Sorry to Bother You Trailer (Lakeith Stanfield From Atlanta, and Tessa Thompson)
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Mr Hate Coffee
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Saw it today. Very weird movie. Lol. Interested to see other folks comments.
Movie sucked
Sunalmighty
Superstar
Not sure what to think
I think I liked it
Tessa is amazing
Lekieth was good as usual
There were a few plot points that were just forgotten or maybe never gone back to on purpose
Danny Glover and Omar Hardwick just disappear
Walking Dead Glen's arc just stops for no reason
a few older people walked out when the Horse plot kicked in
there's plenty of not so hidden messages in it that I'm sure there will be plenty of thinkpieces written to discuss them
I can see why the critics love it though
cool little movie I guess
I think I liked it
Tessa is amazing
Lekieth was good as usual
There were a few plot points that were just forgotten or maybe never gone back to on purpose
Danny Glover and Omar Hardwick just disappear
Walking Dead Glen's arc just stops for no reason
a few older people walked out when the Horse plot kicked in
there's plenty of not so hidden messages in it that I'm sure there will be plenty of thinkpieces written to discuss them
I can see why the critics love it though
cool little movie I guess
Secure Da Bag
Veteran
Worth a watch for sure.
Pitfalls0117
Invokana Trump
Starts off funny as shyt and then turns into a slightly out there but prescient breakdown of late capitalism.
Definitely worth watching, the theater I saw it in here in DC was majority black and people were laughing loud as hell throughout. Some people will definitely hate it but I thoroughly enjoyed myself
Definitely worth watching, the theater I saw it in here in DC was majority black and people were laughing loud as hell throughout. Some people will definitely hate it but I thoroughly enjoyed myself
He Who Posts Well
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How are y'all seeing this? It's not playing anywhere 
Only seen that made me laugh was when him and his friend were “going at each other” outside in front of the other employees when LaKieth said he would be cheering them from the sides
limited release right now, I think it'll be wider released next weekHow are y'all seeing this? It's not playing anywhere
He Who Posts Well
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just got back...I fukk with it
The Worryfree propaganda reminded me of Robocop, and the I got the shyt kicked out of me show reminded me of Idiocracy
but that second half turn
...seriously didn't expect that...it kinda and kinda doesn't fit into the entire scheme of the flick but it worked
did Tessa have her own white voice when she as performing her art? She sounded british
The Worryfree propaganda reminded me of Robocop, and the I got the shyt kicked out of me show reminded me of Idiocracy
but that second half turn
...seriously didn't expect that...it kinda and kinda doesn't fit into the entire scheme of the flick but it workeddid Tessa have her own white voice when she as performing her art? She sounded british
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FruitOfTheVale
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Saw it today at the embarcadero center after work, Boots was in the building for Q&A and I didn't even know until I saw him walk out of one of the theaters while I was waiting for the show to start. Shook his hand and kept it moving, real talk though bro is one of my idols as an MC so meeting him for the first time out the blue was 
FruitOfTheVale
Superstar
On the movie itself...
As an Oakland nikka seeing the Town on the big screen is always special, that being said why they always do NSO dirty in every Oakland flick? WSO and ESO got all the love this time around, murder dubs & the lower bottoms stand up 
As a film buff though the movie fell apart imo in the second act, every character became a vehicle for satire to the point that the central theme of the movie (dehumanization of the workforce) lowkey played itself. A well paid workhorse is still a workhorse at the end of the day and Cassius ironically has no more power within the call center as a "power caller" to influence the company to provide equitable wages and benefits than he did as a lower level employee. To put it another way, the movie doesn't really ask nor answer what "power" Cassius actually gained from his promotion. The only scene that spoke to this at all was when Cassius gave his uncle the money to pay off his house.
Cassius's power with or without the money is that he's able to convince nearly anyone into buying into anything he wants to sell them on. Why then does he never try to use his power outside of his job for non commercial purposes? When he frantically (and incoherently) pitched the horse mutation story to the journalist on the phone, I couldn't help but wonder what happened to his "white voice" and more importantly his ability to sell what he wanted to sell. He conveniently lost his gift of gab when it was inconvenient for the plot. The movie instead opted to make a hamfisted point about the moral bankruptcy of the media when at the end of the day he failed to sell the story to the journalist.
i enjoyed the surrealism of the movie but the main character's arc turned out to be little more than a plot device for the movie's anti capitalist messages. The movie's story wasn't true to the character's story enough for me to buy into it. His insecurity about his lack of status and lack of a "calling" progresses into him finding a job he's actually talented at but his talent becomes an afterthought in the movie which instead veers entirely into soapbox territory. His talent was being misused for exploitative purposes but when he becomes more self aware the film neglects to imagine a more positive and constructive use of his specific talents.
WSO and ESO got all the love this time around, murder dubs & the lower bottoms stand up As a film buff though the movie fell apart imo in the second act, every character became a vehicle for satire to the point that the central theme of the movie (dehumanization of the workforce) lowkey played itself. A well paid workhorse is still a workhorse at the end of the day and Cassius ironically has no more power within the call center as a "power caller" to influence the company to provide equitable wages and benefits than he did as a lower level employee. To put it another way, the movie doesn't really ask nor answer what "power" Cassius actually gained from his promotion. The only scene that spoke to this at all was when Cassius gave his uncle the money to pay off his house.
Cassius's power with or without the money is that he's able to convince nearly anyone into buying into anything he wants to sell them on. Why then does he never try to use his power outside of his job for non commercial purposes? When he frantically (and incoherently) pitched the horse mutation story to the journalist on the phone, I couldn't help but wonder what happened to his "white voice" and more importantly his ability to sell what he wanted to sell. He conveniently lost his gift of gab when it was inconvenient for the plot. The movie instead opted to make a hamfisted point about the moral bankruptcy of the media when at the end of the day he failed to sell the story to the journalist.
i enjoyed the surrealism of the movie but the main character's arc turned out to be little more than a plot device for the movie's anti capitalist messages. The movie's story wasn't true to the character's story enough for me to buy into it. His insecurity about his lack of status and lack of a "calling" progresses into him finding a job he's actually talented at but his talent becomes an afterthought in the movie which instead veers entirely into soapbox territory. His talent was being misused for exploitative purposes but when he becomes more self aware the film neglects to imagine a more positive and constructive use of his specific talents.