They told me in Catholic preschool that I always needed to have hope... Seriously, I went for no other reason than to know how bad movies are done. When the first one loomed on the horizon, I knew that horrible things were afoot.
Daryle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Okay, you had me on 1 and 2, but as for 3, I have to ask...what were you going to these movies expecting, exactly? The fine acting talents of Michael Chiklis and Jessica Alba? I submit that you went to see the suits, Ben Grimm, and Fantasticar, just like the rest of us. The first one was rated PG and the second, PG-13. I'd actually say that Silver Surfer was better than Spider Man 3. Not Spider Man 2, mind you, hard to beat that, but I think, better than 3. Daryle On Jun 27, 2007, at 3:23 PM, Martin wrote: > I myself can think of three. > > 1) The War on Terror (reg., TM, copy.) > > 2) the lack of affordable health care for all > > 3) the fact that both FF movies sucked bilge water. > > The Village Idiot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sometimes it seems we > Black folks just love to get upset for no good reason. > Angelina Jolie is an ACTRESS. Acting is all about playing roles, > sometimes > very different from who you are (whether it's Tyler Perry playing a > woman, > or Angelina Jolie playing a person of mixed race background). > > There's got to be better things for people to get upset over than > this. > > -----Original Message----- > From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 1:20 PM > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [scifinoir2] OT: Jolie Playing Pearl angers some Blacks > > Big conversations on an e-mail chain I'm on, and I suspect, around the > country, about Jolie playing Mrs. Pearl. I'd never seen Mrs. Pearl > before I > saw her on Charlie Rose the other night, and was surprised to see > obvious > African heritage in her. Then I finally saw a picture of Jolie as Mrs. > Pearl, and was surprised to see she had on makeup to darken her > skin. Lots > of Sisters are upset, others say that Mrs. Pearl is *not* majority > Black, > and has a right to choose whomever she wants to portray her. Pearl > was going > for the soul of the actress, not her skin, is the idea. > > What do you think? Is this an issue at all, or a non-issue? > > *********************************** > http://www.playahata.com/hatablog/index.php > > Angelina Jolie is a fair skinned white woman with blue/gray eyes > but in a > Mighty Heart she is playing an Afro Cuban/Dutch woman, a > transformation > eased with a wig, dark brown contact lenses and her make-up artist. > The > cross-racial casting left some upset, with criticisms ranging from, > "It rubs > me wrong" to it being a "new generation of Hollywood in blackface". > Most don't know that Mariane wanted Angelina to play her, asked her > personally, and the two have become good friends. The > HuffingtonPost was 1 > of 6 outlets at a 20-minute round table with the actress, and > asked, "Were > you nervous playing someone multiracial?" Angelina fixed her eyes, > fiddled > with the $15,000 Cartier watch on her wrist, and answered: > "The idea is, if you ask Mariane, because she did address that, and > if you > did actually want to find somebody that was her exact makeup, she's > actually > majority Dutch, and she's as black as she is Chinese, and she's > Cuban, and > she's French. So, it could have gone to many different racial > backgrounds, > probably, if you went technical on it. And that, you know, is a > reality. At > the same time, to her, the importance was the essence of her > spiritually, > and I think that was what mattered and I think that is a question > to ask > her. But no, if you break down the DNA, it's very complex. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > "There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels > will get organized along the lines of the Mafia." -Kurt Vonnegut, > "A Man Without A Country" > > --------------------------------- > Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your > story. > Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] "There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia." -Kurt Vonnegut, "A Man Without A Country" --------------------------------- Get the free Yahoo! toolbar and rest assured with the added security of spyware protection. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
