I was 19 when I saw it at the movies and it was huge, a very cool experience. My younger sister and I went, and what's so funny back then is when a Black movie came out, so many Black folks would be there. Theater would be packed with everybody Black lol.
No fights! We were fine in our theater.
I remember being in a long line and seeing the poster for "Get on the Bus" by Spike Lee. I was like, we are all in line for the same thing while there was no line for Get on the Bus. Actually to this day, I haven't seen that yet.
Alright so basically, some of the biggest stars in Hollywood were starring in this movie. And they were very beautiful women.
It didn't hit me until around when all the justified uprisings and protesting to protect Black lives from State violence, I started thinking about Set It Off since it was definitely a preview of what the future would hold.
Notwithstanding the horrific and over-the-top way Queen Latifah went out, just man, you know thinking back that was way too much unnecessary violence against a Black woman on screen. So unnecessary, but at the time I thought it was "just a movie because Queen Latifah is really still alive and well."
I loved this movie so much and rewatched it for years. Listen when it first came out on video, it used to be Pay Per View before it went to video. Lol I remember us ordering the Pay Per View; and this is after seeing it in the theaters about 3 times.
Stony's brother getting killed by cops, again too much.
Now I do realize that at least one of them had to die because the movie was very hardcore, that bank robbery scene in the beginning set the tone in cementing that this will be heavy.
I can see:
1 could have died
2 could have went to jail
and 1 could have gone free
There was no need for those Black ladies, who were regular non-violent ladies, to go out like that.
Whites are overrepresented in this Hollywood mess, and I've never seen their protagonist go out like that.
Same thing with Denzel Washington in Training Day. No backstory on how he became "King Kong ain't got nothing on me." Why did he have to die? I never see that with other races
Much less known movie but Sanaa Lathan in Out of Time.
On and on. It's disheartening. But I'm learning to continue to cherish and play up the happy ending Black movies. I do appreciate John Singleton for realistically giving us a balanced and promising ending with Boyz in the Hood. I never saw Baby Boy lol. I couldn't tolerate too much of those type of movies but BoyzNDaHood was the first and was epic. There was no need for any others after that. I certainly didn't watch most of them.
But pretty Black women robbing banks? That was so different!
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Speaking of which, I thought I'd watch Terry McMillian's movie with Meagan Good and Taye Diggs, called Forever.
I thought it would be a nice, romantic display of beautiful Black people in love. That's all I ask lol
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Terry McMillian's crazy ass has Meagan Good to get killed. Like WTF?!!!! I'm glad I was distracted with something else so I didn't see when she, a cop, was shot. So damn stupid. I stopped the movie and then later read that Taye Diggs had to move out, and the 3 daughters had to live with their biological dad.
Seriously What the fuck. Is she on drugs?!!
Dumb as fuck movie! The ending, the tragedy, the blood, the death, the long drawn out bleeding and death when he drives up there with the kid sin the car and sees her body, the traumatized life-will-never-be-the-same-kids; like none of that had anything to do with the Meagan and Taye falling in love and learning to work together raising 3 girls.
Terry McMillian...crazy ass fool for this movie.
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