Precious is not a film that make me feel like I could go anywhere. The same goes for The Hurt Locker, or even Up In The Air, which I actually liked. It's all very much based on staying on solid ground.
I don't know about you, but for a people constantly looked upon as having limitations, why wouldn't we want more films that have us go beyond telling those kinds of stories? What is wrong with black people traveling to another galaxy? There is more than this planet in our own universe, and there is more in our minds than we could possibly imagine.
Perry, Daniels, and Winfrey should have pushed for something else in that vein. Sadly, they probably know that this kind of film doesn't make it to the Oscars. As a result, a black lady stealing chicken becomes our highlight when the Original Screenplay nomination comes up.
Seriously, enough with the sad black films. For real. Let's do something else.
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1 - larry wright
A film that will make you pull out your albums and think back when music was music.
2 - BlueCrush
Avitar sucked too. It was a story that ripped off colonization of Africans and Native Americans and made a white man the hero at the end of the day. All the blue people were blacks. Did you not notice that?
The selfish white guy who goes in there to scam the blue people ends up doing their culture better than them, rides their birds better(even though they have been dooing it for generations), and he even gets the blue princess.Say what? The guy that was out to help take over their land turns into the hero. Typical colonization BS. The all might white messiah comes to save the savages.
After 20min of watching Avitar I wanted my money back...but I already paid the $13 to get in. Horrible. After that, I swore off American white movies.
As for Precious NEVER AGAIN. will I subject myself to those soul killing dramatic tragedies, NEVER AGAIN. Black people act like animals, they get awards. When they act cultured they get ignored and 'are not keeping it real.'
Black cinema is 99%of the time depressing. Wheter it si produced by whites or blacks. Can't a brother or sista have a good day for once? Every time I see a black film there is some BS they have to get over, as if, to suffer is innate to black people. Why can't I be happy? Why do I have to look forward to racism, rape, and beatings? I am over it. I am looking towards greener pastures on Nigerian and Korean shores. At least these people can be happy in their films and televsion.