85400, i liked it a lot at the time.
Posted by come on people, Thu Jan-27-11 12:41 PM
when i watched it again last year, it was awful.
>I remember coming out of the theater and mentally drawing a
>line in the sand that I would no longer support or praise
>Black films simply for the sheer virtue of being "positive"
>or "different."
i *think* it came out after the first trickle of those extremely bourgie, annoying black romantic comedies that followed in the wake of "love jones." i think people liked it, in a way, as a backlash against those comedies where all the 20something black people were lawyers/doctors/journos with incredible lives, that came across as somewhat inauthentic.
>(As Chris Rock said: "Just because nobody smoked crack in the
>movie don't mean it was good!")
>
>It just felt half-formed and smug to me... I was so frustrated
>because everybody was digging the hell out of it and I just
>could not get it no matter how I tried.
well, the main character WAS smug. i think that was kind of the point of his character. why do you say half-formed, though?
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