Is the new Aaliyah movie awful? It seems that audiences and critics alike can't even fathom how bad it is, and the public has taken to bash producer Wendy Williams over the new "Aaliyah: Princess of R&B."
News all over the Internet is very clear about the new production of "Aaliyah: Princess of R&B": it seems that the Aaliyah movie is awful. According to The Wrap, this project seemed to be doomed from the very start: back when the first news of the film came out, the singer's family refused to give producers the rights to use Aaliyah's songs.
Nevertheless, the project went through - and now the Aaliyah movie's awfulness has become the "laughingstock of the Internet," as Gawker puts it. The massive Internet reaction had people take to Twitter to bash everything from the way the story was portrayed to even the casting choices.
The focus that "Aaliyah: Princess of Rap" took on the singer's romance and marriage to R. Kelly is one of the things haters have gone after most viciously: the whole deal was treated more like a teenage drama than anything else. As a matter of fact, it was a huge issue, even legally, at the time: when they married, Aaliyah was 15 and he was 27, making the marriage illegal due to the fact that there was no consent from her parents; it was even considered statutory rape.
In later years, R. Kelly has been accused of inappropriate conduct with other underage girls, and courts have cited his annulled marriage to Aaliyah as proof that the famous rapper has pedophile tendencies.
The new Aaliyah movie is awful, granted, but the reactions to it are nothing short of priceless. After the television movie was first released, a genius hashtag became a trending topic on Twitter: #LifetimeBeLike. It saw users mentioning the terrible casting choices made for the film, making examples of how Lifetime would go about other biopics.
It might be time that Lifetime starts changing up the way they do things with biopics. As if it wasn't enough proving to the world that they could make Aaliyah's movie awful, recently they also launched "The Brittany Murphy Story," an account of the life of another star that died too young ... and, as Variety can attest, nobody liked that one either.
