I'm on that EOF ish, just seen El Cantante with an EOF chick. And we went dutch, fire!
Yeah, so i'm returning home from seeing "El Cantante," which i very much enjoyed. It surpassed my expectations, so many had negative things to say about the movie, but i was glad i was able to see it and form my own opinion.
Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez, portrayed Hector Lavoe's and his wife Puchi's tumultuous relationship very well.Furthermore, Anthony performed Lavoe's songs in the film exceptionally.
EOF would have liked to see more background about Lavoe's childhood in Puerto Rico and how he learned how to sing at such a high level.
The overwhelming majority of the movie is set upon his arrival in NYC, where he falls in love with Puchi and teams up with muscian Willie Colon and the Fania record label. The script follows Hector throughout the recording process and his concerts, some that he misses due to drugs.
One of the funniest moments is also perhaps the saddest. There's a scene where Puchi has to get Hector from the his hotel room, where there's woman and drugs, she gets him dressed and takes him to altar to get married. While saying their vows, Lavoe asks the priest does he know if there's any more beer. Now if that is not the worst images we can have of our Latino Icon I don't know what is. The movie fealt honest, and served as a history lesson to all of us who wondered why Lavoe was so popular in the Puerto Rican and Latino community but also showed that drugs and a destrucitve relationship can do to your life.
EOF Rating: 3.5 Matches out of 5
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EL CANTANTE is by far one of the worst movies to hit the theater chains in the history of moviemaking, and that's putting it mildly. How could you be so blatantly blind to the fact that this movie lacked all the essential elements of narrative filmmaking, the fundamentals of character development and the bread and butter basics of storytelling. This movie should be held up as an example for all student filmmakers on how not to make a film. It is a film directed by Jennifer lopez - dancing, shaking her buns (the buns of course being the only talent in the film) - using a half-ass, third-rate director who obviously is a talentless buffoon for letting J-lo take the helm and step on him like a piece of dirt. She is practically in every scene, clapping, nodding her head, doing nothing. Her performance - I mean, honestly, I'd rather study my own crap floating in the toilet than sit through 2 hours of this movie again. The pacing is incredibly stupid, the tone of the movie is bland, and the plot is overwhelmingly boring -- and when Marc Anthony's character jumped off the balcony in an attemptted suicide attempt, I felt like joining him on his way down. But unlike him, I'd rather die than sit through this pathetic piece of horse manure...on second thought, I think horse excrement is actually more entertaining....
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