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thank you

posted 15 years ago by filmdude2
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I thought the days of the intelligent, entertaining black film were gone. This movie has made me think otherwise. I just happen to have rented this movie tonight and I thought it was great. I haven't felt like this since the first time I saw Love Jones. All of black hollywood has not been "Tyler Perried" out...no hate, there's room for it all. If the creators or anyone who had anything to do with this movie is reading this, keep scratchin, keep scrapin, keep hustlin, keep doing what ever you have to do to continue creating work like this. There are ALOT of african-americans and people of all shades hungry for this type of work.

[–] TheQuietStorm 15 years ago

You probably are Perried out, that's why you thought it was so great?

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[–] DreTam2000 14 years ago

While this movie wasn't that great, the OP atleast has a point as far as comparing it to most of the other "Black" films that have been released over the last ten years.

Black films of today are either poorly executed, half-thought out, bland, or just downright shameful and filled with rappers and R&B artists instead of actors.

Tyler Perry's films, on the other hand, are A WHOLE OTHER LEVEL of bad. I mean, stuff like ATL and Soul Plane has its own problems, but Tyler Perry's films are terrible on a whole other level. Yikes.

GDBS may not have been very entertaining, but atleast it dared to be different and atleast apply some substance and interesting direction.

I'm not a control freak, I just like things my way

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[–] DreTam2000 13 years ago

It's not that ATL is necessarily that bad of a film. It's just that it follows the painfully insipid business formula of casting a couple non-acting pop music artists in roles, just for the purpose of filling some character slots and making a "cool" "black/urban" movie with a cool title to make some money. You can throw something together, cast some cool black celebrities in it regardless of whether they can act or not, and call it a film; it'll make money.

Movies formulaic and thrown together. Those aren't the kinds of films that are really worth seeing.

I'm not a control freak, I just like things my way

[–] activista 9 years ago

@DreTam

Actually, ATL was a pretty good film, and I actually didn't see it as formulaic (even though it was to some extent, but not to the point where it detracted from the film itself.) I thought it would be just another lame in the 'hood story, but it's actually more about a group of young working-class black people in Atlanta and how their lives change during one summer---it's actually a really nice and realistic coming-of-age story/drama which felt fresh,and had some genuinely funny parts---definitely worth tracking down and watching. It deserves way better than to be even mentioned in the same sentence as the atrocity that was Soul Plane.

[–] SuiteScience 13 years ago

You probably are Perried out, that's why you thought it was so great?

--------------------------------------LOL Is Perry really that divisive?

I liked it, was it perfect? no. It was good considering how hard it is to get ANY movie made in the first place. Much less one about young black people. It seems even Indie movies still need big movie $$ backing.

...Overground watch this space

[–] MDStylin 15 years ago

My sentiments exactly. I found it hard to put into words how much I liked this movie. It has been some time since a movie of this caliber has surfaced to mainstream. I read a snippet about this film in either King or Smooth; regardless, it piqued my interests. When me & wifey came across it in Blockbuster, I had to get it--and I'm glad I did. This movie touches upon soooo many issues that are relevant in the black male/female relationships of today. I admit, the first time I watched it, I was blinded by the shock value of it all, but once I watched it a second time, I was better able to absorb the points the film was trying to convey. The soundtrack is out cold--I downloaded that bad boy from ITunes and haven't stopped playing it in my suv since--"Fantasy" is my all-time favorite track, "I Remember You" is a close second. If those guys (and/or ladies) are indeed reading this, like filmdude suggests, don't stop clawing and scratching--there really are people of color who would throughly enjoy seeing more films like this, for real....