Times are hard because I decided to check out All About Nina on Netflix because Common is on the poster and the netflix trailer features Common's first scene in the movie. Not that I am a fan of Common the Actor, but I was intrigued to see more of that scene and how this relationship played out.

Me and all the Rotten Tomato reviewers who gave the film an 86% approval must have been watching two different movies because I hated the movie so much. I just really really didn't find the lead character, Nina, to be that funny (which is a problem for a Comedy about a comedian) and worst of all, I did not like her as a person. I really may have blancofemophobia because I just found her to be toxic, self-absorbed and not that sympathetic (until of course they dropped the bombshell late that forced you to be sympathetic to her).

Anyway all that would be fine for another type of movie (one I'd probably not watch off rip) but they cast Common as the romantic lead and the whole time I am watching I am just wanting dude to get as far away from her as possible. I kept wonder why Common's character would want to deal with such a trainwreck.

Anyway, this is the second movie I've seen with Common playing a love interest to a white woman with problems (the Tale 2018) and it's a shame to see a brother who appears to have his ish together looking goofy like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dimXyIEbplM

Soon after that they have a scene with Common eating the butt from behind and I can't help but think Ava Duverny wouldn't have done Common that way. These white women directors got Common out here looking crazy.

Anyway, I need some more people to spite watch this movie so I will have some other people to trash it with.





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Nigga out here eating butt for free in the real world.

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mans was hitting Laura Dern ffs. he loves his milk.

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First its stop doing windmills and now stop eating butts? He can't win.

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

A LOT
And if I did say that I take it all the way back. Man should keep doing what makes him happy, except this show and those "AI" commercials.

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Bet its a Netflix original.

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"...Whateva, man..." (c) Redman

you shoulda time stamped the butt eating tho. I gotta sit thru all this dry ass dialogue lol

IG: amadu_me

"...Whateva, man..." (c) Redman

That’s a sun sign that has a superior love for the woman’s body. They’re the type to want to “lay up unda yo booty allll day long.”

See: https://youtu.be/zImCJAIu_e0


J/k.

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Not on a first date and not with someone who wasn't special.

Again, Ava Duverny or Ryan Coogler wouldn't have done that to one of my favorite rappers.

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

DON'T have problems? Drugs, alcohol, infidelity involved, something.
Not just with them, but showing love scenes etc.
Especially in say... the last 15 yrs? All time tho, I'm genuinely interested in knowing, because I'm having a hard time thinking of one.
He Got Game
How To Get Away With Murder
Jessica Jones
If she's a decent person, one of them dies (usually very tragically, Empire) or you don't see them being intimate very much at all (Bright, The Arrow). There's always some issue like in Hancock.
The only healthy black/white relationships Hollywood seems to like to show are black women with white men. You get stuff that lasts for seasons and births children a la The Flash. I've yet to see that with a Black man and white woman leading a show on these networks. A lot of these movies and shows don't wanna show black men in successful relationships at all. Alotta times the whole cast is involved with someone except the black guy lol.
/rant

As for this movie tho, I'm probably gonna watch it just to see how bad it is now lol.

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Blonde too
I had to pause to take in what I just saw in fiction.

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*spoilers*

This is just what I'm reading. Apparently she resurrected 3 or 4 times before being killed by some special mofo called the Saint of Killers. I can't find if he shot her in the head again tho. That would be dope.

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It’s a trash CW show but it’s pretty fun. The cast acts the hell out of that garbage ass script they get

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That checks out. Every time I see a BM/WW relationship in a show, I immediately wonder how the relationship is gonna end. Now if, but how.
Interesting he cheated with a black woman too.
I had to google, because I don't see myself sitting through 2 seasons lol. You might be talking about another couple that didn't show up in my googles tho.

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i'm waiting to see what kind of imperfection the show gives her bc all the other adults white/black have had some level of aint shit to them but she's been pristine perfect so far.

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and I immediately thought of this show and was like “yup, he cheated and she kicked him out the house”

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

Pretty sure his role wasn’t written for a black man

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mountain_Between_Us_(film)

+1, Daniels was smashing the da in the wire

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you can't understand it with an explanation

but infidelity was on my list, so I couldn't lol.
It came to mind tho.

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you would see the final descent of a white woman on drugs was when she was having sex with a black man. See Traffic, Requiem for a Dream.

I think there is a certain amount of white woman privilege where a white woman can treat people like shit, lie cheat and steal, and they are still suppose to be regarded as sympathetic characters.

Objectively, there is no reason Common's character should want to be with the white woman character in this movie. Nina just wasn't on Common's level. She was a mean miserable trainwreck and he was a positive brother who had his stuff together.

I think if her love interest was white and just like Common, everyone who see that there is no reason why that character would want to be with this Nina character. I think the filmmakers solved for that issue by making him a black guy.

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"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

>you would see the final descent of a white woman on drugs was
>when she was having sex with a black man. See Traffic,
>Requiem for a Dream.
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>I think there is a certain amount of white woman privilege
>where a white woman can treat people like shit, lie cheat and
>steal, and they are still suppose to be regarded as
>sympathetic characters.


Yep. That's definitely a mirror of real life and how society treats them in general. Been exalted as purveyors of all that is pure by white patriarchy, and that image is to be preserved no matter what. They know it too. #WhiteWomanTears


>Objectively, there is no reason Common's character should want
>to be with the white woman character in this movie. Nina just
>wasn't on Common's level. She was a mean miserable trainwreck
>and he was a positive brother who had his stuff together.
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>I think if her love interest was white and just like Common,
>everyone who see that there is no reason why that character
>would want to be with this Nina character. I think the
>filmmakers solved for that issue by making him a black guy.


Exactly. That concept of choosing a black male for the loser roles is a slick one that I've noticed in cinema. You're praised for casting a black actor, but they're so badly depicted that it's more harmful than helpful.
I mean I've definitely seen brothers (and sisters) who will put up with anything to keep their low level white partner. Internalized white patriarchal view of the white woman as perfect no matter what, and of themselves as unworthy no matter what.
It would've been dope if the movie was actually about that, and his journey to realizing he was suffering from internalized racism. Let me dream!

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I've seen like five scattered episodes so I don't know.

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Kristen Bell's character is a certified piece of shit. Chidi is far from perfect but at least he's a decent human.

i do appreciate the fact that their love is depicted as pure

but there is a message that a smart, well spoken, highly educated and succesful black man is the same as a trashy underachieving white woman.

but, then again, Jason & Tahani or Jason and Janet, so....that idea is kind of out of the wqindow

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...they hardly got any screen time together as a couple.

They had a kid who I think was used as part of a Flash crossover subplot but I don’t even think they showed that kid long enough for it to even be old enough to talk in any scenes

I also thought Diggle and that lady had zero chemistry. Hope Diggle gets a show as Green Lantern tho

Peace,

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two dudes i used to love too

He in this movie too ?

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his twitter presence solidified his herbdom forever


I was just saying they were two dudes I loved when first joining okp

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"If you're not loving someone, you're wasting your time." - Dennis Brown

he does a really good job of it.

I don't really be on twitter, so I miss most of whatever he's doing there.

Y'all buy those labels, I was born supreme

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If he's taking his craft seriously then more power to him I guess.

I still ain't watching that shit.

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...I'm from the era when A.I. was the answer, now they think ai is the answer - Marlon Craft

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Post title does make me chuckle every time I look a the post title list tho still lol.

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and you're right. From the moment he meets her, he seems to be salivating over her. I understand initial attraction and how people can come off way more confident and together that they actually are, so I it could just be that there was something about her... but once he starts to get to know her, you'd think he'd know that her issues aren't something you can love away. Woman needs therapy and soul searching.
He is very well-off. I didn't have much of a problem with their financial differences, because alotta dudes "date down" like that... even in movies. It just didn't add up how dedicated he was to making it work with this particular woman. I know chemistry is chemistry and all, but cmon. At one point, she remarked to her friend that he was "just the right amount of fucked up" but the script didn't really play that out in anything he said or did (aside from choosing the wrong women). He had normal, everyday issues. Not anything that would even register on the issue scale to a person like her lol. Because the script failed to show his issues, I DEFINITELY think him being black was actually one of his unspoken "issues." That's so extremely crucial to this story imo. The only way to make the race angle questionable would've been to have him also drop a huge bomb about how he was abused by a woman in his youth or something. They gotta make pt.2 All About Refe.
It's like I wanted to like the fact that Common is portrayed as the caring gentleman while the white guy is the abusive idiot, but there's the simultaneous message saying "Hey white women, no matter how fucked up you are, you can still get you a REALLY good black man!" So it's hard to like anything here. About the only thing that made it interesting is analyzing it and the minds of the makers. ary Elizabeth Winston is surprisingly good at impressions too... I was impressed. She could be a great standup if she can write or get good writers.

On another note, I know this was supposed to be comedy, but I viewed it more as a tragedy about a comic. I was thinking about how many comedians probably relate to the movie, since it's said that a large part of the comic community is depressed with hella issues.


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When she threw up in the glass and drank it, I know he wasn't around to see it, but goddamn man, this is the kind of woman they got him with. And when she flipped outside the bar, that shoulda been the last straw. I'm all for loving people and being there through their issues, but you can't just jump into an intimate relationship with somebody who was doing all the shit she was doing. I mean, she'd just fucked and vomited on the other comic. This woman is not ready for a relationship lol. But he's black, so it's all good I guess.

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I forgot about your spoiler. Oh hell naw that chick is not wifey material.


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"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

If I see it happen one more time in film of TV soon it's a trend.

If so, is it women showrunner and filmmakers new way of conveying a woman's dominance over a man and/or a man's level of interest in a women??

IDK. But fellas should nip that ish in the bud.


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"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

>If I see it happen one more time in film of TV soon it's a
>trend.
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>If so, is it women showrunner and filmmakers new way of
>conveying a woman's dominance over a man and/or a man's level
>of interest in a women??
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>IDK. But fellas should nip that ish in the bud.

men are putting their mouths everywhere on women (and presumably men)

the goal is stimulating your partner and adults shouldnt be squeamish about sex

>But fellas should nip that ish in the bud.

You mean "butt."

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because some women like it and some men will do it. nothing to nip if folks are into it.

Y'all buy those labels, I was born supreme

i think one of them confessed to getting her butt ate and another one then confessed to eating her mans butt or something like that.

and i think they were discussing it over salads lol.

probably did. fits her character

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The visual:

https://firstwefeast.com/eat/allison-williams-made-her-butt-smell-like-cake-in-preparation-for-that-scene-in-girls

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on a widespread level (no pun).

what sickens me is watching porn and seeing women eat mens butt. cant even get into a scene after that.

i wanna assume its not that prevalent but nothing surprises me anymore.

<--- Big Baller World Order

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_wDx_dildg

And Common is one of my favorite MCs.

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>And Common is one of my favorite MCs.

I was being playful with my post but when exactly did you start listening to him?

I've never listened to his first album after sampling a couple of songs.

Why you ask?

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