# Just Saw RAY, Wow!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saw-ray-wow/272082>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 30, 2004, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saw-ray-wow/272082 "2004-10-30T23:05:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saw-ray-wow/272082/1 "2004-10-30T23:05:37Z")

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Jamie Foxx is amazing. Hope he gets a Oscar nod. The supporting cast has great chemistry, and the music… 🆒

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**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saw-ray-wow/272082/2 "2004-10-30T23:09:57Z")

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I saw this about a month ago at an advance screening.

I agree that Jamie Foxx’s performance deserves a deafening _ **WOW.** _ Utterly spectacular. Brilliant.

Too bad the movie around him is so bland, predictable, and paint-by-numbers. Ray deserved better.

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**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saw-ray-wow/272082/3 "2004-10-30T23:35:57Z")

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I’ve not seen \*Ray \*but Foxx really impressed me in \*Collateral \*and has made me curious to see _Ray_. He’s come a long way since his _In Living Color_ days.

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saw-ray-wow/272082/4 "2004-10-31T00:05:08Z")

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> [@eenerms](#):
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> Jamie Foxx is amazing. Hope he gets a Oscar nod. The supporting cast has great chemistry, and the music… 🆒

I wanted to start a thread to say the same thing. Foxx was great, and I really liked the movie- in part because the music was such a major presence.

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**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saw-ray-wow/272082/5 "2004-10-31T05:56:11Z")

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Foxx was great but the movie was _just_ enough to keep my interest. Not bad by any means, but I agree that Ray deserved a little better.

I really disliked that they used

heroin

as a central part of the story.