Posted on 02/25/2017 6:51:11 AM PST by MarvinStinson
Members of the media cheered during a screening of the racial horror-comedy film Get Out when the black protagonist murdered an all-white family one-by-one.
Conservative film critic Armond White reported the "all-media" audience's reaction on Friday, in his scathing review of the film in National Review.
The New York Film Critics Circle removed White from its group after he allegedly made insulting comments about black director Steve McQueen during an annual awards ceremony. He called McQueen an “embarrassing doorman and garbageman,” according to Entertainment Weekly.
White compared the film's director Jordan Peele, of Comedy Central's "Key and Peele," to President Barack Obama in how he handled racial tension.
"In Get Out, just as Obama did, Peele exploits racial discomfort, irresponsibly playing racial grief and racist relief off against each other, subjecting imagination and identification to political sway," White wrote.
White complained that Get Out used "trite ‘post-racial' ironies' that protected Obama, and cites one of the main character's comments about the former president.
"The comedy side churns out trite ‘post-racial' ironies that have defined political humor for the past eight years (protecting and defending former president Obama) and that now threaten to continue in bizarre guises like this. Rose informs Chris that her parents (Bradley Whitford and Catherine Keener) ‘would have voted for Obama a third time if they could,'" he wrote.
Yeah but he was killing democrats. I’m going to watch it! I just saw the trailer. Creeped me out.
For real, not once in my 62 years. Alan Scherstuhl is projecting his own friends and family on America with a broad brush.
How so?
I find the people who most use that term are the biggest racists, seemingly terrified that people will get along.
They don’t want anything “post” about racism at all.
Huh? Believe it or not, there actually were some people who thought Obama's election meant racism was coming to an end and the country was becoming post-racial. It seems very naive now, but there were such people back in 2008. That's what "post-racialism" was about.
Critics don't expect much from horror movies. If a horror flick scares people and the film makers can change a few of the oft-repeated features of the genre, critics will find it fresh and appealing, especially if there's a political message in there for them to agree with.
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Exactly.
Quentin Tarantino’s Django was just another tired examole of a Blaxsploitation movie.
I have seen this garbage advertised on late-night TV. It’s obviously a propaganda tool to inspire criminal, perhaps even homicidal attacks. Imagine if the roles were reversed; the hue and cry would be deafening for such a “theme”.
There are powerful and evil people with money connected to Hollywood. /Captain Obvious What fool goes to this and “enjoys” it with a bucket of $8 popcorn and $5 soda? I shudder to think of such a person.
Self-loathing white snowflakes.
It might but it would be a sci-fi movie. Lol. THE ATTACK OF THE OBAMA-CONSERVO-EATERS!
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Christians need to arm up as well.
I believe most prudent ones have done so - the “pacifists” need to seriously think their options thru.
They were democrats and not a stereotype perpetuated on Trump supporters. This movie was pretty decent. I expected an extreme left bent but there wasn’t
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