Straight Outta Compton - 2016 - 7/10

Rousing biopic of badboy rappers, N.W.A.
Standard tale of friends forming a band, hitting the big time, then the money fights.
Focus is on Eazy, Cube and Dre, and the latter seems to have been smoothed a shade.
Not too many liberties taken, though my knowledge is basic at best.
I checked for inaccuracies later and found minor, aside from Heller’s litany.
Should appeal to the mainstream despite expletives, weed use, nudity, coochie poppin …
By a quirk of casting, Paul Giamatti plays NWA’s shifty manager. Soon as I saw him I hollered, “Look out guys! That’s Dr Landy. He fleeced Brian Wilson (“Love And Mercy”). Look out!”
Oddly enough, I found myself giving footnotes to innocents around me. “What does OG mean?” “Who is Suge Knight?”
I watched the extended cut, almost three hours, and it never dragged.