Tom Cruise is going to be starring in Mission Impossible movies for 200 years after his death. His estate is going to single-handedly keep Scientology afloat.

Double Indemnity. The Night of the Hunter. Pulp Fiction. Vertigo. L.A. Confidential.

the thing that bugged me was that julia louis drefuss' character may have been obnoxious- but it wasn't on purpose. eddie murphy's character was purposely being a racist asshole- he deserved the dressing down he got at the ultimately cancelled wedding by the groom, but her character really didn't deserve the same type of vitriol. i'm not saying she was in the right, just that her "transgressions" weren't on purpose, and she was actually trying to be nice. eddie murphy wasn't.

in the setting of the movie (Los Angeles) it is not a subject of social debate. Are there some people there against it? For sure. But it's not a subject of social debate. If you sit at a table with 10 average people from the city, odds are that you won't have much agreement if you tell them you are against your black daughter marrying a white dude.

Well, when they’re making such great movies how could I not!

I think being familiar with Kenya’s prior work adds context. He uses tongue in cheek comedy that is based on his observations. You don’t have to agree but it’s not like this was written by maniacal white dudes. The guy created Black-ish and is generally regarded as being pretty in touch.

I think you might just be ahead of the game o. This one OP. The next post on my feed was an article making the points you’re making. https://i.imgur.com/ef6LVMm.jpg

Thanks for taking the time to reply to my post, you’ve got some really sound advice, and yeah you’re right it is a huge difference in movie genre comparisons. Didn’t think much of trying to watch Women Talk until I saw the trailer for it and how someone made the comparison of how it’s similar to >!12 Angry Men!< so that really caught my attention.

Well I'm sorry but my older brother has been in a interracial relationship for a while now, my sister has been in a couple and so did I. My friend is currently in one.

Are there some prejudice against these? Of course, you would have to be blind to say that racism doesn't exist anymore.

But it's definitely less an issue than before. My dad I think (from comments he's made) is internally against it, even though he himself had relations with different ethnicities.

Also, my comment was about how the current social climate is better than ever for interacial relationship and how it's fucking cringy that the first thing you say to someone dating a black girl is "iN thIs sOciAl CliMatE?? HoPe No OnE geTs kIlleD LoL"

Cause it looks mids and no ones watched it

That was all tame compared to eating an entire live rat.

You don't think any of the characters expressed antisemitic views?

That was the "stars the same guy" part

The Losers is a Battlefield: Bad Company film. (Yes, I know it's based on the comic)

Also, ditto for The A-Team movie.

American Yakuza is quite good.

Hmm. I’m drawing a blank.

Well I'm speaking generally in the setting of the movie people don't care. Would you say the most popular opinion in Los Angeles is that interracial marriage is bad, or that being against interracial marriage is bad??

Empire of the Sun, is a great example as it's from the pov of a boy whose both clueless and savvy through the whole of it.

Something can be racial without being racist. Something can portray racism without being racist. If you look at the movie as a whole and think it's racist, I look at you and think you're soft as baby shit and easily triggered.

The type of racism you're seeing portrayed in this movie is casual, day to day microaggressions and bias from not interacting with different demographics and cultures. It's lazy racial observations at the level of a twitter conversation. It's NOTHING like real hardcore historical racism, it's just annoying bourgeois frictions around race and culture that two middle class families would have. It's only a touchy subject because people like you get all triggered and emotional and can't think through mild discomfort.

I'm jewish, my grandparents are buried in a WW2 jewish war veterans cemetery, and their entire family is buried in mass graves in Europe. Kanye's music rules and is perfect for the movie, he's fine. He's just a crazy celebrity, what he says doesn't matter at all. I'm allowing it on behalf of all jews everywhere. So is Jonah, you self righteous on-behalf-of-others whiner. Adults can separate a work of art from the artist. What a dumb overly sensitive cancel culture world you've created for yourself.

The real crime is having this cast and making such a bad movie with them. Julia Louis Dreyfuss absolutely shines, and so does Jonah and Eddie when they're actually doing improv instead of trying to come off as cool.

I'm well aware of what propaganda is and you have gobbled it all up...

The CIA admitted to having done this... this is public knowledge and you are just a FOIA-Request away from hearing it directly from them...

Or you choose to believe the politicians and the media, because when have they ever lied to you? right?

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Uncomfortable truth is still truth...

Maybe. I thought it was a way of showing, somewhat abstractly, how the little man played a role in all of these classic movies, seen through the eyes of Manny who was helped create some of the fictional movies (I think) that started the montage off. Maybe this article says something different. I haven't read it. It was definitely the weakest part of the movie imo, seeing it twice.

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I mean people, in general, need to get over themselves.

Born in 2001.

The movie is well received but I still think it’s underrated. It’s one of the most moving films I’ve ever seen and even thinking about it makes me start to well up.