Contentar
Best movie of this year hands down!
Salubfoto
It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.
Guillelmina
The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.
billcr12
Nick Cannon(or Mariah Carey's husband) is Devon Miles, a talented drummer who graduates from high school in New York City, and is accepted into a mostly black college to play in a marching band. The leader tells him that he must learn to read music and to be a member of the team. He is arrogant and a show off, which causes friction with the rest of the band, and eventually, after a fight with a rival school's drummer, he is thrown out. Another school offers him a full scholarship to join their band and compete in a contest with his present school. The complication is a girlfriend, Laila(Zoe Saldana), who is a dancer and a classmate. After the usual confrontations, Devon rejoins the marching band, and leads them against the other college in a drum off, which is really well done and makes Drumline an exceptionally entertaining movie a 7.5/10.
ashleeannek
I liked this movie. i saw it when i was a preteen. and i attend the "GREAT BETHUNE-COOKMAN UNIVERSITY" in Florida. When i saw it in theatres i had no idea that six years later, i would be going to one of those black colleges. The movie may have been unrealistic in some areas but overall it was decent. I just don't understand why sooo many people are like "omg thats not what marching band is!!" Maybe you guys need to google historically black colleges and universities. Thats what OUR marching bands are about in case u were too ignorant to figure that out. And someone said something about the dancers and what they were wearing. HELLOOOO thats typical for most HBCU bands. Just because you are ignorant to the fact that marching band is different in the HBCU schools doesn't mean u have to bash the movie. and in case u were wondering i got the best of both worlds. i grew up in a white neighborhood and i WAS in the marching band at my high school so yess its different but both are very good. As for the complaint about the "token white guy" wow...once again i state that i attend an HBCU. Their are plenty of white people, just because its a black school doesn't mean white people aren't allowed to enroll. And know we don't walk around making them feel like they're out of place which i don't think was the intention in the movie.I've asked some whites and hispanics here out of curiosity why they chose to attend an HBCU. Most replied with " i wanted to learn from a different perspective" or something of the sort.P.s. Knowledge really IS your best weapon =)
dave_wlogan
...Well i don't like them much. My sister was given this film as a gift for Christmas. The family decided to watch it together. I think each of us wish we had a brick to embed in our skulls afterwards. This film wasn't shot badly nor was it badly scripted, if your into marching bands that is, but it is incredibly bad if you don't care about this stuff. I'm sure there are a lot of people out there who could really enjoy this film and i don't mean to be offensive but I just did not enjoy watching this movie.If I was into marching bands it would probably get an 8. So....if you like marching bands watch it. If not, don't.
sroyjones
The "talented young smart-ass goes to college and learns there's more to life than being skillful or clever" theme is an old one and it's been done better many times in the past. Robert Young learned about teamwork in "Navy Blue and Gold." More recently Rob Lowe learned the lesson in "Oxford Blues." The difference between Drumline and these and other older films on the same theme is that the lead characters evoked more sympathy. Nick Cannon's Devon Miles character is a self-centered, posturing, swaggering jackass who evokes immediate dislike and though you see him grow up a little in the course of the film, you never really learn to like or respect him.Drumline also suffers from an identity crisis of its own. You're never really sure what sort of story it wants to tell. Is is a "coming of age" story, a drama, a comedy, a romance? It tries to be all of these at once and never seals the deal on any of them.Drumline could have told a good story about a New York kid learning that there's more than one way to be black in this world. There are a couple of hints of that in Devon's relationship with Laila. Her comment to Devon: "Southern sisters don't date...we have boyfriends," could have been an opening to a good subplot about differences in black culture between different parts of the US, but, as with so many other possible plots, the story touches it lightly, and then flits off to something else. An arrogant young freshman such as Devon would have had many lessons to learn while finding his way in this environment, but the film misses nearly every opportunity to show us the relationships between the characters in any depth, so the performances come off as predictable and mechanical.All the same, I've seen Drumline several times and enjoyed it for what it does very well. The presentation of the music and and the work that goes into running a big university marching band are very good. I could have done with more of both. The all-too-brief glimpses of life at a black southern university are well done. Again, I could have done with more of that as well. Drumline also had moments of humor, and some visually engaging camera work, especially in the music scenes.I like this movie. I just wish it had been better done.
