So Tyler Perry's "For Colored Girls Only" debuted this weekend.EVERYONE and thier mom's(your mom,too) went to see it. I didn't.I planned too, but I wasn't pressed about it enough to actually go and see it. For those of you who don't know,this film is an adaptation of the play "For Colored Girl who have Considered Suicide when the Rainbow is enuf" which was like a "choreopoem"; 20 poems performed by 7 women...I would have killed my mamma to see something like that! lol Honestly,being that the film WAS based on a play, if the producer/director been anyone BUT Tyler Perry, I would have been the first to see it....but Tyler Perry WAS in charge of this film.I've heard all of my friends(and other people,too) rave about how good it was, I have friends(like my best friend) tell me how depressing it was,and people like my mom tell me how it was so "real"....and then you have the critics that threw dirt all over the film.
“Tyler Perry is the most influential African-American director since Spike Lee, and certainly the most financially successful ever, none of which can disguise that he's a terrible filmmaker.” – Corey Hall
For Colored Girls feels like the cinematic equivalent to putting a garish reproduction of the Sistine Chapel on the ceiling of your McMansion and calling it art.” – Mary Pols of Time Magazine
The thing, for me isn't what my friends say OR what the critics say,it's just that for 1: Tyler Perry doesn't do "it" for me....Black people seem to think that he is the best thing since sushi, but for me, he's "ok" at best. In my opinion, he exploits and a lot of times supports stereotypical views/thoughts about Black People.Why does EVERY one of his movies HAVE to have at least one loud mouthed black woman?Why is there some kind of drug or alcohol problem in every one of his movies? How many times can he make a movie about a woman getting beat? I just don't think it's fair to go and support such fuckery...dude is papered up any ways, I highly doubt my little $10 ticket hardly affected his sales ($20 million the opening weekend) 2) Im not trying to go and see a 2 hour long movie that's gunna play out scenarios that are gunna add to my insecurities about myself, my life, relationships,ect...for what? Im not trying to sit in a movie theatre for 2 hours and cry the entire time because the movie is so "real"...well, if I don't know the people that the characters are based on, and If Ive never been in any of the scenarios, how "REAL" could it be to ME?? Im just saying...maybe Im over thinking, or maybe I'm just REALLY starting to think. I don't think Tyler Perry is a great or even GOOD film maker.I read once that he was being compared to Spike Lee, which in my opinion IS THE ULTIMATE film maker/director. I feel like comparing the 2 of them is like comparing root bear to Dr. Pepper...yeah, they're both "black" and they are BOTH sodas, but one tastes like shit, while the other is pure and utterly delicious(weird comparison, but you get my drift..lol) I guess of ALL the black people in the world, I am the exception to the "Tyler Perry Cult"....he doesn't move me in the way he does everyone else and I think that the bottom line is that he is making bread(in large amounts) off of exploiting Black People...and people pay their money(probably made from selling drugs, if you ask Mr. Perry...lol/smh) to see it.I don't think Ive EVERY seen any of his movies in a theatre...and probably won't . Im not against him or his hustle...I just dont support it.
