White Folks Who Love To Complain about 'Black' Movies...

They seem to be the only ones so heavily bothered by African American films on IMDB. So I figure why beat around the bush?

"A commitment to cinema means to lead a technically deviant lifestyle."

^Thanx for the kudos, and when I say "White Folks" I generally mean the bigoted, close-minded morons(believe me, the lot of em are white, if not then they need some serious help) who just like to patrol these boards before the release of a "Black" film and bash it and the morale of the possible audiance into thinking the film is probably the worst thing ever made simply because it dares to be a positive "black" film with values and not some ignorant garbage like the stuff they should be bashing. Notice how none of the "troll" who were so vocal about this film arent even posting here anymore. Now go to another African American casted film and see whos there posting the most negative things on the message boards.

"A commitment to cinema means to lead a technically deviant lifestyle."

Who is scared of who? In this, an election year, a Black Candidate is finally a nominee of a major party for President. He is pulling down 90+% of the Black vote. You know what 90% of the Black Vote will get him without a single White vote? 100% of the Black vote without a single White vote will get him what? A quick trip back to the Irelevancy Hell where John Kerry now resides.

White America has nothing to fear from Black America and really could survive with few ill effects if the Black Community disappeared from the US completely. All of coorporate America, all of the infrastructure, all of the Government, all of our communications have worked very well with the negligible input of the Black Community. Could Black America survive unaffected without the White Community?

Who should fear who then?

Do not get me wrong, I cite the above as an example. My wife is Black, my kids (two gorgeous teen girls) are bi-racial. Wifey is an executive for Verizon. I am very proud of my family. I am very proud of my wife's family. Her father is a retired Army Lt. Colonel who flew medevac missions in Vietnam. Her mother retired from the FBI where she was one of the very first Black Female Street Agents. I am not even in their class and am punching above my weight by being a member of this family.

Any movie, no matter if it is put out by Spike Lee, Tyler Perry, Michael Bay or John Woo is put out there for public consumption. That includes the White People who infuriate you so when they negatively critique a Black produced film. Face it, guy. A crappy movie is panned for being a crappy movie no matter the color of who made it. I do not hear White folks complaining about Blacks not liking a Michael Scorcese film. Why so touchy?

Whites put a lot less emphasis on the racial make up of who makes a movie or the cast than you would think. Some Black actors have transcended race. There were no howls of protest when Will Smith played the role of Robert Neville in "I am Legend." A role once played by the Great Charlton Heston. No one gave it a second thought. Look at Denzel Washington. Almost every single one of his latest roles could have been played by a white actor. Probably not as well since Denzel is pretty much unequaled. But Denzel easily plays roles that are "race neutral." The fact that he is a black actor has little bearing on the roles he plays.

Seriously, who makes a race a bigger issue? Tyler Perry movies play to a certain audience just like Adam Sandler and Johnny Knoxville's "Jackass" movies do.

Me? I watch what I like and it is all over the place.

We should look at why these films, films staring a majority african american cast are getting such low ratings on IMDB. they cant all be bad. can they? it's a good question that I hope can be discussed. BTW i'm not talking about anything Will Smith has starred in, lol.

I do believe there are some racist white folk who don't want to see Tyler Perry succeed, but at the same time I don't think all these bad ratings are strictly "the Man tryn' to hold us Back!!"LOL
I gave this movie a 1 or maybe a 2 because it was a straight out bad, poorly written, poorly acted, poorly everything (the key grip and best boy probably weren't worth a damn either!) piece of garbage that took up 2 hours of my afternoon one Friday. I don't hate Tyler Perry. As a matter of fact, I like what he stands for and I think it's great that he's trying to give Black folk nice family films to watch. Its about time we were known for more than rappers, NBA players and drug dealers when you see us on a screen. At the same time though, his movies aren't that good. No amount of good intentions and supporting my own can make up for that. I'm black, have been all my life; but I have to call a spade a spade (pun was accidental).
As far as the people coming here and bashing this movie before it came out or bashing it when they haven't seen it, I agree with the OP. It's not right to just jump on a bangwagon and bash something you haven't seen.

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SweeneyLovesLovett said:

"We don't even see you as seperate until you act it. "OOOH I'm black! Whites hate me! Your people hurt my people!" Yeah, that was a long time ago. The whites from then are dead now.
You all purposely seperate yourself."

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That's a Crock of Bul!s*!t and you know it.

First off, since when were YOU deigned as the Spokesloser for EVERY WHITE PERSON ON EARTH?

Second of all, do yourself (And the rest of your people, for that matter) a favor and quit with the bul!s*!t 'White Guilt, Reverse Racism, *beep* Excuses. Slavery wasn't brought up in this thread until YOUR PEOPLE brought it up, you delusional hypocrite.

Third of all, making baseless assumptions about an ENTIRE GROUP OF PEOPLE (Blacks) only weakens the flimsy thread of racist logic that you exuded in your post.

And trying to apply Damage Control to your incendiary prattle by saying your best friend is black doesn't mean sh!t. Your best friend could be Samoan, and you'd still be a know-it-all racist piece of s*!t.

So, in other words, shut the f*kk up and learn something before you log on thinking you're some kind of racial psychic.

A**h*le.

A: "Is that your Bathing Suit?"

W: "Is that your Overbite?"

I've found a lot of Perry criticisms from Black posters who are embarrassed to be represnted by him.