Comments on: Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 14:44:44 +0000

I think Oprah only got involved in the project much later, in the distribution stages.

By: JuliaGulia

JuliaGulia — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:46:38 +0000

soooo…did anyone else notice the shout out oprah gave herself?

“do y’all watch oprah?”

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:13:57 +0000

While HIV-positive mothers do run the risk of passing it on to their babies, it’s also entirely possible for the baby to not get HIV from its mother.

By: azz0r

azz0r — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:09:48 +0000

Ops, I meant her baby not her dad.

Difficult on an iPhone

By: azz0r

azz0r — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:07:40 +0000

Some things that confused me

How can she be HIV+ and her dad wasn’t?
Why was precious’s nan so useless when quite clearly she’s a good egg.

One can assume after getting pregnant again she stopped visiting her dad.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:24:43 +0000

I was searching around blogs for reviews of Precious. And i can’t believe i read your rubbish. What are you? 15?

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:03:20 +0000

Yes, yes, and yes, I agree with your comment wholeheartedly. Also, the New Moon review is coming in like five minutes!

By: aaron

aaron — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:59:16 +0000

okay, i’ve only seen parts of the movie, so i can’t give a legitimate opinion, but from what i *did* see, it just struck me as very first-year-film school student. the absurd, over-the-top style and editing just made me roll my eyes. several other reviews i read basically said the same thing. this is a subject that definitely should be covered more in film, but it deserves a more confident and adept filmmaker.

having said that, though, the movie definitely does seem like Stuff White People Like. it’s like, “um, like, i don’t, like *know* any people of color, but i voted for obama and i loved precious, WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT FROM ME?” i’m biracial and grew up poor, working-class and i saw some JACKED up shit, but nothing as severe as some of the stuff i’ve read about in this story. i’m not at all intimating that this sort of abuse doesn’t exist, obviously it does, but like others have said, it’s all a bit “emotionally fascist.” a more mature and skilled filmmaker would’ve let the story speak for itself (and would’ve injected some nuance) instead of being so obnoxiously heavy-handed.

lastly, where the hell’s THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON review!?