Reply #40: I've seen the previews, and I'm definitely not going. [View All]

I loved the LOTR trilogy. But this movie looks BAD.

1) Giant gorilla. Don't care what you do with CGI, ain't no way to make that premise not stupid.
2) From the preview, it looks as if the part of the film set in Africa is extremely retro, and not in a good way. It could be that the people who put the preview together are deliberately trying to make the film LOOK like it hasn't moved out of the 1950s Tarzan era, but basically, let's see, we have a lost island inhabited by 'savages' who don't speak an intelligible language, worship a giant gorilla, and engage in human sacrifice, and who endanger an attractive white woman who then has to be rescued by her white male fellow-travelers. Do not see how any African-American viewer is going to get through that part of the film without a lot of teeth-grinding.
3) I just can't get behind the woman/gorilla love story. Just can't.

As for the Black hypersexuality thing, well, it certainly is a long-standing stereotype, but since I'm not goin' to the movie, I can't say whether it's in there or not.

C ya,

The Plaid Adder