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Summary: Life imitating art imitating life....
Review: I highly recommend that all high school graduates see this movie before they attend college. The brochures and campus visits can never prepare you for the hardcore reality of campus life. This movie did a great job in bringing the hardcore issues into the light. I enjoyed hot it showed college life from all racial and ethnic perspectives. As a college freshman who was under the 90210 college experience impression, this movie sure did give me a wake up call.
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Summary: Excellent movie!
Review: ...The misconfussion was GREAT!!! This movie is excellent! It gives you a "quick panorama" of what's happening in (nowadays) university campuses. Trully nice.
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Summary: College 101
Review: Higher Learning paints a decent portrait of college life. The movie shows nearly every obstacle that a college student can face through the stories of Malik, Kristen and Remmy(lack of $$, racism, sexual assault, sexuality, identity crisis, wanting to belong, adjusting to college work) However, by trying to include every possible situation that students face, the movie's themes and plots become very muddled. Higher Learning would probably have served more if it had focused on one or two situations.
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Summary: STUPID WHITE MEN -THE MOVIE!
Review: The kind of movie Dr. Goebbels loved to film, only with its colors inverted:
Black people?: COOL
White people?: JERKS
Ignorant black man?: A DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH
Ignorant white man?: MUST BE A NAZI
Ignorant white woman?: MUST BE A BIMBO
Ignorant black woman?: NO SUCH THING
Intelligent black man?: YODA ON CAMPUS
Intelligent white man?: NO SUCH THING
Intelligent black woman?: MOTHER EARTH GODDESS
Intelligent white woman?: MUST BE A LESBIAN To put it politically-correct, "N-word, puhleez!" Lighten up!
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Summary: An Almost Good Film
Review: "Higher Learning" has solid performances, a great premise, and is directed by a filmmaker with potential, John Singleton. So why didn't I like it? For one, the material is so busy and tries to juggle too much. We're introduced to themes of sexual assault, racism, conformity, sexual identity, and blah, blah, blah. A film this preachy is best viewed on a monitor sitting on a pulpit. Second of all, it's not the envelope-pushing commentary it thinks it is. In addressing various issues (sexual identity and racism in particular) Singleton creates very obvious targets and resorts to cliched, one-dimensional characters. The cast (Laurence Fishburne, Omar Epps, Tyra Banks, Michael Rappaport, and Jennifer Connelly) is the best thing here, and they do what they can with the flawed material they have to work with. In my school of cinema, "Higher Learning" gets a grade of C.
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Summary: Too Scattered
Review: This movie has grand aspirations, but has no focus. Singleton is trying to tell too many stories at once, doesn't go into depth on any of them, and then dumps them all at the end for a silly skinhead attack. The stars all do a fine job in the movie, I blame Singleton for this disaster. I would recommend watching it solely to see how a movie that could have been good can go so wrong. Or just do yourself a favor and get "Training Day".
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Summary: Did Singleton Even Go To College?
Review: This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. The movie portrays white supremicists as being some sort of norm, equal to any group of afrocentric college students. And the heavy-handed Christopher Columbus message is too much. If you want to see a movie on kids and race relations, rent "American History X." I loved "Boyz in the Hood" but between this and "Poetic Justice"(aweful), Singleton has been a huge bust. Spare yourself the frustration. This is the first bad review I have ever written.
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Summary: Feel Good
Review: This is just an all around great movie.
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Summary: An Average Movie on Campus Life.
Review: This is a movie in the backdrop of Columbus University, on the different issues of college students often divided along the lines of race, ideology and sexual orientation. John Singleton's attempt is to bring out almost every problem on the campus to light, but ends up focussing on a psychotic young man in a neo-Nazi group. His encounters with the African-American group of students, leads to a high drama of race hatred and violence on the campus. The story line is rather spread out, but the characters are well-portrayed e.g. Omar Epps, Michael Rapaport etc.
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Summary: A peek into today
Review: Who would have thought that when this movie came out so many years ago that it would go from being a more fictional movie to a more realistic one. The times we live in NOW makes this movie really hit home. I loved it then, but I really like it now. I feel all true movie loving individuals should have this movie in their collection.
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