typo? good job. how about attacking my lack of capitalization now?

druges go for 2 hoes and a foe-tee.

this goes out to i love you too you're a bunch of little girls and probably to scared to leave your porch

what does a fictional character have to do with the quality of the film, it not like DeNiro played an A-Class citizen or role model in taxi driver but that movie is still amazing.
cellar door

LOOOOOL

You are a moron.

you are all *beep* morons, this movie sucked major balls, oh my god a pimp in distress and, "Its hard out here for a pimp" won and oscar are you *beep* serious i want to shoot myself everytime i here that, however the movie sucked balls. Terrence howard, may be a talented actor, however should never have taken this project.

For the dude asking how much drugs go for, Manage on what you got and how you sell. What he gave to luda looked like a 8th so about 200 a 8th makes about 12 dubs dubs= 10 dollars man 120 $ however this is pocket change. The dealers you and i know only make about a 30 dollar profit, Not worth risk of jail time is it, when you clearly dont need the money. He seemed like a big seller raking in anywhere from a 1 to 5 g a week.

great. obviously you misunderstood his post but thanks for trying to show how knowledgeable you are. 12 dub dubs . awesome. i am sure your parents are proud.

Dude a dub is $20 a Dime is $10
and idk where ur buying ur stuff from cause where im at it's only 60 an 8th and 400 for an ounce

I'm was always the new kid, never the cool kid

60 bucks an eigth? where you at man those are some high ass prices. An eigth here in alberta is 35 bucks and my dealers bring it in from B.C. If your distrib wants to be a dick they'll charge you $280 an ounce (making it 10 dollars per gram that means no profit but it will be amazing stuff) you can usually get it around 180 an ounce and thats still for awesome weed. But street prices are 10 bucks a gram no exceptions unless the dealer sucks and the person can't find a different one, the problem can arise though becuase i've paid 10 dollars a gram for crap ditch weed but on the other hand i've paid 10 bucks a gram for the frostiest of bud. I'm kinda lucky in the sense that my dealers deliver right to my door but they won't do it for less than 20 bucks (i'm tight with them so i get a free nickle or dime anyways). to compare typicall prices in alberta are : $10/gram weed, $5/gram mushrooms, $10/blotter tab acid, $35-$50/80mg oxycontin.

yeah well what do you expect? who needs an education anymore? why go to school when you can be a total waste of space. it is just getting worse.

If you actually did shoot yourself every time you heard a song that you dislike, I do believe the world would be a better place. Stop being a pvssy and do it.

why am i a moron? is it because i think a whole culture thinks people like the protagonist is someone to aspire to? yeah, so much for education; let's go sell drugs and pimp some hoes . perfect. are you one of those people that has a gun or a pot leaf tattooed on your body? thug life homey.

I honestly feel sorry for you, having to live in that narrow bubble that is your consciousness must be very dull and confusing.

For those of us not living our lives with our heads firmly planted in the sand, shunning and lashing out at the outside world because it's different, this is a very well made movie.

I am fighting the urge to tell you exactly why I love this movie so much, but I have a rule about not explaining myself to stupid people.

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I am Jack's IMDb post.

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Bro calm down. You're talking this movie WAY too seriously. I have not met one individual that liked PJ in this movie. Just because a character is the protagonist of the film does not mean people have to like that character.

A List of Movies w/ Questionable Protagonists:
Blow
Scarface
A Clockwork Orange
Lolita
Reservoir Dogs
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber On Fleet Street
Leon: The Professional
New Jack City
Pulp Fiction
The Usual Suspects
Goodfellas
The Godfather
American Gangster
Training Day
The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
Natural Born Killers
Bonnie & Clyde

There's plenty more but, I'm sure you get the idea. While I'm not a fan of Hustle & Flow (it's not a bad movie, it's just not something I would put in my blu-ray collection), it's unfair to write the movie off completely because of the morals or lack of morals that it contains. Not every movie has to have an upstanding citizen as a main character.

this movie was good just kidding
i've seen pornos with better plots
how did it get a 7.5 (with 17.7% giving it a 10 they'll let any one on the internet these days),
only watched it because i had to write a paper on it for a film class, i was pissed

SAC 236 with Cohen?

If you watch it and take it seriously you might just understand it.


- "Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television." - David Letterman

wow, you HAD to write a paper on this? is your professor a *beep* idiot? I can understand Akira Kurosawa, Kubrick,or hell even Spielberg . what the hell?!?!

Bitch, you just *beep* stupid. This was 1 of the best movies.

hmmmm i don't know if that epithet was for me or what. i will assume it is for me. you racist douche bag you like this film? you think this is the way to live a life? your mother must cry herself to sleep over you. you probably, just guessing here, have a crappy life and your under educated which means you can't get a decent job OR you have a good job but aren't getting what you think your worth and you blame whitey for holding you down. or your just trying to stir up some crap either way it passes the time.

Question for you, james: Why are you under the impression that because a movie was made about a pimp, that it is trying to make people be a pimp? It's a depiction, not a recruitment video or glorifying portrayal. What it is (or at least tries to be) is a "realistic" portrait of the daily life of a deep down good-hearted and hopeful pimp going through a mid-life crisis.

You don't have to like the movie, but appreciate its intentions, at least.

Be a (your name)-ist
THE YOUR NAME RELIGION

When was it said that this film was trying to make people a pimp?

It is glorifying; the guy shot someone it made him more popular. His career took off. That speaks volumes.

The statment "What it is (or at least tries to be) is a "realistic" portrait of the daily life of a deep down good-hearted and hopeful pimp going through a mid-life crisis." is insane.

If he were a decent person he wouldn't be a pimp drug dealer. If he were hopeful he would try community college.

Pimp drug dealer = bad person.

BAHAHAHAHA Man, you are a douch bagseriously. It's a film, why does a film have to be all about Good Morals?? Have you seen Apocalypse Now? or any other good film for that matter? what are you like an All american *beep* quarter Back or something? Get a *beep* life! I wouldnt have a problem with you personally till I read your other posts, I just don't understand people like you!

This FILM was great, it was well shot, well acted and EXTREAMLY well written. The story was amazing, the Narrative Arch was awesomenot to mention the endingWHO THE *beep* ARE YOU? do you not know a good film when you see it?

also, The fact that he was a pimp and Drug dealer had nothing to do with the plot, he could have been a mechanic or a banker and the story would still be pretty much the same, the fact that he was a pimp was nothing more than a device the writer used for chacacter developmentto make a more in depth caricaturisation*beep*

Are you *beep* stupid, I_love_you_too?

Remind me to NEVER, EVER listen to your analysis of a movieEVER. You just completely missed the point of this one.

Be a (your name)-ist
THE YOUR NAME RELIGION

@I_love_you_too


Saw this film when it came out, and hell no, it's not glamorizing anything about his lifestyle. In fact, HUSTLE & FLOW is the most unglamorous,downbeat and realistic treatment I've seen of a pimp and some hookers on film. Unlike other films where pimps are glamorized as these powerful rich dudes, DJ and the women that work for him are clearly down on their luck, and, it seems, barely getting by trying to make ends meet. They were all clearly struggling. I'm guessing the area they were in was depressed economically (that's what it looked like to me) and they probably couldn't find enough jobs to keep their heads above water.


It is glorifying; the guy shot someone it made him more popular. His career took off. That speaks volumes.



You're wrong about that-he's still locked up at the endhe wasn't going to have any "career" for a long time,I'm sure. And DJ deserved because he was an a**hole anyway. This wasn't some stupid,dumb gangster fantasy a la 50 Centnothing like that. Sure his friends finally got the song on the radio, but that was cold comfort from a jail cell. Because of a stupid decision he made (beating Skinny up) he screwed himself out of an opportunity to make his life better, which he was trying to do all alonghis friends, who were just as committed to making it happen as he was, just picked up the slack. At the end, he finally feels that he accomplished something, even if he can't enjoy it the way he wants to.

It's a depiction, not a recruitment video or glorifying portrayal.

Thank you!


I had to watch Heavenly Creatures for a film class, was that an acceptable choice? How are their troubled lives any more worthy of depiction than the lives of the characters in Hustle and Flow? These two young girls murdered someone. I'm opposed to murder, did not like the two main characters, difference is I understood I was being shown their lives, not being asked to condone, or mimick their actions. Disturbing as it may have been I can still say it was well acted, with beautiful cinematography. Hustle and Flow was a good movie. If you never get past "it's wrong" or "it's disturbing" you miss the point.

You do know Barney doesn't really love you right?

yeah, good for you. dare to dream.

I really enjoyed this movie and thought it was really well written and really well acted.

I love you too seems to think this movie is glorifying being a pimp or drug dealer and in some ways it isbut that's the reality of the mainstream music industry. It sounds to me like you have a fundamental problem with that and weren't able to see that this was a character driven movie about a far from perfect man trying to escape his past through the only means he knew how.

Good movie.

many great movies in cinema deal with *beep* up subject matter but are still considered to be groundbreaking films. i.e Taxi-a child prostitute sparks a psychotic taxi driver to take a pimp's life. Midnight Cowboy-man moves to the big apple and in order to support himself sells his um,services. etc. It's all relative, this movie does just that, it portrays a life that, though we may not be personally connected to, it still makes us think. I think this is a great example of a movie that explores the dark side of a musically historical southern Memphis and the many walks of life that have made it their life's mission to make music.

so, sorry to disagree with you but, an unorthodox movie such as "Hustle and Flow" is well deserved in it's oscar win.

I thought this movie was good. Any movie that can make me, a white, married mother of two from a small rural town in the Pacific Northwest care about a pot-selling pimp and a couple hookers in Memphis is a good movie. The characters are about as far away from me culturally as possible. The subject matter is not something that comes into my life, ever.

It did it's job, it told it's story and made me relate to characters I would never have related to.

BUT I think that this movie was "radio play" like Key kept telling Djay his songs needed to be. This wasn't about a pimp who beat the crap out of his girls, they stayed away from talking about drugs other than pot much (we did see Nola snort something), Djay honestly cared about Shug and the kids, and about Nola too. The girls showed enough depth to be fragile, but without being victims. I know I wouldn't have enjoyed the movie as much if it had been harder.

I have a ton of respect for this movie, I watched every minute and enjoyed the hell out of it. Much like Black Snake Moan, I didn't know if I would like it, but I'm glad I gave it a try. I'll watch anything else this director brings out.

If you didn't like the movie, I respect that. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

I enjoyed the movie because is that it showed a human face to what is often dismissed and judged as "illegal and immoral". If you watched the entire movie, and understand what the characters go through, you should at least see that not much has been going in their favor. The "system" doesn't really work to everyone's advantage.

He mentioned in the film that his father died when he was young, meaning he was raised in a single-parent household, not to mention being raised by a single mom. We can turn our backs on this all we want, but gender discrimination in the workplace still exist. Wages are still in the favor of men, so there are still families led by single moms that struggle to make ends meet. Also, this is assuming his mother was present and took care of the household finances.

Furthermore, post-secondary education isn't really an option for everyone, considering the tuition and expenses involved. Therefore, he may only have had limited employment options available. I could go on and on about the causes and disadvantages of poverty in the United States, but I think you get the point.

I think this movie did a great job portraying the characters as they were without being judgmental and condescending; it respected them as human beings. It showed their motivations for doing what they did and the characters were multi-dimensional.

To each his/her own I guess