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Review
Pride and Glory
Before I do this, can I just say how much I enjoyed my movie experience this weekend? I’m a self admitted glutton for cinematic punishment. Unless I’m out with a chick, I usually catch most of my movies at my local theater where the most ignorant humans known to widescreen viewings frequent. It’s convenient, but at a price that has nothing to do with general admission. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a coon comedy, smart comedy, action film, sci-fi flick, political documentary or animated German musical epic; there are always ignant ass youngins and/or homeless people fucking up my shit! Damn, they be acting like they haven’t been anywhere. Probably because they haven’t, except for this damn theater! Anyway, I didn’t have to deal with none of that with Pride and Glory. Now, I had a scare when I saw all of them kids walk in like a gang from The Warriors, but you could not believe how big my smile was
…when I saw them hit that first sharp ass right and pile in to see that High School Musical 3. I forgot all about that joint dropping this week. My movie was spacious and peaceful, y’all. If them lights didn’t come on, I would’ve stayed to see it twice, because it was a pretty good film to boot. The comparisons of this film to The Departed are well deserved. While that whirlwind of killing at the end of the Boston cop bonanza may be considered classic already, in totality, Pride and Glory is right on par with The Departed due to its GRITTAYness. Remember that drug deal when Leo hopped in that bucket and started pumping that Thief’s Theme? This whole movie was as GRITTAY as that one scene, well, without the incredible musical complement. Everything was perfectly flawed on that set from the shitty housing to the horrendous crime scenes to the murky bars and black ice ridden streets. All the actors had to do was not fuck it up. And like every good officer, they went above and beyond. Perennial Father of the year candidate Jon Voight and Ed Norton lead this multi-generational family of New York cops investigating the gory murder of four of their own. While Norton begins to piece together the crime, Colin, Norton’s brother-in-law uses his own set of rules to investigate the murder, resulting in…well, you’re gonna just have to go see the film. Trust me, it’s FIYA. One of my favorite young actors John Ortiz (underboss dude from Miami Vice with the glasses that looks like a young Mets manager Jerry Manuel) does his thing and aside from a wack Fight Club flashback the Farrell scenes manage not to totally screw it up. Oh snap, I bet my baby girl wanna go see that Musical. Well, I’ll pay for it, but her mother is taking her to see that shit. NOPE.
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If you missed We Own the Night, don’t worry about it, it’s not like you’re alone on that one. Just Netflix it up and while you’re waiting on the mailman, go catch Pride and Glory, the GRITTAY new crime drama starring two of this generation’s best actors, one of its promising up and comers…and Colin Farrell. 
