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Summary: The Education of Sonny Carson
Review: Have not seen the movie in years, need to see it again before I can review it.
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Summary: Very Moving Film
Review: I finally got to see this Film recently&couldn't stop feeling the depth&Realness of the film.this Film is straight up in your face&doesn't hide from what went down back in the day.it touches on so many levels.Films like this truly Kept it real&also are a front runner to much of what we see&hear today.
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Summary: A MUST SEE - REAL PEOPLE - REAL STORY
Review: I love this movie. I bill myself as a hip hop/blackploitation film historian, but forgot about this classic. Only thru reading someone's top 10 movie's for forgotten Movies did I see this title and then ordered this movie. I loved this movie so much that I gave the vhs to a former gang member from Los Angeles (He loved it, and he is passing that around) and I ordered the dvd. I love the director and the real Sonny Carson doing commentary. They tell a grim tell of what the whole filming experience was like. They give you stories of Joe Dancer and the rest that only the directors commentary would provide. Anybody from Chicago over 40,Los Angeles over 40, New York will understand this experience. This is one of my new favorite movies to watch. I love the whole movie from beggining to end. I am 43 years old and see how hip hop, rap, gangsta behavior orginated from this classic. Movies have away of influencing the times. The Education of Sonny Carson has a way of influencing culture. (jocisoo7@aol.com for email me, I would love to have emails from new friends and we can share all of our street movie loves. peace and cheap hair grease. ( I grew up in Robert Taylor Holmes on the south side of chicago and migrated to Long Beach california to exscape gangs and wind up in the heart of west coast gang explosion of the 70's and 80's.
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Summary: Average movie... poor quality audio!
Review: I must admit that I was disappointed with this film. It suffers from some common mistakes made in many blaxploitation films of this time. I feel that given the man's life, the same budget and actors, I could come up with a better film. Why...?I never saw this movie before I purchased it. I was expecting something like Cooley High. I did not, and still, do not know much about Sonny Carson. The film ends right at the turning point of his life! If you sat down in the theater in 1973/4 and watched this film, knowing nothing about him, after the film you would have walked out wondering why they made this film at all. He gets out of prison and finds that all of his friends have either been killed, succumbed to drug addiction, or are incarcerated. The movie ends here. We see nothing of the positive changes that he made. We don't know why he joined a gain in the first place. What motivated him? His parents seemed loving and he supposedly got good grades in school. It didn't appear that everyone in his school was in a gang either. Another enigma is his girlfriend, who appears to be clean-cut when we first meet her. When he gets out of jail, she's strung out on heroine. How did this happen? No explanations given in this film. Instead the movie wastes valuable time showing long scenes of people dancing and other scenes of people singing gospel. This appears often in blaxploitation films... why? I don't like watching people dance and sing, it wastes time, and hurts the flow of the movie. If there was some purpose for the gospel singing i.e. Sonny had an apparent interest in church, that would be ok... but he didn't. And have you ever seen a parade where they allow street gangs to march in them?!?!?! Well you'll see it here! As for the DVD: the video quality is good but the sound is a real joke! As noted by an earlier review. The synchronization is off by a fraction of a second and it is quite noticable. Think of a bad dubbing on a low budget kung-fu movie. Buy this only if you are a die-hard collector of blaxploitation films, like me... otherwise steer clear of this one!
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Summary: Not Enough There
Review: I was very curious to see this movie because, I read an very good review on the movie, I think it said something like "if this movie does not make you stand up and be pride, then you do not need to stand", or something like that. But, this movie was not complete. What did Sonny do with his life after he left jail? No one knows, because the movie was not completed. DO not waste your time buying or seeing it.
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Summary: Not Enough There
Review: I was very curious to see this movie because, I read an very good review on the movie, I think it said something like "if this movie does not make you stand up and be pride, then you do not need to stand", or something like that. But, this movie was not complete. What did Sonny do with his life after he left jail? No one knows, because the movie was not completed. DO not waste your time buying or seeing it.
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Summary: Sonny Carson father of Lamuba Carson of rap group x clan
Review: Sonny Carson the actavist is the father of Lamumba Carson (professor x of the X clan rap group). The gang members in the movie are real not actors.You'll see the birth of rap in one scene when the members chant.At the time no one knew of the impact that scene would have on society today.The chanting was packaged by Africa Bambata of the Zulu nation a Bronx gang turned peace lover for the hood to stop the violence.The rumble turned into break dancing instead of fighting.See also "Wild Style" by fab five freddy the first hip hop movie to see the progression of hip hop. Love: Reno Los vargas 11/11/99 my tag son.
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Summary: This movie is a classic.
Review: The education of Sonny Carson is a classic. If you liked Cooley High, than you would like this movie. It talks about the street life in Brooklyn in the 50's and 60's. If you are into Hip-Hop it is a must see. Alot of rapper's and R&B singer's have sample this movie title and used it as refences. A great movie. A must have if you want more street knowledge.
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Summary: education of sonny carson
Review: the education of sonny carson was a great historical movie for . I grew up in those times. It was god see a movie of how it really was back then.
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Summary: Great Movie, horrible reproduction
Review: There is something wrong with this DVD at chapter 5 where Sonny takes a hit of weed from 2 pimps at first I thought the echos I was hearing was part of the scene but as soon as the scene continued into the high school scene with his confrontation with the hawks the echoing continued. It ends as soon as chapter 6 starts up with the 1st gang battle between the lords and the hawks. I decided to check the old tape I had of TEO Sonny Carson and the guess what, the echos were not present anywhere in the movie. That means somwhere between the master print and the DVD master somebody forgot to check for audio sync in the transfer. To top it all off all throughout the movie there is video noise on moving edges; I though only amateur/hobbyist of VCD/SVCD/DVD did this. This is a great movie about the tough times that young black Sonny Carson faced in Brooklyn and rose up from. But the production that went into this DVD practically destroys any enjoyable experience one can get from this movie. So my suggestion is to wait for a re-release (not likely) or buy the tape; then you yourself can make a better DVD version of the movie than the guy jonfilms@aol.com did. (jonfilms@aol.com is in the credits for digitizing this movies and I think he is responsible for the error in transfer from master to DVD print). Great movie gone to waste because of carelessnes in the video transposing process.
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