Aaliyah Biopic Gone Wrong

 "Any real Aaliyah fan won't enjoy the biopic. The Aaliyah biopic airs on Lifetime November 15, 2014. The movie is based on a book written by Christopher Farley entitled Aaliyah: More Than A Woman. The author interviewed Aaliyah before she passed away and released the book shortly after her fatal plane crash on August 25, 2001." This is the beginning of a blog I started to post in October but I wanted to at least see how bad the movie was. The movie was pure trash ! There was a lot more to Aaliyah than her love life and that's all the movie was about. The movie should've been about Aaliyah's life as a whole, every aspect of it. First things first, the movie was made TOO FAST. Zendaya JUST backed out of the movie a few months ago and Shipp replaced her immediately after and the movie is already out less than 6 months later. How can a movie about someone as amazing as Aaliyah not be well thought out? Not only did the Haughton family lose Aaliyah, but Aaliyah's father passed away as well a few years ago which allegedly caused Aaliyah's mom to go into a deep depression. I'm sure Lifetime heard of this since they have more access to information than I, they just didn't respect it. Aaliyah's family was just not ready. Usually when Lifetime makes these unapproved movies the movies are still good, but not this time. The guy who was casted as Dame Dash was the absolute worst, his cosmetic make up was all wrong. I was able to tell that he wasn't bald in "real life". You could see his actual hair line under his cosmetic routine. Missy Elliot did not lose a lot of weight until years after Aaliyah passed but she was extremely small in the "movie" and the guy who played Timbaland had absolutely nothing in common with the way the real Timbaland looks. The chemistry wasn't even anywhere near the way they loved Baby Girl. I actually feel really bad for Alexandra Shipp. All the critisim Zendaya was receiving carried over to her, but Zendaya would've at least been the better actress. Shipp just had a lead role in Drumline 2 and she didn't do well in that movie either. I'm sure she just wanted to get her name "out there" but she was casted in a horrible movie with extremely horrible production about an amazing young woman so she knew what she was getting herself into. Also, in the movie they couldn't even get the correct pronunciation of her name, but I'm not going to touch on that. Wendy Williams was so proud of her horrible production that she even tweeted "Let me know is my favorite Aaliyah song, what's yours". The song is called "At Your Best" ,Wendy should've stayed off Twitter. The backlash from the fans on EVERY social network should tell Wendy that she failed at portraying Baby Girl. What's an Aaliyah movie without her music?! If you couldn't get the copyrights to her music, that should've been your biggest sign to not make the movie. The soundtrack of this biopic was the worst! The movie was just as bad as that time Flex Alexander played Micheal Jackson. Girls who loved Aaliyah, and looked up to her like myself were extremely disappointed. Her smile, her personality, her presence wasn't captured at all in this movie. The acting was just horrible. No shade to Alexandra but Aaliyah's stomach was completely flat and that wasn't captured in the movie at all. To say I love Aaliyah would be an understatement, and her movie should've been well thought out and should've gone to theaters. As close as Aaliyah and her brother Rashad were they should've waited until he was ready to tell her story. The way I fell in love with Selena young girls should've fell in love with Aaliyah after seeing a movie about her. I never heard of Selena until after she passed, but her movie made me fall in love with everything about her and J Lo did an AMAZING job playing that role. This excuse for a Lifetime movie wasn't anything that would make modern day young girls fall in love with Aaliyah the way we loved her during her era. They don't know the amazing the soft spoken girl, with the dimples, amazing smile and warm heart (to name a few characteristics) that we knew. If you haven't seen the movie, don't watch it. It's not worth it.