The 98th Annual Academy Awards

[Cheesebeef]

Oh, to see a PTA movie is to like it? I'm not allowed to only somewhat enjoy it, let alone dislike it? Now we're adding the arrogance of Hollywood to the equation. But with the wink emoji, it sure doesn't at all come across that way.

Also, I have seen his movies. There Will Be Blood was awful; Punch Drunk Love was excellent. Inherent Vice dragged so long it made me bored in a scene featuring a topless woman.

Let me also add that I am not at all surprised by the massive pushback, nor with who is behind said pushback. As predictable as the Cards losing NFC West games.

With you on Inherent Vice. That movie was a mess, but Blood, awful? Huge agree to disagree there. That one’s a masterpiece and only reason he didn’t win Oscar way back then is because the Coen’s somehow topped it that same year with No Country For Old Men.

 

[Stout]

With you on Inherent Vice. That movie was a mess, but Blood, awful? Huge agree to disagree there. That one’s a masterpiece and only reason he didn’t win Oscar way back then is because the Coen’s somehow topped it that same year with No Country For Old Men.

Looking back on it, I remember a plodding movie with just a bunch of discordant movie thrown in at random.

 

[oaken1]

Well, let’s talk about this. Instead of just assuming the movie went over your head, I’ll back up. tell me what you think the movie was about.

first..it was not a terrible movie. MBJ did well playing multiple roles.
what it was about..
on the surface... vampires showing up in small town Mississippi. pretty cut and dry.
if you wanna get religious,...the preacher says at the beginning that if you dance with the devil sooner or later the evil will follow you home...so, Smoke and Stack...went to chicago to work for capone...thats pretty much dancing with the devil...
then,...said devil comes, as a vampire, disguised in white skin... this is an age old very tired trope in black entertainment...every evil and or woe that befalls the community wears white skin.
I mean, I can see the perspective...but sooner or later you gotta move on.

then of course, there is the music...whitey trying to steal it..in the guise of the aforementioned white devil/vampire..again, a very tired trope...black folks in entertainment been screaming about whitey stealing their music ever since Elvis got his first grammy... true?? In part, sure..but so what?

then there is the "Music brings our culture together and links the generations" thing..again, not new...and not really relevant to the movie except to add maybe a little anxiety to the "they are stealing our music" idea.

they really got loose and free with the vampire lore... they can go from your best friend to a blood sucking demon in less than a minute...but then they have to ask permission to come in your building?? so they pretty much crap on Vamp canon... but seems everyone in hollywood is taking turns doing that these days..it wasnt egregious I guess..makes the story move faster if people turn quicker...and prolongs it if they cant just walk in the building...so, plot armor for the writing team, lol.

then we end up with Preacherboy back at the church. apparently ready to listen to his daddy and swear off the devil music... but no,...because they show him 60 years later still playing the blues...
maybe, the entire movie...was just a basic origin story for how the average blues man gets his material??

but yeah..it wasnt horrible..but nothing new or really remarkable. Micheal B did a good job...the guy that plays Preacherboy is talented...and the one gal he fooled around with after his performance at the club looks just like my first wife...
thats pretty much what I took away from this movie. Not a disaster. But certainly not special...nor particularly deep.
might be something deep and new for people who have not watched black entertainment for the past 40 years..I dont know.

 

[AsUpRoDiGy]

first..it was not a terrible movie. MBJ did well playing multiple roles.
what it was about..
on the surface... vampires showing up in small town Mississippi. pretty cut and dry.
if you wanna get religious,...the preacher says at the beginning that if you dance with the devil sooner or later the evil will follow you home...so, Smoke and Stack...went to chicago to work for capone...thats pretty much dancing with the devil...
then,...said devil comes, as a vampire, disguised in white skin... this is an age old very tired trope in black entertainment...every evil and or woe that befalls the community wears white skin.
I mean, I can see the perspective...but sooner or later you gotta move on.

then of course, there is the music...whitey trying to steal it..in the guise of the aforementioned white devil/vampire..again, a very tired trope...black folks in entertainment been screaming about whitey stealing their music ever since Elvis got his first grammy... true?? In part, sure..but so what?

then there is the "Music brings our culture together and links the generations" thing..again, not new...and not really relevant to the movie except to add maybe a little anxiety to the "they are stealing our music" idea.

they really got loose and free with the vampire lore... they can go from your best friend to a blood sucking demon in less than a minute...but then they have to ask permission to come in your building?? so they pretty much crap on Vamp canon... but seems everyone in hollywood is taking turns doing that these days..it wasnt egregious I guess..makes the story move faster if people turn quicker...and prolongs it if they cant just walk in the building...so, plot armor for the writing team, lol.

then we end up with Preacherboy back at the church. apparently ready to listen to his daddy and swear off the devil music... but no,...because they show him 60 years later still playing the blues...
maybe, the entire movie...was just a basic origin story for how the average blues man gets his material??

but yeah..it wasnt horrible..but nothing new or really remarkable. Micheal B did a good job...the guy that plays Preacherboy is talented...and the one gal he fooled around with after his performance at the club looks just like my first wife...
thats pretty much what I took away from this movie. Not a disaster. But certainly not special...nor particularly deep.
might be something deep and new for people who have not watched black entertainment for the past 40 years..I dont know.

I felt the same way. I didn't think it was anything special when I first watched it.

 

[FB94]

Haven’t watched this in years, better time watching WBC Sunday night

U felt the need to

Yet you felt the need to let everyone know...

and yet you felt the need to reply, whatever