Tina

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Leaburn O @RT35452347 Jul 2 A story I as unaware of about a singer who I was very aware of. Really surprised me and I was thoroughly gripped. Watched on Amazon Prime. See more Ashley H @ashleyhobgood87 09/10/2023 Tina is a great documentary. It is about the life and career of Tina Turner. I thought the film was well made and enjoyed learning more about the singer. I would recommend it. See more stephen b @RT02381805 05/29/2023 Sitting through it there was too much reading subtitles of a magazine interview recording and not enough music. After it was over, the appreciation for the movie started to sink in. It tells the story of a celebrity who lived a life that was short on enjoyment, and it did an amazing job of making that sink in. See more isla s @RT89656869 09/03/2022 This is a good documentary, which doesn't shy away from the tough times Tina had while married to Ike but I liked that it includes interviews with her, with her telling some of the story, rather than it all being narrated by someone else. I wasn't aware of the whole story and I found this quite a thought provoking and insightful watch, so I'd recommend it, yes. See more dave d @RT34924333 01/13/2022 It's certainly not warts and all, but it's a fun stroll down memory lane. Tina Turner is a fantastic role model and a wonderful performer. This is a celebration of her music and her resiliency. Using a lot of archival footage and an interview for the documentary, the filmmakers did the best they could with what they had. I wish there was a discussion about some of the children and her frayed relationship with them. Also glossed over was the death of her son by suicide. Docs like this can't get a higher score than seven from me and that's where we are. It's supposed to make you emotional, but it didn't do that for me. Final Score: 7/10 See more 05/14/2021 "Out of all the success I was having, why are they talking about Ike and Tina?" I want to start by pointing out that I believe this was objectively a really well made documentary. Tina's marriage to Ike Turner and the horrifying domestic abuse she suffered was obviously a really huge part of her life, and of course it was going to be talked about in depth here, but the amount of focus on it I found suffocating. I really struggled to get into this film for a long while because in my opinion, Tina Turner is an extraordinary woman with so many accomplishments, and the constant circling back to the abuse she suffered almost felt like it was diminishing some of those incredible achievements. There is so much more to her than that. About halfway through, it finally started to pull back and focus on her successes as an artist in her own right and it was so much more enjoyable when you were watching her perform and seeing her in her element. It was truly joyful to get to watch her doing what she does best on stage, and to hear her talk so passionately and candidly about her work; but then it went back to talking about Ike again. More specifically, it really zeroed in on how much she hated always being asked about Ike and her past when she had other achievements... The irony almost killed me. Bottom line: The quality of this documentary was to a really high standard, and if it was just about the filmmaking and seeing Tina strut around in her element onstage, singing her heart out, I would probably give it a 5 star rating. Unfortunately I just feel it was overwhelmingly let down by the constant overshadowing with the reversions back to her troubled past. See more Read all reviews

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