Forum Overview :: Peter Molyneux's The Movies :: Re: This was exactly my reaction.

[quote name="Fussbett"][quote name="Horrible Gelatinous Blob"]Yeah, I agree that Chris Rock really dropped the ball with the Bonner Bros. portion of the movie. I think it would have been more interesting to focus on the one white competitor and play up the David/Goliath battle, especially when the other two ladies clearly weren't on their level when it came to presentation. I wanted more like the Botox scene, less of him walking around in pajama pants, looking bored and disinterested because even if he loses, shit, he's still white. He's still going to be playing with the house's money either way.[/quote] Or the glossed-over fact that the white guy was known for getting women OFF the weave! Ironically the one person in the movie not fleecing black women. [quote][quote name="Fussbett"]One aspect that really bothered me was Chris Rock positioning himself as the ignorant outsider to all this. He's just a simple white documentary filmmaker with a black nappy head daughter, trying to get some answers. He's not a multi-millionaire black man, married to a woman with straight Indian hair at all. And this is of course so he can do his Chris Rock comedy shock face all the time. "A THOUSAND DOLLARS?!" Yeah, a thousand dollars, Chris. It's the thousand dollars that shows up on your credit card bill every month.[/quote] I wrote a long thing here, but it started to delve into those sociological roots that you're uninterested in, so I'll just leave it at that you're right, but the feigned shock was to underline to the audience that they weren't discussing Supercuts money.[/quote] Well I'll read a Caltrops post about the sociological roots of course! I just don't want to watch it for 90 minutes. I think the one shot of Lauren Bacall summed it up well enough, the white definition of the beauty standard. Light brown people bleaching their skin, Asians getting eyelid surgery, etc etc until you reach black women judging each other by their white (Indian) hair. I think it's important for Chris Rock to put those scenes in about the money of course, it's just the feigning that bugs me. Going around the room and asking their occupations was good, and instead of the shock, how about just bluntly asking the blue-wigged hairdresser if she thinks it's reasonable for a school teacher to spend $12,000/year on her hair? Or how about some anecdotal stuff? Instead of asking the other guys in the barber shop what it's like to date a black woman, as if Chris Rock just landed here from Mars, he could SHARE stories. But it was evident that his wife was absolutely off-limits for this movie, even in reference. Ice-T on the other hand got in a couple of hilarious digs in at Coco without naming names.[/quote]