Movie Review of "12 Years a Slave"

[Younggun]

Finally, some truth without self-applied blinders.

Um, that's no different than what was first posted. Get over yourself buddy. Nobody claimed slavery was OK or that nothing bad happened.


Your comments are just as bad as any other liberal trying to dismiss the truth with accusations of racism and bigotry.

 

[Mike1234567]

Um, that's no different than what was first posted. Get over yourself buddy. Nobody claimed slavery was OK or that nothing bad happened.


Your comments are just as bad as any other liberal trying to dismiss the truth with accusations of racism and bigotry.

Aww... now you've gone and hurt my little feelings.

 

[ROGER4314]

WOW! We really covered some ground! May I assume that I'm not classified as a "Bigot" any longer?

Going back to the movie, if you wake up to a beautiful day, have pleasant dealings with everyone then decide to go to this flick ...........here's what's gonna happen. You'll see the movie and leave the theater emotionally down, spent, upset and wishing that you had remained at home!

You will feel as if you had been flushed down a sewer filled with Human waste and all manner of disgusting filth. After a two hour ride down that pipe, when you get to the end of the pipe, that's how I felt when I left the theater.

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[ROGER4314]

"12 Years a Slave" just won the best picture Oscar. Sorry, I still didn't like it.

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[matefrio]

 

[BADJUJU]

WOW! We really covered some ground! May I assume that I'm not classified as a "Bigot" any longer?

I certainly wouldn't think that you're a bigot.

You will feel as if you had been flushed down a sewer filled with Human waste and all manner of disgusting filth. After a two hour ride down that pipe, when you get to the end of the pipe, that's how I felt when I left the theater.

But you're definitely in-tune with your emotions.

And that is most likely why movies like these are made. that raw emotion you felt is probably why it won the Oscar and Django did not. (Better movies, popcorn and coke, no tissue)

 

[Tejano Scott]

Roger thank you for the review. I know you're thick skinned enough to handle yourself, but keep your head up and ignore the haters.

 

[Easy CZ]

It won best picture. Just confirms it's crap.

 

[GlockOwner]

It won best picture. Just confirms it's crap.

OT: Lone Survivor failed to garner any attention at the academy beyond being nominated for "Best Sound Editing" and "Best Sound Mixing"....that is bull crap if you ask me

Back on topic: I still might see the movie (12 YAS) eventually, but I won't be paying to do so

 

[deemus]

I'm still waiting for the movie that depicts my Irish ancestors surviving their own version of slavery.

I find it interesting the idea that black people in general think all white people were slave owners. Most never considered the fact that there were white people in America who were indentured servants (AKA slaves). Mine were in that lot.

While I do hate that slavery existed in any form, my years on this earth have made me think two things: 1) the whole story has never been told; and 2) the story that has been told was fashioned in a way to create hate on both sides of the race issue. It seems the black side was motivated to hate all white people. Many on the white side were insulted that they were thrown into the lot of arrogant whites who actually did own blacks as slaves. Combine that with the general lack of color in young America, and you have the makings of hating people on opposite sides of a person's race.

My mom was a MLK Jr fan. She agreed with his ideals, while not so much his lifestyle. She hated injustice of any kind. If you want to know how a goodly part of the change in race relations in America happened, some of it was little sweet white women, who taught their kids not to hate someone based on their color. She raised a family of children who didn't hate black kids, or hispanic kids just because of their color.

This was in spite of my witnessing a brutal murder of a sweet little 70 something white woman by a black man when I was 8 years old. It gave me nightmares for years. After that I was terrified of black people.

But then during my third grade year, integration happened at my previously all white school. I became friends with a black kid who sat next to me. He was one of the smartest kids I went to school with, ever. And we often compared notes about our families and what they liked. Food, movies, and general lifestyles. I came to the conclusion that black people and white people were much more alike than I previously thought. We both liked our eggs over easy with bacon and bisquits and gravy, and we both hated turnip greens, and we both loved our mommas.

Melvin brought me healing toward the black race in general. I thank God often for giving me that friend. (I believe friends are not hap-hazard in our lives, but that God drops people in our lives for a reason) It likely prevented me from being a card carrying member of the Klan. My grandfather, who I spent alot of time with, was extremely racist. But with Melvin I had a new friend, and a different view of the black race.

I don't plan to watch the movie. I pretty much try to avoid anything that can incite hate. Just like I avoid other movies like it.

I hate that blacks were treated the way they were, not only during slavery, but also during the time leading up to the positive changes that occurred in the 60's and 70's in our society. But I also hate being lumped into the same group that abused my own ancestors during the early days of our nation. Many blacks have as much in common with a portion of whites in America as they do with their own color, who also owned slaves.

And in the words of I can't remember who, "why can't we all just get along?"

 

[ROGER4314]

I almost skipped writing a review on this movie because I felt so crappy about having seen it. Then I thought about the way the movie was presented and that our members may want to know what the real message is in this flick.

As it turned out, we had lively discussion on the subject, the review had more views than any other that I've written, it caused me to strengthen some attitudes that I had and also opened up some new information about the subject for me.

All things considered, seeing this flick turned into a positive experience. That's not because it was a good flick but because it left so many unanswered questions. Finding the correct answers made me a better person.

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[ROGER4314]

I told this story on TGT once before a long time ago. It's a great story and please forgive an old fart some repetition.

My father and his father were both medical doctors in eye, ear, nose and throat (EENT). Our family all lived in the Chicago area before I was born.

In the early 1940's my Grandfather got deathly ill and almost died so my GM, loaded him into a travel trailer and headed to Florida in hopes of prolonging his life. They set up home and my GF opened a medical practice that went very well.

My GF would treat the black field hands and fit them for glasses. It was the practice in the 1940's for doctors not to TOUCH the black patients and most refused to treat them at all. Other doctors in the area got wind of this and actually tried to BLOCK my GF's application for his Florida medical license! Too bad for them....he completed his paperwork several years earlier and there was nothing they could do to him. The word got out and he developed a large following of the black workers who came to him for treatment.

Some years later, my GF died and my GM visited the local church to set up his funeral. She specified that the black field hands wanted to attend the funeral but that didn't go well with the preacher.

Long story short............My GM held the funeral in the back yard of their home and everyone was welcome to attend! I visited the area (Pompano Beach, Florida) and my elderly aunt showed me the house and told me all about the story. That makes me proud!

NO....I'm not going to accept the guilt that this movie was handing out. The color of my skin may have been the same as these movie brutes but that's where the similarity ends.

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[Whistler]

As reality TV shares only a casual relationship with reality, drama sells even if you have to cherry-pick the facts or focus on the extreme. It's a bit sad but considering the steady stream of media sources truth is lost in ground clutter.

Thanks for your review Roger4314 and the ensuing discussion.

 

[RACER X]

And no mentions of Asians in the entire thread......kekeke

 

[shortround]

In 1977 while stationed at Fort Benning Georgia, my platoon was put on "funeral watch." We had to do mock military funeral drills daily until our First Sergeant was satisfied with our drill. On July 2, we got the call to do a funeral on July 4th, in Macon, Georgia for a deceased Master Sergeant.

We drove there in two vans: OIC, Pallbearers, Honor Detachment, and Bugler.

When we got to the Funeral Home, the Funeral Director was furious. We were all white and the deceased was black. Our OIC told the Funeral Director that we came to render National honors the deceased deserved. If the color of our detail was a problem, he would pull his detail and let the Funeral Director figure out how to proceed.

Since the family requested a military burial, the Funeral Director told our OIC to proceed. We got dressed into our Dress Blues, escorted the casket and family members, folded the flag, presented the flag, the honor detail rendered a twenty-one gun salute, and the bugler played Taps.

Afterwards, we were all heartily invited to the church hall for refreshments.

It was no coincidence the deceased was also buried in his dress blues.