- 477
- 21
- Joined
- Sep 9, 2006
This movie was great, tough to watch because you know whats coming at the end |I It was beautifully shot and Michael B. Jordan along with Octavia Spencer both delivered amazing performances.
Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: this_feature_currently_requires_accessing_site_using_safari
I looked at reviews on rotten tomatoes and the only bad reviews I could find were from right-wingers talking about he's a drug dealing thug that no one should feel sympathy for and that the story didn't show how awful a person he was.
But anyways, really lookiing forward to this, it's been getting GREAT reviews, possible Oscar considerations. I saw one clip on like the View with him talking to his little girl, man they killed that scene.
I'm in Atlanta and heard about this via a NT thread
He had no choice.
But anyways, really lookiing forward to this, it's been getting GREAT reviews, possible Oscar considerations. I saw one clip on like the View with him talking to his little girl, man they killed that scene.
I hated Bodie after this.
I knew Oscar in the 7th and 8th grade. Played on the same football/basketball teams in middle school. The story hit a lot of people HARD in the bay area. I really thought this was a national story, but it sounds like it wasn't. I'm glad the story is getting out, I really can't wait to see it.
It was....well at worst regional. We down here in So. Cal heard about it and was heavy in the media for a minute.
At the end of the day, this story wasn't sexy enough to sell. "Oscar" vs "Johannes Mehserle"? Nah... hard to draw the racial lines on that one. "Trayvon" vs "George Zimmerman"? Oh, hell yeah. Ratings bonanza.
Plus pushing Oscar's story would have lead to more backlash against police, etc.
At the end of the day, this story wasn't sexy enough to sell. "Oscar" vs "Johannes Mehserle"? Nah... hard to draw the racial lines on that one. "Trayvon" vs "George Zimmerman"? Oh, hell yeah. Ratings bonanza.
Plus pushing Oscar's story would have lead to more backlash against police, etc.
You must not watch the news or pay attention to social media. It was a national story just like Sean Bell.
I know it was national (I can see from my comments how you could think I was saying it wasn't), but it never got that "push" as THE story like the Trayvon/Zimmerman with a televised trial. A lot of people didn't know what the hell I was talking about when I brought up this incident that was actually on video tape. And a lot of them were too busy being letting the big media outlets pimp Trayvon's name to care.