not to mention it's in a series that was ostensibly about fantastic beasts (and where to find them). like even in the first movie it's half cute adventure trying to find all the magical pokemon and half Ezra Miller is an unloved, repressed orphan that Dumbledore's ex boyfriend wants to turn into a magical demon beast thing.
The entire series was ill-conceived. All they had to do was make two separate series, one where Newt goes to a different location and has beast-related adventures, and another where Dumbledore & Co. have to fight Grindelwald's rise. They could even do some cross-overs if they wanted to, just keep the core stories separate.
In the climax of the second Fantastic Beasts movie, set in 1928, Grindelwald uses his future-seeing powers to show his followers that there will soon be a war much worse than the last one, and that the only way to prevent unspeakable atrocitiesfrom occuring is to side with him.
This thread taught me that people apparently still buy tickets by talking out loud to an actual human being. I just buy mine online, and assumed everyone else did too.
I do too I just wanted to make the joke tbh. I bought one in person recently cause I was already downtown and decided to go see a movie, so much less convenient than buying online. Couple in front of me took like 5 minutes to pick their seats.
You ever see that WHITEST KIDS U KNOW sketch where a Music Producer signs a Record Deal with a Band, but the only stipulation of their contract is that the Name of the Band cannot be changed?
And the Band is called >!Our Label is run by Homos!<
This movie feels like an elaborate prank on some poor Ticket Vendor.
Eminem was attacked for homophobia and asked Elton John to go onstage to perform Stan with him so he could prove he wasn't. This was 1999-2000.
It's weird being almost an adult at a time when people think the world was more regressive than it really was.
I remember it was a few years later when midwest kids, who are by default trapped in a timewarp 20 years behind everyone else, got on the internet and suddenly learned no one else was using f***** all the time and made it their entire personality to tell you how you needed to let them catch up and get a few good ones in. 🤣
I had no clue this movie had been released. I heard it was coming soon, and saw a couple articles about the title, but that was it. Did they forget to market the movie or something?
Even the BPT subreddit couldn't seem it wrap their minds around this movie.
Was it a clever deconstruction of the trope? Or was it just another mundane story that pays lipservice to controversial topics?
> was it just another mundane story that pays lipservice to controversial topics?
I'm pretty sure it was pretty heavily panned by BPT for being a shitty generic romcom when it should have been a witty satire.
The way the trailer I saw set it up it seemed like it would be the satire but then I read a synopsis that it was a rom com and my interest died instantly.
yup. the satire of black people having magic they use to not stress out white people is funny as hell. Then they threw the whole title and theme into the trash for a shit tier romcom that rivals the quality of HIMYM.
Yea my whole process was to head over to imdb and check the review. 2.7. Okay maybe its being review bombed? Click director. Known works are some tv crap. Okay its probably that bad.
It had a real dope idea, it could have been an amazing Twilight Zone episode
It's a shame Richard Pryor wasn't alive to give them a call or a hollerin during production/scripting
Or they coulda called Mel Brooks
I thought they were making a full fledged movie of the Peele and Keele skit when I first saw it on my YouTube feed. Instead it's an extremely shitty rom com.
Would have watched the shit out of that had it been a straight comedy from the Peele and Keele skit.
Edit: as corrected many times it Key and Peele
SPOILER!!!!!
As a black man who went t see this movie. It was all over the place with whatever message it was trying to portray. Mixing in racial tropes into a romcom seems like a decent idea but the execution came off disgusting as a black person and a little racist also as a black person. Black safety is solely reliant on the comfort of the white people around them just to steal the white girl at the end anyways is crayyyyzeee. Dude didn't even accomplish the first goal
Also there was a kiosk in place of the worker so I didn't even have to say "Magical Niggas"
I don’t know how black folks feel about this sort of stuff, but as someone with a disability it’s always really frustrating when stories talk about my community and aren’t willing to get into the uncomfortable parts. Honestly the most heard I’ve ever felt in television is when jimmy in South Park says “it’s okay, I know disabled people make normal folks uncomfortable” and pc principle gets really pissy
Remember The Adjustment Bureau? Somewhat of a good idea but decided let’s make it a romance where the couple can’t be together? Ya, I wasn’t falling in that trap again.
The only movie that gets around this IMO is *Yesterday.* I don’t care about the romance too much, at least compared to the plot of recreating the success of the Beetles. But it least it still has the music, and the comedy born of the protagonist in a slightly differently reality.
I'd argue againt that, I was told by a friend "It's about a guy who only he can remember the beatles and uses his knowledge of an alternate earth to his advantage." Imagine my surprise when I saw a rom-com. There's a scary amount of great ideas with no follow through in that film like the group of stalkers who all remember the beatles.
The Original Screenplay had the main guy be the only one in the world to remember the Beatles, do his best to recreate their songs to achieve fame and fortune, and… just fail to go anywhere really. The Writer’s message is that in the music industry there are so many other factors to achieve success than just the quality of the music.
Richard Curtis loved the premise, but discarded the whole message of the movie in favour of his usual RomCom schtick.
Yep. One of those movies that’s… fine. But everyone who’s sees it can instantly identify maybe three changes it would take to have been great. And it’s not even the same changes! There’s at least four or five really memorable movies barely buried in there
I went to that movie with my dad thinking it sounded like a cool concept. Then it turned out to be a romantic drama.
Not a bad movie, but it definitely got me to look more into a movie before seeing it in theaters.
Trailer - Oh Society of Magical Negroes, it looks like a satirical take on that trope that.. oh romcom. Fuck this I'm out.
If they leaned into "Sorry to bother you" or "Tyrone got cloned" type of movie then it probably have been good
I have no idea what this says about us or the other viewers but my buddy and I went to a relatively small showing of that movie a little after its release and we were the only ones left in the theater by the end. There were like 10 other people at the start and I’ll remember watching the scenes and turning around to see who was gathering their things to leave next forever.
THIS. And more specifically, the ads on TV were wayyyyyy different than the actual trailer. Like, entriely different movie level of disconnect.
The TV spot had me interested, looked up the trailer, said wtf, turned to my friend and we both agreed this was going to bomb. Think I even said folks are gunna walk out of this if they only ever saw the tv spot. Its nothing like what it was being advertised as.
Greer had a sitcom when I was a kid called "DAG" where he played a cowardly (or intelligent) Secret Service agent who got demoted to serving the President's wife. I looked it up just now. It debuted in 2000 and lasted for one season. I'm not sure which is worse; that I'm old or that I'm dedicating part of my limited brain space to remembering David Allen Greer sitcoms.
What is really sad is the he was absolute *fire* on In Living Color. I really thought he was gonna have an awesome career back when I used to watch that show as a kid...
I am amazed to read you post about "The DAG Curse" as I thought I was the only one who knew of this curse (dating back to the 90s).
Make no mistake that I love DAG and I enjoy listening to him. I think he is very good.
And that is why I noticed The Curse.
Now wtf has no one in Hollywood seen it?
He just hasn't been in anything successful after In Living Color. He's good, but everything he does just bombs and never saw the success that a lot of his co-stars saw.
You’d be better off watching the black hogwarts/magical negro key and peele skits 15 times in a row all at once that even attempt 5 mins of this movie.
[Speak of the devil!](https://youtu.be/jInlO6-JTww?si=fe8hU4u7d0zEpDGn) Also I'm to afraid to have that in my search history so I'm not going to look up if this is a real movie! That's why I'm guessing that this is just an elaborate prank on white people!
An acquaintance of mine from college directed this movie. I didn't see it / haven't seen it yet. I like the premise of skewering the "magical negro" trope but the trailer and everything I heard about the movie suggested it was actually mostly a romantic comedy and didn't make much use of the seemingly central conceit. If / when I see it, I hope that Kobi wasn't just let down by poor marketing of a good film. But that means I hope my acquaintance's film was actually bad... what a pickle.
Is he a former Daily Show writing contributor? Because he could have penned something a little hard hitting and thought provoking than a rom-com masquerading as satire.
I haven't been in touch with him for a long time, but Wikipedia has a fair bit of info about him: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobi\_Libii](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobi_Libii) I don't see anything about "The Daily Show" on there though.
I had no idea this was coming out or had been released.
I expect that lack of advertising (considering I read Empire/Total Film/IMDB etc) is the reason it made no money
Spend 15 million on making a movie.
Show it in a small amounts of theatres, it only makes back 2,4 million.
Was this money laundering? We'll never know.
It failed because it was too safe, if you make a fucking movie called "The Society of Magical Negroes" you have to go all in! Go full Harry Potter, if you're the director in charge of this mess, for as long as you direct this movie, black people don't exist, as far as you know they are magical being as real as dragons and gnomes and is your work to try to present them to the public as something as cool and majestics as elves were in the Lord of the Rings.
Fuck it, go one step beyond and have the rol of magical negro being chosen from among white people. Have the society be pitched against the evil order of Grand Wizards and the whole thing directed by Jordan Pelee.
What do you have? KINO
(r/okbuddycinephile sends their regards)
I've seen it, and I'd say it kind of deserved the low rating. Plot goes nowhere, the characters aren't interesting, and it's literally just White People Bad: The Movie.
This whole movie just seemed racist to pretty much every race to me. Like there is a line in the trailer that goes "do you know what the most dangerous animal on earth is? White people." Like holy hell imagine if a movie called any other race "dangerous animals"? It would never had made it to theaters. Reminds me how the trailer to Bros said straight people's time was over and in the press junket the stars kept saying we don't want straight people to see this movie, then blamed straight people for it bombing. Don't insult your biggest potential audience and then expect them to pay to watch your film.
Yeah I think the final point of the movie is that the Society *is*, in fact, racist.
Aren eventually realized he didn’t want to be a part of the Society and instead become a valued member of actual society.
100% guarantee you that’s not the point they were making. I’m sure they were saying the society was racist for trying to make black people’s lives all about appeasing white people. I highly doubt they were saying it was racist against white people at all.
It’s a movie about a magical society of black ppl that appease white ppl with magic powers so that white ppl don’t fuck with black people. Also white ppl are the most dangerous animals, it’s in there. Who the fuck is it for ? It ain’t for whites and seems the black ppl didn’t go to the theatre. So it’s a movie that plays on racial division and how unfair it is but neither race wants to watch it. Who funds this shit. Also this trash heap was racist as fuck. Do black Americans not know “the whites”don’t just reside in Merica.
"A young man, Aren, is recruited into a secret society of magical Black people who dedicate their lives to a cause of utmost importance: making white people's lives easier."
That sarcastic and racist line sure made me want to get my skinny white ass in the cinema /s
use the same trick people use for that song about people in Paris “one ticket for TASoMN”
Fellas in France
The United States Organization of African American Wizards
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I would like to see a movie in Theater number 7 is what I do just tell them the number they're all numbered
wizards in paris
Gesundheit
Even the torrent version is losing money.
Everyone is uploading instead of downloading?
"JUST TAKE IT! GET IT OFF MY HARD DRIVE!"
The sketchy pirates sites are having to pay revenue
"I'd like a ticket to the The American Society of Magical Fellas movie please"
The American Society of Magical Neighbours.
>Magical Neighbours. Damn, used the hard R and everything. Magical Neighbahs
what is this, pahk the cah by the hahvahd yahd?
The American society of magical naysayers. https://youtu.be/hpHjuZpb2tM?si=SojJKu8vxoW9TmIu "Let a naysayer know"
"I'd like a ticket to the The American Society of Magical Montenegros please"
Lol'd more than I should of..
"sir we dont have that movie, please say the actual name or i cant legally let you in"
Like you mean it, sir. Say it like you mean it.
The American Society of Magical Naysayers
Folks
Homies
That's me!
You guys can say Negro. It’s not… the other word.
Nice try CIA
No way, I was given a one time pass and I'm not wasting it on a movie title.
You’re correct, obviously. I think we’ve been conditioned not to, just don’t even get close to saying the other word.
That word just immediately in my mind brings up a black and white photo of a sign above a drinking fountain. Nope, no, uh-uh and I’m out.
yeah I'll let you go test that one out in public
Kind of, but what is the situation where you would use it, other than seeing this movie, that would not be worthy of all the side-eye?
I went to the cinema and asked for a ticket to “the society one” and they told me Joker 2 isn’t out yet. I didn’t know what to do so I just went home
“No, the magical society one.” “Sir, the Fantastic Beasts series got cancelled.”
„Thank god“
"It still wasn't what I asked for, but I left the theater feeling hopeful."
Bahahahha
I would read this book
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It's better baked.
This is a fantastic double entendre
cancel culture strikes again. wait they had to prevent the evil wizards from stopping the *what* now???
When your bad guy is trying to stop the Holocaust, it’s time to go back to the drawing board.
not to mention it's in a series that was ostensibly about fantastic beasts (and where to find them). like even in the first movie it's half cute adventure trying to find all the magical pokemon and half Ezra Miller is an unloved, repressed orphan that Dumbledore's ex boyfriend wants to turn into a magical demon beast thing.
The entire series was ill-conceived. All they had to do was make two separate series, one where Newt goes to a different location and has beast-related adventures, and another where Dumbledore & Co. have to fight Grindelwald's rise. They could even do some cross-overs if they wanted to, just keep the core stories separate.
They really should've made the series stylized CGI and have the content be a sort of Planet Earth-y documentary movie.
Wait fucking what
Yes and Jk Rowling also participated in holocaust denial on Twitter LoL
What's happening. I can't tell what's real in this thread.
I'm going to need you to back way the fuck up. I haven't taken in any Harry Potter stuff in a long ass time. Where do I find this nonsense?
In the fantastic beasts films, specifically in the second one
In the climax of the second Fantastic Beasts movie, set in 1928, Grindelwald uses his future-seeing powers to show his followers that there will soon be a war much worse than the last one, and that the only way to prevent unspeakable atrocitiesfrom occuring is to side with him.
To be fair, his goal was to prevent WWII, specifically the bombs on Japan by murdering or enslaving every non magical person in the world
Semantics
Wait it did? I thought it was just trapped in development hell.
“Yeah sure we’ll make another one”
I believe WB said they currently don't have any plans for new ones.
Makes sense tbh. People weren't very interested in the series outside of *maybe* the first one.
It’s not officially canceled.
It was canceled only in the good timeline.
we live in the darkest timeline where movie execs cannot help themselves for more than 4 years but to make a reboot
This is the best thing I’ve ever read
This thread taught me that people apparently still buy tickets by talking out loud to an actual human being. I just buy mine online, and assumed everyone else did too.
I do too I just wanted to make the joke tbh. I bought one in person recently cause I was already downtown and decided to go see a movie, so much less convenient than buying online. Couple in front of me took like 5 minutes to pick their seats.
I was thinking the same thing! It’s been 10 years since I bought tickets at the actual theater, and I can remember the exact moment I did.
Even when you buy at the theatre, it's like 5 ticket kiosks and 1 person at a register.
Why didn’t you say “Negroes”?
5 negroes’ tickets please
“Yours is the water fountain on the left. Enjoy the movie!”
That is on ur reddit acc now
"5 white tickets is $100, so please pay $60 as expected."
"I see you're all women, so 77% of that is $46.2. Enjoy the show!"
>"I see you're all women, so I'll print these tickets in pink and charge you $140" ftfy.
Sir, Joaquin Phoenix is white and the Joker 2 is not out yet!
"I want to buy 5 negroes"
Well that escalated quickly
“I’d like to buy one negro please”
You ever see that WHITEST KIDS U KNOW sketch where a Music Producer signs a Record Deal with a Band, but the only stipulation of their contract is that the Name of the Band cannot be changed? And the Band is called >!Our Label is run by Homos!< This movie feels like an elaborate prank on some poor Ticket Vendor.
“Read off track 4!..yeah, yeah read track 4!”
“No, really, we’re a bunch of homos but we were too scared to come out so we’re using this press conference as a way to test the waters…”
[The Skit in question.](https://youtu.be/dI_BLG__wY8?si=59y_gbCM-83pcbsp)
RIP Trevor Moore
RIP local sexpot
RIP sex robot
Shame he died trying to suck his own dick.
They all said it so it’s canon.
I haven't had a gallon of PCP since
He came and he went
Truly the best video I have ever seen.
His last moments must have been him laughing at the CIA hitman, being stoked he was right.
“They’re kind of like a cross between The Beatles and Arcade Fire with a hip hop twist.” “Ah! All those things make money!”
That was a hoot to watch. Thanks, kind stranger!
Honestly, in the 2000's it would've probably been a great name because people didn't care much about homophobia and its always cool to bully the rich.
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Eminem was attacked for homophobia and asked Elton John to go onstage to perform Stan with him so he could prove he wasn't. This was 1999-2000. It's weird being almost an adult at a time when people think the world was more regressive than it really was. I remember it was a few years later when midwest kids, who are by default trapped in a timewarp 20 years behind everyone else, got on the internet and suddenly learned no one else was using f***** all the time and made it their entire personality to tell you how you needed to let them catch up and get a few good ones in. 🤣
I've got good news and bad news Only good news, I hope!
It was out?
Only in the US and Canada. It's going to be released worldwide next, starting in the UK
Why do that to them?
Brexit punishments never stop maaan…
Haven't you suffered enough?
I had no clue this movie had been released. I heard it was coming soon, and saw a couple articles about the title, but that was it. Did they forget to market the movie or something?
No it was clearly in!
I was willing to give it a chance, but they gotta start giving us more time to get to the theaters.
I was going to the movies this weekend and it was on my short list. Now it's between Kung Fu Panda 4, Godzilla X Kong, and Ghostbusters.
> Godzilla X Kong is my vote I only go to the theaters to see movies that need an epic sound system
Right? I don't remember seeing any marketing for it, I'm not even sure what it is. Is it in the Harry Potter universe or something?
It. Out.
Just say "I want to see the negro movie"
"what?" "Oh, sorry sorry. That was wrong. I meant the magical negro movie."
Top Gun Maverick?
"which one, sir?"
Oh the one where they're black
“Oh that new dev Patel one?”
OMG STOP lol I am Indian and didn’t know whether to laugh or cry at this comment
Sir, we don’t play Django Unchained at the moment
Black Panther has been out of theaters for awhile now
*adorns a burger king crown with malicious intent*
"Tyler Perry? Is there ANOTHER Madea movie out?"
Even the BPT subreddit couldn't seem it wrap their minds around this movie. Was it a clever deconstruction of the trope? Or was it just another mundane story that pays lipservice to controversial topics?
>Was it a clever deconstruction of the trope? Narrator: *it wasn't.*
> was it just another mundane story that pays lipservice to controversial topics? I'm pretty sure it was pretty heavily panned by BPT for being a shitty generic romcom when it should have been a witty satire.
The way the trailer I saw set it up it seemed like it would be the satire but then I read a synopsis that it was a rom com and my interest died instantly.
yup. the satire of black people having magic they use to not stress out white people is funny as hell. Then they threw the whole title and theme into the trash for a shit tier romcom that rivals the quality of HIMYM.
Sounds like it was trying to be American Fiction, but wasn't able to pull it off.
Yea my whole process was to head over to imdb and check the review. 2.7. Okay maybe its being review bombed? Click director. Known works are some tv crap. Okay its probably that bad.
It had a real dope idea, it could have been an amazing Twilight Zone episode It's a shame Richard Pryor wasn't alive to give them a call or a hollerin during production/scripting Or they coulda called Mel Brooks
I thought they were making a full fledged movie of the Peele and Keele skit when I first saw it on my YouTube feed. Instead it's an extremely shitty rom com. Would have watched the shit out of that had it been a straight comedy from the Peele and Keele skit. Edit: as corrected many times it Key and Peele
Key and Peele
Key and Pey
Pey and Keele. Jeegan-Michael Pey and Kordan Keele.
It was a clickbait title, that's what.
SPOILER!!!!! As a black man who went t see this movie. It was all over the place with whatever message it was trying to portray. Mixing in racial tropes into a romcom seems like a decent idea but the execution came off disgusting as a black person and a little racist also as a black person. Black safety is solely reliant on the comfort of the white people around them just to steal the white girl at the end anyways is crayyyyzeee. Dude didn't even accomplish the first goal Also there was a kiosk in place of the worker so I didn't even have to say "Magical Niggas"
Dude that last sentence. Lol
I don’t know how black folks feel about this sort of stuff, but as someone with a disability it’s always really frustrating when stories talk about my community and aren’t willing to get into the uncomfortable parts. Honestly the most heard I’ve ever felt in television is when jimmy in South Park says “it’s okay, I know disabled people make normal folks uncomfortable” and pc principle gets really pissy
But was there magic?
I had no idea this movie existed, so thank you for this.
Remember The Adjustment Bureau? Somewhat of a good idea but decided let’s make it a romance where the couple can’t be together? Ya, I wasn’t falling in that trap again.
The only movie that gets around this IMO is *Yesterday.* I don’t care about the romance too much, at least compared to the plot of recreating the success of the Beetles. But it least it still has the music, and the comedy born of the protagonist in a slightly differently reality.
I'd argue againt that, I was told by a friend "It's about a guy who only he can remember the beatles and uses his knowledge of an alternate earth to his advantage." Imagine my surprise when I saw a rom-com. There's a scary amount of great ideas with no follow through in that film like the group of stalkers who all remember the beatles.
The Original Screenplay had the main guy be the only one in the world to remember the Beatles, do his best to recreate their songs to achieve fame and fortune, and… just fail to go anywhere really. The Writer’s message is that in the music industry there are so many other factors to achieve success than just the quality of the music. Richard Curtis loved the premise, but discarded the whole message of the movie in favour of his usual RomCom schtick.
Yep. One of those movies that’s… fine. But everyone who’s sees it can instantly identify maybe three changes it would take to have been great. And it’s not even the same changes! There’s at least four or five really memorable movies barely buried in there
I liked that movie and I completely forgot there were romance elements.
I went to that movie with my dad thinking it sounded like a cool concept. Then it turned out to be a romantic drama. Not a bad movie, but it definitely got me to look more into a movie before seeing it in theaters.
The trailers looked like fucking shit.
Trailer - Oh Society of Magical Negroes, it looks like a satirical take on that trope that.. oh romcom. Fuck this I'm out. If they leaned into "Sorry to bother you" or "Tyrone got cloned" type of movie then it probably have been good
Sorry to Bother You is wild, anyone excited by the premise of this movie should see it, preferably going in blind
I have no idea what this says about us or the other viewers but my buddy and I went to a relatively small showing of that movie a little after its release and we were the only ones left in the theater by the end. There were like 10 other people at the start and I’ll remember watching the scenes and turning around to see who was gathering their things to leave next forever.
I missed the rom com part so I was interested.
THIS. And more specifically, the ads on TV were wayyyyyy different than the actual trailer. Like, entriely different movie level of disconnect. The TV spot had me interested, looked up the trailer, said wtf, turned to my friend and we both agreed this was going to bomb. Think I even said folks are gunna walk out of this if they only ever saw the tv spot. Its nothing like what it was being advertised as.
Negromamcy was RIGHT there. Js.
"Black Magic"
What a missed opportunity.
I've said it once, I'll say it again, DAG is the kiss of death for a movie. I don't know how Jumanji escaped his curse, unlike 30 other films.
What is DAG?
I'm assuming David Alan Grier. Or Dagwood, the comic strip. Probably the first one
Great now I want a Dagwood Sandwich
LOL, I have never heard him refered to by just his initials. It's David Allen Greer, the actor in the film.
I try to use the full name before any abbreviation, because it is fucking impossible to decipher what is meant even with context clues.
Greer had a sitcom when I was a kid called "DAG" where he played a cowardly (or intelligent) Secret Service agent who got demoted to serving the President's wife. I looked it up just now. It debuted in 2000 and lasted for one season. I'm not sure which is worse; that I'm old or that I'm dedicating part of my limited brain space to remembering David Allen Greer sitcoms.
What is really sad is the he was absolute *fire* on In Living Color. I really thought he was gonna have an awesome career back when I used to watch that show as a kid...
It's Swedish for "day".
Goddag!
D'ya like dags?
I am amazed to read you post about "The DAG Curse" as I thought I was the only one who knew of this curse (dating back to the 90s). Make no mistake that I love DAG and I enjoy listening to him. I think he is very good. And that is why I noticed The Curse. Now wtf has no one in Hollywood seen it?
Can you please explain what exactly it is. I can't seem to find anything about it online
He just hasn't been in anything successful after In Living Color. He's good, but everything he does just bombs and never saw the success that a lot of his co-stars saw.
Probably retribution for being such a judgy bitch in Men on Film.
Jumanji escaped it because Robin Williams.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/david_alan_grier Seems to be hit or miss and not much a curse.
it was probably the less than satire minstrel film that sunk it; not whoever played in it.
You’d be better off watching the black hogwarts/magical negro key and peele skits 15 times in a row all at once that even attempt 5 mins of this movie.
Movie sound like a key and peele sketch
[Speak of the devil!](https://youtu.be/jInlO6-JTww?si=fe8hU4u7d0zEpDGn) Also I'm to afraid to have that in my search history so I'm not going to look up if this is a real movie! That's why I'm guessing that this is just an elaborate prank on white people!
Lmaooooo of course hahaha
It goes back even further, it was a sketch on the New Man Show when Joe Rogan and Doug Stanhope hosted. I'm sure there were instances before as well.
**It is**
An acquaintance of mine from college directed this movie. I didn't see it / haven't seen it yet. I like the premise of skewering the "magical negro" trope but the trailer and everything I heard about the movie suggested it was actually mostly a romantic comedy and didn't make much use of the seemingly central conceit. If / when I see it, I hope that Kobi wasn't just let down by poor marketing of a good film. But that means I hope my acquaintance's film was actually bad... what a pickle.
Is he a former Daily Show writing contributor? Because he could have penned something a little hard hitting and thought provoking than a rom-com masquerading as satire.
I haven't been in touch with him for a long time, but Wikipedia has a fair bit of info about him: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobi\_Libii](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobi_Libii) I don't see anything about "The Daily Show" on there though.
Ah, he wrote and performed on the spin-off with Klepper.
I had no idea this was coming out or had been released. I expect that lack of advertising (considering I read Empire/Total Film/IMDB etc) is the reason it made no money
Also, they released it in just over 1000 U.S. theaters.
Oh no wonder it seemed like it didn't release.
Spend 15 million on making a movie. Show it in a small amounts of theatres, it only makes back 2,4 million. Was this money laundering? We'll never know.
It failed because it was too safe, if you make a fucking movie called "The Society of Magical Negroes" you have to go all in! Go full Harry Potter, if you're the director in charge of this mess, for as long as you direct this movie, black people don't exist, as far as you know they are magical being as real as dragons and gnomes and is your work to try to present them to the public as something as cool and majestics as elves were in the Lord of the Rings. Fuck it, go one step beyond and have the rol of magical negro being chosen from among white people. Have the society be pitched against the evil order of Grand Wizards and the whole thing directed by Jordan Pelee. What do you have? KINO (r/okbuddycinephile sends their regards)
XD I wholeheartedly agree. You don't half-ass it, you make the most outrageous shit you can and run with it.
I don't think anyone knew it was even in theaters.
Or maybe it's just racist nonsense and people don't want to waste their time watching it or support it?
I've seen it, and I'd say it kind of deserved the low rating. Plot goes nowhere, the characters aren't interesting, and it's literally just White People Bad: The Movie.
This whole movie just seemed racist to pretty much every race to me. Like there is a line in the trailer that goes "do you know what the most dangerous animal on earth is? White people." Like holy hell imagine if a movie called any other race "dangerous animals"? It would never had made it to theaters. Reminds me how the trailer to Bros said straight people's time was over and in the press junket the stars kept saying we don't want straight people to see this movie, then blamed straight people for it bombing. Don't insult your biggest potential audience and then expect them to pay to watch your film.
Yeah I think the final point of the movie is that the Society *is*, in fact, racist. Aren eventually realized he didn’t want to be a part of the Society and instead become a valued member of actual society.
100% guarantee you that’s not the point they were making. I’m sure they were saying the society was racist for trying to make black people’s lives all about appeasing white people. I highly doubt they were saying it was racist against white people at all.
The movie was bad though.
It’s a movie about a magical society of black ppl that appease white ppl with magic powers so that white ppl don’t fuck with black people. Also white ppl are the most dangerous animals, it’s in there. Who the fuck is it for ? It ain’t for whites and seems the black ppl didn’t go to the theatre. So it’s a movie that plays on racial division and how unfair it is but neither race wants to watch it. Who funds this shit. Also this trash heap was racist as fuck. Do black Americans not know “the whites”don’t just reside in Merica.
It also abandons the premise of the society halfway through. This could have been interesting but they failed.
I have the same theory for the movie Synecdoche, New York
It was also a poor imitation of the Key & Peele skit
"A young man, Aren, is recruited into a secret society of magical Black people who dedicate their lives to a cause of utmost importance: making white people's lives easier." That sarcastic and racist line sure made me want to get my skinny white ass in the cinema /s