PC, I've seen half of a Tyler Perry movie (no Madea) because the rest of the cast looked awesome.

Yeah, he does attract good talent!

Smug people acting out some of the worst of black American stereotypes, and being rewarded in the nar

But then you get that (whatever "nar" is...). So is it that he's the only major filmmaker putting out movies with primarily black casts, so black people just take what they can get? That's kind of sad. I mean, I guess it's kind of why I watched Outsourced, but I did grow to actually enjoy it (because it improved).

They have been advertising the shit out of Good Deeds on shows that I watch, and it's not his usual thing, apparently -- it's "serious" and heartwarming?

I like this review:

Patronizing, insincere, and bloated with a disingenuous sense of narrative merit, "Good Deeds" is just one more example of everything wrong with America in the year 2012.

Sorry--I was typing "narrative" and got distracted. They're rewarded in the narrative for acting like what racists believe the worst of. I don't think that "taking what you can get" is good in this situation, because it seems to be setting up a negative bullshit feedback loop, but then I have to step back, exhale, and realise that I'm *not* a black American, so maybe they're hitting a cultural sweet spot I just don't have.

It's got to be the same kind of sweet spot that's hit by the "redneck" comedians, right? Like, it's so exciting to see "your people" on the screen that it doesn't matter as much if it's actually good or not?

Like, it's so exciting to see "your people" on the screen that it doesn't matter as much if it's actually good or not?

Quite possibly.

Didn't work for me and "The 'L' Word," but I get it.

One of my dearest friends (who is a black American) LOOOOVES Tyler Perry and made me sit through "Why Did I Get Married" (the filmed play, not the movie) and part of another one until I begged her to stop. Then we watched the Stargate movie. And she is intelligent, college-educated, is a CPA, and a lesbian. Don't. Get. It.

I saw the movie "Why did I get married" and that was enough.

ENOUGH.

my parents made me watch it.

Never again.

If people haven't seen the Boondocks parody, they should seek it out.

It's got to be the same kind of sweet spot that's hit by the "redneck" comedians, right? Like, it's so exciting to see "your people" on the screen that it doesn't matter as much if it's actually good or not?

I'll stand up for my homies here and maintain that a number of the people on the Blue Collar Comedy Tour are actually quite good comedians, like Bill Engvall and Ron White (whose act is particularly clever) if you can get past the Southern accents. Even Jeff Foxworthy has some pretty true and funny things to say.

Admittedly, Rodney Carrington is basically an hour of dick jokes set to music, but there's a place for that.(As for Backwoods SatanLarry the Cable Guy, I got nothin'.)

If people haven't seen the Boondocks parody, they should seek it out.

Seconded.

So I went to see Haywire last night, it's Soderbergh's spies-and-guns thriller with Gina Carano.

Man, that was great. Not the best movie ever made, and Carano's got some work to do on her acting chops, but the action scenes were excellent, the cast was great (except for Channing Tatum, who I just see as a boring block of wood, undistinguishable from all the other big blocks of wood in Hollywood right now), and they treated Carano's character like a person, not like a pretty girl pretending to kick ass.

The movie fails the Bechdel test pretty comprehensively (there isn't another named female character in the movie), but it also takes her seriously and doesn't ever do that skeevy thing where they shoot the woman like a piece of meat instead of a person.

I really enjoyed it.