Is hating a movie b/c the protagonists are bad guys a thing now?

Silence of the Lambs wasn't about Hannibal Lecter. The man is in the movie for all of thirty minutes. It was about Jodie Foster's character.

Coppola may have give the Corleone's a "code of honor", whatever the hell that is supposed to mean, but that family was still a pack of murdering, destructive criminals. Nothing the gang in Attack does can compare to the level of criminality displayed by the Corleones. But I take it this is like the typical hypocrite who looks down at the street criminal who robs an innocent bystander of his wallet on the street far more than he looks down at the white collar banker who destroys hundreds of families by essentially stealing their money. Or the hypocrite who despises some kid who steals a CD from a record store but merely shrugs when thinking about the suburban kid who goes on his computer to steal music that he/she has no right to. Frankly it comes down to seeing the humanity in some that you don't see in others.

But let's not beat around the bush. If the leads were all white or mostly white it wouldn't matter if they had such anti-social behaviors. They would be excused as being troubled teens or teens who were misunderstood or cheered on as rebels. But make most of those teens black and they are reduced to being thugs. Nothing new here. It is IMDB after all.

I strongly disagree with that.

I hate white and black thugs equally. In fact black thugs are more or less non-existent here. It's the thug part I hate.

Try calling any of the liked anti-heroes mere thugs without brilliance or balls and I'll call *beep*

If you give a character no redeemable qualities at all the most likely won't be liked. You won't root for them. Even a guy like Vinnie Jones who often plays the thug does it with intimidating and commanding character. He isn't a good actor, but he has that redeemable quality in his roles.

Your assumption that everyone is racist says more about you than it does others.

Jerome wasn't the only casualty. Dennis was also killed.

I'm co-signing on what the OP said---I loved this film and thought it was the s***---end of story. I said the same thing as the OP after I saw the film, because this board used to be clogged damn near entirely with posts saying they hated these kids,and how they were the most evil bastards in the world for robbing this poor little white chick. They didn't even bother to realize that the kids are forced to change their minds about being little wanna-be gangsters over the course of the film--nope, they're little black teens,so they couldn't possibly be anything BUT thugs,period.

I honestly think that if the protagonists/main characters were white,they wouldn't get all this crazy hate--I mean,people are acting as if they never saw anyone get mugged onscreen before---it just ridiculous the amount of hate the kids in the movie get---mainly because,let's face it, it was a group of young black kids robbing a white chick. Just like if the main character in BREAKING BAD wasn't a white guy,he would have never gotten as popular as he did. There's no way in hell a brother playing the same part would have gotten all that positive hype from viewers. Here's an article about that exact thing,BTW:


http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/walter-white-supremacy/

I agree

It's ok to like more than one actor. :))

@Fuzzy

What did you do,fall asleep during this film? The part where the kids were trying to dodge those creepy alien bastards in the apartment was scary,exciting and fun as hell! I don't even know what you're talking about--I enjoyed the hell out of this film! And if you didn't think it was that good,then why even watch the whole thing? Makes no sense at all.

And there have been MANY films--particularly over the past four decades where the protagonists are evil---they make them all the time--nothing new about it,but it's always interesting to watch.

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