Comments Thread For: Jamie Foxx on Being Mike Tyson: It's The Most Dedicated I've Been!

[Wurider]

Damn Jamie Foxx is almost the same age as Tyson. They could have gotten someone else for the movie. These things are usually better with unknowns.

[tokon]

I'm with Blond Beast, I could care less about Mike Tyson's glorified and celebrated regurgitation of his depraved debauchery and mockery of the American Justice system.

Yeah, I'm with you guys!
Thanks.

[Larry the boss]

Jamie Foxx is 52 years old, Tyson might as well just play himself

[dmnrssll]

Agreed! Michael Jai White was great! There’s really no need for a redux!

[Marchegiano]

I didn't know there was a biopic coming. So, that's probably why Mike's doing an exhibition then huh?

[Oregonian]

I think we’ve heard it all already. Unless we are going to see all the partying, girls, home life that there is no video of. The alleged ****? Prison? What do we expect to see really? I think it’s just a vanity project from Foxx also a reason to take sum gear and get in shape. I mean are we expected to see him play a 20yr old Tyson? If the scenes are full of personal stories from Mike himself that are new to us that could be cool. But if it’s just Foxx copying all the famous clips we have all seen a million times I couldn’t care less.

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I bet you loved Joaquin Phoenix in Walk The Line playing Johnny Cash.
Or maybe Rocketman? Or even Bohemian Rhapsody?
Maybe My Week With Marilyn? Wait, what about The Iron Lady with Meryl Streep? That must have been a novelty.

I bet you cared about American Sniper too?
I wonder what’s the constant on all the biopics I listed (FYI, there are a bunch more)

[mjh1969]

Jamie Foxx is 52 years old, Tyson might as well just play himself

I was thinking the same thing. Tyson was a great fighter when he was with Kevin Rooney but to me as an avid boxing fan, he was a good but not great fighter after he got beat by Douglas. He would have been great if he rematched Holyfield and beat him or if he rehired Rooney and got into good shape and beat Lewis but that didn't happen. To me he could have been a great fighter. Certainly not good enough to have 2 movies made about him.

[RomanReigns]

I was thinking the same thing. Tyson was a great fighter when he was with Kevin Rooney but to me as an avid boxing fan, he was a good but not great fighter after he got beat by Douglas. He would have been great if he rematched Holyfield and beat him or if he rehired Rooney and got into good shape and beat Lewis but that didn't happen. To me he could have been a great fighter. Certainly not good enough to have 2 movies made about him.

He was one of the most popular boxers in his era. He ain't Pacquiao, or a Floyd, but Tyson made the heavyweight boxing popular again. I think Tyson had a very interesting life inside or outside the boxing ring. Anyway they can cgi jamie foxx to make him look younger just what they did to Deniro in the movie Irishman. They should have hire that actor who played Black Mantra as younger Mike.

[nino brown21]

"You know something," Tyson confides to Jose Torres, author of the Playboy article, "I like to hurt women when I make love to them... I like to hear them scream with pain, to see them bleed... It gives me pleasure."

"Just before the (Michael) Spinks fight, I asked him to tell me about the best punch he'd ever thrown. A broad smile covered his face and his answer burst out. 'Man, I'll never forget that punch. It was when I fought with Robin in Steve's apartment. She really offended me and I went bam,' he said, throwing a fast backhand into the air to illustrate. 'She flew backward, hitting every wall in the apartment. That was the best punch I've ever thrown in my life. (Givens) wanted to call the cops from my own telephone. Was she crazy or something?"

But Torres also recounts another side of Mike Tyson -- his melancholy, his self-loathing.

"People think I'm tough," the boxer told his Boswell last year. "I'm a coward. You know something, I feel like taking my own life... killing myself. But I don't have the guts to do it, you know what I mean?"

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl...331-story.html

Robin Given's personal views are not a threat to this films success, Mike Tyson's profane account of events and deplorable actions are enough to drive away people with good morals.


I'm with Blond Beast, I could care less about Mike Tyson's glorified and celebrated regurgitation of his depraved debauchery and mockery of the American Justice system.

he still acts like a animal from all the clips I've seen. dude must have serious problems. I bet he really acts like he does when he was in the hangover.

[REDEEMER]

"You know something," Tyson confides to Jose Torres, author of the Playboy article, "I like to hurt women when I make love to them... I like to hear them scream with pain, to see them bleed... It gives me pleasure."

"Just before the (Michael) Spinks fight, I asked him to tell me about the best punch he'd ever thrown. A broad smile covered his face and his answer burst out. 'Man, I'll never forget that punch. It was when I fought with Robin in Steve's apartment. She really offended me and I went bam,' he said, throwing a fast backhand into the air to illustrate. 'She flew backward, hitting every wall in the apartment. That was the best punch I've ever thrown in my life. (Givens) wanted to call the cops from my own telephone. Was she crazy or something?"

But Torres also recounts another side of Mike Tyson -- his melancholy, his self-loathing.

"People think I'm tough," the boxer told his Boswell last year. "I'm a coward. You know something, I feel like taking my own life... killing myself. But I don't have the guts to do it, you know what I mean?"

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl...331-story.html

Robin Given's personal views are not a threat to this films success, Mike Tyson's profane account of events and deplorable actions are enough to drive away people with good morals.


I'm with Blond Beast, I could care less about Mike Tyson's glorified and celebrated regurgitation of his depraved debauchery and mockery of the American Justice system.

Wilder was arrested for assault on a hooker ,looked like she went a few rounds . This wasn’t hearsay he was caught doing it .