Feel good flick with charming performances
Green Book - (Mahershala Ali & Viggo Mortensen/Trailer)
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TheGodling
Los Ingobernables de Sala de Cine
Just saw this tweet in the OP:
Just out of GREEN BOOK at TIFF—standing-O at start of credits turned into massive/prolonged standing-O when talent came on stage. This is a populist contender—Viggo/Mahershala in the mix, maybe more. A relative of THE BLIND SIDE, TRUE GRIT, THE HELP, AMERICAN HUSTLE & MONEYBALL.
Half of those films are
so that explains about everything.
daemonova
hit it, & I didn't go Erykah Badu crazy, #yallmad
Just saw this tweet in the OP:
Just out of GREEN BOOK at TIFF—standing-O at start of credits turned into massive/prolonged standing-O when talent came on stage. This is a populist contender—Viggo/Mahershala in the mix, maybe more. A relative of THE BLIND SIDE, TRUE GRIT, THE HELP, AMERICAN HUSTLE & MONEYBALL.
Half of those films are
That's an odd list of films to compare it to. True Grit and Moneyball are populist films? Wut?
i had no interest in this movie...my lady wanted to see it..it was really good...but it def had some themes that i wasnt crazy about though
I think most of my enjoyment of the movie came from Mahershala Ali's performance. Viggo was cool too but Mahershala rawdogged this one. Outside of that, it was just another movie about Civil Rights-era racism
he really killed this role..dude is a beast of an actor
Figaro
Superstar
Nah fukk that...i want this to clean up the oscars 
Nah fukk that...i want this to clean up the oscars
Why?
Awards season is about to make me fukking hate this movie lol
Piff Huxtable
Delaney 2020,2024,2028...
other than Denzel and Cuba every black oscar winner has one of the following things:
- fakkitry
- Slavery
- Being the "Help"
- being the "Magic Negro"
- being disparaged by white people
- being "saved" by white people
fukk Hollywood
- fakkitry
- Slavery
- Being the "Help"
- being the "Magic Negro"
- being disparaged by white people
- being "saved" by white people
fukk Hollywood
I knew him first from House of Cards
TheGodling
Los Ingobernables de Sala de Cine
This was much better than the trailer let on. Yes, if all the shyt about them exaggerating Shirley's estrangement from black culture is true, they did him somewhat wrong, but I don't think he was that misrepresented. He was shown to be a proud man who was caught between cultures but felt strongly about putting himself out of his comfort zone to try and enact change.
Either way, the movie as it is works, regardless of how true or not true to the facts it is. Farrelly got a good balance between the comedy and the drama and Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali got great chemistry. Both did amazing jobs with their roles.
Either way, the movie as it is works, regardless of how true or not true to the facts it is. Farrelly got a good balance between the comedy and the drama and Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali got great chemistry. Both did amazing jobs with their roles.
So, I saw this a couple months back, and I'm still not entirely sure I liked it.
Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortenson were great in their roles.
Even though it was likely exaggerated, I felt for Dr. Shirley's sense of isolation. To this day, people still get clowned for not being "black enough" by some people's standards, and not white enough to go full uncle tom.
The part that really fukked me up was that they basically explained away racism by having a black man essentially force fed fried chicken by a white man because he swears all black people love fried chicken, and then LIKE it.
There were a million different ways this could've played out. Even a simple "C'mon, man. Everybody likes fried chicken. Because it's fukking fried chicken. That shyt's good!" would've been better than what they left in the movie.
Also, I get that the point is that the two became legit friends, and as a result, it changed Lip's views on race, but they were missing that one (albeit, cliche) scene where it all hits him, or he just voices his realization of how fukked up it was for black people in that day. The closest we got was them flexing on the country club manager at the end, which was more a realization on Dr Shirley's part that you don't have to sacrifice your pride and dignity in order to foster progress.
Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortenson were great in their roles.
Even though it was likely exaggerated, I felt for Dr. Shirley's sense of isolation. To this day, people still get clowned for not being "black enough" by some people's standards, and not white enough to go full uncle tom.
The part that really fukked me up was that they basically explained away racism by having a black man essentially force fed fried chicken by a white man because he swears all black people love fried chicken, and then LIKE it.
There were a million different ways this could've played out. Even a simple "C'mon, man. Everybody likes fried chicken. Because it's fukking fried chicken. That shyt's good!" would've been better than what they left in the movie.
Also, I get that the point is that the two became legit friends, and as a result, it changed Lip's views on race, but they were missing that one (albeit, cliche) scene where it all hits him, or he just voices his realization of how fukked up it was for black people in that day. The closest we got was them flexing on the country club manager at the end, which was more a realization on Dr Shirley's part that you don't have to sacrifice your pride and dignity in order to foster progress.