They could take a cue from MIIB and call the I, Robot sequel II, Robot.
Book: Where's the doctor? Not back yet?
Zoe: (beat) We don't make him hurry for the little stuff. He'll be along.
Book: He could hurry... a little.
'Safe'
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Sean K - Jul 20, 2004 4:31:58 pm PDT #1060 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Vonnie K - Jul 20, 2004 4:33:14 pm PDT #1061 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Well, Clark Johnson from Homicide: Life on the Street directed S.W.A.T., right? I didn't see that movie but I thought it was non-ghetto. Before that, I recall he had a decent stint as a director of TV shows. Perhaps it's too early to see how he'll fare as a feature film director, with only one theatrical release under his belt.
There was also a black female director--err, also an actor-turned-director, whose name I'm blanking on right now--who made Eve's Bayou, which I liked quite a bit. But that was several years ago.
tommyrot - Jul 20, 2004 4:33:15 pm PDT #1062 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
We, Robots?
§ ita § - Jul 20, 2004 4:37:43 pm PDT #1063 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Heh. I'm trolling through IMDB, and this is one of the blackest resumes I found.
I wouldn't call Singleton or Lee ghetto -- Lee especially has too much bougie in him. But it is about race for him, it seems. For Singleton, it seems less about race, more just stories with black folk in.
Jesse - Jul 20, 2004 5:05:36 pm PDT #1064 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I kind of meant the black movie ghetto, not movies about the ghetto. But yeah.
Jesse - Jul 20, 2004 5:06:20 pm PDT #1065 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Also, yeah Clark Johnson! I fucking loved SWAT.
Polter-Cow - Jul 20, 2004 5:10:57 pm PDT #1066 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Also, yeah Clark Johnson! I fucking loved SWAT.
It was really loud. But it was fun.
alienprayer - Jul 20, 2004 5:23:41 pm PDT #1067 of 10001
Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. -Bierce
Didn't the Hughes brothers make From Hell? British period movies are evidently the only way african-american directors "cross over". One of them did the pilot for the US Touching Evil, also. Good show, but nary a person of color. Except for punchline psychiatrist, who only appeared in the pilot.
§ ita § - Jul 20, 2004 5:28:12 pm PDT #1068 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I kind of meant the black movie ghetto
I always envisioned a ghetto like that as an involuntary place to be. I think they make black movies because they'd rather/need to. Which is why I misread.
And you are right about From Hell, alienprayer. And they both produced Touching Evil.
I poked around a little more -- Antoine Fuqua has no production credits. Singleton, Lee, the Hughes Brothers -- produced most everything they directed.
P.M. Marc - Jul 20, 2004 6:58:47 pm PDT #1069 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
twitching uncontrollably at the wrongheaded Magnolia-lovers
Dude, watch it as a COMEDY.
That's what we did. (Okay, a black, depressing, bleak comedy, but still.)
Also? Sure, it has that horrible not-an-actress-overrated-twerp-woman in it, but it also has a RAIN OF FUCKING TOADS.
I repeat, a RAIN OF FUCKING TOADS. TOAD. RAIN.
What's not to love?
Signed, simple and shallow, and likes it that way.