How many times have you not agreed with an acclaimed critic’s movie review? How many times have you seen the winners (movie, actor, director...etc.) of an Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, NAACP Image Award...etc. only to strongly believe that someone else should have won? This is my opportunity to publicly provide my own commentary of my time AT THE MOVIES. Join me here and let's talk about our time AT THE MOVIES!
Sunday, February 21, 2016
The Fighting Temptations, a 2003 Musical/Comedy/Drama film
The Fighting Temptations, a 2003 Musical/Comedy/Drama film with an all-star cast and a stellar soundtrack about ACCEPTANCE! The ending scene of the choir's performance in the annual "Gospel Explosion" competition, is EPIC! The choir consists of a mix of baptised men and women, black and white, young and old, christians and sinners, and even inmates all genuinely and unapologetically singing the praises of GOD! This movie for me is not only entertaining, but, it's a classic with a POWERFUL MESSAGE about ACCEPTANCE and how we all have come short of the GLORY OF GOD, but, despite ourselves, HE STILL LOVES EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US!
"No I ain't good enough, but, HE still loves me!"
The Fighting Temptations - Trailer
https://youtu.be/6i_uRRVx8AM
The Fighting Temptations - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fighting_Temptations
Monday, February 15, 2016
Amistad
I am in the middle of watching Amistad, a movie based on the true story that was released in theaters across the country in 1997. I was 34 years old, at the time. I remember both ENJOYING and APPRECIATING the film and Debbie Allen's drive and commitment in getting this story told. She ultimately SUCCEEDED in securing Steven Spielberg as the film's Director and Producer. Eighteen years later and with increased maturity, a different mindset, and aspirations of becoming Roger Sherman Baldwin's (Matthew McConaughey's character in the film) brand of LEGAL COUNSEL PERSONIFIED, I am finding this film to be ABSOLUTELY OUTSTANDING and one of the BEST FILMS ever produced in this country of this magnitude. The order in which the story is told, the script/dialogue, casting, setting...there is ONLY ONE THING that I DO NOT LIKE about this movie and that is the fact that it is a TRUE STORY that desperately NEEDED TO BE TOLD at all.
HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH
THIS is a film that should be visited or revisited as it reflects the very FABRIC OF BLACK HISTORY!
Amistad (1997) - IMDb
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118607/
Amistad is a 1997 American historical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the true story of the 1839 mutiny aboard the slave ship La Amistad, during which Mende tribesmen abducted for the slave trade managed to gain control of their captors' ship off the coast of Cuba, and the international legal battle that followed their capture by a U.S. revenue cutter. The case was ultimately resolved by the United States Supreme Court in 1841.
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