Opening scene was actually pretty good, all downhill from there. Not very funny, not tense, and super predictable. Not as smart and relevant as it thinks it is. It's not as bad as many of those bad parody movies from the 2000's, but it's still not worth wasting your time on either.
A friend of mine saw it last night and thinks it's possibly the worst film he's ever seen at the cinema.
Comedy can be subjective and a lot of the time, how much you enjoy a film can be down to your mood of the night. However, what I heard of it, marks it out as awful.
“Worst film he’s ever seen at the cinema”
While I definitely wouldn’t go that far it’s just a rather bland movie. It needed better writing
Social media thought this movie was more popular than it really was which tanked
shareSaw the trailer a while back. Liked it. Thought it actually looked funny.
But rule of thumb when it comes to comedy trailers (at least for me personally), when the trailer is really funny, then those are actually most of the best bits
Oh, come on. Why was it supposedly not good? Give a real reason none of you liked it, instead of "oh, it just wasn't good." Sounds like none of you got the humor to begin with, which was mainly African-American humor, which is why I liked it. This was a pretty good horror movie satire-----what on earth were you expecting out of it? Never saw the trailer, but I wound up enjoying it, and even cracking up once at one point. It was refreshing to see a horror film with an all-black cast poking fun at the usual horror tropes and the one about the black guy getting bumped off first in a minute----which is true to some extent, and seeing a film from an African-American point of view from a change. It was clever, funny, had engaging characters, and frankly, it deserved more way promotion than it got, which wasn't that much to begin with.
shareFirstly, I already saw most of the best bits. They already in the trailer.
I'm already African, do I need to be "African American" to understand the high brow humor of the film?
Also, I never said it was bad. It's a decent parody. Not great, not bad either. It's fine.
Nope, you don't, lol. I already said you don't have to get all the jokes or cultural references to find it funny, but it helps. h
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I’ll never understand the obsession many blacks have in seeing everything through the lens of race. Many whites and other racial groups tend to laugh at “black humor” so to say that we didn’t like it because we probably didn’t understand African American is just dumb. Please try to understand this - If something is funny it’s funny - no need to put it in a racial box .
The Blackening simply wasn’t that good. A few jokes were funny but the rest were either flat or downright cringe. I used to love movies like this but they really don’t work anymore
It's like this----pretty much everybody sees everything through the lens of race because America has, and still is, a racist country. White people were the first ones to start racism in the country and benefit from it the most, because they set it up that way. Black people didn't even start that s***, so don't even try to put that on us. That's not a damn "obsession" black people have, that is simply the way we and other people of color have been taught to deal with as a survival thing for most of American history. And the reality is, everybody does not share the exact same kind of humor---things people laugh at, and why they laugh at them, really depends to some extent on what culture they come from and the things they identify with that make them laugh. In other words, people laugh at things depend on the cultural identifiers they have for what they're laughing at.
What you and other white people never seen to want to admit is that everybody does not have the same cultural reference for everything, and don't always laugh at the same things. The reality is, white people's humor, to a great extent is still mostly the default for everything. People who aren't white, and who don't relate to "white humor" or things that white people laugh at, or think are funny, have a completely different cultural frame of reference for humor----there isn't a damn thing wrong with admitting that we don't all laugh at the same things, because we're not all the damn same anyway. The Blackening was funny to me, because it was a horror film that for once was written and directed by a black director and producer, and made specifically for a black audience that dealt with issues and had culturally specific jokes that black moviegoers like myself understood. It's also a rebuttal to all those horror films where for decades black people were only in the background or were always the villains, or were only shown in racist, stereotypical ways---which, let's be real about it, was
for most of film history.
Anyway, just because you didn't like The Blackening and didn't think it was funny, that dosen't mean that it wasn't. It just means you didn't like it because you couldn't relate to the culturally specific jokes in it, because the film was coming from an African-American point of view. It was funny to me, because I'm black, and I could relate to pretty much all the jokes about race in it, which were funny, and because you rarely hear them in horror films anyway. Different strokes for different folks, I say. Nothing wrong with admitting you didn't like it, but just because you couldn't relate to it, that dosen't make it a bad movie. You just didn't get it, that's all. I've seen a whole bunch of films I didn't understand or get, but that didn't make them bad movies---it just meant I didn't get them, because they were from a different culture, or I couldn't relate to them for other reasons.
Yeah, black and white and other non-white or non-black people have different ideas of what they think is funny---nothing wrong with that. Like for example, I've never understood why the hell the show Friends got to be so damn popular---to me it was just another basic sitcom that was never that funny to begin with. Then there's the fact that it was pretty much a ripoff of a much better and funnier black sitcom called Living Single, which came on a year and a half before Friends, but it rarely gets the props that Friends does. And pretty much everything in America is about race---it always has been, otherwise nobody would still be discussing it. It's easy for white people to claim race isn't a problem, because they never have to deal with it, and in some cases, are the ones perpetuating it----and then they have the nerve to wonder why black people call them out on it.
Incidently, there's a new book called The Black Guy Dies First, which is about the history of black people in horror films---it's really good, and hilarious.
You won't understand many jokes if you're unfamiliar with African-American culture. I watch comedies from different cultural viewpoints all the time (Native-American, Latino, gay, Jewish, French, etc.) and deep cultural understanding has everything to do with getting the humor. For instance, Emily (Emily in Paris) saying she was excited about starting a new job was very funny. If you don't know French well, you're not going to get the joke.
share Agree. The opening scene was decent and I thought I was going to see a pretty good movie. Then came the endless racial jokes that very rarely
Landed. A few were straight cringe.
I just think movies(parodies) like this really don’t work anymore. We’ve been there, done that many times over
The blackening isn’t terrible by any means but I would not watched it if I had to pay for it
I thought it was just okay, a 6/10.
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