Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Why Is Tyler Perry famous

This is a question I would love someone to answer for me.

Sam and I just watched "The Family That Preys" and I have finally concluded that I'm done with this man and his movies. I HATE Tyler Perry movies. You may ask why I keep watching them? I'm secretly wondering the same thing. I think I just want to see if he'll ever change the plot.

Well in "The Family That Preys" he finally did change the plot a little. Instead of the women being verbally abused or physically abused this time it was a man. A weak dumb pathetic man. I'm going to list the dumb parts of this movie and if you haven't seen it then don't read because I'm going to tell the movie below:

First the dumb thing is Sanaa Lathan's part. She plays the rich wife who is mean to her husband for no reason. The movie never does really explain why she was so mean to him. She was very unsupportive and just plain stupid, she actually makes us black women look horrible. I'm disgusted she took this part. I'm not a fan of hers because I've seen her in other degrading roles, why she doesn't turn these roles down is beyond me. She was cheating on her husband with a rich man whose mom owned the company she worked for.

She played a financial analyst that made only $65,000 a year. Tyler Perry didn't do his research for this movie though. In Sanaa's position she sat in meetings with the COO of the company...an analyst that has such influence to sit in meetings with the COO doesn't only make $65,000 a year. She'd make a lot more than that.

Her husband whom she constantly disrespected was a construction worker for the same company. His dream was to start his own construction company and he wanted the owner's son to invest in it (in other words help him start a competitive company). In trying to get a business loan he went to the bank dressed in his construction clothes, while stuttering about his business plan...of course he was turned down. Then he went to withdraw money from the bank and discovered his wife mysteriously had $250,000 in a separate account. He confronted her on it but she told him it was bonuses and it was her business. In another desperate attempt to start his business he went to the owner's son (who remember was sleeping his wife) and stuttered his way through a meeting trying to get him to invest in his company. Of course he didn't.

When he went to a banquet with his wife he didn't think nothing of her sneaking off with the owner's son alone. Nor did he think much of her comparing him to her and downing him for not being as good as him. All the signs were there that she was sleeping with him and her husband NEVER got it until he was told at the end of the movie (by his best friend who knew all along and instead of getting rid of this friend he goes into business with him, OH after this friend also told him to quit dreaming about this dumb business idea). Oh and he finally breaks up with his wife at the end of the movie when he finds out she was cheating. Suddenly it dawned on him his marriage was over. Forget the fact she belittled him and hid money from him.

Sanaa Lathan's mom owns a diner that make only $250 a week and has for a long time, but she's best friends with the rich owner of the construction company. However she's supposedly broke and at the end of the movie the mom reveals that she's a millionaire and has been for a long time...she never let her kids in on this detail and they supposedly struggled all of their lives.

Of course Tyler Perry is in his movie (he always writes himself in them) and he plays a construction worker and him and his wife are supposedly struggling (yet while talking about their struggles you see the granite (or marble counter tops) in their huge home along with the plasmas and he's supposedly only making $40,000 a year...)

I challenge Tyler Perry to make an action movie. Think outside the box. What is it with these movies he's making? I want something different and I may start a petition or something begging people not to go see his movie until he gives us something better to watch!

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