Sometimes I’m a cynic and other times I’m an outright killjoy, but not this time. Hollywood’s latest propaganda vehicle titled ‘Blood Diamond’ is part ‘Raiders Of The Lost Ark’ and part ‘Gone With The Wind’ all set up using the diamond trade provoked civil war inside Sierra Leone as the backdrop. The movie invokes so many of Hollywood’s tried and true clichés that I can’t imagine how this movie won’t garner several Oscar nominations. Peep game…
So with all that said I still enjoyed this farcical fantasy of a thriller. LEONARDO DiCAPRIO plays the grizzled South African army veteran turned mercenary and that African guy that Hollywood uses for every single African guy role was brought in to play… The African guy. I enjoyed every scene where the rebel army kidnapped the Africans and chopped off their arms as well as when the government soldiers came to a village and killed people indiscriminately. I think those scenes really described the pathos of the African. And just like I’ve said many times, “It’s not the white man’s guns that are killing people in Africa, it’s the white man’s guns in African’s hands.”
My favorite, favorite line in the movie came when the African guy and LEONARDO DiCAPRIO were bonding over a bottle of Jack Daniel’s and the African guy reminisced on something his grandfather had told him…
“Things were so much better when the white man was in control.”
Brother, you just said a mouthful. Hang that man by a rope and stick a fork in him, he’s done. I give ‘Blood Diamond’ three KKKramers. Bring the whole family and get a discount if you show your ‘Kymberli Process’ certificate.
so you’re saying… you liked it and hated yourself for it? You liked it and hated the world for it?
I’m confused (no NORTHSTAR).
Yeah this movie did look poor but Sierra Leone is a pretty messed up place.
Is there no end to the contributions of cinemas’ heroic whiteys? Always helping folks out in these movies, bless their pasty-faced hearts.
^’Machine gun fire that never hits the protagonists but strafes everyone else around them’
so…it’s also part ‘A-team’, I gather?
cheers to debeer’s!!!!!!
This is kinda ill considering the high volume of zales/jarrett and whoever else jewlery commercials that keep coming on. Those things are going to drive me crazy.
my uncle went from counterfitting diamonds to money to stamps….a few jail stints in between….last i heard hes selling avocado’s on the side of the road in Hialeah…
It’s a shame that Djimon Hounsou has gone a long way from the Janet jackson video to Blood Diamond, and people still don’t know his name… He is known as “oh yeah..that Black guy from whutchamacallit”.
And he has roles in 2-4 movies per year…
Can I get a movie with Djimon Honsou and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje in two proud Afro-Europeans without them grunting in a gutteral African accent and allow them to speak in their real theatrical voices????
“The Bagger Vance theme is when some Black guy helps a white find their humanity by the end of the movie.”
I believe when ‘Bagger Vance’ was released, I heard this situation referred to as the “Super Nigga in motion picture Syndrome”. I also recall ‘The Green Mile’ being mentioned as in the same vein.
Well I’m going to see it.
amen to this review. all the vapid tooling, such as super radical badical liberal pandering of kayne (wut?) and rhymefestival, seems so poignant right now. but, nice watches fellas.
What is whitey going to do, when they get to where they think Heaven is and there sits a Black GOD!
BWAHAHAHAHA @ prynsex…
Btw, dallas are you gonna do a piece on Russell Simmon’s new rant about the blood diamond issue not being that serious…friggin’ ridiculous
http://www.sohh.com/articles/article.php/10405