I say Brown Sugar...it seems to have more character depth than Best Man. Best Man was a bit more comedic, even though it was a good representation by Nia Long on screen with a more "up and coming" colleague, Sanaa Lathan.
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Definitely Brown Sugar. The Best Man was good but this one is much more memorable.
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I choose "The Best Man".
Sanaa Lathan is one of my favorite actresses so that's why I went to see "Brown Sugar" in theaters but I was disappointed. The actors and actresses did a good job acting but this film was too predictable. However, the film is funny; so I do enjoy it for that reason.
I couldn't stand, how both Sidney and Dre knew they liked each for the longest time but they were trying to hide it from each other. The viewers of this film knew from the start that they should get together but the script kept having the characters hide or make up excuses for their feelings.
"The Best Man" was good to me because I like the story of how all these friends are tied into a story and how the truth unfolds in front of them. I liked how the characters all dealt with this truth.
Definitely The Best Man - That is my FAVORITE black movie
I liked Brown Sugar BUT it seemed like a bootleg version of Love and Basketball. Sanaa Lathan even said in the interview that she had to nake alot of changes to Brown Sugar because it reminded her too much of Love and Basketball.
Best Man is better. The storyline was better than Brown Sugar. Brown Sugar is okay though.
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I finally rented out and saw BROWN SUGAR recently and I loved just about everything about it--the characters,how the main character uses her own maturation and growth as a metaphor for hip-hop itself. (I've been a hip-hop fan myself since I was a child in the early '80s,so of course I loved seeing the references to old-school hip-hop as well as seeing actual old-school artists interviewed about their first encounters with the music. I thought Diggs & Lathan made a near-perfect couple and the film itself felt way more genuine and realistic (and hilarious) than THE BEST MAN, which was OK,but too predictable/by-the-numbers/played it too safe for me. So I really enjoyed the hell out of it! I also think its message about hip-hop having sold its soul to the corporations and becoming just another product to be thrown out there for the quick dollar is even more timely these days,seeing that,according to an article I read in USA TODAY recently,sales of rap records are going down a little more and the fact that even some rap fans are getting tired of hearing the same old look how much bling I got/I'm a gangster/I gotta have a big car sporting my 20-inch dubs (rims)/blah-blah-blah being spouted on a regular basis across the airwaves EVERY damn day. Rap (and hip-hop) used to be so much bigger and better than that, now it's all about who can spit out the most violent,misogynist bulls***. It's not even about how good of a rapper you can be anymore,it's all about the image and what you're supposed to be than what you really are,which is pathetic.
Okay,I'm done with my rant--but BROWN SUGAR is the bomb, and I'd reccommend it to anybody who wants to see an excellent and funny romantic comedy.