Hustle & Flow Is a Waste of Time

Complete Plot Summary (Spoiler alert!): Nice pimp tries really hard to rap and does so, apparently with some success.

You can see that Craig Brewer had hopes here. That he worked on this movie. It could not have been easy to sell a movie about nothing, so completely and totally cliched and ordinary. What a singularly profound fucking waste of time Hustle & Flow was! A sensitive pimp having a mid-life crisis. This was where it started, the kernel of the idea. You can tell because it sounds cool until you actually think about it. Yes, there was Terrence Howard's performance, emotionally powerful, authentic, even with an accent that I have never heard before. Howard is such a good actor that he makes up his own accents! The fact that Howard can project emotions very well does not make up for the fact that he is playing a non-character. DJ the pimp and his "ho's" are so vague that they are  sub-caricature, DJ is so much of an Everyman that he is a nobody. The women are like characters from a single pane cartoon. One of two things happened here:

Brewer either, a) does not know enough about the lifestyle portrayed to write convincingly, or, b) he knows a lot and does not realize that fiction (unlike real life) has to be interesting.

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