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Topic subjectYou can't be this obtuse. You just can't be.
Topic URLhttp://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=23&topic_id=108199&mesg_id=108298
108298, You can't be this obtuse. You just can't be.
Posted by bignick, Mon Jan-23-12 10:45 PM
>See, that's where we differ. You consider a movie starring
>Tariq Trotter, Anthony Mackie, Kerry Washington, & Wendell
>Pierce, with the music done by THE ROOTS, a "small movie"
>deserving of being ignored ON THIS SITE.

I'll say it again, until you stop pretending otherwise. It wasn't ignored. There was a post about it. People talked about it a bit. The end. The rest is just you making shit up. And it's not that I considered it a small movie. It was a small movie. It didn't have huge names. It didn't have a big budget. It didn't get a wide release. According to Box Office Mojo, the movie was shown in 9 theaters. That makes it a small movie. That's not a value or quality judgement. That's just a statement of fact.

>I wasn't mocked. You tried to talk shit because I called ya'll
>out on the fact that the movie didn't get an anchor, or any
>love from the mods on THIS board. Mods anchor all kinds of
>garbage on here before it even comes out. But a good movie
>like Night Catches Us with the level of The Roots involvement
>and its stellar cast gets ignored on their own website
>because you say its a "small movie", WTF??

No, you were mocked. Mods anchor posts for bigger movies because, if they don't, there will be 8 posts floating around the board. You wanna take issue with that, fine. Go talk to a fucking mod about it.

>Once again, there you go with that "tiny" crap. The cast alone
>dispels this from being a "small movie". Again...WTF is a
>small movie??

This was. This was a tiny movie.

>It was a great piece of work.

I never said it wasn't.

>They worked hard

I never said they didn't.

>and the movie was good. Everyone i recommended it to, liked
>the movie. Yes. I rode for the movie, but it wasn't a
>"fixation". I ride for stuff i think deserve its credit and
>props.

And that's great. But don't get pissy because people on a message board didn't get excited about it as you did.

>This mentality explains why Lucas had so much trouble
>getting Red Tails distributed. Your mentality hurts the people
>with a dream, who make great work, but because they're not
>"Hollywood" enough don't qualify for any shine.

Now you're just making a bullshit race-baiting leap of stupidity. I know what it's like to bust my ass on a project that hardly anyone ever sees. I've paid good money to see plenty of independent movies, and recommended them to people on this site. I'm not going to lose any sleep because a post about a small movie went wood on PTP. It happens all the time. Grow up.


>But damn, i
>thought THIS SITE would give Tariq and the guys proper love
>for their work they put into the movie on THEIR OWN SITE. If
>that's "dumb" then call me dumb.

Based on this logic, there would be a post about Fallon once a week. Everyone who actually participates in PTP outside of racial cheerleading knows that this board is what it wants to be. If a spirited discussion springs up around a movie, so be it. If not, so be it. If you can't or won't understand that, tough one.