Notorious 1 E.Y.E.
Superstar
thought hans zimmer did the score and skate board p did the soundtrack?
Hidden Figures (Official Thread)
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There's nothing wrong with that, especially for someone like me that loves Disney-esque biopics, but that will stop me from considering a great movie..or even one that I can rewatch.
I don't think that should stop it from being "great" though. You can have that tone and still be a great movie. Disney has a whole catalogue filled with them
They did a tag team like they did with spider man and something else. They've been patterning on some joints here and there
NoChillJones
Banned
Movie was solid..well written..gave you depth..inspiration..pride...and honor...excellent fukking movie...the fact it was true make it that much better imo
NoChillJones
Banned
It wasnt breh...
Logmanjames
All Star
So many trolls on the Coli now. That word should be banned along with anyone who uses it.
Facts. Man they're are obsessed with it, they bring it up even when it makes no goddamn sense
Wench right? It's wench? It has to be wench
They do have a whole catalogue of them, in fact they had a biopic the same year as Hidden Figures about an intelligent black woman overcoming classism and racism, and a black man and his wife sacrificing higher pay to be a mentor and teacher to black youth.
Queen of Katwe.
This was a beautiful, funny, light, but complicated and nuanced film at the same time. Like it didn't just focus on the intelligence of the lead character, it focused on how her brilliance made the other characters happy, and proud, and insecure, and fearful, and reluctant to trust the notoriety that came with her being "different" from the rest of them. It was one of the most honest and human things I've seen all year.
Lupita was amazing in her performance of a nuanced, flawed, but genuinely wonderful mother of a prodigy, and should have gotten award buzz. It was a great film- and no one went to see it.
If I were to watch those two films back to back, I would see that both are PG movies, both are light hearted and funny, both are true stories with inspiring endings, both portray black people in positive lights (including black marriage), but Queen of Katwe just felt so much more like a better made film. The characters werent types, they were fully realized, 3 dimensional, brilliant in some ways but flawed in others. Even the lead character was humble at times but arrogant when she displayed her talent, but you understood why because of certain scenes in her past.
In Hidden Figures, all of the characters were just types, and could be transplanted from movies like The Help - the sassy one, the quiet one, the motherly one, the white person that means well, the white person that doesn't mean well. That lack of depth to me is what stops it from being great, not it being light, especially when I have a movie released in the same year to contrast it to.
I'm still hesitant to say anything negative about Hidden Figures because the audience loved the film when I went opening night while I sat in an empty theater for Queen of Katwe. These type of light "racism was fixed with a powerful speech" films with these type of fun, sassy, quippy characters connect with general audiences, of all races and age types. They can laugh on cue, cry on cue, clap on cue, and leave the theater feeling good. For that I see why it works and hope that it continues to make people laugh and cry and feel good. But it was missing critical elements for me to personally see it as a step above any of the other similarly themed films, give or take a few scenes of performance from the amazing lead actresses.
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I can feel that. I'm just of the mind there's room for both types of storytelling. And not every story needs to be told in the same vein and demands a different voice. I think the depth in this movie comes from the acting really. The looks, the body language, the things left unsaid.
Mortal1
Superstar
Black excellence the story and the acting 
We need more stories like this told about our people to think this story was larger unknown before the movie came out.
We need more stories like this told about our people to think this story was larger unknown before the movie came out.
Film is pure class
Considering the times, probably one of the most powerful films on black people I've seen in quite some time.
This film really annihilates tons of White supremacy notions on the humble. Had a breh in the theater
Considering the times, probably one of the most powerful films on black people I've seen in quite some time.
This film really annihilates tons of White supremacy notions on the humble. Had a breh in the theater
Poetical Poltergeist
Precise and cold hearted
Pretty good movie, people were clapping during and after.
