Why the fck is everyone dumping on Tyler Perry?

[HabitualChiller]

They still mad about that movie when that cheating wife got HIV

Movie was lit.

 

[Taadow]

Unless she’s going to start writing or actually hire a writing team it’ll die with him. Since he writes, directs, edits and produces everything who’s going to keep it going?

Let y'all tell it, it doesn't seem to matter too much because his work sucks and y'all don't like it -
even though you do kinda like it, or you used to. Oh well...

 

[ThaEruditious]

Just finished watching A Fall from Grace... Legit one of the worst movies I've seen in my life

 

[HabitualChiller]

His new movie on netflix is a 2 pack of ass

 

[DaHNIC82]

I bet who wrote that article dates peckerwoods. Negros who talk that insectonality talk usually do

 

[Coco Loco]

Let y'all tell it, it doesn't seem to matter too much because his work sucks and y'all don't like it -
even though you do kinda like it, or you used to. Oh well...

Obviously it matters since I asked. So you don't have an answer?

 

[WaveCapsByOscorp™]

Because those wigs he be having his actors wear are atrocious

 

[Westbama Heartthrob]

I actually read the article unlike most here and...it's actually pretty fair and on point. To the point that I've seen these general points on the Coli for years and those posts received lots of daps. Remember the Perry v Spike threads?

I respect Perry for his accomplishments. He definitely brings to light idealogies and characters who mirror black people we all know, who Hollywood ignores. But his films are largely...not good. His writing is largely...not good. When you compare his work to black films like Moonlight it becomes apparent that his shyt is really "off" on multiple artistic levels. Director wise it reminds me of soap operas, Law & Order, or the Star Wars prequels where damn nearly every scene is just a back and forth stagnant camera shot of two people talking, with zero camera movement or cinematic vision.

End of the day a lot of black people are getting great experience on his platforms. Making this all about writer rooms is short sighted. He's got black directors, cinematographers, make up artists, set designers, musicians, etc all on his sets getting experience and making films/tv/etc. If he wants to write his own shyt so be it...the fact that there's now a studio where black creatives can work is the important thing, and eventually writers will get their chance too.

Skimming through the thread I'm not surprised to see who read and who didn't

 

[pearlhandle]

I’m not reading all that

Business wise he really made it happen

Movie wise he’s mediocre to average. With all the resources he has and the talent he has access too he continues to make near trash.

 

[Rell84shots]

I can't stand his movies but it clear that this is another sabotaging. They're ripping TP apart but praise Pitt for financing slave & gay films.

 

[Dwolf]

He should try making better movies maybe people would stop dumping on him.

 

[feelosofer]

Lets be reality a lot of people of the writer's ilk (middle class-upper middle class) never really cared for Tyler Perry's stuff to begin with.

 

[feelosofer]

They still mad about that movie when that cheating wife got HIV

Whoa whoa what movie was that? asking for a friend.