The same game
Added 10/11/2009
Lord almighty how many films is America supposed to be subjugated to the endless race or sex riots from Hollywood? I swear we should figure that opinions on race one way or another is brought up 100x more in our media and movies than in real life. They attempt to portray both history and the present yet each time they including Omar Epps seemed leaching to a fetish of good guy and bad guy culture wars! The true culture wars are in Hollywood and Washington.
In real life whites, blacks, women, everybody has their fair share of problems and issues. These movies portray a one sided and two dimensioned part of a world, like college, really is like. College and life is not a world that is sliced up into cliques that define by race or sex.
The world is divided between one idea; those that believe they are better than the rest. Behind every group whether it be the KKK or the NAACP pride pulses in their cores.
What are we supposed to do with movies like this? And what about the constant stream hypocritical or self riceous material coming from Hollywood? Each one tries to portray what America is like when it's obvious to some of us that they have no clue. Each release seems a lot like their own instructions to us on morality. It's like gimmie a break. They give us sterotypical images of sexually assaulted women, young black males, or socially outcast young white males, the same kind every time. This does truly contradict whatever illusion of good group vs. bad group message they attempt. In this movie every character in one group was good and thoughtful and victimized while another group were dramatic enemies. As wonderful a conflict story this may seem movies like this are made from and made with folks that have never lived or witnessed conflict of this kind ever. A preppy college divided by gender, race, and background. In the world we live colleges are divided by a hundred more things than that! The ironic thing in truth, groups separated by those things are the ones that get along the best with everyone. It's really no different than high school. You have the jocks, the preps, the poor, the rich.
Again, what are we supposed to do with this film. In the end there is one majority and one minority. Those who know the truth vs. those who do not.
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Movie of stereotypes
Added 10/3/2009
All this movie is, is a series of stereotypes of various groups of people : school-shooting secretly woussy neonazi, athletic angry black guy, oversensitive feminist hippie chick, wise all-knowing professor. Really the only good part of the movie is the last part. If you filtered out the entire movie down to just the lines from Lawrence Fishburne, you'd have something of value.
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3 stars for entertaining me
Added 3/10/2009
Jennifer Connelly plays a lesbian, Kristi Swanson plays a sexually confused college student, Ice Cube & Busta Rhymes play black power militants, Michael Rapaport plays a confused nerdy college student who gets wooed by Nazi Skinheads, Tyra Banks plays a brainy track star (as does Omar Epps without the brainy-ness), the guy from "Dazed & Confused" plays the leader of a gang of Nazi skins that number about 4 members, Laurence Fishburne plays a know-it-all professer...the end.
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Total liberal propganda..
Added 2/25/2009
How people say this is the way it it is in the real world its easy to are still in college and have never lived in the real world. There will always be some racism and liberal/conservative disagreements and may at times come to violence its been in this world many years and would probably not be as big a deal if the media and etc would stop making it a big idea. But this movie could have been much better It seemed to me the black people were the stronger people and but we were all made to feel sorry for them and the white people were all confused and total wimps and this movie seemed racist against whites. This is no way to deal with racism. People need to stop bringing it up in these stupid movies and life in general and racism will go away in time.
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Good premise, lousy execution
Added 9/28/2008
Welcome to Columbus University. Where students are divided among racial lines. Where security regularly harasses black students. Where neo-nazis and the black panthers go to recruit new members. Where interracial and homosexual couples have to fear being attacked. Where campus shootings are bound to happen.
A movie about reace relations in college was a great idea and there are good performances from the leads in the film. The movie made some great points about students needing to appreciate the opportunities college brings them and taking responsibility for their own lives. However it also puts the characters at such extremes that it makes a totally unrealistic portrayal of college life. If this is what the writer went through in college than the university should be ashamed.
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The same game
Added 10/11/2009
Lord almighty how many films is America supposed to be subjugated to the endless race or sex riots from Hollywood? I swear we should figure that opinions on race one way or another is brought up 100x more in our media and movies than in real life. They attempt to portray both history and the present yet each time they including Omar Epps seemed leaching to a fetish of good guy and bad guy culture wars! The true culture wars are in Hollywood and Washington.
In real life whites, blacks, women, everybody has their fair share of problems and issues. These movies portray a one sided and two dimensioned part of a world, like college, really is like. College and life is not a world that is sliced up into cliques that define by race or sex.
The world is divided between one idea; those that believe they are better than the rest. Behind every group whether it be the KKK or the NAACP pride pulses in their cores.
What are we supposed to do with movies like this? And what about the constant stream hypocritical or self riceous material coming from Hollywood? Each one tries to portray what America is like when it's obvious to some of us that they have no clue. Each release seems a lot like their own instructions to us on morality. It's like gimmie a break. They give us sterotypical images of sexually assaulted women, young black males, or socially outcast young white males, the same kind every time. This does truly contradict whatever illusion of good group vs. bad group message they attempt. In this movie every character in one group was good and thoughtful and victimized while another group were dramatic enemies. As wonderful a conflict story this may seem movies like this are made from and made with folks that have never lived or witnessed conflict of this kind ever. A preppy college divided by gender, race, and background. In the world we live colleges are divided by a hundred more things than that! The ironic thing in truth, groups separated by those things are the ones that get along the best with everyone. It's really no different than high school. You have the jocks, the preps, the poor, the rich.
Again, what are we supposed to do with this film. In the end there is one majority and one minority. Those who know the truth vs. those who do not.
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Movie of stereotypes
Added 10/3/2009
All this movie is, is a series of stereotypes of various groups of people : school-shooting secretly woussy neonazi, athletic angry black guy, oversensitive feminist hippie chick, wise all-knowing professor. Really the only good part of the movie is the last part. If you filtered out the entire movie down to just the lines from Lawrence Fishburne, you'd have something of value.
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3 stars for entertaining me
Added 3/10/2009
Jennifer Connelly plays a lesbian, Kristi Swanson plays a sexually confused college student, Ice Cube & Busta Rhymes play black power militants, Michael Rapaport plays a confused nerdy college student who gets wooed by Nazi Skinheads, Tyra Banks plays a brainy track star (as does Omar Epps without the brainy-ness), the guy from "Dazed & Confused" plays the leader of a gang of Nazi skins that number about 4 members, Laurence Fishburne plays a know-it-all professer...the end.
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