"Liz and Dick" had nothing on this Lifetime movie.
Like that previous Lifetime attempt, viewers
on Twitter loved to hate "Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B."
Fans of the late singer were none too pleased
with it, and it's little wonder that her family reportedly provided no support
to it (none of her original songs were in the film either).
Singer Aaliyah was just hitting her stride
when her life ended in an August 2001 plane crash in the Bahamas. The
22-year-old had released her third album the month prior, and was lining
up future movie projects as well. Investigators said the plane was overloaded with luggage at the time of the crash, which killed all nine people on board
Original star
Zendaya Coleman backed out of the movie earlier this year, saying it all
seemed "a little rushed."
One of her producers, Timbaland,
made no bones about his dissatisfaction with the movie as well.
Aaliyah had a very successful recording
career, singing many hits before her tragic death at age 22 in a 2001 plane
crash.
The biopic -- especially some of the casting
-- was seen as so bad that it spawned at least two hashtags,
"#LifetimeBeLike" and "#LifetimeBiopic."
Below, a few good examples of the many, many
tweets on the topic.
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