Okay, but black people are bitching about The Blind Side, too. So WTF do black people WANT, exactly, and why should anybody in Hollywood listen to us?
I dunno. I'd like to see movies where we're just living lives rather than lives of degradation and occasional uplift.
DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS
HANCOCK
BOOMERANG
TAKING OF PELHAM 123
It makes me ill how the sort of "uplifting" movies that the Academy (and America) seems to really love are those showing us in the most foul or needy aspect.
I don't write that sh*t and I'm damned sure not going to support it with cash.
f*ck MONSTER'S BALL, f*ck PRECIOUS, f*ck THE BLIND SIDE.
We have billions of better stories than those to tell and yet, over and over, it's the same crap that garners "mass appeal."
To paraphrase Detective Murtaugh, "I'm getting too old for this sh*t."