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Euphoria14 on 03 December 2010

Hurt Locker was up for numerous awards, yet it put me to sleep.

People said great things about Lost in Translation, yet it put me to sleep.

 

Does it make them bad because I do not like them? Of course not.

Does it make Madea Goes to Jail a bad movie because it doesn't rank up there with movies like Malcom X? Of course not.

 

Malcom X also put me to sleep. Only thing I liked was Denzel Washington's pimp walk.



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Signalstar on 03 December 2010

He is one of the worst living directors. I am Black and his movies (pretty much anything he touches) embarasses me. Also as a film lover and an aspiring film maker I have to admit his work is just bad. Just really really bad. I've seen maybe 5 of his films (against my will) and they kill part of my soul each time. I admire him for his entreaupeneurship and that he writes and directs his own films but his unholy mash of "comedy" and melodram seems to have crawled from the deepest pits of cinematic hell.



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oldschoolfool on 05 December 2010

that dude could'nt direct his way out of a paper bag. The only reason I watched some episodes of house of payne,was because of the Curtis character(which is also my name),but the rest of that show was just horrible. lol



shuraiya on 05 December 2010

His movies aren't completely horrible, but they're pretty much the exact same movie reskinned; if you've seen one, you've seen them all.



darthdevidem01 on 05 December 2010

Who is he?

{Goes to google and IMBD}



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HappySqurriel on 05 December 2010

Humour is about a person's personal perspective, and outside of his "base audience" few people find Tyler Perry's perspective particularly funny



adriane23 on 05 December 2010

I can't really see race being a factor in this one. I remember watching a bootleg of Why Did I Get Married Too with some friends and I walked out of the living room. I liked a lot of his plays, but his movies range from sub par to garbage.



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Kasz216 on 05 December 2010
d21lewis said:

Back when I was younger, we had movies like "The Best Man", "Soul Food", "Malcolm X", and "Boyz in the Hood".  These were black movies with strong directors, high production values, and powerful messages.  The state of black cinema today is a little depressing.  We don't have Spike Lee, the Hughes Brothers, Mario Van Peebles, or anyone of that caliber.  We have Tyler Perry.  Piss poor acting, embarrassing comedy, disjointed story telling, and forced messages.  I like SOME of the movies and I loved them as plays (espescially "I can Do Bad"...) but goddam.  How did we fall so far so fast?

Go watch New Jersey Drive, Menace II Society, Color Purple (Spielber directed), or Rosewood.  Then tell me Tyler Perry is deserving of higher reviews.  Sorry.  I'm just frustrated.  Even Ice Cube's comedies rank higher, to me.

I'm pretty much of this mind.  In a way it's that way with all directors and such, but the Black directors and writers are hit harder just due to there being so few in the first place.

Ice Cube comedies... still trying to wrap my head around that one.  Kid's today don't even realize that at one point Ice Cube was the exact opposite of family friendly.