Movies with BM/WW Couples

It was shown on a production monitor. Jamie Foxx was a sports personality or weatherman or some shit.

 

How long was the kiss?

 

The Brothers. I like the moniker "Buffy, The Negro Slayer."

 

I saw the film 100 Streets. It was very interesting, intense, poignant and in a lot of ways, uplifting. Idris Elba was at his best. Gemma Arterton was great as Elba's estranged wife. The other stories look like the cab driver and the poetic drug dealer who gets a break are interesting and can compelling.

 

Amber Heard

 

Not sure if this has already been mentioned, but I watched the film Patti Cake$ last night.
The main character is a white girl (Danielle Macdonald) from a downtrodden area of New Jersey.
She's trying to follow her dream of being a rapper whilst struggling to make ends meet and provide for her dysfunctional family.
I loved this film & thought Danielle Macdonald was wonderful. She's seriously funny, as was the writing, and there were comedic moments & emotional ups and downs right through the film.
She's a bigger girl, so her character was contending with issues around that too. She was portrayed in a really realistic and positive way throughout though which was wonderful, and it was so great that she got her man in the end.

I guess overall it was a bit predictable, but a very easy and fun film to watch which left me feeling great.
It was a really heartwarming and positive portrayal of WW/BM relationships too, and I predict Danielle Macdonald will be a superstar.

 

It was nominated for a Spirit Award announced yesterday. Haven't seen it yet.

 

Hope to get that DVD soon.

 

I mentioned that movie in a past thread. It is good.

 

Seen this movie last week and it wasn't as bad as critics say it was, I would describe it as a moderate comedy drama about love and relationships and marriage, kind of fell flat at the end.

On the IR relationship

Spoiler

They are one of those free spirited couples that USED to be in a open relationship. If your looking for IR intimacy between the characters you will be disappointed. They have a very brief sex scene with most of their clothes on, he was topless though. They had one of them non-contact type kisses at the end when he proposed to her where they just embrace and hide their face in each other's face while hugging. The only contact kiss the brotha had was when the documentary filmmaker tried to seduce him and oddly kissed him in a VERY awkward way.

 

Mudbound is a really good movie about two WW2 veterans (one black the other white) who strike up a friendship after returning home to the racist south to work on a farm with their families. There is an IR relationship between the black veteran and a European woman.

The movie is currently available on Netflix.

 

Watched it....messed me up in that one scene if you seen the scene you know what I am talking about.

 

Have not got around to watching this yet.

 

I read that in the book. Pleased they are including it in that flick. It is like a Emmitt Till type of a IR. Hope someone sees it since I don't have Netflix.

 

Are you talking about the way the homeboy soldier was treated or his fate?

 

I remember a subject like that in the flick Hurry Sundown about 50 years ago.

 

The movie was made 50 years ago. I first saw it on tv 34 years ago. A word was censored and finally I found out when I rented it on VHS in the late 80's.

 

Saw the film last Saturday at a "quaint" arthouse movie theater during the one week it was scheduled to run in my area. The Mudbound novel is great for the first 3/4 of the narrative. The last quarter falls apart somewhat and makes me annoyed at both Jamie and his sister-in-law. The movie isn't as good as the book, a solid 7 out of 10. The cinematography is outstanding as is the acting (the hype for Blige makes no sense though). The ending of the movie is in a way more hopeful and upbeat than the novel which director Dee Rees taking a real chance with that conclusion. Rees is a talented African American director who also happens to be a lesbian. I bring this up because I don't think a heterosexual black female director working today would give us such an ending.

 

EH I can see why she went for the more hopeful ending....these are trying times...

 

For the older audience(mainly)

Just Getting Started - Morgan Freeman, Tommy Lee Jones and Rene Russo