#Drumline (2002)

[ierofrnkk]

You guys just don’t understand

[imthefailedartist]

When Jan. 6th happened we should've taken them trials back, back, back in time and executed them motherfuckers in the town square.

[modernmutiny]

I understand the point of watching Drumline isn't to fall in love with Dr Lee but also I've never been good at following directions lol

[joslincox]

Nivea (2001)

Still In Love

Ya Ya Ya (With Lil Wayne)

Don't Mess With My Man (With Jagged Edge)

The One For Me

Laundromat (With R. Kelly)

You Don't Even Know (With Nick Cannon)

Run Away (I Wanna Be With U) (With Pusha T)

Just In Case (From "Osmosis Jones")

No Doubt

Never Had a Girl Like Me

Have Mercy

Don't Mess With The Radio

25 Reasons

I Love My Man (I'm Keepin' Him)

What You Waitin' For (From "Durmline")

Check Your Man (With Mystikal)

Cat's Got Your Tongue

Jewelry

Problems

[lesbiancolumbo]

2002

morvern callar (lynne ramsay), barrier device (grace lee), a string of pearls (camille billops, james hatch), drumline (charles stone III)

[netflixonyourcouch]

Coach Carter (2005)

My first rewatch of this movie as an adult. Saw it way back in 2005, on DVD (back when DVDs were hella popular) and thought now is as good of a time as any to rewatch.

And honestly? This rewatch went way better than I thought it would.

Coach Carter is one of the best movies in this particular vein (adult comes to troubled school and inspires kids to do better). It tracks the apparently true story of an actual high school coach who went full Lean on Me and forced his players to do good in school if they wanted to play basketball.

Now, let's get into the nitty gritty because this movie is far from flawless. But I don't think it's flawed in such a way that screams incompetence; rather, I see a film that might have worked beautifully as a mini series in order to explore all the nuance it NEEDED to explore.

At the core of this film is the idea of a positive male role model for teenage young men who lack guidance and discipline in the inner city. I would have LOVED to see more of the backstories fleshed out.

Like, for example, we know that one of the players, Cruz, hops between the gang lifestyle and playing for the team (as casually as one might barhop between two different bars or something lmao). Like, no one on the team is surprised that he's dealing drugs and gangbanging, and there's no real consequences to him for drug dealing and gangbanging. When a tragedy befalls Cruz it kind of hits with muted impact because his story is just so rushed, underdeveloped and tacked on. Also they missed a huge sociological moment to teach us about what happens when impressionable teenagers lose a positive male influence in their lives and turn to the streets to feel accepted and part of a group. I mean it is shown, but it needed to be discussed as well.

We know that Channing Tatum's character (yes, THE Channing Tatum is in this) has a father in jail, but we don't know much else about his character at all. And with another player, Worm, we don't have ANY backstory at all, except that he loves to flirt with women. And halfway through the movie, they reveal one of the players can't even read (!!) and then quickly rush past it.

We needed to have more backstory for all of the players to understand their recklessness in following the rules and to care more about them and sympathize with Coach Carter being so strict with them.

The one major side plot that is explored is around one of the players and his pregnant girlfriend (played by Ashanti, who actually does a great job acting). However, it is of my opinion this side plot feels kind of after school special-y and eats up a lot of screen time.

I also found myself thinking this movie was pretty dated, with not just some of the song choices but just the overall feel of the movie, the cheesy inspirational music could have been cut out to make a much better film as well.

But that's where my criticisms end. The rest of the film was a delight for me. The basketball concepts were actually more in-depth than I remember them being, and the film does a great job showing the human nature of the boys on the team wanting to be teenagers but also wanting to shore up their commitment to Coach Carter. And I found myself really loving the coming of age aspect of these kids learning to appreciate the toughness that Coach Carter put on them and continuing to show up for him every time.

Samuel L. Jackson also walks around as Samuel L. Jackson, the basketball coach and that's just amazing in and of itself hahaha.

Anyway, slot this one right next to Drumline (2002) as a genuinely good movie that one might not think is a good movie because of its flaws but it succeeds despite its flaws.

-ryan

[uniquejellyfishqueen]

DECEMBER

12/4/1791: British newspaper, The Observer publishes their first edition of the first Sunday newspaper

12/4/1881: The LA Times published its first edition

12/4/1986: An oil spill of approximately 500,00 gallons happens in the Port of Savannah, Georgia on the MV Amazon Venture oil tanker.

12/5/1901: Walt Disney birthday

12/5/1955: Rosa Parks and E.D Nixon lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

12/4/1964: Baseball approves a free agent draft.

12/15/1966: Walt Disney died

12/5/1974: The NFL Seattle Seahawks form.

12/4/1991: Pan American airlines shuts down after 64 years

12/10/1997: Slim Shady LP released. Recorded at Studio 8 in Ferndale, Michigan

12/13/2002: Drumline (*this was T.S 13th Birthday)

12/25/2007: The Today Show Las Vegas performed “Christmases When You Were Mine" "Silent Night"

NO FREAKING WAY. Her first time on the today show, THERES NO DAY BUT TODAY!

I die without you-No day but today

This is the Finale B and thats the reputation of us

And then she has the performance the same year on 12/31. Rent celebrates all the holidays in a year as well.

12/31/2007: Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve NY. Performed “Our Song” “Teardrops on My Guitar”

12/11/2009: Z100 Jingle Ball NY. Performed 1/2 of My Heart with John Mayer. And 2 is better than 1 with Boys Like Girls. You Belong with Me, Teardrops on My Guitar, Fifteen, and Love Story. (2+1+.5=3.5)

12/3/2008: 51st Grammy Nominations Concert LA “I’m Sorry” “White Horse”

*312 area code for Chicago

12/5/2008: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno “White Horse” and “Our Song”

12/6/2008: CMT Giants: Alan Jackson “Drive (For Daddy Gene)”

12/31/2008: Dick Clark’s New Year Rockin’ Eve “Picture to Burn" "Love Story" "Forever & Always" "Change"

12/1/2012: iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Tour 2012 KissFM’s Jingle Ball LA. Performed "State of Grace" "I Knew You Were Trouble" "You Belong with Me" "Red" "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"

12/3/2012: Robert F Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights NY performed “Starlight”

*performed 2x on the Eras Tour as a SS. 1. N2 Denver 7/15/23 2. N1 Singapore 3/2/24

12/7/2012: iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Tour 2012: Z100 Jingle's Ball 2012 performed State of Grace" "You Belong with Me" "Everything Has Changed" (with Ed Sheeran) "Love Story" "I Knew You Were Trouble" "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"

12/15/2012: Schlag den Raab Cologne Germany “WANGBT”

12/31/2012: Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve. “IKYWT” “WANGBT”

12/11/2013: Red Tour. Perth.

Acoustic You Belong With Me

12/5/2014: iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Tour 2014 performed “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" "Blank Space" "I Knew You Were Trouble" "Love Story" "Shake It Off"

12/9/2014: VS Fashion Show London “Blank Space” “Style”

12/12/2014: iHeartRadio Jingle Ball performed “Welcome to New York" "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" "Blank Space" "I Knew You Were Trouble" "Shake It Off"

12/24/2014: “Earned It” by Canadian singer The Weeknd was released as the lead single for 50 Shades of Grey (those are the same letters as State of Grace

12/31/2014: Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin Eve “Welcome to New York” “Shake It Off”

12/3/2015: Nova’s Red Room Australia “Blank Space” “Out of The Woods” “Wildest Dreams” “Shake It Off”

12/9/2016: The theme song for 50 Shades Darker “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever” by Zayn and Taylor Swift

*for the third installment of this franchise 50 Fifty Shades Freed the lead single was “For You” performed by Rita Ora and Liam Payne. ->that makes 2/5 One Direction members.

12/11/2015: 1989 World Tour Melbourne N2/3 SS Fifteen. Played 3x on the ET (Most recent Lyon N1 6/2/24)

12/12/2015: 1989 World Tour Melbourne N3/3 SS Long Live. Played 46x on the ET (most recent N7 London 8/19/24)

*L is 12 letter of the alphabet L L = 12/12

*3+4+6=13

*346 (overlay for 713) is the area code for Houston, the largest city in TX and the 4th largest city in the US by population.

*643 is Trinidad and Tobago

12/1/2017: iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Tour 2017: KIIS-FM's Jingle Ball 2017. "...Ready for It?" "Blank Space" "Shake It Off" "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" "End Game" (with Ed Sheeran) "Look What You Made Me Do"

12/2/2017: 99.7 Now!’s Poptopia San Jose “Ready for It?" "Blank Space" "Shake It Off" "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" "End Game" "Look What You Made Me Do"

12/7/2017: B96 Chicago and Pepsi Jingle Bash 2017 performed "...Ready for It?" "Blank Space" "Shake It Off" "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" "Gorgeous" "Look What You Made Me Do"

12/8/2017: iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Tour 2017: Z100 Jingle Ball performed "...Ready for It?" "Blank Space" "Shake It Off" "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" "End Game" (with Ed Sheeran) "Look What You Made Me Do"

12/8/2017: Untouchable released as a promotional single for Eminem’s 9th studio album.

12/10/2017: Capital FM’s Jingle Bell Ball 2017 performed "...Ready for It?" "Blank Space" "Shake It Off" "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" "Gorgeous" "Look What You Made Me Do"

12/15/2017: Revival released by Eminem

12/15/2017: River by Eminem ft Ed Sheeran released as a single for Revival ->a music video was released for the song on 2/14/2018 ->Eminem and Ed performed this song live during the Revival Tour on 7/15/2018 at Twickenham Stadium in London. This stadium was built on 10/2/1909 and the architect was John Bradley. ->it is the world’s largest rugby union stadium.

12/5/2018: The Ally Coalition Talent Show “Delicate” with Hayley Kiyoko.

12/8/2019: Capital FM’s Jingle Bell Ball 2019. Performed • "Blank Space" "Me!" "London Boy" "Lover" "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" "22" "You Need to Calm Down" "Christmas Tree Farm" "Shake It Off"

12/13/2019: Z100's iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2019 performed “Blank Space" "Me!" "Lover" "Welcome to New York" "You Need to Calm Down" "Christmas Tree Farm" "Shake It Off"

12/14/2019: Strictly Come Dancing London “Lover”

12/18/2019: TS on Jimmy Fallon together they sing “Memory” with the cast of Cats.

12/11/2020: Evermore

12/18/2020: Music to Be Murdered By-Side B

*foreshadowing for TDOSS

12/6/2023: Time person of the Year article: Taylor Swift

*Important to mention that Time Magazine published their first issue on 3/3/1923. They are currently on their 4th owner. In 2018 they were under the Meredith Corporation… which is when she was on her Reputation Stadium Tour. Meredith is her first kitty, a Scottish fold (1/3) 3 again…. Meredith was born on 11/10/2010 (7 years before the release of Reputation on 11/10/2017) she was adopted by TS on 10/31/2011.

*I’m gonna have to do a breakdown of the eggs that match the kitties

12/21/2024: Last day of fall 2024.

*this would have also been my 6th anniversary.

[thesecretuncle]

By 2050, Nick Cannon will have enough kids to populate the cast and crew of a Drumline (2002) reboot. This was always the plan

[funkinblues]

Nick Cannon went to sleep with drumsticks tied to his hand every night in preparation for the role in drumline 2002

[ierofrnkk]

is there even an audience for this.

This is purely self indulgent whatever who cares

[joelletwo]

BEAUTIFUL DRUM BATTLE YAOI

[native-aki]

Damn, I think I'm a fan of the 2002 Nick Cannon classic Drumline

[msclaritea]

Idolatry in Greek Fraternities & Sororities - Fred Price Jr.

Sorority and Fraternity Mayhem: Denounce Now

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE DIVINE 9 (Pt. 1) BLACK SECRET SOCIETIES BEFORE THE DIVINE 9

"Many filmmakers have tried to recreate the Black College Experience for the big screen, but few have done it successfully (with the exception of Spike Lee's "School Daze" (1988) and the 2002 hit "Drumline"). So this part of being Black is not widely understood or known. The Black college experience is a huge part of African-American culture, which was on full display during singer Beyoncé's historic and epic performance at the 2018 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, CA....From the marching band to the step show, and moments of pledging, Beyoncé's tribute showcasing Black university life is much appreciated. For anyone not in the know, a student can have that experience at an HBCU (Historically Black College and University) or also on any campus with Black Fraternities and Sororities..."

Hey @aeltri don't say I never feed you anything.

These paid buffoons have been dragging the Black community down into the dirt, by acting as voices of truth, and all just to help provide more cover and distraction for the NFL. I know they're not the only ones, but they also gave free promo to Tyler Perry by pretending....PRETENDING to go after him. But, really, what is just a bunch of bought off talking heads going to accomplish against a man who is still getting one deal after another for his toxic films, while sitting in his billion dollar mansion, on a hill. Not much!

And during all of this, repeatedly exposing the public and very likely, children to graphic, violent porn. I say, we are truly living in post racial world when THIS MANY Black and POC, like #Valderrama are willing to do so much to uphold a sick system run by sick men, that ultimately hurts their own communities. The NFL and Silicon Valley are in league, have been and that explains why so many football blogs on Twitter are constantly involved in Hate Spamming and general attacks, including the ones against Disney for years. Because Sports Betting uses AI.

The Entertainment Industry stopped hiring real actors, real comedians and real musicians. Instead, they hire Propagandists, now.

[acetheticlytired]

i think more people should watch Drumline (2002) because it is fantastic and i will die on this hill