On the fly review Im still watching it
I like to support blacks but goddamn. Im an hour into this shit and it is without the blow'dest shit I have seen in the last 12 months of my life. This nigga Tyler Perry has a knack for making some over the top black soap opera shit.
This is the most concentrated niggas-aint-shit-promotion that has been put out, in the last decade, IMO. Not familiar with where this came from, maybe a play or a perhaps a book(not googling the shit either), but this is crazy. I don't know where to begin on the craziness. You got alcoholic wifebeaters, downlow niggas, niggas stealing money from they wives, baby killing niggas, rapists, you think of some negative shit and it might be the next character introduced.
All the women are having or have had major issues with these dudes so far and I am only an hour into the movie
.....to be continued
Continued...
Okay so I finished this movie and he didn't let up with the drama. I can say that there is one brotha in this movie who didn't have a shady character, the character played by Hill Harper. Although I was suspecting Hill's character to put up with an illegitimate child by white woman at any time given the direction of this movie. To Tyler's credit this movied took a turn from the normal Tyler Perry styled- bad dark skinned black guy vs. the good wholesome savior light skinned black guy- that is throughout the majority of Tyler's movies. All the brothas, light and dark, except one, were on some shady shit.
He comes with the drama on this one. Like a soap opera and I know that this is, like the title, geared towards (colored) girls. Women will accept this a lot more than men will. A lot of the shit I seen in this one had me like "come on nigga". To put it in a nutshell, I would say you would have to have sat in group rehabilitation meetings for batter women for about a year to run into the shit that is going on with female characters in this movie. But magically all these women were going through it concurrently and they were all connected in some way.
Not necessarily the men. Women will be into this one its more focused on issues black women have with their relationship(s) with black men. I found most of the men characters to be extra'd out like a maf**ka. About 4 "come on nigga"'s come to mind throughout this movie.
On a brighter side, the acting was on point nothing wrong with the performances in this one. I think all the women in this one were good in their roles. Tyler does employ a lot of black talent that seemingly get shelved and/or forgotten about. That is one thing I love about what he does.
My favorite of his movies would be Daddy's Girls with Idris Elba. But this shit... its not it. The fix for black male negativity should be straight for about 2 years for him after this one. None of the brothas he puts on for the next 2 years of movie making should have a cough, scuffed sneaker, wrinkle in a shirt, food particle left in teeth, let alone any character flaws in any of his movies for the next 2 years behind this one.
My Rating
2.75/5 The culmination of drama and too many fucked up black male characters shot this one for me, but good acting nonetheless.
As it has been said before "Images Shape Your Reality"
It sucks that it may seem as though the movie was geared toward bashing black men, but I think the whole concept was to tell about the reality of real issues that no one has the guts to talk about let alone make a movie about it. Many folks say "Keep it real" but are afraid to tell the real deal. Seeing the movie didn't change my outlook on my Black Brothas. It's those small minded folks that this movie will change the perspective of their view on Black men.
ReplyDeleteI will always love my black men.
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