Lifetime: Whitney

[BKuzak]

If there is another thread on this, sorry i didn't see it.

All i havce to say is "WTF!" This was more of a Bobby Brown vanity peice and they left out so much! I assumed there would be a part two tomorrow because there was so much more to tell but then at the end it just gave quick paragraphs summing up the rest of her life. I remember seeing her in an interview and how she talked about all the drugs she and Bobby did together. all the wild times they had. even that reality show "being bobby brown" was more interesting. There was just so much left unsaid.

I think this was the worst and most disapointing Biopic that Lifetime has ever produced. Lifetime is usually pretty good with their movies. I was very suprised.

[frequentsoapfan]

Lifetime is not usually good with their biopics. Their last few were horrible from what I heard on Twitter. The last one I watched was the one they did on Liz Taylor was beyond boring.

This movie should've been called Bobby cuz it was all about him. They had a young Jermaine Jackson look alike playing him. And he was painted like a saint.

Meanwhile Whitney did nothing but have sex and sniff coke(that was literally the entire first half of the movie. Those sex scenes werent even good. They were just there to replace an actual plot.

[MoTheGreat]

I thought it was too heavy handed on Whitney & Bobby love life then Whitney career. She did have a career before hooking up with him.

[frequentsoapfan]

Angela said they were only focusing on the point in her career she spent with Bobby. I don't know why they only focused on those 5 years though. They didnt do much focus on her career though. Maybe if they cut out all the endless sex scenes they could've done that.

[MoTheGreat]

That's right Lifetime is about women struggles with guys. Maybe another station can do a better job.

[AllMyDaysatGH]

I'm disappointed to hear they didn't focus in on the later years!

[frequentsoapfan]

They barely touched The Bodyguard other than the soundtrack. They should've at least played it out up until she filed for divorce since they felt the need to showcase this relationship. How are you gonna have Angela Bassett direct and no Waiting to Exhale?

[BetterForgotten]

Basset was clearly only invested in this project for the money and the directing credit.

[Chris B]

I actually liked the idea of exploring a smaller portion of Whitney's life, because it leaves room for sequels that explore other parts of her life and in the end you get more in depth and more of an event out of it.

[frequentsoapfan]

They didnt do much exploring though. So much happened to her career during those years and they ignored it to focus on Bobby's pain.

[quartermainefan]

Her career is not what is the headline when it comes to Whitney. It is her descent that makes her movie worthy, not the songs she sang. Nobody is looking to make a biopic about Streisand or Madonna because there is nothing really to say about them. Judy Garland or Whitney Houston? Now you have something to work with dramatically.

I didn't think this movie could be any good because it was good it would have been picked up by ABC or HBO. The Judy Garland biopic from years ago with Judy Davis was excellent. Amy Winehouse would probably make a good biopic.

[MoTheGreat]

It all comes down to Whitney having a lot more movies done about her. Just like Martin Luther King jr. Selma is like the 7th movie done about him.

[DramatistDreamer]

The other movies about MLK were pretty good films though. Doesn't appear the same can be said for this. If it really is as dismal as the what's being described, that's not a very auspicious start for the collection.

[AllMyDaysatGH]

I didn't know Frankie damn Hubbard was in this! LOVED SEEING HIM

[BKuzak]

I thought the Saved By The Bell biopic movie wasn't too bad. And i thought the Anna Nichole Smith one they did last year wasn't too bad either. Loved the Judy Garland one...have it on DVD. But that was good because her daughter oversaw it. The Elizabeth Taylor one just focussed on her relationship with Dick. They had done one several years ago (When ET was still alive) where they focussed on her other husbands. I don't know if it was lifetime or one of the local stations but they did one on Doris Duke with Lauren Becall playing her in the older years and i thought that one was great!

I just thought this was one too much on the early years of her and Bobby. That's what it should have been promoted for...as the early years of Bobby and Whitney. Not their whole story because there was a lot more story to tell about their life together. The drugs, the parties, the affairs. I think she told Oprah that one time he was in his room doing a lot of coke and drawing evil eyes on the walls while she was in the other room doing a little coke and reading the bible! I would have loved to see that played out. Odly enough his interview was more interesting than the actual movie.