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also soundtrack will be available on April 14
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XYWGBH3/?tag=neogaf0e-20
iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/get-down-ii-original-soundtrack-from-netflix-original/
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The Get Down Part II |OT| Same story, second verse - Netflix 4/7
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also soundtrack will be available on April 14
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XYWGBH3/?tag=neogaf0e-20
iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/get-down-ii-original-soundtrack-from-netflix-original/
DustyVonEric
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also soundtrack will be available on April 14
Amazon – https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XYWGBH3/?tag=neogaf0e-20
iTunes – https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/get-down-ii-original-soundtrack-from-netflix-original/
Awww yeah! I will be getting Toybox.
I love that look of
ultimate jealously and defeat. That moment when you realize you've been surpassed after talking all that shit.
Edit: Just realized Pray was on there. I'll be picking that up too.
I'm gonna have to check more Sia music, because song was dope as hell.
Discotheque
Banned
Saw 2 so far and it is as fun as ever. God damn these cartoons are awful tho.
I'm glad it's an insignificant portion of the show so far, and I get what they're going for with the amateur comic/fat Albert influence but lol these struggletoons are not helping anybody.
Hope to see more of Jimmy Smits and also the get down crew just chilling in the next 3. Damn shame how short this second part/season is. Really hope we get a renewal announcement brehs
Also I love how they went from remixing star wars to remixing
.
And that conversation with Ra about where he saw the future of the genre was an awesome wink to the audience haha
That fucking jump kick in the bathroom was hilarious btw. God damn I love how this show just continues to tow the line between cheesy camp and drama
I'm glad it's an insignificant portion of the show so far, and I get what they're going for with the amateur comic/fat Albert influence but lol these struggletoons are not helping anybody.
Hope to see more of Jimmy Smits and also the get down crew just chilling in the next 3. Damn shame how short this second part/season is. Really hope we get a renewal announcement brehs
Also I love how they went from remixing star wars to remixing
rocky
And that conversation with Ra about where he saw the future of the genre was an awesome wink to the audience haha
That fucking jump kick in the bathroom was hilarious btw. God damn I love how this show just continues to tow the line between cheesy camp and drama
NipplesAndToes23
Member
In episode 3 I have no clue why they chose to animate the part where Ezekiel
signs the contract.
meltingparappa
Member
Those animated hits are the worst idea in any Baz Lurhmann production, and he's a man who makes a career out of bad ideas that are usually greater than the sum of his parts.
Anyways watched all five episodes back to back until 4am, and my heart was tense the entire time.
A masterpiece, except
Anyways watched all five episodes back to back until 4am, and my heart was tense the entire time.
A masterpiece, except
holy hell, everything went to shit at the end. That looks like behind the scenes production drama if there ever was one. Was a whole episode cut for money and needed to be inserted into the last 20 minutes without any closure?
NipplesAndToes23
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also soundtrack will be available on April 14
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XYWGBH3/?tag=neogaf0e-20
iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/get-down-ii-original-soundtrack-from-netflix-original/
i just finished watching that episode. She was jealous as hell. Good episode too. Damn Mylene's performance was off the hook! That shit was flawless! She was looking sexy as hell, the costumes were on point, the props were on point, and the choreography was on point. Also, is it just me or does the music in Part II sound more modern than it did in Part I? The rapping sounded like something from the 90s and Mylene's song in this episode sounded like something that was made today.
NipplesAndToes23
Member
It looks like they got some random black artist from social media who just started drawing.
awilliams213
Member
Just finished Part II I really liked Part I but Part II was a let down. I dont know what they were thinking with all the animation, especially one particular sequence. I do want to get the Part II soundtrack they had some good songs.
Btw my favorite episode of the entire series was the Grandmaster Flash crayon episode. I really hoped Part II would have The Get Down learn from Herc and Zulu Nation.
Btw my favorite episode of the entire series was the Grandmaster Flash crayon episode. I really hoped Part II would have The Get Down learn from Herc and Zulu Nation.
I'm kind of bothered by
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Toybox
It sounds like a modern song that someone like Rihanna would sing with rapping bits. It seems like a song that is out of place with the era. I didn't live then, but it's weird for her to go from not liking an unnamed, developing genre to be using it in a song destined to go Number 1 in 1978. I didn't think it was believable and is a song written for today and not something that would have been popular then.
Why "black"? I mean, I think it's bad but I'm not seeing anything distinctly black about it.
I completely 100% agree.
NipplesAndToes23
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I don't see how anyone can sit and watch something for five hours straight.
So you know this director/showrunner? Yeah those animated portions are definitely the weakest parts.
Finished all of it now. Damn, I was expecting more episodes and episode 5 had way too many animated scenes.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I don't think the animated sequences are a Luhrmann decision, but a budget decision. Even the parts where you think they shouldn't be animated, you think about how they both save shooting time and the cost of hiring the actors to come back to do those quick scenes.
Yeah but for a series known in the press as the most expensive show Netflix has made, that sort of obvious cost cutting measure that affects quality makes it go from The Get Down to The Let Down.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Discotheque
Banned
yeah to hell with these animated sequences. so far they've only been like a minute long though and not covering any of the musical performances or major confrontations yet. so I hope it stays that way for the last two episodes.
finished Episode 3. That scene when the girls are practicing their dance...whew at Mylene's friend...
and it was so awesome to hear the Get Down brothers perform over an Ennio Morricone sample.
finished Episode 3. That scene when the girls are practicing their dance...whew at Mylene's friend...
and it was so awesome to hear the Get Down brothers perform over an Ennio Morricone sample.
TBH, I really thought it was all PR when they said this show was going to be the most expensive show. They probably factored in costs during its extended pre-prod and all that shit. I mean, the show did probably cost $120mil, but yeah, you could clearly tell not all of that was allocated in production lol.
exmachina64
Banned
The cartoon sequences got kind of overwhelming to me. Like the parts where Dizzie was involved it made sense, I suppose. But they ended up applying it to literally everyone and it wasnt great.
Also, the characters in the show this season seem to be made insufferable. Like season one there was some cool connection to history in a very interesting way and the problems they were facing I felt made more sense.
Just my own opinion, I think it was on the bottom side of alright but definitely didnt captivate me as much as part 1 did.
Also, the characters in the show this season seem to be made insufferable. Like season one there was some cool connection to history in a very interesting way and the problems they were facing I felt made more sense.
This season I feel like everyone's problems was either themselves or each other. Some of the conflict didnt seem to be a big deal at all but was made to seem like a big problem.
Just my own opinion, I think it was on the bottom side of alright but definitely didnt captivate me as much as part 1 did.
Boss Riovane
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On episode 4, anyone know who sung that cover of "Bad Moon Rising"?
DustyVonEric
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Man, I really hope we get another season.
I keep waiting on that Regina heel turn. You know it's coming. I thought it was gonna happen
in rehearsal and again in Toybox
snitch-ass Yolanda
meltingparappa
Member
A lower budget follow-up by a new showrunner is an almost guaranteed way to take something good and just immediately run it into the ground.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Given how it ends, what would the next season be?
A new group of kids trying to break into the 80s Hip Hop scene?
A new group of kids trying to break into the 80s Hip Hop scene?
They could either do a season of another genre emerging, like punk or something, or just move forward with hip hop (though it would be skipping a decade, I think the 90's scene would be way more interesting than the 80's personally)
Same here, it was jarring enough so that it just kind of ripped me out of the story entirely. Even the animated sequences were dealable, in a cute, Fat Albert sort of way. When
Mylene is singing Toybox
Nikki Minaj bootleg
It probably doesn't need one. The background narrative of the beginnings of hip hop in NYC has been told. Where do they go from here?
EDIT: I suppose they could do a new story set against the development of west coast rap.
Watched it all last weekend. Really enjoyed, but I think part 1 was much stronger.
The good:
-lots of good original music (both Mylene stuff and Get Down Bros.)
-Mylene looked even more fine than part 1 my lord
The bad:
- I have no problem with having animated scenes as a concept, but it was executed poorly. Reminded me of Mirror's Edge cutscenes.
- Last episode felt rushed.
The WTF:
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The good:
-lots of good original music (both Mylene stuff and Get Down Bros.)
-Mylene looked even more fine than part 1 my lord
The bad:
- I have no problem with having animated scenes as a concept, but it was executed poorly. Reminded me of Mirror's Edge cutscenes.
- Last episode felt rushed.
The WTF:
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At the end of the last episode, the blurb about Rapper's Delight being the first successful rap single or whatever, and the fact that it used a backing band. Why are they telling us this? Do they want to imply that Annie's business vision for making rap albums was correct? I mean, she is, but it kind of goes against the rest of the vibe of the show.
Spoilers for like episode 2 and the last episode
Zeke signing a contract or Booboo getting arrested for trafficking would look too bizarre in live action? What?
NipplesAndToes23
Member
Don't forget ol boy who was walking with his girl? I really wondered why that was animated because there was live-action footage of it. Some of these could've been cut without affecting the story.
Casting Renee-Elise Goldsberry as
a singer that Mylene is meant to show up was a bad idea, because Goldsberry is just a better, more magnetic performer than Herizen Guardiola, and that showed (which isn't to say Guardiola is bad by any means, but she's just starting out).
Also, why was
Yolanda back with the Soul Madonnas at the end of the season, after selling them out to her parents earlier? There was literally no followup to that.
I get the feeling the fifth episode was supposed to end on
a high for the Get Down Brothers.
where things unwind and the Brothers disband while Mylene finds success.
My hunch is that they concatenated all of that into one episode due to budget problems. The pacing was all weird after
the Brothers face off against Cadillac.
I think they added more animated bits than they actually needed throughout Part 2 so that the bits where they actually needed it would be less jarring. But all of it was jarring.
Part of the reasons why it was split into two was due to production issues.
I got the soundtrack over the weekend. Serious lack of get down tracks. Get Down Brothers vs Notorious Three... minus any of the Notorious Three parts, and that's it? Lame.
As far as part 2,
As far as part 2,
I kind of wonder if there was some kind of falling out with Jaden Smith. Most of his segments are animated, and he's barely with the rest of the crew. Seems like his story was just intended to keep him away.
I was loving the finale.. but what a weird point to end the show on.
I know everything shouldn't be a happy ending, but that was a slight downer to end on. We've been following this crew for 11 episodes, and we only get Ezekiel's success story? Then they end up telling us about the success of a novelty rap record?
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I mean... he's a mega star rapping in a stadium. This is something we've known since the first episode.
They also give the bonus that Mylene ends up being presumably successful herself, and sings with him.
Everyone else is either dead, in jail, or stuck in a life of crime.
Everyone else is either dead, in jail, or stuck in a life of crime.
Yeah, I'm fine if it ends here. That's how I was feeling during the (last ep)
chase from Cadillac with Mylene and Zeke.
Not to mention this. I think clearly he probabaly has more going on than the rest of the recurring cast. Also that (last ep)
did he or didnt he death scene was so goddamn tacky like they couldn't just make a solid decision on his death or not SMH
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Darth Pinche
Member
Finished last night. It was fun but felt weaker and rushed compared to the first half. The animated stuff really felt like a budget issue. This weird since it is reported that this was the most expensive show Netflix has made. It never felt like it though. Did Baz run off with suitcases of money?
The last scene with the
The last scene with the
note about the first hip-hop hit was made with a band felt like a fuck you to the Get Down Brothers.
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