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one of the greatest films ever made, it's in the top 30 of the best come


dies ever made, if not top 20, but definitely top 30. it's unreal the amount of creativity, ingenuity, inventiveness, cleverness, originality, and imagination with creative ideas that this film has.

they sat down and said we are going to include every possible idea about a rap band and with those ideas we are going to make the best and funniest and most brilliant and genius lines, images, actions, looks, words, and sounds that is possible to make and also we going to make all these things believable.

that is the key that they had to accomplish with this film. everything is totally believable and realistic to what rap stars and rap bands and the rap music world has in it. it's authentic.

the other key component of this film is the rap band is totally believable as being a real, hardcore rap group but also not too hardcore, all three rap musicians are done in a tongue in cheek and silly way, but not too silly to the point of being unrealistic or unbelievable. it's such a delicate balance, but they always strike this balance perfectly.

also, they had to make all 3 rappers not totally serious as that would make them misogynistic, disrespectful, mean spirited, and unlikable.

another key component is how lovable all 3 members of N.W.H. are. they are so charismatic, unique, authentic, realistic, lovable, and relatable. and related to this is the important quality of all of them being unique to each other. they all have separate personalities and qualities that make them different and unique from each other. they provide a lot of variety between themselves for the viewer.

and lastly the other key component which makes this film work and be amazingly great is the songs and music. the songs sound so good and so original. almost all of the songs in this film are good enough to be real rap songs. all the songs in this film are better than 90% of all the rap music which has been made since 2000.

this is not just one of the 5 best black comedies ever made, this is one of the top 5 black movies ever made.

it's better than in living color. some of it feels like in living color sketches but in living color never had this much creativity, originality, creative energy, ambition, success at it's ambition, cleverness, subtlety, which is key to how great and classic this film is, inventiveness, or imagination.

this film is better than it has to be. and just when you think there is no way this film can be this creative, brilliant, imaginative, or original or clever it keeps being just as clever, creative, brilliant, imaginative, and original.

this film is a testament to if you really want to make the best film ever made that you can make for the film that you are making, do it, put as much hard work in as you possibly can and always push yourself for bigger and better.

this film should be at 8.5 on here. there is no way this film is any lower than 8.5 out of 10 stars on here. it's so wrong how it is at 7.3. this is better than 80% of every comedic film that has ever been made.

also, it doesn't seem like a black comedy or movie as it's better than most black comedies or movies. it has a quality, and a pedigree of quality in comedy and humor that i've never experienced before in a black comedic movie. and it's style of comedy and humor and cleverness and originality and creativity and imagination is unlike any other black comedy or humor that i've ever come across when it comes to ideas and writing. it seems like an intellectual white comedic film. i'm not saying that black comedies can't be this intelligent, creative, original, imaginative, or inventive, i'm just saying that i've never seen a black comedy that is this intelligent, creative, original, imaginative, or inventive.

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