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The Critic
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Date Posted: 00:27:28 04/18/02 Thu
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The Critic
's message, "This is going somewhere trust me in fact check the next thread" on 00:25:11 04/18/02 Thu
Now, I'm not racist or anything, but there was an African-American who was the first to do EVERYTHING. I understand that, the entire world understands that, we don't need to be informed that sometime, some place, an African-American used a pair of left-handed scissors for the first time in history. I can fully appreciate movies about Malcom X, or Reggie Jackson, movies about milestone-setting African-American's. Men who stood up against racism and opression, and followed thier dreams, TALLY HO! My patience tends to wear when a movie about the first black man to wear velcro shoes or spandex comes out, when you can just smell the blatant Hollywoodization of the story. Which happens in any movie "based" on a true story of course, but it's almost like they've become their own genre: quick, find out who the first homeless person of color to piss in this alley was, call Morgan Freeman: we'll tack on an overexaggerated life-story. The Academy eats this shit up. Perhaps I wouldn't care so much if the movie was good, but Men of Honor, the story of the first African American US Naval diver, was going nowhere right from the start
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