Akeelah and the Bee
Akeelah and the Bee
Joined: 12/31/69
#0Akeelah and the Bee
Posted: 4/13/06 at 9:29pm
So I was at Starbucks today, and they had some major promotions going on for this movie, and at the bar where I picked up my green tea latee, I noticed you got a spelling bee word on your drink sleve and you could pull another word off a notepad. After doing some reasearch, I found out that this is a movie about a Spelling Bee compeditor. I watched the trailer on imdb (link Below) and I noticed some sirious resemblences to a little show on Brodway....C-O-I-N-C-I-D-E-N-C-E?
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Updated On: 4/13/06 at 09:29 PM
peggyandvelma
Broadway Star Joined: 9/4/05
#1re: Akeelah and the Bee
Posted: 4/13/06 at 9:31pmI work at the movies and I've seen this trailer a million times. It actually looks decent. The young girl, Keke Palmer, seems like another Dakota Fanning to me. Very young, but she knows what she's doing.
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#2re: Akeelah and the Bee
Posted: 4/13/06 at 9:32pmIt actually looks like it could be a good movie. I'd go see it.
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#3re: Akeelah and the Bee
Posted: 4/13/06 at 9:35pmI'm not saying that it won't be a good movie, I'm just seeing some resemblances between the broadway show and this film, for example to the kid with his hand in his pocket asking for water...
defying_gravity2
Broadway Star Joined: 9/4/05
#4re: Akeelah and the Bee
Posted: 4/13/06 at 11:16pmHaha, last Sunday I went to Starbucks right after seeing Spelling Bee in SF. There was this sign on a chair the said "Reserved for local spelling bee champion". It was really funny.
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#5re: Akeelah and the Bee
Posted: 4/24/06 at 12:30am
Can't wait to see this in theaters on Friday.
Added bonus: Deborah Cox's song "Defintion of Love" (written specifically for the film) is featured in the closing credits.
#6re: Akeelah and the Bee
Posted: 4/24/06 at 12:39amtoo bad Bee Season (i think richard gere was in it) did so porrly last fall, the book was great. this just seems like a more up beat version of that. which focuses more on the turmoil these kids go through.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#7re: Akeelah and the Bee
Posted: 4/24/06 at 12:45am
Watched an interesting segment on 60 Minutes tonight about Starbucks. Apparently, Akeelah and the Bee is the first Starbucks produced movie. First coffee, then CDs, and now movies. I tell ya... they're taking over!
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Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
#8re: Akeelah and the Bee
Posted: 4/24/06 at 12:52am
well to be fair Spelling Bee is a bit of a rip-off of the movie Spellbound, more than anything. Man I love that movie.
Akiva
#9re: Akeelah and the Bee
Posted: 4/24/06 at 12:56amand next you'll be telling us Wicked is a rip-off of someone else's idea too!
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#10re: Akeelah and the Bee
Posted: 4/24/06 at 12:02pmI've seen Bee Season in the bookstore, but I've never picked it up. I'm picky.. I don't like buying books with anything promoting the movie on the cover (and Bee Season is all about the movie.)
#11re: Akeelah and the Bee
Posted: 4/24/06 at 11:11pm
Bee Season was a book WAY BEFORE it was a movie, I guess they redid the cover because i'e had mine for a couple years and the movie is only a couple months old.
look for it in a used book store!
Jilani
Broadway Star Joined: 6/30/05
#12re: Akeelah and the Bee
Posted: 5/1/06 at 3:06pmI saw "Akeelah and the Bee" this past weekend and really enjoyed it. Granted, it was rather manipulative, but I was willing to buy in for such a good cause. The child actors who played Akeelah and Javier were incredibly appealing, and Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett were also very good. A lot of the spelling bee scenes looked like they were straight out of "Spellbound," and since that was a documentary, I think that fact is a compliment to "Akeelah and the Bee," which consisted of actors playing roles.
#13re: Akeelah and the Bee
Posted: 5/14/06 at 6:50pm
I took my mom for Mother's Day, and she really liked it.
I thought it was sweet, utter fiction, but enjoyable nonetheless.
The kids were great in their parts, especially the two main kids.
#14re: Akeelah and the Bee
Posted: 5/14/06 at 6:53pm
Spellbound was an excellent movie.
Spelling Bee was a play before it was a musical, and therefore not ripped off of the movie. (Due to timing, etc..)
I think Spelling Bee's just happened to become popular again, and "SPELLING BEE" the musical, just happened to coincide.
I meant to see Bee Season, I enjoyed the book.
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#15re: Akeelah and the Bee
Posted: 5/14/06 at 9:32pmI saw it today with my family... it was cute. Very good casting. I loved Javier. lol. too adorable.
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#16re: Akeelah and the Bee
Posted: 5/14/06 at 9:54pm
Spell Bound was an awesome movie, so funny.
The Akeelah and the Bee trailer made me cry for some reason, I don't even know why. But I was in Starbucks the other day and they have cards with words and definitions on them and my friends and I were playing with those for a while. But yeah, Akeelah is definitely something I'd like to see.
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