for real. I was like "bruh out of all that, u still replying me cuz I said tyler perry? Is that like ur trigger word? missed the whole point of my rant. Thank you. Glad some people got the much BROADER point I was making.Some of us got the point you were trying to make about black directors stepping outside of drama. Brehs heard Tyler Perry and got mad like you was asking for "Madea in Egypt".
Gods of Egypt (starring Gerard Butler)
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Bryan Danielson
Jmare007 x Bryan Danielson x JLova = King Ghidorah
Just watched it.... came in off the strength of cats in here thinking it would suck and the movie was actually decent
faux outrage did it again
faux outrage did it again
Pinyapplesuckas
He's A Good Man
the outrage is real. this movie flopped horrendously breh. its not about it sucking or not.Just watched it.... came in off the strength of cats in here thinking it would suck and the movie was actually decent
faux outrage did it again
Bryan Danielson
Jmare007 x Bryan Danielson x JLova = King Ghidorah
But thats the point, I dont see what was bad about it. Most of the outrage seems like it came for "casting" the not enough blacks things. Doesnt seem like if had anything to do with the content. This seems like one of them movies that if it came out in another climate or time wouldve killed it.
I almost wonder would similar movies that were more successful wouldve been in the same situation. I dont recall any diversity in LOTR (they had mad other species but no blacks), 300 had one black guy and he died in the 1st 30 mins and only had like a half a page of dialog, no blacks in Immortals, non in Wrath, man... I can go on.
I'm not trynna over defend the movie and claim it deserves MOVIE OF THE YEAR accolades and put it in the positions rightfully deserved by BvS or realistically more than likely CAP3. But just saying, this movie was far from terrible and I came in here expecting as worst "SKYLINE or 2015 Fantastic 4" level shytty or at best Daredevil Mediocrity and missed opportunity movie level.
The movie was straight, Gerald Butler killed it (arguably his best role since 300) and the rest of the cast was solid, the CGI was decent, the flow of the movie was nice (didnt really have any sappy or boring parts), and the action and fights scenes were enjoyable.
the difference between this and the other movies you mentioned are they are European mythology....this is Egyptian mythology....and most Egyptians now a day don't even look like that after the millennia of race mixing...i'll watch on through Netflix the visuals look nice
Bryan Danielson
Jmare007 x Bryan Danielson x JLova = King Ghidorah
I feel that, but again..... race shouldnt just kill the movie it was based on like 5 characters if that..... they barely should 20 mins of total time of large crowds of people. It wasnt like there was extensive and important scenes in the cities or with the people of Egypt and its not like oh change the main character to Will, the main villain to Idris, their father to Larry Fish, the girl to the black girl from Sleepy Hollow (Nicole Brehrie), and the minor characters to 2 up and coming blacks and all of a sudden a blockbuster.
The movie was solid in its own...... and I'm saying this as a black person
It was more on the line of fantasy than actually real history. I dont even think the GOD were really gods that we know of like "hades, zues, etc" will go back in check but just saying
Bryan Danielson
Jmare007 x Bryan Danielson x JLova = King Ghidorah
The worse 2 movies I've seen in the past 10 years was Skyline and F4 reboot...... I thought this was gonna be those levels bad. Started watching this movie with the 
face.
I walked away without having any real reason to hate this movie or idea why it did bad with the
face
face.I walked away without having any real reason to hate this movie or idea why it did bad with the
face
They make Nick Fury and Human Torch black but make Egyptian G-ds white.
Pisses me off still
Pisses me off still
ReadOneBookAWeek
Smoking on a Cac Pack
sometimes its deeper than entertainment for some people. If it doesn't matter to you that's cool. Me personally I take it as a slap in the face. Yet again african culture is being exploited for millions of dollars and white supremacists are the ones who profit. I watched the movie on bootleg and no it wasn't bad because of the CGI and all the money they spent on making thing visually pleasing. What turned me off was that EVERYBODY is white except for one blatantly effeminate and homosexual "african". The message they sent by their choice of casting overpowered the entertainment value for me.
They make the excuse that people don't support black films and that's a lie. The greatest entertainers that the WORLD loves are BLACK. Look how big the NBA is overseas, and thats a black dominate sport. This is nothing more than white supremacy and the fact that they don't want to economically empower black people by giving them jobs and by placing them in positive or powerful roles in which the world would identify more with us.
I was disgusted
Pinyapplesuckas
He's A Good Man
you gotta stop using this name if you gona say shyt like this lol
Bryan Danielson
Jmare007 x Bryan Danielson x JLova = King Ghidorah
Other than this movie allegedly taking place in Egypt..... I don't see how it had a thing to do with "African Culture." The African culture I know doesn't follow or believe in those GODs, I'm gonna go back and check but I kinda feel they were made up GODs. Egypt was almost a backdrop since a lot of the scenes were in other realms or tight quarters in a room. Nothing about this movie felt "stolen" from me
I mean I get it..... But we gonna play this game and get mad at the lack of diversity and open that door does this mean it's time to open some doors and retroactively shyt on some other movies that had the same problem but no one seemed to care at all at the time?
Everyone loved Sin City but you trynna tell me since there is only one black guy in that whole movie I should now hate it?
And I don't wanna start name dropping blockbuster after blocker buster or big highly acclaimed movie but is this what we really doing now?
I mean I get it..... But we gonna play this game and get mad at the lack of diversity and open that door does this mean it's time to open some doors and retroactively shyt on some other movies that had the same problem but no one seemed to care at all at the time?
Everyone loved Sin City but you trynna tell me since there is only one black guy in that whole movie I should now hate it?
And I don't wanna start name dropping blockbuster after blocker buster or big highly acclaimed movie but is this what we really doing now?
Bryan Danielson
Jmare007 x Bryan Danielson x JLova = King Ghidorah
Dude.... Since 300...... Dude has not only had a sad string of mediocre to borderline bad movies..... He hasn't really commanded a movie in years.
It's amazes how he's been escaping the same scrutiny Ryan got pre Deadpool for so long.
Let me make this clear again incase you missed it or misunderstand what I said above.
I am by no means saying this is MOVIE OF THE YEAR or one of the top 10 movies that dropped.
But just saying I dont think it was terrible, it was a solid action fantasy flick.... and could name about 5 in the same genre that it was either better then or as good as.
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300, Law Abiding Citizen, Machine Gun Preacher, Olympus Has Fallen >>>>>>>> Gods of Egypt
