Trailer for Moonlight African American Gay Film coming out soon

[TheLoveableLoner]

Re: Am I the only one who thinks "Moonlight" has an agenda?

You bitch and whine about not being given a chance because you're Gay and Black.

Two Gay, Black men create a film and--unlike with the millions of films by those who are neither of things--you instantly decide that they don't deserve a chance.

Are you evil? Debatable.

Are you a bigot? Yes.

Do you harbor internalized racism? Yes.
...internalized homophobia? Yes.

Are you a hypocrite? Absolutely!
... a whiner? Most definitely.
... a hot ass mess? Pretty much.
... someone who will constantly complain again about being a victim of the exact mentality you're brandishing proudly right here? Yes.

Is this entire thread a continued embarrassment to yourself? Yep.

Will you keep it going anyway? Probably.

Should anyone EVER feel sorry for you when you moan about being the recipient of the same bigotry you have no problem dishing out here? HELL NAW.

When you go out into the world, do you deserve to be treated fairly, even though you're Black and gay? Despite the above, yes. I only wish you knew how show that fairness to other Gay, Black men.

 

[TheLoveableLoner]

Re: Am I the only one who thinks "Moonlight" has an agenda?

The L.A.Times wrote this about a week before the Oscars in an article insight that Moonlight deserved Best Picture.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...s-to-win-best-picture-20170217-htmlstory.html

"Moonlight” doesn’t resolve. It doesn’t treat its protagonist’s identity as a problem in need of a solution. Chiron does not emerge triumphant from the streets or the closet by movie’s end. Nor does he score the kind of moral victory over racist oppression that would throw his struggle into high relief. The movie grants him nothing but the full measure of his humanity, and miraculously that’s enough.

For anyone silly enough to think that as one of the first major releases about a Black LGBT character that it had some kind of responsibility to tell a sanitized, safe storyline with a gift-wrapped happy ending, please stop.

The reason it ended up being the great film it is is because it avoided those exact tired clichés.

 

[Soilwork]

Re: Am I the only one who thinks "Moonlight" has an agenda?

Cool.

Can you post a review of the next Star Wars movie? I know it's not out yet so you haven't seen it, but meh..., right?

 

[zoltanspawn]

Re: Am I the only one who thinks "Moonlight" has an agenda?

Whatever.

But whatever.

Whatever.

What fucking ever.

I gave you plenty of BLACK GAY films that nobody ever watches and are underrated.

Could you re-post that list?

 

[MorrisseyX]

Re: Am I the only one who thinks "Moonlight" has an agenda?

The men who wrote that movie wrote about their experience. Period.

So what? The problem with black films is Hollywood is a racist place and black people experiences are generalized. You are too ignorant not to see white liberals LOVE movies about the stereotypical black dysfunction movie. This movie is another N in the hood classic. Sorry but some blacks like Taralen and myself are NOT interested in a ghetto black movie which degrades black people. White people LOVE these kinds of films it is for their entertainment. It is a racist piece of garbage.

 

[MorrisseyX]

Re: Am I the only one who thinks "Moonlight" has an agenda?

My position literally has nothing to do about the content of the film and everything to do about criticizing a film while not even watching it. [Text: Removed]

[Text: Removed] Taralen view is still on point he does not NEED to see moonlight to understand it is a racist piece of garbage. The movie is pure garbage. Taralen and my opinions do matter because gay black men we do NOT have to follow the status quo and support something just because blacks made it. Sorry the days of black gay People acting like stupid sheep to just support anything black artists made are OVER. A movie needs to be good and Moonlight is not that film. I am just pleased another gay black man did not drink the Kool Aid about Moonlight. This move did not get much support in the black community anyway only made $22 million dollars. Most black people rejected Moonlight and I applaud them for that. They can see the movie was made for a white audience.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Re: Am I the only one who thinks "Moonlight" has an agenda?

I'm a black gay man and proud to be, and I don't need some average semi fictitious drama film to justify that one bit.

This is REALLY confusing, the movie wasn't made to justify anything, it's telling a visual story, no more no less. Are you saying you refuse to watch the movie because somehow watching it means you're weak-minded and seeking validation?

 

[rareboy]

Re: Am I the only one who thinks "Moonlight" has an agenda?

One can only be truly superior by not actually watching films.

Better to only write about them on a homo porn forum bulletin board to impress everyone with how

special


one



is.

 

[nycguydowntown]

Re: Am I the only one who thinks "Moonlight" has an agenda?

The guys who wrote it were writing about their lives---lot's of writers do that. What else would you want them to wrote about? Maybe you should see Fences---once again the author based some of the play on his experiences---

 

[MakeDigitalLove]

Re: Am I the only one who thinks "Moonlight" has an agenda?

[Text: Removed] Taralen view is still on point he does not NEED to see moonlight to understand it is a racist piece of garbage. The movie is pure garbage. Taralen and my opinions do matter because gay black men we do NOT have to follow the status quo and support something just because blacks made it. Sorry the days of black gay People acting like stupid sheep to just support anything black artists made are OVER. A movie needs to be good and Moonlight is not that film. I am just pleased another gay black man did not drink the Kool Aid about Moonlight. This move did not get much support in the black community anyway only made $22 million dollars. Most black people rejected Moonlight and I applaud them for that. They can see the movie was made for a white audience.

No, your opinion on the film does not matter if you have not seen it. By all means if you want to look foolish criticizing a film you haven't seen, then continue to do so at this point. Your opinions mean very little on the film.

 

[zoltanspawn]

Re: Am I the only one who thinks "Moonlight" has an agenda?

I wish the film was longer, probably by around another hour.

At only 1 hour 51 minutes its pacing was a little erratic, jumping rather abruptly from the second to third act.

 

[MorrisseyX]

Re: Am I the only one who thinks "Moonlight" has an agenda?

No, your opinion on the film does not matter if you have not seen it. By all means if you want to look foolish criticizing a film you haven't seen, then continue to do so at this point. Your opinions mean very little on the film.

You talk about black pride and all that BS and yet you ignore the fact the ONLY reason Moonlight got press is because white liberal critics liked the movie. Everyone here except Taralen and myself are not ignoring this point. You go on and on about BLACKNESS this and BLACKNESS that. Yet you casually ignore it is white people with POWER who celebrated this racist piece of trash. Pat Grimshaw a white man posted a graph of all the black Oscar winners over the years. Almost all of them won Oscars for truly degrading and racist roles. The supporting actor who played Juan
No YOUR opinion does not matter because YOU do not speak for all black people. I commend all the black people who REJECTED MOONLIGHT. The movie did not make any money anyway only $22 million. You are a BULLY and A JERK! And yes, I did see Moonlight it was a piece of shit and I wish I never saw it. Just over hyped bullshit about some black kid called called fag and bullied by his peers. Oh yeah, to top it off the lead character Chiron has a crackhead black mother LOL! Talk about stereotypical a black gay kid who grew up in the ghetto with an abusive black mother. Yeah, that is really an empowering film NOT! When Chrion grows up and goes by the name Black he is just another ghetto thug Nigger who is a drug dealer. Sorry another Nigger Hood Classic is not black empowerment.

 

[MorrisseyX]

Re: Am I the only one who thinks "Moonlight" has an agenda?

The men who wrote that movie wrote about their experience. Period.

Yes a STEREOTYPICAL black life experience you seem to not get. The VIEWERS who celebrate these degrading films about black people are WHITE LIBERALS. Something you people hyping Moonlight casually IGNORE. Black people did NOT run out to see Moonlight in droves and I commend them for that. Black people are smart enough not to just supporting something so degrading like Moonlight. Another Nigger in the hood classic LOL! As others have pointed out WHITE PEOPLE got the POWER which you seem to ignore. Yes, WHITE LIBERAL FILM CRITICS celebrated a movie that is abhorrent and fully of cliches and racist stereotypes. As others have pointed out the black films which win Oscars are racist. 12 Years A Slave oh yeah that won best picture another boring movie about slavery. Octavia Spencer oh yeah she won for playing a maid LOL! Pathetic! Hattie McDaniel I understand because that was in the 1940s yet over 70 years later black actors still get shit movie roles.

 

[Kabluey]

I really liked it.
Wouldn't call it empowering as much as it is compassionate.

 

[zoltanspawn]

I highly recommend people check out the opening posts of this thread, now that it's been merged.

 

[zoltanspawn]

I really liked it.
Wouldn't call it empowering as much as it is compassionate.

Agreed, it's a film about loneliness, tenderness.

 

[aaggii]

This is just like gays crying about not having as many gay characters on TV as straight ones, then shitting over every LGBT series newly created.

- they´re not feminine enough
- why are they so feminine?
- why is that guy so thin? we´re not all like that
- they had to put on a chubby dude, is this how they see us
- of course he is into dancing, since they think dancing is gay
- of course he is a constructer worker, they are so afraid of making him actually gay
etc.

Then, there is Moonlight: Oscars too white, Oscars black but not black enough, Oscars are racist whatever they do, etc.

Go watch a black screen for 2 hours, maybe that will make you happy.

 

[mikemizanin729]

It looks boring, so I probably won't bother watching it AND no Beyonce= NO viewing.

 

[MakeDigitalLove]

You talk about black pride and all that BS and yet you ignore the fact the ONLY reason Moonlight got press is because white liberal critics liked the movie. Everyone here except Taralen and myself are not ignoring this point. You go on and on about BLACKNESS this and BLACKNESS that. Yet you casually ignore it is white people with POWER who celebrated this racist piece of trash. Pat Grimshaw a white man posted a graph of all the black Oscar winners over the years. Almost all of them won Oscars for truly degrading and racist roles. The supporting actor who played Juan
No YOUR opinion does not matter because YOU do not speak for all black people. I commend all the black people who REJECTED MOONLIGHT. The movie did not make any money anyway only $22 million. You are a BULLY and A JERK! And yes, I did see Moonlight it was a piece of shit and I wish I never saw it. Just over hyped bullshit about some black kid called called fag and bullied by his peers. Oh yeah, to top it off the lead character Chiron has a crackhead black mother LOL! Talk about stereotypical a black gay kid who grew up in the ghetto with an abusive black mother. Yeah, that is really an empowering film NOT! When Chrion grows up and goes by the name Black he is just another ghetto thug Nigger who is a drug dealer. Sorry another Nigger Hood Classic is not black empowerment.

A lot of words but nothing of worth. You can make up stuff and keep putting words in my mouth but you're just making yourself look even more foolish.

 

[sixthson]

Taralen, you are free to decide whatever you want about this movie based on the information you have, but I would hope you would watch it with an open mind and see if your opinion changes. Don't be stubborn about sticking to your opinion, be fair about it.

It reminds me: at the very top of my list of all time favorite novels is "To Kill a Mockingbird". I loved this book and I loved the movie made from it. It was the only book ever published by the author, although it was rumored she had others not released to the public. Sometime near or shortly after her death, the author, Harper Lee, released a follow up to the book. In the original book, the father, Atticus Finch, was the lawyer defending a black man of rape. In the new book, she apparently paints her father was as a racist. There was much negativity about the new book because Mockingbird was so much loved. I bought the book and have not yet read it, but I refuse to let the negative reviews and publicity influence me. I will either like or hate it based on my own reading.

BTW, I've always recommended Mockingbird to others because it is such a bit of Americana. It takes place in the rural south during a time or real segregation and racism while showing characters, both black and white, of good and honorable character. It pains a picture of small town life and old values. It's a delightful book with great sadness and great joy. The wonderful Boo Radley is played by a young Robert Duvall in the movie. I still highly recommend both. We'll see if I feel the same about the follow-up novel.