tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24333848.post7403471636340212907..comments2023-09-20T03:38:21.091-04:00Comments on RyMickey's Ramblings: Movie Review - Lee Daniels' The ButlerJeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16126493031421822053noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24333848.post-1089389383922266712014-01-25T18:48:56.015-05:002014-01-25T18:48:56.015-05:00Okay, I agree about the END end part at the White ...Okay, I agree about the END end part at the White House. It is pretty awful. I But I liked the election scene. It didn't feel made up like most of the movie.Jar Jar R Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05934987671976258635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24333848.post-81590729354146308672014-01-25T11:59:39.408-05:002014-01-25T11:59:39.408-05:00That Onion review is pretty spot on. It screams &...That Onion review is pretty spot on. It screams "IMPORTANT" every chance it gets, but it's so incredibly "surface" in anything that it discusses that its importance is diminished almost from the start. I mean, look at the slavery scene at the very beginning and compare that to "12 Years a Slave," and you'll find yourself laughing at Alex Pettyfer attempting to be "tough" rather than being moved by the scene.<br /><br />My problem with the end which I didn't really state all that eloquently-- shoving politics aside for a minute (slightly) -- is that it's so blatantly cheap that it's almost insulting. There were other ways to have presented the Obama idea if you wanted to go that route (although I don't think the movie needed to). Steve mentioned having Cecil sitting in the White House similar to how it ends now and having him get up to meet the President and seeing a handshake between Cecil and Obama and ending on that note. It still would've been incredibly cheesy, but it would've felt less lazy. As it stand now, it's quite possibly one of the least inventive finales to a movie in a long time.Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16126493031421822053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24333848.post-23738525876187030852014-01-24T19:00:36.838-05:002014-01-24T19:00:36.838-05:00http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnFOtp9YW_Y
I pref...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnFOtp9YW_Y<br /><br />I prefer the Onion's review of it.<br />I won't comment on the fact that you got angry that they posed Obama as something hopeful in a movie about racial issues. It's the least of this movie's problems.Jar Jar R Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05934987671976258635noreply@blogger.com