There's a movie out called "Norbit" that I refuse to spend one penny to go see. It boggles the mind how something like that gets made or in fact speaks to the complete depravity of Hollywood in the first place. If I had any respect for Eddie Murphy prior to the release of this movie its gone now. The trailers are painful to watch, the reviews have been consistently along the lines of those who found it offensive vs those who wanted "the fat slobs to stop whinning since its a comedy - its' funny"
On some level or another I feel ashamed as a black woman that a black man would make a movie like that and be ok with it. If it was a "money" issue there HAS to be some other way that the paper could have been made without creating that movie.
Why should white america have any respect for black women overweight or not, when our own men have none. The young minds running to see this movie today will be embued with the idea that it is FUNNY to hurl cruel insults at people because "you were only playing".
i have personally struggled with my weight most of my life. The cruel taunts and insults helped to convince me to be as introverted as possible when i was in school and the "perception" displayed in this movie about women who are overweight, is one I still have to deal with on occaision.
Sometimes black people, you can just be dead wrong....period.....
Eddie Murphy - making t his movie was dead wrong with absolutely no redeeming values at all....
Not only will i not spend one DIME seeing this movie i can promise I will never go to any movie that lists Eddie Murphy as part of the cast.
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