[THE MAIN EVENT]
Here are some terms and factoids you should know before seeing the new MACRO film that has Rotten Tomatoes on smash!
Air Jordan Bred 1s: A dusty pair of retro Js hanging from telephone wiring is valued at over $2,000 in the film. We looked up a similar pair on StockX—to our surprise, the girls could’ve covered a year of rent payments (and then some!) based on the price point.
Beef well done: There’s a brawl between three characters that kinda reminds us of this! We’re not saying who caught the fade but it wasn’t Big Booty Bernice.
Dickmatized: The art of being so fascinated with your partner’s penis that you start to move illogically. See Jill Scott’s breakdown for a deeper dive. (Used in a sentence: SZA’s character, Alyssa, is dickmatized.)
Jerome Saint: Unc, is that you?! No, that’s not Franklin Saint’s kinfolk playing the no-nonsense neighborhood menace. But Snowfall fans will appreciate seeing Amin Joseph further ingraining himself in Los Angeles cinematic lore as the empathy-lacking gangster King Lolo.
Obi Wan-Kenobi: Katt Williams told director Lawrence Lamont that his character Lucky was giving hood Obi-Wan on Tatooine. The director went straight to costume design and had the team layer Katt’s character in hobo-chic garbs. But is Lucky even real? Lamont isn’t saying. “He’s that guardian-angel character to me, like is he real or not? I want to plant that seed. ”
Praying Mantis: Keke Palmer compares her lime-green getup to a praying mantis. It’s hilarious! Here’s something not as funny about an actual praying mantis: During sex, the female eats the male’s head. Not pleasurable (for him).
Come for the laughs; stay for the message: “It has the adventure and hijinx of Superbad but it has the grounded nature and social commentary of the first Friday,” says Palmer.
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