[C19fan]

Looks like the Hip-Hop version of the musical classic stinks. SONY Pictures now has more to worry about besides hacked computer servers. The movie is going to be buried by the final Hobbit movie and probably the third Night at the Museum movie. I remember growing up they tried to make a let us say an urban version of the Wizard of Oz and despite some great musical talent that movie bombed too.

[icwhatudo]

On halloween night at midnight, if you look into a bathroom mirror and say “Black Annie” “Black Annie” “Black Annie” you can see hollywood profits take a huge fall.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I’m ready for Disney to do a remake of “Song of the South” that won’t “offend” anybody with a white guy as Uncle Remus. I imagine we’d still see a lot of whining and tantrums from people complaining that white guys can’t sing.

[Caipirabob]

Probably best it was filmed before ferguson so they could insert some sort of protest scene, like a musical number called “gentle giant” or “I can’t breathe”...

“I can’t breathe,
White mans got me!
He say I’m guilty of a fe-lo-ny...”

Take it rich white guy warbucks...

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

There was once a delightful little stage play called THE WIZ.
Then “they” turned it into a major movie with pimps and hos designed to appeal to Ghetto kids.

[lee martell]

Some remakes just don’t need to be made, because they don’t bring anything new or worth keeping to the table. It’s a big expensive gamble to make such a movie. Surly the actors could see how this was or was not coming together, but some directors refuse to listen to their actors. Alfred Hitchcock often came close to saying that he treated actors like sheep and cattle.

[EveningStar]

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[SoFloFreeper]

Jamie Foxx can shove it. Racist.

[Eddie01]

[raybbr]

Movies made around all black actors are generally boring. The jokes I don't get - the references to something that only blacks would understand are lost on me.

I watched "The Meteor Man" the other day. It was pretty funny. Stupid but funny at times. It was an all black cast attempt at a superhero parody.

[CatherineofAragon]

"the film's young star, Quvenzhane Wallis"

All righty, then.

[GreenHornet]

I’m waiting for the all white version of “A Raisin In The Sun.”

[latina4dubya]

I remember growing up they tried to make a let us say an urban version of the Wizard of Oz and despite some great musical talent that movie bombed too.

The Wiz with Diana Ross, Michael Jackson and Nipsey Russell, Mabel King, Lena Horne and Richard Pryor... it was based on the Broadway musical--which was successful... it did not translate well to the big screen... as a 13-year old girl, i liked it... i only remember two of the songs: Ease on Down the Road and You Can't Win...

[ozzymandus]

I think the patronizing white overlords of Hollywood really overestimate the public’s desire to see more black musicals.

[Terry L Smith]

when I heard that, again, Hollywood was going to take a just fine movie, and make it a Negro movie, I knew two things:
1. it was going to be a flop.
2. I was not going to see it.

I have read the newspaper, and Sunday funnies version from the time when Eisenhower was President, with the comic characters having no ‘eyes’, and Annie having red curly hair.
It could be an Oriental Annie, or an E.T. Annie, and it would just not be ANNIE!

[Dr. Sivana]

Pundits were no less mystified once they saw the film, which suggested an agonized disconnect between director and material.

No, Huston was very connected with the material. He took a Broadway stage play that was supposed to be a paeon to FDR and FDR-ism and changed it into a family film. He dropped the big closing number ("There's Going to be a New Deal for Christmas (This Year)"), changing the date to the Fourth of July. He brought in elements from the Harold Gray comic strip, which is ultimately THE material. Bringing in a comic scene with a commie bomb throw, and adding Punjab to the mix.

The lead was no Andrea McArdle. But the kids don't care about singing range. This was still not a great movie, but my kids love it. He understood EXACTLY what he was doing.

[Perdogg]

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