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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

Posted By: George Cook
Monday, September 29th 2008 at 4:00PM
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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.
Monday, September 29th 2008 at 5:57PM
stephen futado

'Miracle' flopped most probably because it was ill-promoted. Everyone I talked to about it had never heard of it.
Monday, September 29th 2008 at 7:08PM
Dr. S. Maxwell Hines

I'm not too sure race had much to do with this one. The critics LOVED this movie, which for Spike Lee, is hard to come by. I didn't go see it because I'm not in to war movies. However, I did see "The Great Debaters" and all of Tyler Perry's movies (among others). The jury's still out on this one for me. And I guess that's so because there have been movies where black men are heroes that have been successful: "The Great Debaters" is one. I saw it twice at the movies. "Antwon Fisher," although it should've done better, didn't do badly at the box office. "Remember the Titans" did extremely well. I saw it at least twice at the movies...with some of my family. "Radio" did well, too. Cuba Gooding, Jr. played the biolgraphical title character. "Men of Honor", another Cuba Gooding, Jr. movie based on a real-life hero, did pretty well, too.

I named those particular movies because they were all movies where black people played positive real-life characters and they didn't do bad at the box office.

I'm not a fan of war movies at all. And I may see this on video, but I won't pay to see it at the movies, and it doesn't matter to me who directed it. I support Spike Lee, yes. I saw "Malcolm X" more than once at the movies and had a ball at IT did quite well at the box office, as did "Ali" which I also saw at the theater.

I'm just not interested in seeing this one. And it could be that many other people just don't like these types of films. I did see "The Family that Preys" twice because I enjoy that kind of movie and I'm a huge Tyler Perry fan...and in this one, he didn't wear the dress. ;-) (giggle)

Tuesday, September 30th 2008 at 6:11PM
Dee Gray

When it comes here, I plan to see it. I like what I see in the ads about this movie, plus, I support all of' our' movies. (Mozell, a habit left over from way back-smile and Lov Ya).

Sometimes they have to open a whole section of the multi-screen theater for just two of us at times.
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