The producers should have left this as a special feature, as it originally was.
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Devans00 — 13 years ago(June 20, 2012 02:26 PM)
I agree with snr_alejandro_sosa points about The Godmother Griselda Blanco. Her story is so interesting, I can't believe Hollywood hasn't already made movies about her. Latina actresses should be fighting to play the woman in different stages of her life.
Unfortunately, everything is told from the male point of view.
After all, her protege Pablo Escobar has influenced a lot of TV shows and movies.
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Watch_That — 17 years ago(December 28, 2008 07:49 AM)
I can't believe the same people who made the first one were behind this garbage. Where the guys in the first one were obvious professionals, the morons in this one were trying sooo hard to show you how "real" they are. Lame and boring.
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mpc_carter — 16 years ago(March 22, 2010 01:19 AM)
I hurriedly tracked down Cocaine Cowboys II after thoroughly enjoying the first one. Boy, what a disappointment! While you could accuse the first documentary of glamourising the coke industry, at least it had some balance from the police, medical and media interviewees. This "documentary" (it's more like a cartoon or rap video) is totally and reprehensively shameless in how it wallows in the greed and violence of drug trafficking. It portrays these idiotic, vacuous crack dealers as hip, fly gangster beep completely and utterly ignoring the human cost of the crack trade. Whereas the coke in Miami was largely being snorted by well to do fly guys and girls, they were selling crack to their own deprived neighbourhood. Yet there is absolutely ZERO contrition on their part, and they seem utterly proud of their achievements. Frankly, I felt that they were lowlife scum.
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Tdownes78 — 13 years ago(February 27, 2013 05:31 AM)
I think I turned it off right after the part where the guy started talking about how he worshiped that murdering, tranny-looking, psycho. I know many of them were drug dealers but a lot of the victims were innocent women and children. Not sure why I was surprised though. Most sequels are straight to DVD release garbage that has nothing to do with the original film. Yeah I'm sure this one had a lot of similarities to the original later on but I cut it off before it reached that and I actually sat through Johnny Mnemonic once so I should be bale to watch anything. This guy from Oakland decides he likes this bitch so he writes her a letter and she calls him back so lets, let him make the sequel lol. Glad to hear that Giselda was shot last year too lol.
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danzaroni — 16 years ago(September 07, 2009 06:13 AM)
I totally disagree. After seeing CC1, I was surprised that I had never heard of the Godmother and wanted to learn more. CC2 answered those questions and provided great insight into by the person who was one of the closest (and still living) members of her life The filmmaker is brilliant - and I thought this was a brilliant film.
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White_Chantel — 16 years ago(November 13, 2009 11:07 AM)
After the bad reviews I thought this movie was going to be awful. Overall, I found it to be quite entertaining. Charles Cosby has an entertaining life story. He is also a witty and articulate storyteller.
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SteelKeez — 14 years ago(August 08, 2011 05:36 PM)
Stop comparing cc1 and cc2.. this doc was very entertaining..gives more insight into blanco and i watched this cc2 about 20 times..great doc that stands on its own
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r-jo-park — 14 years ago(January 16, 2012 12:44 AM)
completely agree.. i couldn't stand cosby ugh. it's scary that a human being can be in "awe" of someone like griselda for her ability to sell coke and kill.
and i'm surprised at how people are saying that he's articulate and is a great storyteller because it sounded to me like he was trying way too hard to sound smart. he found some good words in the thesaurus and memorized lines. and the fact that he was labeled as the "REAL beep should say something.
what was funny was when he said he wanted to go into law HA. anyone can say they wanted to be something after the fact. i had to turn this movie off after 25 minutes because it was wasting my life. -
becoolxgurl — 12 years ago(August 20, 2013 10:42 AM)
I have never seen the first Cocaine Cowboys 1 but however I did see the second one and i loved it. I showed it to some of my friends and we were all memorized by The Cocaine Godmother. I have never heard of a woman with so much status as her's in the drug world. I will check out the first one since everyone thinks its better than the second.
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