"MA" (Trailer) Featuring Octavia Spencer

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if this is a hit Tariq gonna have a field day calling her a negro bedwench

I might give more thoughts later but I overall enjoyed it overall. Hated the ending though. The 3rd act especially was good when the movie just goes crazy and picks up. She was a good black villian. Reminded of a certain tv series but i wont spoil it. But its clear if you watch the show that it was probably influenced by it.
 

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One of those movies that I enjoyed while watching but gets worse the more I think about it.

Octavia carries it. Great performance by her, at times she was hilarious (the scene with her and the old lady at the nail shop lol) other times she was creepy. She was also really sympathetic when you find out what happened to her.

But I found her motivation to be inconsistent. They implied at first that she just wanted some friends to make up for being a loner in high school. But then you find out that the whole thing is a revenge plot. But the two don’t really merge together. So she just happened to stumble on the kids of her high school bullies? Would’ve made more sense if she was stalking the kids from the beginning.

Also I know it’s a thriller movie but got damn these kids were stupid. Like the second white girl knows Ma is crazy, sees all those pictures, yet she still went back to her house to party after all that? Lol. It’s like the writers sacrificed the logic of the characters for the plot to move along.

Also, they made it seem like the kid’s father saw Ma for the first time since high school. But haven’t they both lived there for years?

Idk movie seemed like a good 2nd draft of a script but it needed a rewrite. But Octavia was good enough to elevate mediocre material.

I also like how they made the racial aspect subtle, especially with her being such an outcast as a teenager. The only blatant part was her telling the black dude “there can only be one of us” at the end.
 

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One of those movies that I enjoyed while watching but gets worse the more I think about it.

Octavia carries it. Great performance by her, at times she was hilarious (the scene with her and the old lady at the nail shop lol) other times she was creepy. She was also really sympathetic when you find out what happened to her.

But I found her motivation to be inconsistent. They implied at first that she just wanted some friends to make up for being a loner in high school. But then you find out that the whole thing is a revenge plot. But the two don’t really merge together. So she just happened to stumble on the kids of her high school bullies? Would’ve made more sense if she was stalking the kids from the beginning.

Also I know it’s a thriller movie but got damn these kids were stupid. Like the second white girl knows Ma is crazy, sees all those pictures, yet she still went back to her house to party after all that? Lol. It’s like the writers sacrificed the logic of the characters for the plot to move along.

Also, they made it seem like the kid’s father saw Ma for the first time since high school. But haven’t they both lived there for years?

Idk movie seemed like a good 2nd draft of a script but it needed a rewrite. But Octavia was good enough to elevate mediocre material.

I also like how they made the racial aspect subtle, especially with her being such an outcast as a teenager. The only blatant part was her telling the black dude “there can only be one of us” at the end.

It's a small town. She didn't decide to help them until after she saw the name on the truck. From there, she social media stalked them.

They're kids. Of course they're gonna go places they said they would never go again...even in the face of imminent danger. They're also gonna argue/fight/call each other names then be best friends the following week. That's how most kids act. It's definitely horror movie logic.

I think they've seen each other, but just never had a reason to actually speak until they knew that they saw each other.

I liked it. It was highly entertaining, and very tense. The underlying emotional themes drove the movie, especially Juliette Lewis' character.
 
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