That title really made me laugh. Nice work my friend:up:

If this is true then I'm ashamed of my generation.

u cant compare a great man to some rapper. : /

What's a Tupac?

lol. I just realised that Tupac spelled backwards is caput... no wonder he died :)

That Buffy thread was great. Welcome Iboy.

Tupac: Resurection was indeed the bestest doc of them all!!!111

I don't like Tupac, but I liked the movie and I think it was better than Micheal Moore's F. 9/11.
Here's an conversation I had with a 24year old who loves Tupac.
He believes Tupac cause and worships him.
In the dvd extras there is a scene where Tupac is making a speech at a rally.
And he's talking about how the brothers are dying and they don't have jobs etc. etc.
Now I asked the 24 year old if he were rich and were opening a factory and if he met Tupac at a party and Tupac said that he knew 50 brothers from the hood who needed jobs. Would the 24 hire Tupac's 50 friends from the hood.
He said no.
I asked him how come after all this talk that he would not support Tupac's cause.
He said they would not be good workers and he would rather hire mexicans.
So I said then Tupac's rants are crap then.
And he stayed shut like I just proved his hero wrong.

Also OVERSTOCK.COM had the dvd for under $5!!

:lol:

It's very entertaining, especially since he "narrates" the whole thing himself. One of the better docs of recent memory.

What was that nickname they gave Mr. Belvedere on SNL where they wanted to put him in a giant glass jar?

Wasn't 2Pac raised middle class?

R.I.P Christopher Hewett

I'm not a Tupac expert or anything but considering he grew up in Oakland for a while, I really don't think that would be considered middle class. I haven't seen this documentary but from knowing a bit about his life I wouldn't consider this best documentary out there. I did and still do listen to some of his music from time to time but as far as calling him a philosopher and all that I would not agree. Yes he moved the masses (in this case mostly people from the "hood") but just like any other music group or pop icon thats popular at the time.

who says he's dead?

A Tupac, my boy, is what is left over after you drink four malt liquors. Everybody knows that!

Sorry to say but most of you seem very narrow minded and ignorant, you guys probably dont know two squirts of piss about Tupacs life and you still judge him as another garbage hip hop artist. Thats just like someone calling the Beatles just a bunch of dorks with no talent or Elvis just another fat ass.

Tupac was a very talented man, but he wasted that talent by trying to bring the "thug life" mythology to life. A shame the faux hatred and the fanning of the idiotic east coast/west coast "war" got so out of control.

I haven't seen the documentary, but I've heard many good things about it.

There is also a conspiracy theory that Tupac faked his own death. It's unlikely, but is more plausable than most conspiracy theories.

Exactly what I was thinking.

I have to admit I am a big fan of his - he is one of my 5 favorite music artists of all time. In spite of my prejudices, I think my following comments are relatively accurate statements. He is an extremely talented individual. He wasn't exactly Denzel, but if you saw him in Juice you could see he had the ability to carry a movie. It was a shame that they dropped him from Higher Learning. The fact that 99% of the rappers out there today are virtual copies from him shows that he a big impact on the urban youth and that he was, if not the best rap artist of all time, damn close to it. I'm sure he was a lot more intelligent than most people give him credit for being. It's just a shame he wasn't able to separate himself from the criminal elements of his past. He might not have been the biggest lost of our generation as one member had posted, but he had the opportunity to be close to it. As I had read a few years back in a book...if Malcom X had died in his twenties, what would he have been? Nothing but a street thug.

And on to the original question. I haven't seen it or any other documentary this year, although I may pick it up down the line.

I finally rented and watched this. It was very interesting his whole back story. If you look behind the music and look at the life he came from its very interesting. Maybe not the best documentary but still avery good one.

Tupac was a great artist. But like other subjects around here, it's useless to try and talk positive about him.

To stay on topic - No, the doc isn't the best ever.

i agree

National Archives here in DC is screening a 35mm print of this tomorrow night which I plan on seeing.

I agree on both accounts..

Great documentary one of my favorite artists, you can't get anything but hate etc. on dvdtalk if you try to talk good about him.

:hscratch: Who?

Well, there is a bias with some against rap music. On the other hand, when you make a post like the OP, which just sounds like something a 12 year old would write, making rather silly claims like this being the best docu EVA! and Tupac being the greatest loss of our generation, failing to see that this man had little to no effect on a large segment of the population, then you're going to get some ridicule. He was a very talented writer of lyrics and a very talented rapper. He obviously managed to impact people in different communities quite strongly. But his death had much more of an impact on our country then anything he did while he was alive, mainly because it was a celebrity dying.

You do have to admit that sometimes people prop this guy up a bit more then he really deserves. It happens a lot with stars who die young. And considering the negative influence that some of the culture that surrounds Tupac and the music he's invovled with, I can understand soem disliking the entire thing. Though, it would be short sighted to believe that thug/gang life is all Tupac stood for.

better then "some kind of monster" (which should have gotten the best doc nod instead of this)? fuck no. is it a decent doc, yeah.