Movie Alert: Obsessed

This looks like its going to be really good! And since it’s not a “chick flick” I think i’ll even be able to take my husband!

@ elle,

yeah, i agree. i still may check it out later, though. i like idris elba’s acting style.

Oh! My heart is pumping! This is a must-see I will not miss!

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Pete you know she was wrong when she was holding the baby in her lap and kissing his head. lol

This plot has been done so many times, in so many movies, but I’ll probably Netflix it when it comes out on dvd.

I’m glad to see that Bee is finally doing a movie that doesn’t require her to sing and dance.

Wow, I guess Beyonce is getting pretty serious about making a transition into movies huh? I do remember she was really really awesome in Carmen, but not too much of a fan of anything else that she did.

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I object to white women being the black man’s #1 weakness. That would be juicy bootay.

The Dad Sustains.

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I’m just trippin’

I just really didn’t really notice the onslaught of movies with white women stealing black men. Really. This move is certainly better than the onslaught of black comedies that had a monopoly on black cinema. Remember a couple of years ago we couldn’t get major production companies to do anything (notwithstanding Will Smith’s star power) but Soul Plan-ish movies or Tyler Bashing the black man Perry movies. Believe me, it wasn’t the lack of good writing, but Paramount being risk averse. (which led to Tyler Perry and Ice Cube starting their own companies).

The black on the big screen are beginning to be casted in more diverse roles though. I mean just look at the previous year . . . so long as the dollars demostrate the a black lead can pull in the dollars . . . they are good. And the entertainer turned actor is the best sell = they already have a built in audience (kind of like making movies from comic book stories or famous novels).

2008: Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Taraj), Not Easily Broken, Seven Pounds, Cadillac Records, Frost/Nixon (Edi), Doubt, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Spirit, Wanted, Soul Men, Madagascar, Role Models, Quantum of Solace (sort of), Slumdog (if you are doing the whole diversity thing), Australia (diversity hit), Ballast, The Express, The Secret Life of the Bees, Lakeview Terrac

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@ LaNeitria,

If not Beyonce, then who? They had to have some star power. She is not that bad for the singer/rapper turned actor.

Look at the list… she is doing pretty good.

1. Will Smith (great)
2. Markie Mark (great)
3. Queen Latifah (good)
4. Ludacris (very good for few roles)
5. Eminem (he was supposed to start in Wanted – need to see more)
6. Common (very good for few roles. did you see him in Street Kingz?)
7. Ice T (getting better… needs to take more challenging roles)
8. LL Cool J (pretty good – same comment as above)
9. Mos Def (decent and overrated)
10. Ice Cube (need more roles)
11. T.I. (average, did okay in American Gangster)
12. Master P (horrible)
13. Method Man, Snoop, Redman (Snoops ok). Need to see non-coon roles
14. Xzibit (decent)
15. Nas (need another role)
16. Eve (terrible)
17. Puffy (was okay, until he stepped out of his league -should not have tried to do a role Sidney Poitier played -

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@ Political Pete,

I am not sure who would be good (I need to think about it), but I don’t think that it has to be confined to a singer/rapper/actor to have any star power. I think that this movie is only going to get marginal success, no matter who is starring in it. I also don’t want to see the usual suspects (Taraj Henson, Gabrielle Union, Sanaa Lathan). I just wish that people would use either someone who is new to the scene or someone who we don’t see alot of. How about one of the Mowry sisters or Paula Patton?

@ E.R.,

While I think that Gabrielle would be a good choice, I also have seen a lot of her. I think we need to see someone new in these roles.

@ Political Pete,

Yes I remember when Samuel Jackson went off…lol! Now some rappers/singers can actually act, like Will Smith and Ludacris. But people like Beyonce, as much as I respect her for being a great entertainer needs some work in the acting game.

I will agree that repeat actors do need to build their acting resume, but often times you see them playing the same role in different movies, and I don’t really hear tell of them putting anybody else on as they receive any stardom. However,I actually applaud Taraj Henson. I believe that she is in the Curious Case of Benjamin Button and is getting rave reviews for her role. I am happy for her because I thought that she was going to be your typical run of the mill ghetto movie actress, lol. It seems that she is being placed in the mainstream from out of nowhere, even though she was in Baby Boy and Hustle and Flow and other movies.