>Don't get what? His writing is awful. His story telling is
>cliched and formulaic. He's preachy and overly melodramatic.
>None of that is about black & white.

Okay, his writing IS bad. Agreed. But isn't melodrama his whole schtick. I don't mind the melodrama at all. And the race comment was referring to what critics assume about many black films. Critics do have a very slight disconnect with these films but not nearly as much as a lot of black people force themselves to believe. But the same could be said about horror movies.


>Talk about lowered expectations. A screenwriter who can't
>write dialogue is a bad screenwriter. Period.

My expectations aren't the same for every movie. If I go to see a Tyler Perry movie, I'm not expecting the same things I'm expecting from someone like Scorsese.

>>Perry still manages to tell a
>>story from beginning to end.
>
>So can a 12-year-old.

Like I said, the story was told and I was satisfied. I wasn't looking for some epic drama.

>I never said it did. But it does have to be well-written and
>at least mildly original.
>
>>And as far as expecting more, do you even to relate to
>>anything found in Tyler Perry's plays or films? That may be
>>the problem right there. Maybe I relate because I'm from
>the
>>South...I don't know.
>
>I was born and raised in North Carolina. I don't relate to his
>characters because they are paint-by-numbers, cardboard
>cut-outs of real people. That's bad movie making, and I
>don't like it.

I live in NC too and I do see some of those people around. I do know people like some of those characters. If Daddy's Little Girls didn't communicate anything at all then I'd say it's bad moviemaking. As is, DLG is ultimately ordinary. But it's not bad.


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