Movies with BM/WW Couples

I cannot say I love the new Apple+ interface they adopted two years ago. I rather enjoyed it when you could go into Apple iTunes for movies and the categories seemed deeper and stronger. Like for Horror they did a great job of following your viewing preferences and acquiring the IR elements that I would rent. Now I don't hardly use it because it's not as user friendly as it was when I got it.

Do you find it as receptive as it was years several years ago? If you have certain preferences @ColiBreh1 does Apple iTunes do as good at providing those specific movies you like? It was just behind TUBI in my opinion and far better than Prime Video which is good when it wants to be . . . but just doesn't try as hard as it could compared to TUBI which is fucking free lol

In 2022 it was 1. TUBI 2. Apple iTunes 3. Prime Video as far as the thumbs up or thumbs down algorithm for tailoring to your tastes. Netflix never did give a damn because it is too BIG to really care.

 

I never saw the point of using the Apple TV app though I tried it a few times on Amazon fire stick and the SONY OLED. It is lacking the full functionality of the Apple + streaming box.

 

Just got back from the theater and it was jan packed at the Cherry Hill Lowes AMC 24. I wasn't blown away by it but it was more than just okay. This might have been better as an HBO series than a standalone movie so as to allow for more characters development and background in my opinion. There were parts that felt forced and would have been better if it was developed gradually especially Haillee Steinfield's character "Mary". She would have been more impactful iif this were a cable series and we could gradually build her background and character up with some plot-integrated flashbacks. Good job by Ryan Coogler though and I am happy that I supported this artistic effort.

 

Yes, there were elements here and there that felt a bit crammed-in, but overall I was surprised at how well the maelstrom of genres, pace changes, and allegories held together - they damn near made a musical horror film, which is an incredible feat in itself. What Sinners did well, in my estimation, it did exceedingly well and the on-the-nose bits were flourishes you’ll get in auteur driven work. I hard disagree on shifting the format to series. Sinners is a beautifully photographed film.

 

My preference for series over movies might be showing here. Imagine if Mary (Haillie Steinfield's character) was introduced slowly as an octoroon passing in Clarksville, MS traveling to her mother's funeral with her loving but obtuse White husband and family from Little Rock, AR. There are some subtle glances in town between the lead characters but for the most part she plays it coy as her husband takes the lead as a Alpha male dominant bread winner and provider for her and their children while she acts the Southern Lady (all deferential and demure). However via plot-plausible flashbacks when get a window into her past and particularly her past with Smoke & Stack as they were partially raised by her beloved belated mother who is played effortlessly by Troian Bellesario or Rebecca Hall.

Then we get another episode with more flashbacks about the Smoke and Stack twins (Michael B Jordan's characters) doing dirt in Chicago during Prohibition as runners and collectors for the Capone crime syndicate and how they gradually rise up through the ranks.

There could be an early episode where we learn much more about the Delta Chinese American experience and how it was intertwined with the Mississippi Delta merchant class and the fallen glory of the Knights of the White Camelia. Then episode three things pops off with substantial investment paying dividends for the Vampire Southern Gothic undertones of the first episodes. That's how I project that HBO or Showtime would do "Sinners" (probably as a MAX original because it's a Warner Brothers IP and they could give Ryan Coogler and Micheal B Jordan the $90 million they want for an eight episode series right?!?

 

No doubt. Your pitch is compelling—in fact, I might have too easily dismissed it. That 90 million would get diluted stretched across eight episodes and I really enjoyed the production design and photography, which would get thinned out to keep to scale. Also, compression is an important part of film. Part of the greatness of a film like Casablanca is the poetics of withholding - Rick is the lead/lover but also a mystery. The exact details of Rick/Ilsa’s backstory is depicted symbolically—that’s my thing. Mary and Stack have that kind of mystery to me, their scenes are loaded with subtext and weight. But I see the strength in telling a long-form, interracial Gone With The Wind with vampires too. I’d def watch that

 

The Daughter: I, A Woman part iii(1970)

One of the early sexploitation films of the era.





In 1970 Copenhagen, a young woman is torn between her feelings for an ambitious, young African American doctor and his uninhibited go-go dancer sister.

 

Umjolo Day One(2024) South Africa






Zanele and Andile have been best friends since day one. But now that Andile is married with kids, is Zanele destined to be in the friend zone forever?

here’s a scene


you get the dynamic involved

 

I found this a couple years ago on TUBI and I was surprised how good it was. Very comprehensive and layered with compelling love scenes. I highly recommend it as way before it's time (1970). It takes place in Europe so the sociopolitical barriers are going to be different from what you know here in America but some familiar racial discrimination elements arise of course.

 

I loved what Coogler was able to do with bringing the Horror element back to vampire flicks. He did while also keeping the vampire's sexy appeal and seduction powers as
presented with Mary. Nosferatu was also able to do the same thing. The horror element has been missing from Vampire flicks for a LONG time.

 

Never heard of this, looks really interesting.

 

It's Netflix . . . be cynical

 

Oh yeah looked up the ending and uh...nobody on here should waste their time with this film lol

Spoiler

Just a fantasy for a black woman to see a black man choose her over his white wife and two kids, even worse it's suggested that the white wife is inferior because she never gave him male sons. TRASH!

 

I have been trying to tell people for Y-E-A-R-S about the Netflix business model.

I pay for Netflix a few months a year and then I turn it the fuck off lol.

I ride with Prime Video, MAX and Paramount+ with Showtime and that's all I pay for. With TUBI and FreeVee and now PLEX there's enough free material to enjoy that you can hardly watch every in the time you have free.

 

It’s not really the end the movie is actually part of a series. This is one of the four parts of season one. Season two is supposed to be filming later this year and coming out next year.

You’re looking at it through the American eye lens. It’s a South African film. Look at it from the perspective of African society. Black man in a black country in a highly patriarchal society. Marries a white woman and has no sons. Of course the woman is going to be blamed.

 

Yeah but that doesn't mean I have to watch and support it,

Spoiler

the movie clearly wants him to be with the black woman and is saying it's more "noble" and proper. Who gives a shit about what South African culture is? We gotta stop letting them say this about black men and white women that their unions are inherently unnatural and even evil. Unless this series ends with him going back to the white women why watch it?

Yeah after Stranger Things ends I'm cutting off my subscription I watch Tubi, HBO and Hulu more than I watch Netflix at this point. Sure Bridgerton is solid but I can just watch that at my neighbors house when it comes out.

 

I just Pirate Personally. Use to just use it for Anime cause you kinda had to.

 

I'm watching "My Life is Yours" on Tubi right now. This film is so low budget, I'd be fair to describe it as an "Amateur-shot film". This film makes makes all those Lifetime/Hallmark channel-type romcom films that have been mentioned in this thread, seem like big budget theatrical films. The audio is mixed horribly.

Y'all know how I always complain when the black male co-lead in films mentioned in thread doesn't have leading man looks? This film is the worst offender of this. The black male lead is a washed Unc with a beer belly & bald head. Despite that multiple attractive female characters seem to be into him.

 

You are right . . . it's not a great recommendation but it qualifies so I put it out there lol. I never did finish it myself

Try "Black Shampoo" because that's a better movie I have finished. Surprisingly so was "Angel in a Red" and both are available for streaming on TUBI.

 

I just reviewed the clip for 'My Life For Yours' and I agree with what was said above. It looks like a director-financed project done by a small local ensemble. I like to support independent and small company films, so I'll probably give it a viewing to do my part. I have buddies who do small film projects in and around South Florida, so I'm sort of sympathetic to the cause.