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Summary: a good strong film.
Review: This is a very good film and well watchable,How ever it can be hard on Tina fans,If you are a lover of this Lady's music,this film makes you feel very sad. Angela bassett portrays Tina very well,Tina does appear towards the end on stage in the white leather suit,there are also clips of her through out the film. Having seen the film loads of times I baught it,and it is watched,It gives a good insight to their relationship,and shows what a strong person Tina is. The music throughout the film is out standing,as is the soundtrack. It is a film that leaves you thinking,It is voilent in places, but leaves you feeling you can do any thing. 10 out of 10. Well worth buying.
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Summary: Well done
Review: This is a very well done movie, with fine performances and music, not to mention a great story of triumph! Very uplifting and inspirational!
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Summary: A TRIUMPHANT STORY OF A REAL LIFE SURVIVOR....
Review: This is an incredible, highly energized film about the life of rock and roll diva, Tina Turner, and her stormy relationship with her controlling and physically abusive husband, Ike Turner. Award calibre performances are turned in by Angela Bassett, as Tina, and Laurence Fishburne, as Ike. They are both absolutely riveting.Ms. Bassett plays Tina with all the earthy charm and sexual magnetism of the real life Tina Turner. Laurence Fishburne gives an amazingly effective performance as Ike, at once both repellent and charismatic. The movie focuses on their relationship, one which sowed the seeds for the Tina Turner we know today. What started out as a match made in heaven, quickly soured as Tina naturally took the lead musically in their Ike and Tina Turner Revue. When it became clear that Tina was the one for which the fans were clamoring, Ike did not take lightly to being second banana, and their relationship became one of domestic discord and abuse, with Ike easing into the role of abusive husband with relative ease. When Tina finally had had enough, she divorced Ike, taking nothing from the marriage except her children and her show business name, the name she earned. From there, she went on to rebuild her life and career, becoming the world reknowned rock and roll diva she is today. Ike, a substance abuser, ended up in prison for narcotics possession and fell into relative obscurity, little more than a footnote in rock and roll history. This is a film well worth watching, with great performances and great music. Look for the live stage performance by the real life Tina Turner at the end of the film. That alone is worth the price of this video.
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Summary: Should've been Best Picture of 1993
Review: This is one powerful film! It take your basic story of the rough climb to the top of he music industry and the hidden anguish endured to get there. What makes this film stand out is the incredible acting, terrific music preformances, it's refusal gloss things over and, most importantly, it's all true.
It's based on Tina's autobiography 'I Tina'. From the abuse and downright touture she had to endure at the hands of her monsterous husband Ike Turner (all the while having to go out on stage and preform) it's astounding that she survived let alone thrived. But what I found just as hurtful, and possibly even more so, is the treatment she gets from her own mother. This is a woman who abandons her daughter at a very young age and upon their reuniting pushes her to STAY in the abusive relationship so she can reap the benefits of new homes, nice clothes and such! Tina had a hard life all around. It wasn't just Ike. That's what's so great about this film. It gives you the entire picture. Well almost, the autobiography goes into even more detail. As far as the DVD goes, the only extra included is the original threatrical trailer. The transfer though is prestine showing deep blacks and bright colors. Sound is in 5.1 surround and really showed off in the preformance segments. Speaking of which, they are terrific! They bring much energy and fun to the picture so you never get bogged down with the much more dreary aspects.
Angela Basset give a pssionate, energetic and moving preformace as Tina. Only occationally did I feel she was not Tina. Laurance Fishburn is devesatingly brutal, but charming as well. You understand why Tina fell for him in the first place. Get this film and you will never be able to see Tina the same again. Her songs take on different meanings. I can now see her as a real person and not a star. I only appreciate her more than ever after seeing this film. It's a shame the academy passed over What's Love Got To Do With It as picture of the year. Don't you make the same mistake.
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Summary: SIMPLY THE BEST
Review: THIS MOVIE IS ABSOLUTLEY WONDERFUL BECAUSE FOR THE FIRST TIME WE THE FANS HAVE A CHANCE TO SEE WHAT REALLY WENT ON INSIDE THE VERY SECRET LIFE OF IKE AND TINA TURNER.
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Summary: unbelievable
Review: this movie was such a load of garbage, i can't believe so many people liked it. i happened to see the first 20 minutes or so on some cable channel and i thought it was just another washed-up no-name made-for-TV movie. weak and cliche acting, ridiculously paced, obviously striving for all kinds of things it can't achieve.....unbelievable that people call this "award worthy". a weak hollywood "music" movie trying to be emotional and stirring and just turning out cliche'd and predictable like all the others.
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Summary: Well Told From The Victim's Point Of View
Review: What's Love Got To Do With It is well told from Tina, the victim's point of view.
I would like to say to David L. Smith, any man who hits on a woman is a monster in my book, and does not deserve to have his side of the story told.
There is no excuse for beating up someone so horribly bad, that they end up looking so terrible you can't even recognize them.
It's been told many many times in interviews with Ike Turner himself that Tina never layed a hand on him to provoke the beatings.
This comes from his mouth.
The movie tells what really happened well and paints the kind of person Ike Turner was very accurately.
The producers even showed a little mercy, but blaming his ways on narcotics.
He got off pretty light.
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Summary: good overall entertainment
Review: Witness the stormy relationship between music sensations Ike and Tina Turner ... witness Tina's liberation from Ike's abusive and controlling ways... witness Tina's ascent to solo stardom in the 1980's... witness Tina's odd conversion to a specific branch of Buddhism. this movie's pace is pretty fast and will hold the attention of most. Great costumes, fabulous music, solid overall entertainment, but if you find it hard to watch scenes in which a man hits a woman, then you should reconsider watching this movie. Laurence Fishburne stars as Ike, Angela Bassett as Tina.
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Summary: All that I can say is...
Review: WOW! I have seen this movie hundred's of times and I never get sick of it. Angela Bassett does an excellent job potraying Tina Turner, from the costumes, the singing, to the emotions, it was all wonderful. Laurence Fishbourne is FANTASTIC as Ike Turner, he embodies the real Ike Turner's personality so well. It's a conspiricy that NEITHER Angela B. Or Laurence F. recieved an oscar for their roles in this movie because they both gave excellent performances. Vanessa Bellcalloway also gives a suprisingly good performance.
I dont feel the need to go into detail because I think most people know the movie is about Tina Turner's life and how Ike was horrible to her and abused her THIS MOVIE WILL MAKE YOU laugh at Ike's ignorant and at the same time wanna smack him for how mean he is. You will cheer for Tina, when she finally gets away from that man. BUY IT NOW!
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