No black support, Miracle at St Anna flops
Miracle at St Anna flops,Why didn't blacks support it?
By George Cook www.letstalkhonestly.com
Spike Lee's Miracle at St Anna opened to just 3.5 million over the weekend. Now I know a war movie is a tough sell right now as we are all tired of war.
Now I didn't expect it to open it #1 but I thought it would open closer to 10 million. But silly me I forget that it didn't feature a black man in a dress or a lot of cooning. It didn't feature blacks killing each other or a comedian using as much foul language as humanly possible in 90 minutes. So of course many whites didn't go see it but sadly many blacks did not either. I should not have been surprised.
I mean how could a movie depicting black men as heroes expect to make any money. How could a movie that shows black men fighting not just for their country but fought so that other African Americans would be seen as equals and to show they were just as capable and ready to defend their country as anyone else make any money.
I mean how could a movie without a "gangsta" or a comedian make any money. We all know that we don't support serious movies anyway. Right?
The Expresss comes out on 10/10/08. That movie is about Ernie Davis a black athlete that overcame racism to become the first African american to win the Heisman Trophy. That may do a little better because it's a football movie and has the familiar underdog wins sports movie message.
I wonder if we will support that movie. I mean it's based on a true story so I guess the stars wont be running around in dresses.
I hope Spike and other black directors keep making serious movies featuring African Americans. Eventually we will get tired of eating hamburger and start to demand filet mignon. Eventually.....
By George Cook www.letstalkhonestly.com
By George Cook www.letstalkhonestly.com
Spike Lee's Miracle at St Anna opened to just 3.5 million over the weekend. Now I know a war movie is a tough sell right now as we are all tired of war.
Now I didn't expect it to open it #1 but I thought it would open closer to 10 million. But silly me I forget that it didn't feature a black man in a dress or a lot of cooning. It didn't feature blacks killing each other or a comedian using as much foul language as humanly possible in 90 minutes. So of course many whites didn't go see it but sadly many blacks did not either. I should not have been surprised.
I mean how could a movie depicting black men as heroes expect to make any money. How could a movie that shows black men fighting not just for their country but fought so that other African Americans would be seen as equals and to show they were just as capable and ready to defend their country as anyone else make any money.
I mean how could a movie without a "gangsta" or a comedian make any money. We all know that we don't support serious movies anyway. Right?
The Expresss comes out on 10/10/08. That movie is about Ernie Davis a black athlete that overcame racism to become the first African american to win the Heisman Trophy. That may do a little better because it's a football movie and has the familiar underdog wins sports movie message.
I wonder if we will support that movie. I mean it's based on a true story so I guess the stars wont be running around in dresses.
I hope Spike and other black directors keep making serious movies featuring African Americans. Eventually we will get tired of eating hamburger and start to demand filet mignon. Eventually.....
By George Cook www.letstalkhonestly.com
i agree that directors should keep making positive movies and don't get hung up record sales. the economy right now is not good for anyone. i was just at a conference that featured ltc oliver north and he talked about how people don't realize the importance of the military and the war. the media is so one-sided and the schools forget to show the importance of american military history. this conference also discussed how people have totally forgotten how our economy was meant to be built on everyone creating income from their own trade or business. we are feeling the effects of just working for someone else in our economy today.