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Suprisingly good

posted a year ago by BanditOne (93)
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Just browsed around on Sky. This one just got uploaded, so we thought we give it a go. Didn't have any expectations.

And it was a suprisingly good movie. Acting, directing, editing. The sets and locations. All top-notch. Really well-made production with convincing actresses and actors. Thuso Mbedu was really great in it as was Lashana Lynch. They really made the movie.

Viola Davis did a great acting job, but somehow felt miscast/misplaced anyways compared to the other - less famous - actresses. I guess the production did need a big name. Understandable. Good actress, but a bit off for this role. Too old too I'd say, didn't convince me as a warrior.

John Boyega as well. An overrated actor from the beginning of his career. Was just lucky to be in the right movies at the right time. But very mediocre.

These two points aside a very entertaining movie. I don't understand all the discussions about wokeness, the point of the skin colors (yes, it's mostly about people of colour) etc. Never felt forced, never felt "in-your-face". Why not just watch it and enjoy it? It is a very good movie and we very much enjoyed it.

[–] PinbackWiggly (377) 9 months ago

I thought the movie was just fine. I did not see any wokeness. I think there was a tiny bit of revisionist history which is almost necessary as it is impossible to hold a 200+ year old culture to today's standards, and the movie required us to like the protagonists to work.

[–] JFZ (1459) 9 months ago

It was nice of them to revise history so the poor unfortunate oppressed enslavers and traders can be seen as mighty warriors trying to heroically repel the hoard of colonizers who wanted to force them to STOP selling humans as defective farm equipment to South and Central America.

[–] AmeriGirl26 (12653) 9 months ago

The Dahomey Tribe were the most prominent group of black slave traders on the African continent. Their tribe was rich by selling other human beings the same color as them, but from enemy tribes. They were forced to stop their slave trade by outsiders, and the all-female regiment got their asses kicked in the 1700s by white French men with bayonets.

Oh yeah, the film was directed and produced by two, rich, white, blond, liberal women.

[–] HarlemEagle42 (16430) 4 months ago

“…. Oh yeah, the film was directed and produced by two, rich, white, blond, liberal women.”

Uh, the director is a dark haired woman of mixed descent.