>this was the first time she looked flat out sexy to me.
I'm thinking it was the role she plays here. She's obviously very pretty, but I'm probably just not very fond of her as a person. She was uncharacteristically attractive to me in this tho.
4. "went on Friday. I liked it. Nice romantic movie" In response to Reply # 0
Without falling into rom-com territory. The chemistry between the 2 main couples felt sincere. I'm a big fan of Lakeith Stanfield and love the range he's been showing in the roles he's had over the past couple of years
love me some lakeith...i'll watch anything he's in
issa is just...sigh...the camera freaking loves her. you can't take your eyes off her.
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"But rest assured, in my luxurious house built on the backs of people darker than me, I am sipping fine scotch and scoffing at how stupid you are." - bshelly
14. "Refreshing as a modern Black love story..." In response to Reply # 0
because it seems we just don't see it much anymore on the big screen. The days of "Best Man", "Love & Basketball", "Love Jones", "Brown Sugar" etc have all but gone.
However, I was hoping there would be some deeper tie-in to the photo... some deeper connection of their stories. It was a very surface level movie imo. Unfortunately, I can only recommend it to people who are hungry for a Black love story. I can't really recommend the movie on it's merit to just anybody as a flat out good movie, because frankly, it's not. I do wish that the refreshment of seeing Black love and happiness wasn't all it had to offer, but it was enjoyable to me. I think I bought it twice. Once for me and once for someone else just to support.
19. "Good, not great. Definitely worth the watch (spoilers)" In response to Reply # 0 Tue Dec-29-20 09:33 AM by bentagain
A couple of criticisms; Never for a minute didn’t think Isaac was her Dad. Literally just waiting for the reveal...which was very late in the movie and fell flat, IMO We get some backstory on why Mom didn’t reveal her terminal diagnosis. The mother’s distance and unavailability are rationalized as learned behavior from her mother. The climax of the story is Isaa breaking the cycle, left me wondering why her mother didn’t intentionally break the cycle from her mother. A couple of scenes that Isaa was weak as an actor; The sex scene. She was great as a leading lady. She looked bad af. Long way from awkward black girl. The connection with Darius was convincing...until coitus. The look on her face after sex was not ecstasy...it was more like...meh, you aiight... Toward the end of the movie, maybe the final time reading her mom’s letter, I’m in tears...they cut to Isaa on a bed crying...and it just wasn’t convincing.
Great job by Lakeith. He’ll forever be Darius to me, but he did a great job separating Mike’s character from the Darius role.
+1, Lil’ Rel as the brother in NYC...c’mon son...I know he’s getting a lot of placement, but that role could have been better than Lil Rel doing Lil Rel
Really enjoyed the movie. Happy for Darius and Isaa getting leading roles in a big budget studio modern black love story. Really had a lot of correlations to my real life. Good movie.
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Wed Dec-30-20 11:50 AM
30. "was it a fire alarm that woke them up?" In response to Reply # 29
that whole scene confused me.
Its raining like crazy but instead of lighting candles you run out into a storm, almost get hit by a can and then get inside?
The NYC apartment in movies and shows is always on some “aint no damn way they can afford that” steez.
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31. "Lmao at first smash location" In response to Reply # 29
>...assuming that’s Manhattan, more like independently >wealthy... > >Reading through this exchange, I’m confused on her >occupation because I also thought that was her place > >I thought she was just some boss bitch runnin’ thangs > >Wait...so their first smash was in dead mom’s apartment? >Kinda...eww >
But like I typed above, the apt looked like it had a grassy hill leading up to the living room windows, never saw anything like that in NY..... Or did I not see that?
I was confused at the first spot they was at where he picked her up and the Al Green record, I'm guessing that was a lounge part of her office or something but it looked like someone's apartment
And yeah agree with legs, why they left to go to his brother lmao. Why not go to darius' crib?
Anyway movie was aight. Issa was fine and Lakeith is always dope to watch. Although Atlanta > everything (obviously). I lowkey dug Sorry To Bother you tho
def felt like they watched Love Jones between scenes.
music was banging
Issa and Darius tho.. I needed more passion and emotion. All their convos felt robotic to me.
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32. "*sigh* yet another film pulled down by editing " In response to Reply # 0
there was a really good story in the movie but it was overshadowed by the push on the modern love story.
the dual storyline was interesting but I wanted to know more about the mother's life. once she got to NYC they kind of played a "draw the rest of the fucking owl" with the mother going from Move to NYC to world renowned arteest
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