Photo for Lifetime's biopic "Whitney"
Critics overwhelmingly rendered negative reviews for
Lifetime's disgraceful Whitney Houston television movie biopic,
which debuted this past Saturday, January 17, 2015. While most agree
it was not as bad as the terrible job Lifetime did on the life of
the late, beautiful songstress Aaliyah ("Aaliyah: The Princess Of
R&B"), the Whitney movie was terrible.
Whitney Houston
Many critics and people on social networking
complained the movie was more about Houston's ex-husband, R&B singer
Bobby Brown. Many complaints also centered around the fact the film
had trashy sex scenes. The movie was historically inaccurate and
defamed Whitney and her mother, legendary Gospel singer, Cissy
Houston. I guess it was payback for Cissy Houston disapproving of
the film, but who could blame her. The Judiciary Report was never in
favor of this movie being made and now that it has been filmed and
released, it has proven the site right.
Whitney Houston is one of the greatest singers of
all time. What she achieved in music is historic and remarkable. Her
career was never based on hype or looks, though she was a stunningly
beautiful woman. Her career was all about her outstanding voice and
beautiful music. Lifetime's movie failed to capture any of that.
They've reduced one of the best vocalists of all time to a trashy
tabloid scandal for a poorly made 2-hour piece that damaged her
legacy.
Yaya DaCosta, got the nuances of the character all
wrong and made Houston look like a flighty, ungraceful, scatter
brained, clingy woman fluttering across stages with no poise or life
of her own outside of her husband. Even with all of Houston's
problems with drugs and alcohol, she had a poise and dignity about
herself that was missing from this film. Lifetime and Angela
Bassett, made a mockery of her life.
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