Just saw Selma

[mastermind]

Brehs


What a movie. Shot beautifully. Technically amazing. I been on this Keaten movement with Birdman, but Oyelowo may got him for best actor. :wowjb:

Carmen Ejogo was great as Coretta Scott King too. She wont get the praise she deserves, but that scene when she confronts Martin on his cheating. :wowjb:

#naijaexcellence

That first walk across Selma.

4.5/5

 

[NoMorePie]

Thought you were talking about Salma Hayek. Got excited to see some pics.

Oh well..

 

[Naijan]

what happeneds in the end?

 

[missyleebunny]

Thanks. Can't wait to see it.

 

[Change]

.......

 

[Mike Otherz]

the reviews for this film are on 12 years a slave level. im just glad we have a new great filmmaker who is black. seems like spike was out there by himself fro the longest, and when history is told, spike will be our black films charlie parker figure, who came through for dolo and blazed the crews, but the level of excellence coming through now. steve mcqueen, ava duvurnay.

been a long time coming,

i was skeptical as hell for this film, but when i saw the trailer, and got an ideo of the cinematography, the use of wide angle lens ? everything that makes me wince about biopics left immediately.

 

[Regular_P]

I subscribe to Entertainment Weekly and the last issue was really hyping it as a great movie.

I hope they're right on this but they have some of the worst reviews I've ever seen. Their taste is generally terrible.

 

[beanz]

no those arent really hers. are they?

she just jumped mad spots in my top 10

 

[NobodyReally]

Brehs


What a movie. Shot beautifully. Technically amazing. I been on this Keaten movement with Birdman, but Oyelowo may got him for best actor. :wowjb:

Carmen Ejogo was great as Coretta Scott King too. She wont get the praise she deserves, but that scene when she confronts Martin on his cheating. :wowjb:

#naijaexcellence

That first walk across Selma.

4.5/5

Can't wait! But why only a 4.5? What didn't you like about it?

 

[mastermind]

Can't wait! But why only a 4.5? What didn't you like about it?

im rating it on a Birdman scale.

Also, I really didnt like how it ended. I know the story of Selma, but it felt like that march to Montgomery was rushed.

everything that makes me wince about biopics left immediately.

this is why it was so dope. It was honest.

 

[Mike Otherz]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/25/arts/in-selma-king-is-just-one-of-the-heroes.html?_r=0


nytimes critics pick


a great thing about having a black woman with historical expertise direct a film like this is the color coordination. i feel like in certain black films, light skin dudes will play men that were dark in real life, and light skin women will play woman who were historically dark skinded features. seems the color coordnation is on point as well.

 

[Drew Wonder]

I gotta see this, one review that stood out to me mentioned how great the cinematographer is, specifically the way in which he films black people
http://moviemezzanine.com/afi-fest-review-selma/

While the film doesn’t deify its heroes, cinematographer Bradford Young certainly manages to make them all look extraordinary. From his work on Dee Rees’ Pariah, Andrew Dosunmu’s Mother of George, DuVernay’s Middle of Nowhere, and now this, only one inescapable conclusion can be reached: no D.P. in the history of cinema has shot black people more beautifully than Bradford Young. As DuVernay put it in the Q&A following the film’s AFI Film Festival premiere, “he loves black skin.” Too many cinematographers in Hollywood wash out their black actors with too much light or muddy the richness of their skin color with not enough light. Not Young.

If you’re skeptical, look at how Oyelowo is lit in some of his Hollywood fare versus how Young lights him in Middle of Nowhere and Selma. Most cinematographers of studio fare wouldn’t even dare try a shot in which dark-skinned actors sit in the shadows of a dark room—they wouldn’t know where to begin. Selma has some of its best scenes at night: whether a crowded jail cell, a car ride, or a late-night phone call to Mahalia Jackson, every image is lush. If you haven’t put Bradford Young on your Mount Rushmore of the best cinematographers working today, you still have time to remedy your mistake.

Pariah was another excellent movie that not many people saw, highly recommend that one

 

[mcellas]

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

i'm really excited to see this flick. I'm not sure anything can top Keaton in birdman though

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

what happeneds in the end?

Spoiler