Posted on 12/27/2014 5:11:19 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
There will come a point in the next 10 days, after the cabin fever has set in, when the small people you parent, grandparent or otherwise dote on demand to see “Annie.”
You will recall the unfavorable reviews of the newly updated movie musical, or will look them up. You will read of the bad singing and stilted dance numbers. And still you will go, because it’s a children’s holiday after all, and that’s what they want to see.
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Is there something particularly enthralling about this remake, or is it just the novelty of a black Annie?
Harold Gray (who created the Annie comic strip) was against the New Deal and Socialism. His creation has been perverted.
It’s a black Annie set in the modern day with hip hop and new tropes.
Should have named it, “Anniequa.”
Good one!
I’m waiting on a true to life Hollywood biography of Louis Farrakhan....played, of course, by Tom Cruise.
Placentaannie!
“You will read of the bad singing and stilted dance numbers. And still you will go, because it’s a children’s holiday after all, and that’s what they want to see”
No. No I won’t. Just the ads were enough to make me shudder. Bad acting + bad dancing does NOT = entertainment.
I was momentarily concerned that my white middle class neighbors wouldn't lend me a child to take, so I'd have cover. But, with hip-hop in the script, I'm sure there will be loads of other silver-haired white people, and I'll fit right in!
P Dady Warbucks will fix it!
Or a bio of Martin Luther King, with Seth Rogen in the title role.
No white guilt here. Without ole whitey, most the other folks in this nation would be living in houses made of mud or sticks. They wouldn’t have phones. They wouldn’t have A/C. They wouldn’t have TV. They wouldn’t have the Internet to read this post.
They should thank God for whitey every day.
If applied to folks on welfare, the message makes sense.
How come they didn’t name this “Black Annie”. The renamed the black “Wizard of OZ, “The Wiz”.
I had a visiting older sister who insisted on seeing this particular film. I couldn’t talk her out of it. I had to remove all thoughts about Jamie Foxx’s racist remarks on SNL and other shows. I tried to keep my mind open, my mouth shut. Although that became difficult when Jamie’s character ‘accidentally’ spit food into a homeless mans’face, a homeless man who just so happened to be white. I let it go for the moment.
The movie was not as bad as I had expected. The girl who plays Annie is very at ease in her character, and allowed me to think for a minute what growing up as an unclaimed orphan might be like. I come from a very close family. I could think of nothing worse than having no traceable past. There was a part where this Annie would go to a restaurant every Friday, with an old handwritten note clutched in her hand from her Mother. Annie would sit on the curb and wait for her mom or dad to appear as they used to on Friday evening. They never did show up. By nightfall, the sympathetic headwaiter would bring Annie some Cannoli in a small paper box, as she sat on the curb, saying “It’s Okay, I knew they weren’t coming this week, maybe next week”.
Some parts of the movie reminded me of Westside Story, with the girls sitting around indoors, daydreaming, comparing hardships and dancing away the boredom.
I was thankful that the movie did not have the real Crack House Type Rap Music, that I dislike, the type thick with profanities, violent imagery and thundering bass . That they avoided, thank goodness! Most the songs were melodious and somewhat basic written as duets.
The movie was perhaps about 35 minutes too long. Cameron Diaz is miscast as Miss Hannigan, because even as a foul mouthed drunk, she is still charming, graceful and sexy.
They should have chosen somebody easier to accept as wicked, somebody like Glenn Close, or Melissa McCarthy, who is really good at playing the fat mean bully. You should see Melissa play the angry Basketball Coach, hysterical, and a natural clown!!
they just assume others didn’t work for their stuff.
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