Selma (Starring David Oyelowo & Oprah Winfrey) Movie Review

[@Yaboi1893]

"I can't imagine a world where he (David Oyelowo) does not (get an oscar nomination)" .........WELP

[@Yaboi1893]

That's kind of the point fam

[@bklynfilipino89]

If you believe this film is about white guilt, perhaps reflect on if there is something to feel guilty about.

[@jasminewembankoy9552]

selma isn't a 'white guilt' film, its a historical film. its so funny that everyone is fine with a holocaust film and not say its a German guilt film but when its about black people some bigots say its about 'white guilt' and that's so stupid

[@jacobelis79]

Hollywood --> Reboots, Remakes, Re-imaginings, Sequels, Prequels, Book Adaptations, Game Adaptations, Comic Book Adaptations, White Guilt Films.

[@wolfstar675]

I'm fine with book adaptations because that's still original because you take a source material that no one else has touched and you can make it original. That has been done for very long.

[@delanoheath18]

Any movie about a group of people being done wrong by another group will seem like a "white guilt movie" a.k.a. I don't want to acknowledge the racist past. But who's fault is that?

[@sjw4life546]

You forgot to add whitewashed films and white savior movies.

[@EdertheJust]

Was he referring to this movie as a white guilt film?

[@bigraviolees]

Jack Brown Those who should feel guilt never do. Like vampires the right nut modern racist doesnt see the evil reflection in the mirror

[@tHEdEPOSITbOTTLE]

I have such trust for your judgement guys, and I love watching you talk amongst eachother. Thanks for doing this every day, every week.

[@PhantasmagoricSplend]

This deserved much more acclaim than Birdman. Civil rights movies will always be controversial. I thought they did a great job. They didn't exactly portray Martin Luther King as a saint. He had his issues. And I appreciated that was included in the movie.

[@daeroniitargaryen8652]

The way people pronounce this guys name always gets me

[@musicmann1967]

Best comment so far

[@daeroniitargaryen8652]

+Larry Lachmann It's true, they can't pronounce it properly.

[@seal3081]

Christy now knows what it feels to live in a world where Oyelowo was not nominated.

[@PapaWooody]

Also, Giovanni Ribisi and Oprah Winfrey were barely in this. How are they listed as stars? Because their names are recognizable?

[@mathman43]

Hollywood keeps pinning black people on square 1:resist, protest complain. It doesn't want them to overcome, just go on raging. Anybody can march, refuse to go to the back of the bus,etc. It requires discipline, self control, and self-improvement to build families and communities. By the way, these are different skill sets. Martin Luther King may not have been the person to lead them after the struggles of the 50's and 60's. Right now over 70% of black children are born out of wedlock. Why doesn't Hollywood make a movie about how to improve this? How about black people starting their own businesses and not relying on the government? White liberals still want blacks on the plantation

[@mcclendonreport]

David Oyelowo just didn't do it for me in this film. The cadence, the intonation, the diction all missing in his characterization. This film is good for people who did not grow up in the Civil Rights era. It's a good sort of introductory course. For that reason, it is quite useful and necessary. I applaud the effort and the spirit.

[@sjw4life546]

I'm kind of shocked that a film like this was "only" made for twenty million dollars. I also hope that Bradford Young gets a nomination for his work as well.

[@PapaWooody]

Selma is a brilliant movie. If it makes people feel guilty... good! This is a moment... a movement... that changed our country for the better. Just wish McNulty was there with Bunk to piss on the tracks.

[@Utracia1]

I'll see it when the AMC I go to decides to show it. Until then I'll go see Imitation Game tomorrow or perhaps Sunday.

[@aboubacaramine8689]

Tim Roth playing a white supremacist bastard was the icing of the cake for me :D f*cking awesome actor

[@Ytremz]

Gloreh! *Gloreh!* *GLOREHHH!* Hallelujah!

[@musicmann1967]

Who else looked up quotidien? lol

[@MrsD7777]

LOL! Is that how u spell it? & WHY??? ha

[@blinkzone1]

I want to see this movie

[@joecamps1119]

Please do an extended spoiler talk about this movie, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!

[@genericname34]

Spoiler: King dies, blacks get equal rights, they're still not equal today 50 years later. There ya go.

[@easysnake205]

Lol why do you need a spoiler? go google MLK

[@chrishernandez3699]

tropicAces Only 2 out of 3 of those things are true.

[@genericname34]

Chris Hernandez except all three are true...unless you're saying we live in a fully equal world today in which case that could be opinion I suppose...

[@Bayard1503]

Sure, an Oscar nomination, but who would you take out??? The male lead race has been getting tougher and tougher in the last years.... on the other hand, the female lead race seems to be getting weaker. Strange and worrisome

[@shumlina]

***** Yep. He basically just plays Sherlock with a different speech pattern.

[@Laughing_Chinaman]

***** and he makes everyone autistic, as if everyone who is smart must sit on the spectrum

[@TrueIronMaidenFan]

I would take out Michael Keaton, Steve Carell, or Eddie Radaymayne and add Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler) and Guy Pearce (The Rover) to replace 2 of them.

[@benbutler7791]

I think Cumberbatch. He's kinda riding on the fame he's got from Sherlock. Keaton deserves to win hands down, so the other four are just happy to be there. Should be Carell, Redmayne, Gyllenhaal and Oyelowo.

[@MrAJMproductions]

Definitely Cumberbatch, it was too much of a typecast

[@abcun17]

Hopefully the movie gets the recognition it deserves. As to the movie's relevance, I think that this movie could have been released anytime during the past couple of decades and still have been very much relevant. Something tells me that it will continue to be relevant in the decades ahead. Inequality is becoming a permanent fixture in the daily lives of increasingly larger and larger numbers of people...

[@jarenc2048]

I love this sweater. lol

[@ruzzelladrian907]

Goosebumps ! I need to watch this movie !

[@jucameron]

Having lived in the US in the mid-60s I think “Selma” is to the civil rights movement what “Braveheart” is to Scottish history and it was rightly denied much recognition at the Oscars. Pioneers like Eleanor Roosevelt are airbrushed leaving the whites irredeemably horrible and repellent while the blacks are uniformly attractive, saintly and endlessly long-suffering. The portrayal of Lyndon Johnson is a disgrace with the director, freed from fear of libel by his death, making no effort to be accurate about the real hero of the civil rights act. It was in fact Robert Kennedy who told the FBI to monitor King’s womanising habits and the ever-campaigning John Kennedy who was reluctant and frequently obstructionist. Director Ava DuVernay admits “the movie is not a documentary and I'm no historian” which is certainly true but like Braveheart it will become a defining narrative for the uneducated.

[@shanoriya]

Amazing movie! Horrible review

[@csjcsj2906]

Why was it horrible?

[@nerdfather7361]

How is this a horrible review? They gave it really positive scores and praised the film. I don't understand your comment if you said this film was amazing and they are agreeing with you.

[@MrsD7777]

Best review i've ever seen on What the Flick, but i've never seen Christy give a very high on anything tho :|

[@plm3d]

Oscar bait.

[@jamesedwardclard]

I finally watched it last night... and honestly it's a pretty dull movie. It's punctuated by a few poignant moments and a few powerfully scenes, but in the end it was a real slog to get through. I think David Oyelowo nails the 2 scenes where he's giving the MLK speeches but other then that his performance far to understated, it's like he sleepwalking through the movie. Thats just opinion though.

[@burninhell303]

Oh no,I don't support suger cain...

[@theebarb8178]

Great movie. One of my best black history films.

[@user-hh2is9kg9j]

it was boring

[@markdemort]

Third

[@RetroJunkie94]

Amazing movie!

[@alphonso1663]

this movies was really good and sad ... but im sorry if the white people back then acted like that with black people today all i know is its about to go down

[@terrysilvester4720]

Racist film.

[@Chimera1591]

Yes, there were racists in the movie.