So I saw 12 Years a Slave tonight...

[The Real]

Most of the audience (myself included) was tearing up, sniffing or straight up crying by the end. Very brutal, difficult watch full of excellent acting with a great screenplay, all the more compelling for being a true story. A lot of the grotesque and complex elements of the slave-owner relationship were fully portrayed, better than any previous movie on the subject. I do think it had some minor technical issues due to being somewhat more "Hollywood" in production than McQueen's other films and involving some outside influence (the soundtrack, for example... Hans Zimmer was a terrible choice,) but overall, I can't hate. This is currently the definitive slavery movie to date.

 

[FaTaL]

how many n words?

 

[Ziggiy]

Most of the audience (myself included) was tearing up, sniffing or straight up crying by the end. Very brutal, difficult watch full of excellent acting with a great screenplay, all the more compelling for being a true story. A lot of the grotesque and complex elements of the slave-owner relationship were fully portrayed, better than any previous movie on the subject. I do think it had some minor technical issues due to being somewhat more "Hollywood" in production than McQueen's other films and involving some outside influence (the soundtrack, for example... Hans Zimmer was a terrible choice,) but overall, I can't hate. This is currently the definitive slavery movie to date.

Your right and hopefully it'll be the last for awhile

 

[The Real]

how many n words?

I mean... it's a very realistic depiction, so there are quite a few uses, but it's not like in Django, if that's what you mean.

 

[Crakface]

Most of the audience (myself included) was tearing up, sniffing or straight up crying by the end. Very brutal, difficult watch full of excellent acting with a great screenplay, all the more compelling for being a true story. A lot of the grotesque and complex elements of the slave-owner relationship were fully portrayed, better than any previous movie on the subject. I do think it had some minor technical issues due to being somewhat more "Hollywood" in production than McQueen's other films and involving some outside influence (the soundtrack, for example... Hans Zimmer was a terrible choice,) but overall, I can't hate. This is currently the definitive slavery movie to date.

Crying during movies. Damn i mean im sure the movies good but, you p*ssy.

 

[The Real]

Crying during movies. Damn i mean im sure the movies good but, you p*ssy.

I teared up a bit, but didn't cry. No shame in anyone crying for a movie like this, though. This is real Black, American history and is a directly personal issue for many people- no offense, but as a Cape Verdean, I don't expect you to fully understand.

 

[Crakface]

I teared up a bit, but didn't cry. No shame in anyone crying for a movie like this, though. This is real Black, American history and is a directly personal issue for many people- no offense, but as a Cape Verdean, I don't expect you to fully understand.

Yea, im sure you can understand the struggle of US slaves as a staunch defender of the gay community. I dont understand bytch. I'll be checking this out tomorrow though still

 

[The Real]

Yea, im sure you can understand the struggle of US slaves as a staunch defender of the gay community. I dont understand bytch. I'll be checking this out tomorrow though still

It seems like American Black identity is what you really don't understand. Your ancestors bought a ticket and came here on a plane, not a ship, not in chains, not to work on plantations, so it's curious to me that you pretended to be eligible for slavery reparations and talked about "us" like you are a product of American slavery, then turn around and judge people for being personally affected by that history. I suggest you watch the movie and learn about Black American history instead of ranting about homosexuals.

 

[Crakface]

Your ancestors bought a ticket and came here on a plane, not a ship, not in chains, not to work on plantations, so it's curious to me that you pretended to be eligible for slavery reparations and talked about "us" like you are a product of American slavery, then turn around and judge people for being personally affected by that history. I suggest you watch the movie and learn about Black American history instead of ranting about homosexuals.

I dont need handouts from cacs. They enslaved my people, we got over it and get money. You in the theatre tearing up because you p*ssy not because of the effects of slavery. My family tree is more connected to the diaspora of slavery then yours. From Africa, to the islands to America but you know what, im just not p*ssy so tearin up like a woman over a film that represents where we are in life, which i wouldnt trade for the world is corny. Man the fukk up bro. Handle your emotions more stoically in the future. We not feelin your emo moment.

 

[The Real]

My family tree is more connected to the diaspora of slavery then yours.

Why? Because you're half white Portugese? Or is it because of your Asian wife? Sorry, friend, but facts are facts. I'm not half-white nor am I descended from slave trade middlemen Cape Verdeans who still don't even consider themselves Black, so I guess I don't understand what greater connections you have that aren't to slavemasters.

Who's "we?" Some Cape Verdeans? There's no "we" for you when it comes to the American slave history. I don't care what some Cape Verdean thinks about my reactions to the histories of my ancestors, and only someone who was disconnected from the weight of slavery in America could make such a remark.

You also didn't answer why you pretended to be eligible for slavery reparations and pretended to be connected to that history when your ancestors were actually helping ship Black folks to the Americas and your family came here on a plane, friend. But I guess we all know the reason for that. Anyway, your responses are boring, so I'll leave this thread back to the topic at hand. Ramble away.

 

[Crakface]

Why? Because you're half white Portugese? Or is it because of your Asian wife? Sorry, friend, but facts are facts. I'm not half-white nor am I descended from slave trade middlemen Cape Verdeans who still don't even consider themselves Black, so I guess I don't understand what greater connections you have that aren't to slavemasters.

Who's "we?" Some Cape Verdeans? There's no "we" for you when it comes to the American slave history. I don't care what some Cape Verdean thinks about my reactions to the histories of my ancestors, and only someone who was disconnected from the weight of slavery in America could make such a remark.

You also didn't answer why you pretended to be eligible for slavery reparations and pretended to be connected to that history when your ancestors were actually helping ship Black folks to the Americas and your family came here on a plane, friend. But I guess we all know the reason for that. Anyway, your responses are boring, so I'll leave this thread back to the topic at hand. Ramble away.

You're retreating into your imagination to make excuses for why you actin p*ssy. The only one rambling is you. But i get it. We gotta make excuses and get personal as cover for being bytch.

 

[JulesWinfield]

I'm gonna see this this weekend.

 

[Mike Otherz]

i wanna see it. it has 97 on metacritic. damn. armond white hated it though.

 

[Fillerguy]

Mowgli's such a bytchass nikka, its embarrassing

 

[mastermind]

Can we merge?

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/just-saw-12-years-a-slave.156019/


Lets keep all discussion in one thread.

I teared up a bit, but didn't cry. No shame in anyone crying for a movie like this, though. This is real Black, American history and is a directly personal issue for many people- no offense, but as a Cape Verdean, I don't expect you to fully understand.

I teared up at the end. That scene was so powerful