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emeraldnebula: wonderfulworldofmichaelford: wonderfulworldofmichaelford: durkin62: genovakid: durkin62: black-american-queen: Let me tell you a thing about anti-blackness. It is so ingrained into our culture that it becomes hard to see. I just saw this movie today and it IS MAGICAL. PLEASE. PLEASE. PLEASE GO SEE THIS MOVIE IN THEATERS. Don’t wait until it comes to Redbox, don’t wait until its available on Itunes. GO SEE IT IN THEATERS. Support Quvenzhane Wallis. Support Jamie Foxx. Reviewers are doing EVERYTHING to sink this movie and the reasonings are all based in anti-blackness and racist rhetoric. Lol, Hey everyone, remember how like 2 days ago, tumblr SJW’s were jerking themselves off to how bad of reviews Exodus got because they had white people in it? Now Annie having cast black people for white characters bombed even worse, and they’re clawing at the walls trying to beg people to see it. Delicious. durkin62 The casting for exodus makes no sense, while the casting for Annie does. Please try arguing that. No. People would much rather whine about how Annie is failing due to racism than due to the fact it’s a poorly done, absolutely unnecessary remake of a goofy bit of childish fluff made 30+ years ago. If reviewers and movie-goers are so ‘anti-black’ how do you explain movies like Django Unchained or 12 Years a Slave garnering massive amounts of critical acclaim and Oscars? You people are just really reaching here. Also, can I point out that two of those reviews are saying nothing negative about the casting at all, with one review saying the cast is solid and the other review saying the entire film is a missed opportunity of a good idea? And the third one is just Bill Maher making a stupid joke? You are seriously reaching here. There’s no racism at all, it’s just people thinking Annie is a shitty misfire, an unnecessary remake, a plain awful film. I’m looking at these reviews. There’s no “anti-blackness” or “racist rhetoric” to be found. They all seem to be centered on the following: 1. The movie’s script is half-assed and doesn’t do justice to either the comic strip or the original Broadway and 1982 movie versions. 2. The cast is squandered (or, in Cameron Diaz’s case, just plain miscast). In fact, the kid playing Annie is being praised across the board for making the best of crappy material. 3. The tone of the movie is crass, materialistic, and phony. 4. The original musical numbers are mangled to Hell and back, and the new songs aren’t worthy additions. 5. An opportunity to parody America’s current economic and racial landscape got completely paved over for the sake of being a bland product. How are any of these “anti-black”? How is any of this even slightly “racist”? All I’m seeing from these reviews is dismay that the movie sucks. I don’t see what’s so unreasonable about that. A bad movie’s a bad movie, plain and simple. To accuse film critics of racism for the simple fact of saying the 2014 Annie is a lackluster movie is the height of dishonesty. You are willfully, knowingly, and deliberately lying in order to shame people for simply not liking a movie. Shame on you for that. -- source link