Last night I was forced into seeing a movie that I didn't want to see - How She Move. Let me list the reasons I did not want to see this movie.
1) I knew it was going to be bad
2) the title is grammatically incorrect.
3) even if the title wasn't all slanged up, it's still a stupid name for a movie and it makes me not want to see it.
4) I knew it would be too "urban" for me
5) I don't care to support black entertainment
That being said, I have in the past totally dismissed everyone when they were seeing a movie of such horrible caliber,"Crossroads" being a prime example that pops into my head, but I thought that this movie would at least be ok, because it would be fun to see it with the people I was with and we could make the bad movie be good. Unfortunately, this movie was beyond hope. It was so bad that even the black people in the audience did not even like it. and that's saying something, because black people looooove black entertainment - case in point: any movie that starts with "Tyler Perry presents:..."
So let me count down the reasons this move was bad:
1) the plot was dumb
2) the "stepping" wasn't even that great. I've seen better.
3) the acting was even worse.
4) the majority of the cast was black
5) there was not enough "black talk" such as "what up homes?" and "fuck you, nigga!" there was none of that :( There was a point in the movie where one girl called another girl a bitch and i LOLed. that was probably the best part of the movie.
the craziest thing is that if you go to rottentomato.com, it got a 71% freshness rating?!?! and all the reviewers are older white people. Maybe they're just trying to appear cool and "with it", and not appear racist. Well, I for one, do not care how i appear. I tell the truth. and this movie was more lifeless than a man hanging from a tree. That's how I move, yo! peace out.
4 comments:
Did the black people in the audience at least talk aloud to the movie? "Oh no you di'in't just walk inside that monster's house."
I'm sorry I missed it anyway. I got to see black people dance the Superman though, which was probably better.
no, the black people were rather subdued during the movie. the movie was extremely boring. During the pseudo-secret ending, they showed the main girl, i forget her name so let's just say LaQuisha, doing some more stepping and the one black guy who walking out of the movie said aloud "who cares." it was a funny way to end the movie.
the movie was a bit of a let down, i must admit... but it did make me cry 5 times. i don't know if a movie other than A Beautiful Mind has ever done that to me before. (i guess i was doing it to myself in this case)
i'm still haven't shaken the strangeness of a Canadian/Jamaican accent coming out of the black people in the movie. that wasn't right, and i don't think it helped the audience in the theater connect to the movie.
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