12 Years a Slave Premiers to Standing Ovation, Oscar Lockdown

[Piff Perkins]

so this isn't some feel good The Butler type bullshyt? I've seen Hunger but assumed this was just Oscar bait.

 

[The Real]

so this isn't some feel good The Butler type bullshyt? I've seen Hunger but assumed this was just Oscar bait.

It's based on this autobiography of the same name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Years_a_Slave

 

[Piff Perkins]

It's based on this autobiography of the same name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Years_a_Slave

I'm familiar with the story, I just assumed it would be Hollywood-ized, right in time for Oscar season...

 

[The Real]

I'm familiar with the story, I just assumed it would be Hollywood-ized, right in time for Oscar season...

Like I said earlier in the thread, that's a valid concern. Any movie about slavery, no matter how bad, is going to get nominated, though... that's just how white liberals are. So far, though, I don't see any real evidence for worry.

 

[Ice Cold]

My mom loves this book and if it's a true to the autobiography I wouldn't be surprised if it's the best flick of 2013

 

[Th3G3ntleman]

Damn I saw Hunger and Shame and thought those were great films. Shocked that they were made by a black director though.

 

[Batz]

.....steve mcqueen has my support

 

[TheGodling]

so this isn't some feel good The Butler type bullshyt? I've seen Hunger but assumed this was just Oscar bait.

I don't get how you could've seen anything by McQueen and still question his resolve. A man who films a three minute scene of a guy mopping a hallway full of piss, or shows a sex addict so desperate to get his nut off that he engages in gay sex, is not going to turn in some corny feel-good melodrama about one of the harshest periods in American history.

 

[ProfessionallyTrill]

They said this is the "Feel Bad movie of the year"

Seems interesting

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

Yes Masser..Ok Masser..

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

ANOTHER MOVIE ABOUT SLAVERY. WOW. THESE RACIST CACS ARE GETTING BOLD AS fukk BREHS. JUST LOOKING FOR WAYS TO SAY THE N WORD.

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

Fassbender, Pitt, Giamatti, and Chiwetel Ejiofor tho

 

[Strapped]

what the fukk is up with all these submissive flicks

 

[Crakface]

This movie has been reviewed so far as being the most brutal and unflinching look at the violence of slavery made to date. Where do you see evidence of dilution? Also don't forget the story is taken right out of an actual autobiography.

I guess im just tired of watching fukking slave films and racist cacs in regards to every historical piece about black people.

 

[Jax]

Trash. Just another way to dilute the true brutality of slavery by making cacs think slaves had it good compared to all the vicious stories and supposed guilt trips that have been laid upon them in the form of reality.

Jews on the other hand, get all the pitty...