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Zgoodgirl
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08-22-2003

Friday, November 06, 2009 - 4:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Zgoodgirl a private message Print Post    
Anyone planning on going to see this? Or better yet, have any luck on finding a place nearby that is going to play it? We thought that we would be able to at least find an independent theater in Dallas that would be showing this, but after looking it up the closest theater was Atlanta, GA.

Anyway, it will be showing 20 miles away in two weeks for me so I guess I will wait. I feel this is going to be a powerful film.

I just find it always odd and frustrating when independent movies that have so much Oscar buzz still have difficulty being placed in mass theaters.

Rissa
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03-20-2006

Friday, November 06, 2009 - 4:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rissa a private message Print Post    
This looks like an amazing, emotionally wrenching masterpiece. I don't think I can see it. Certainly not in a public setting as I anticipate sobbing uncontrollably through most of the movie. I know I cried through the preview and that was only a couple of minutes of the film.

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Sunday, November 08, 2009 - 6:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tishala a private message Print Post    
It was very good. Mo'nique was astonishing in it, as was the woman who played Precious. The film had some strange moments that didn't quite work, but it was nakedly emotional without becoming mawkish. That's a rare feat these days.

If you've read The Bluest Eye, some of this will remind you of the Breedlove family, but worse. When we get a flashback of Precious giving birth to her first kid....wowser.

Zgoodgirl
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08-22-2003

Monday, November 09, 2009 - 3:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Zgoodgirl a private message Print Post    
Heard on the news this morning that it made over $100K this weekend just playing in 18 theaters in 4 states. Amazing.

Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - 10:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ketchuplover a private message Print Post    
It averaged 100k per theater. Which is a record for being in over 6 theaters!

Darrellh
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07-21-2004

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 - 9:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Darrellh a private message Print Post    
Everyone in the theater was crying during this movie. Saw it last night.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Thursday, November 26, 2009 - 8:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
I'm waiting for it to come to DVD or TV. I remember how I felt during The Colour Purple, and won't put myself through that emotionally again, in a theatre, on the big screen. But I DO want to see it. I'm just willing to wait. Or maybe I can find it online...

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Friday, November 27, 2009 - 6:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
The Bluest Eye is my favorite Morrison book but I think I'm going to wait to watch this at home. I am a very emotional person period and after some of the things I've read about the movie, I would like to be in the comfort of my own home while watching it.

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Friday, November 27, 2009 - 10:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
I don't think this movie is based on Morrison's book but on a book titled "Push" by Sapphire. I'm waiting for it on Netflix, too, though - crying at home is much preferred to crying in public! :-)

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Friday, November 27, 2009 - 11:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tishala a private message Print Post    
yes it's based on push. my point however was that many of the ideas are familiar to those who have read bluest eye, especially choly's relationship with pecola, pauline's relationship with pecola etc

Bluejaxrock
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04-23-2004

Saturday, November 28, 2009 - 1:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bluejaxrock a private message Print Post    
I saw the preview/trailer at Madea Goes to Jail, and was so interested that I got the book from the library. Took over 3 months, but well worth the wait.
Add me to those who'll probably have to wait for the DVD-not much of a theater-goer these days-but it's gonna be a lonnnngggggg wait I'm afraid.

Sunshyne4u
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06-17-2003

Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - 2:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sunshyne4u a private message Print Post    
i hated it. found it a gratuitous piece of film making.

everything in it seemed to be 'in your face'. Why did all the girls in Precious's special class have to be SLIM and pretty?? it is NOT the norm.

I think that this story needed to be told from a Middle class america White religious standpoint.

this kind of molestation, verbal abuse, and sad childhood does happen everywhere.... not just harlem.

I found the whole show depressing. The end was brutal. Getting aids from someone at end stage is pretty well a death sentence.

viral load is waaaaayyy worse.

anyways, i thought it was going to be different than it was. I watched this movie not knowing ANYTHING about what it was going to be about.

ya it will win awards. THats what i mean by gratuitous. Misery put on film for people's entertainment.

i thought miriah carey did a great job as the social worker. i almost didnt recognize her