Dope (2015) - Comedy of Young black kids in LA in coming of age story

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Trailer was corny........ I already know how the shyt is going to go

 

[Goat poster]

Had a couple friends audition for this.

Wesley's review kinda turned me off from this but ima check it out regardless.

Every black movie doesn't need to be a classic just like every white movie isn't.

We should be aloud to have decent comedies as well.

 

[boskey]

Never heard of Wesley Morris or read any of his reviews. But I am now convinced that he is posting in this thread...

 

[Jx2]

Never heard of Wesley Morris or read any of his reviews. But I am now convinced that he is posting in this thread...

All I really wanted to know was whether people were going to be seeing this movie or not

 

[IronFist]

checking for it

 

[Ain't That Something]

Wesley Morris, is that you?

Regardless, I see no point debating a guy who can't communicate his thoughts on a movie in a way that's actual useful to those watching regardless of the circumstances of the situation. He had one job to do and he failed at it, so fukk him.

You are truly an a$$hole breh

 

[TheGodling]

All I really wanted to know was whether people were going to be seeing this movie or not

We probably all will. After all the only person who talks bad about this movie is Wesley Morris and we've already concluded that his snarky hateful opinion is worthless.

 

[Rozay Oro]

shyt look corny and the script wordy as fucc

 

[Jx2]

shyt look corny and the script wordy as fucc

 

[Jello Biafra]

He went to a boarding school in Philly that provides free education for bright (mostly black) kids from broken/low income households. What from all that can you glean about his eligibility to comment on the hood or blackness?

Why in your eyes is it impossible for somebody that understands what is authentically hood to go to Yale? Are you not seeing how what you're implying here is problematic?

I consider his dismissing of Rick Famuyiwa's ability to write/direct "authentic hood blackness" to be just as problematic as you think my calling into question his bona fides on the issue are.

 

[Rozay Oro]

Wordy not as in vocabulary but more of this written and doesnt feel natural like most sitcoms.

 

[dizzy4111]

Cautiously optimistic.

 

[Greenstrings]

I consider his dismissing of Rick Famuyiwa's ability to write/direct "authentic hood blackness" to be just as problematic as you think my calling into question his bona fides on the issue are.

Yours was an offhand ad hominem that inadvertently put the experiences of millions of black people in a box.

His was a critique of Famuyiwa's creative choices (not ability) in the instance of this singular film (having already given him credit for his earlier representations of black lives).

Suffice it to say they are not the same thing.

 

[Ain't That Something]

Yours was an offhand ad hominem that inadvertently put the experiences of millions of black people in a box.

His was a critique of Famuyiwa's creative choices (not ability) in the instance of this singular film (having already given him credit for his earlier representations of black lives).

Suffice it to say they are not the same thing.

Are you related to the nikka breh.

 

[re'up]

I don't think I have ever heard of the reviewer, Wesley Morris, but even all the racial issues aside, I can see what he was saying about the movie, just from the trailer. In the first thread I was hesitant, because why include bricks and drug dealers into the premise? That has been worn the fukk out. Another 24 hour or so adventure until dude can go to Harvard, from an LA public school in the hood, which is about the premise of 'How High'. Also, I picked up the social media friendly gags line, as potentially accurate, and I am less eager to see yet another gag involving someone accidently ingesting drugs and the comedic pratfalls that follow.

I will likely see the movie regardless, but it doesn't sound down to earth, genuine, and truly funny the way 'The Wood' did'. The fact he had to sit next to 4 'Real Houseifes' types who loved the movie makes the entire ordeal worse.