12 Years a Slave Premiers to Standing Ovation, Oscar Lockdown

[HipHopStan]

Out of all those I was PISSED that Social Network didn't win....

You can blame Fincher for that. The Social Network was having great luck during awards season that year and then he started downplaying the movie. Then, The King Speech won the DGA, the tide changed, and it was a wrap. TKS is actually one of the most forgettable BP movies in awhile. Just about every other movie that was nominated that year - The Social Network, Toy Story 3, 127 Hours, Inception, Black Swan, The Fighter - would've been a better choice. The Weinsteins' and their fukkery.

 

[HHR]

The Social Network not winning still annoys me. I actually watched it again last night...easily one of my favorite films ever. I consider it a masterpiece and one of the best films of the last decade.

 

[Elle Driver]

You can blame Fincher for that. The Social Network was having great luck during awards season that year and then he started downplaying the movie. Then, The King Speech won the DGA, the tide changed, and it was a wrap. TKS is actually one of the most forgettable BP movies in awhile. Just about every other movie that was nominated that year - The Social Network, Toy Story 3, 127 Hours, Inception, Black Swan, The Fighter - would've been a better choice. The Weinsteins' and their fukkery.

Especially last year with Silver Linings Playbook. The actress who won Best Actress (Jennifer Lawrence) was like "Harvey, who'd you have to kill to get me up here".

 

[HipHopStan]

Especially last year with Silver Linings Playbook. The actress who won Best Actress (Jennifer Lawrence) was like "Harvey, who'd you have to kill to get me up here".

They're like the Hollywood version of the mob.

 

[pickles]

For all those nikkas here saying it will win best picture. Wrong!!! What the cacs will do is pit two "black" movies against each other(12 years vs the butler/Fruitvale Station) and two black actors against each other, to cancel each other out, and some cac movie will win. Mark my words nikkas.

One thing I have noticed is cacs love watching black folk cry close up, it is like some weird fetish. I am not saying they are getting off on the pain, but maybe so type of guilt release.

 

[wire28]

might have a great display of #blackexcellence on our hands here

Edit: just read the thread, damn I hate you nikkas , complain about everything

 

[Roman Brady]

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

 

[Savior]

I understand people's frustrations because it is a slave movie and even if it doesn't appease whites, it just goes to show that Hollywood and the Arts don't like depicting us as multifaceted. But at the same time, white people like to tell us shyt like "stop playing the race card" and "slavery was such a long time ago". They'll try to make themselves look good, when we know that all of them were complicit with it. Heck, our schools try to teach us that Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves. But I am not going to rule this out based purely on the fact that people need to see just how terrible that time period was and how a seemingly free man Solomon Northrup was stolen and enslaved.


My only other qualm with this is the fact that they need to cast an African American, not an African Brit. But regardless, Chiwetel is a great actor and from what I've heard he's the bookies favorite for at least a Best Actor nom.

Exactly...no one is arguing that there should be more black movies with a positive note. However, nowadays its also commonplace for slavery to be downplayed and people going as far as saying slavery wasnt that bad, black people should get over it, etc. I hate to bring up the same point over and over but we are hammered over and over growing up that the holocaust was the worst thing ever with hundreds of movies and documentaries to back that up. So when a movie comes out about slavery that by all accounts is a great movie grounded in realism then whats the poblem exactly? They dont like to be reminded of a shytty past? Those who dont follow history are doomed to repeat it

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

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.

judging by the previews it appears to be an accurate depiction of slavery. Plus it was written and directed by a black man. This looks to be legit, unlike that c00n fest "The Butler"

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

COMPLAIN ABOUT MOVIES BUT NEVER BECOME A FILMMAKER YOURSELF AND MAKE THE MOVIES YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE, BREHS!

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

COMPLAIN ABOUT MOVIES BUT NEVER BECOME A FILMMAKER YOURSELF AND MAKE THE MOVIES YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE, BREHS!

 

[Crakface]

judging by the previews it appears to be an accurate depiction of slavery. Plus it was written and directed by a black man. This looks to be legit, unlike that c00n fest "The Butler"

Well at least he gets free in the end.

 

[NelsonSwagdela]

Some of you people are pathetic, I hope to god this is just your online persona and non of you are actually like this in real life. For the sake of our race and your social lives.

 

[wire28]

Watch how quiet those white directors get after Mcqueen makes his point about minority lead actors.

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

Roots was a series, not a movie, and has many historical inaccuracies, despite being an important work. Amistad was sanitized, Spielbergized, and inaccurate, Sankofa isn't a Hollywood film (it's actually an African film, ironic considering your point,) and Glory is about the civil war period.

Basically, what I'm saying is that there isn't as much out there, especially when you're talking good, accurate, well-made media on the history of slavery. It's a wide history, too, so 4 or 5 films doesn't really cut it. Glory's context is very different from Roots, for example.

As for Africa, for me, it's too late for all that. Movies about African history in general are fine, but to tie the ancestry of a mixed up, long-separated group to any particular people in Africa would be reaching. I'm not into all that DNA ancestry testing- it's inaccurate, vague, and relies on false assumptions (should Black folks who have more European than African DNA celebrate that and go visit European villages and learn their languages?) I'm fine with general Black solidarity and African history, but it's not as relevant to me as the more immediate and direct history of slavery, which produced a new people- modern Black Americans.

Spoken like a true lost liberal. Why the fukk do you accept the fact that your entire history is based on SLAVERY? Are you scared to look into your origins?