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If Cube was so cool and hip, how the hell...


... did he end up acting in all these lame-ass movies lately ?

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Same reason Elvis was in cheesy movies....manager makes him, it's a caveat in his contract.

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what do you mean lately? other than those jump street movies, all his other movies suck. This is because he sucks at acting and always has sucked

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Boyz N The Hood is Cube's best film.

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Friday too.

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BoyzNtheHood & Three Kings aren't bad movies

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boyz n the hood was really good and friday was super funny

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You think 21 Jump Street was a good movie? Thank you for demonstrating that we shouldn't listen to your movie opinions

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Anaconda was so much fun lol

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Desolation Williams called and said you can go f--k yourself!


----I highly doubt anything written below this line will change my mind----

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This made my day. Now I have to rewatch Ghosts Of Mars. "Come on, you mindless *beep*

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Please provide a link to his contract. I'd like to read more about this caveat that you speak of.

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Look it up yourself.

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Can't look up what doesn't exist. Now go *beep* yourself.

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You also can't look up what people don't make public knowledge on the internet. If you think its implausible for Cube to sign a contract to do X number of stupid comedies for a payday, your an idiot.

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I never said it was implausible. But I'm always amused by people who accuse others of being idiots when they neither comprehended what was said and don't know how to spell.

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Then what point were you trying to make? The only thing anyone could comprehend from your sarcastic, two-sentence post is that you're a dick. And I bet you creamed your jeans when you saw I made a mistake. But what do I care what a person who doesn't know the difference between a grammatical error and a spelling error thinks.

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"Your" is a spelling error, not a grammatical one. And now we know, in addition to not having any comprehension skills and knowing the difference between 'you're' and "your," that you don't know the difference between a spelling error and a grammatical one. Thanks for predictably continuing to show who the idiot is, Idiot.

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Your being a douche-bag - Grammatical error. Yoi're being a douche-bag - Spelling error.

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"manager makes him, it's a caveat in his contract." - Statement passed off as fact. "You also can't look up what people don't make public knowledge on the internet." - Means he wouldn't know, just as you don't, and without a source to support the statement, is invalid.

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He was responding to a question on imdb, not writing an article for the New York Times. We all know some shmoe online isn't familiar with Ice Cubes business dealings but it's reasonable enough to assume Ice Cubes agent or somebody suggested he sign on to do terrible comedies for the paycheck.

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He responded as though it were a fact. Hence, I asked to see a link to the source, to which there is none. Yes, it is reasonable to assume an agent or someone suggested it, but suggesting something and making someone do something by way of a caveat in a contract are two very different things. Well, maybe not to someone who lacks comprehension skills.

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manager makes him, it's a caveat in his contract.


Slavery ended in 1865. Pretty sure Ice makes his own decisions.

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Excuse me but, I seriously doubt anyone can "make" Cube do anything. As illustrated in SOC, he's totally against signing cheezy ass contracts. Don't like his movies, don't watch them.

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Acting is a job. It's not a matter of cool or hip. He made it out of the hood 25 years ago. Why do you act like he's still there? Being smart enough to have a career making movies doesn't make him uncool. He's allowed to move on.

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I never said it's uncool to make movies, but for someone with such a backbone and artistic talent it's hard to understand how he would accept to play ONLY in such crap movies.
You could argue that DeNiro plays in crap movies also, well yeah, you'd be right, however when someone thinks of him as an actor - those are not the titles that first come to mind ;)

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Crap movies, isn't that a matter of opinion? Everybody doesn't think they're crap. If you don't like them, don't watch them. Who are you to say what's crap and what's not? ....and please...please, update your vocabulary before criticizing someone. cool? hip? Nobody but lames and grandmothers still talk like that.

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Exactly.
And *beep* it's still a better and more lucrative job that most of us will ever have.

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Called a paycheck. Give him his props. He's smart enough to understand he'll never be a great actor, but that he can still make a good living making films.

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The movie industry is very lucrative, he's all about the benjamins.

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I see what you did there.

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I love him in Jump Street and Ride Along.

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Same here.

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Money walks and *beep* talks

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Not a lame movie and Cube is not cool, he is dope.

HARLEYS R4 YUPPIES
(my bumper sticker)

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He's getting PAID that's why.

But'Cha Are, Blanche! Ya'Are In That Chair!

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I love Ice Cube I think he is an amazing actor and rapper.

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