Nia Long

This page is dedicated to the lovely and wonderful actress, Nia Long. While she's not the hottest female celebrity, (she's up there though, I think certain others like Beyonce and Stacey Dash have her beat), there is just something about her that demands my respect.

I first became acquainted with Nia Long in her early roles as Will Smith's love interest on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. I was immediately attracted to her because, frankly, she is hot. I knew there was something special there, because I was notorious for despising short hair on women, yet Nia's hair was as short at many female hairstyle's come, yet I still liked her. From Fresh Prince to the present, I have always respected and been attracted to Nia Long, despite the crop of stomach-churning films she's had roles in. Yeah, there's something there.

As mentioned above, Nia Long has starred in some pretty whack movies. She's had speaking roles in nearly twenty movies, and while I have not seen half of them, most of what I've seen with her has been pretty bad. Yet, she's managed to do a very good job in each of them. I hold fast on my belief that Nia Long is the BEST of any African-American actresses.

I believe her Hollywood debut was in a movie called Buried Alive, which I have never seen, so on to the next one.

After Buried Alive, Nia supported Cuba Gooding in Boyz N the Hood, a movie which if it was made nowadays would get laughed at and dismissed as stupid nonsense. John Singleton, with 2 Fast 2 Furious, has recently confirmed his place as my most hated film director. However, he seemingly actually had some sort of artistic vision with Boyz N The Hood. But forget all that, Nia Long didn't get to do much of anything, so on to the next one.

Next, was Made in America. Well, it sucked. But Nia was given a pretty important role in this movie, and I was glad. In this movie Nia plays a proud black teenager who finds out that her father was white. Whoopi Goldberg (who I like..or liked I should say) plays her mother. But her father is that horrible actor Ted Danson. I think he's the reason I didn't like this movie. Well, he's not that bad an actor, he's just a big doofie looking weirdo. But anyway this movie sucks except for Will Smith, who plays a very minor role, and the lady of the hour, Nia Long. She was very convincing in her role. However something she keeps doing which I don't understand, is accepting roles for comedies. Nia Long doesn't belong in a comedy, which leads me to the next movie.

Friday. I'm the only black person I can think of that didn't like this movie. It wasn't really that funny.. There are about two or so scene that got me laughing. It was just a bunch of Ice Cube's pretentiousness and Chris Tucker's high pitched bullshit. The story is interesting enough, however. Nia Long plays a neighbor and potential love interest for Ice Cube in this movie. The thing is, she didn't belong in this movie at all. I couldn't imagine a person of her class living in that wretched neighborhood. Plus this is a comedy, and all Nia Long's parts were fit for a drama. She was by far the best actor in this entire movie. I wanted to beat Deebo's ASS when he backhanded her.

Somewhere around this time she was in some movie called Butter or some shit. I never heard of it or seen it.

After that she was in two whack movies, Soul Food and Love Jones. I don't even feel like talking about them. They were your typical African American movies. Alot of Black people and sex and friendship and heartbreak. Nia Long was the best actor in both movies.

In 1999 Nia starred in one of the most horrible movies ever (Stigmata) and two average movies. (In Too Deep and The Best Man) I saw Stigmata once the year it came out and tried to remove it from my memory. So I couldn't tell you much about it. Nia's role in this movie was weak. The same for In Too Deep. In Too Deep is the best movie of these three, but not because of Nia, so on to The Best Man. The movie had very very interesting concept, yet was delievered extremely poorly. Nia Long was easily the most convincing actor on screen, yet Taye Diggs puts forth a exceptional effort. Her character is essential to the plot (unlike many of her other movies), and that's cool.

That's about when I realized that all movies sucked, and stopped watching them too much. Her next three movies; Held Up, The Broken Heart's Club, and Boiler Room are three I never saw.

However, I did see Big Mama's House and it was a giant crap-factory. Nia was again, the best actor in this movie.

I haven't seen any other movies with Nia Long, and I know she's been in a bunch of Made for Tv movies, and I've seen none of those too. The fact still remains though, Nia Long ROCKS. She's yet to get a leading role or even star in a WORTHWHILE movie, yet she's one of the greatest actresses around. Plus she's beautiful. But she's still 28 or so, so she still has the rest of her career ahead of her.

Thank you for allowing me to take the time out to give credit to a little-mentioned, yet incredible actress.