Posted on 06/04/2013 10:14:10 AM PDT by avalonmistmoon
Sounds familiar, go to the IMDb "After Earth" message board. It is like a war room. It is hilarious! Even Obama is brought into the fray comparing the same situation that if you don't like Obama or his policies you're a racist.
Be prepared some comments are not pretty!
Here is the comment
“Many people ( Bloggers as opposed to ACTUAL trained critics and the sheeple that suck the teat of places like rotten tomatoes) want to quickly point blame at M. Night but many of “us” know the real reason this movie is getting down rated so fast...
the majority of Audiences are NOT comfortable with the image of a STRONG caring Black father and a son who loves and respects him...
(many are comfortable with quite the opposite...i.e. Scandal being one of the highest rated shows on Tv right now... However, the majority of black characters on that show AND Grey’s Anatomy have F’ed up relations towards each other and the people around them, which reflects poorly on them)
Also many of these negative reviews allude to NOT being comfortable with the deviation of Will Smith from the “shucking and jiving” sterotypical black characters he usually plays,
( hitch,agent J, Mike in bad boys, Hancock, the fresh prince, even the main character in I am legend wasn’t as well spoken as this character in after earth)...although the character is acted well for its context.
Lastly Like many of M.Night’s movies have some sort of messages with them...
(Devil was a strange take on human nature, the happening was about the environment as this movie is also about the environment,as well as a parable and comming of age tale)
Just like how so many irrationally cannot take orders from out president and hide behind crap like “benghazi” and “Obama care” the same situation is unfolding... people CANNOT Take seeing black men have themselves together and TEACHING other people a lesson.
so old white reviewers hide behind arguments of plotholes and dialogue to mask what REALLY made them uncomfortable... Hollywood is slowly ( VERY slowly ) changing its sterotypes because, powerful people like Will Smith are FORCING change.”
If one watches current media one would think America’s population is composed of blacks.
I’m actually looking forward to seeing it.
I refuse to comment about the movie, not because I’m worried about possibly racism, but because it’s a Scientology project and those guys are very touchy. (Please, no dead fish in my mailbox.)
never heard of it. probably a good thing.
Maybe the movie just sucks?
Some Euro friends were very surprised to learn that blacks are only about 13% of the general population in the US. They thought it was 50/50 just from watching American TV and enterttainment......
I’ve met people in Russia that believe that blacks do make up the majority of the US population because of what they see on television. They believe that the US is like apartheid South Africa.
The movie has also been seen as a paen to the cult of Scientology and, on that basis alone, I won’t be watching it even if it’s free.
yep
KT8 bump!
If you want to see the “R” word flung around faster than John Kerry at a backstabbing, go to Huffington post. That site cracks me up everytime with all the leftists they got. If you post anything degrading or insulting to “The Dear Leader Obama” you will almost always get a reply calling you a racist. I did it the other day commenting on the IRS saying Obama probably was involved, and sure enough I got back a reply: “Careful your racism is showing” LOL!
Wow. Very telling. Since when do citizens who are not members of the military "take orders" from a President, no matter the color?
am not going to see a scientology front prop piece.
i’d love itin rral life if every black cild had a loving black dad. we’d have a ton less feral blacks to worry about if this were true, and stable black families able to support themselves.
How about this one? An racist version of "That's racist" lol!
Back in the sixties, the propaganda arm of the Soviet Union did a television documentary on the treatment of blacks in America, but what Soviet citizens saw in it was not racism as much as prosperous blacks who had their own cars, houses, washing machines and so forth!
Talk about a hilarious backfire!
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