12 years a slave

[bgdog]

Not telling anyone else not to watch the movie. Just sharing my feelings. Right or wrong it's whatever, it's just how I feel on the subject. If I had been beaten over the head for the last twenty years with movies about fat Americans I wouldn't watch those movies either. I have heard good reviews about 12 years a Slave though and it was up for several Academy Awards so maybe I should watch it.

Fair enough, you are absolutely entitled to your opinion also bonus points for being reasonable and decent, conversations like this so often go the other way.

[DudyDawg]

Haha I'm glad! It really is a good film and about as close to documentary as it gets for a non documentary.


And I don't think we got as many people at the TCU game as we do in this thread....

[PassInterference]

No I refuse to watch this genre anymore. It has been played out for me and it always paints Mississippi as a racist state and the same for the South for the rest of the nation. The longer these movies are made the longer the rest of the country continues to stereotype and view the South as racist so no I haven't watched it and I won't ever watch it. It harms Mississippi.

Have to agree. There are tons of dramas either accurately portraying or exaggerating Mississippi 60 to 160 years ago. Don't need to see anymore.

12 Years A Slave, The Help, etc. No thanks.

[Political Hack]

continually rationalizing why the south should glorify its "heritage" while ignoring the atrocities of the past is the primary reason people think the south is still racist.

61, do you also think the rebel flag should still be the corner of our state flag?

[Dawg61]

continually rationalizing why the south should glorify its "heritage" while ignoring the atrocities of the past is the primary reason people think the south is still racist.

61, do you also think the rebel flag should still be the corner of our state flag?

Whose saying ignore it? It can't possibly get ignored it is a top 5 story for the media. No I think the rebel flag should not be on the state flag.

[Smitty]

continually rationalizing why the south should glorify its "heritage" while ignoring the atrocities of the past is the primary reason people think the south is still racist.

I disagree. I think those people are just idiots. Certainly not the primary reason.

[Reason2succeed]

12 Years a Slave does not demonize white people or the south. It clearly shows that there were both evil whites and blacks (in that they ignored each other's pain). It also shows that there were northerner, both white and black who exploited the system. I LOVED the movie but at the same time I'm am NOT in a rush to see it again.

P.S. Honestly, there have not been that many movies made. Consider this, there isn't a major movie that I can think of depicting Sojourner Truth, Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman, Fredrick Douglass, or any abolitionists. We can't just act like over 200 years of history didn't happen. It must not be forgotten no matter how it makes people feel.

[Esmerelda Villalobos]

The movie was fantastic

[Political Hack]

Whose saying ignore it? It can't possibly get ignored it is a top 5 story for the media. No I think the rebel flag should not be on the state flag.

Good deal on the flag. I think it's one of the last remaining stains on the state that could be willfully removed that for whatever reason hasn't.

I took your initial post as an implication that you would like for the movie to be ignored, or less popular, because you don't like the resulting perception that some could take from watching it.