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Saw it last night... parts with Cedric the Entertainer and Rock's family were funny as fukk, but the scenes with Rock and Rosario Dawson walking around was damn near putting me to sleep. I didn't like her character at all and their dialogoue bored me

Same way I felt about this movie.

That very small scene with Taraji P Henson was the most underrated funny scene in the movie. :laff:
 

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Watched it again today. I was little harsh the first time, mainly because I followed the reactions of everyone else in the movie theater. Also I think Chris Rock's wack ass cut caught me off guard. My sisters and I were so embarrassed that we brought our mom to see this after the threesome scene. After giving it a second run on my own, this movie is excellent from a writing and dialogue stand point. So many little nuggets throughout. I gotta raise my score from a 6.5/7 to 8.5/9.
 

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Watched it again today. I was little harsh the first time, mainly because I followed the reactions of everyone else in the movie theater. Also I think Chris Rock's wack ass cut caught me off guard. My sisters and I were so embarrassed that we brought our mom to see this after the threesome scene. After giving it a second run on my own, this movie is excellent from a writing and dialogue stand point. So many little nuggets throughout. I gotta raise my score from a 6.5/7 to 8.5/9.

LOL! My mom was all pressing me to take her to see this movie and I ended up seeing it with my homie instead and she was salty about it. After seeing it, I also felt like I'm glad I didn't take her to go see it. While I'm old enough to watch such a movie with a scene like that and not get too hung up over it (since it's not the focal point of the movie in the slightest), I can and would still prefer to not see as such when taking mom dukes to the silver screen.
 

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I liked it a lot. People have already touched on it but it's pretty much a black Woody Allen movie. And it was really well-written, only losing a bit of focus in the two big flashbacks (Houston and the white boyfriend). Not that those scenes were bad, in fact, they were pretty hilarious, but they seemed to belong in a different movie. I notice some people complaining about the typical guy-and-girl-fall-in-love-in-a-day shtick but I thought it worked because of the subtly incorporated Cinderella stuff, like a nod to the audience. Last but not least all of the cameo's were great but goddamn if the big one at the end wasn't some of the funniest shyt I've seen in a while. I'm really, really glad I didn't have that one spoiled before I saw the movie because that shyt caught me way off-guard.

Also, this movie is practically a blueprint on what we constantly talk about on here about black Hollywood needing to start their own film industry. Fund it independently so you got full control on the end product, use business connects (eg. call up a few friends and call in a few favors) to have a lot of talent involved while keeping the cost down and shoot.

And this made me wonder if anything ever happened with Danny Glover's long delayed Toussaint Louverture movie, but it seems it's still stuck in development hell (or flat-out dead). Apparently there is a French tv-mini series on him though.
 
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