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So a little movie called Precious (stuck with a clunky subtitle) is coming out this weekend and has everybody raving. I personally think the movie looks like a total piece of shit. It seems exploitative, sappy, self-pitiful, and melodramatic. I don’t want to see a movie that exploits its characters. For Christ Sake! The main character is illiterate, horrendously overweight, pregnant with her second child from her own effin’ father, abused by her mother, and…oh I don’t know what’s the next worst thing. Lee Daniels had to make this the most tragic girl in the history of movies too get sympathy but it just seems like crap. She couldn’t just be pregnant? She had to be pregnant from her own dad?

To be fair, I won’t denounce Precious offhand. As you might’ve guessed by now, I’m not too enthusiastic about this movie and I haven’t even seen it. So this is the deal. I live in New York on the weekends and New Jersey during the week. Movies in limited release always open in New York, but I’m definitely not going to waste a Saturday in Manhattan seeing Precious. Since producers Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry are strongly pushing this film for Oscar consideration, the movie will definitely open wide in the next few weeks. So, if Precious opens in one of the theaters next to my house in New Jersey or in a theater not too far from my house in New York, I’ll see the damn movie. If Precious will only be playing in Manhattan, I’d rather go see something in limited release that I’m actually excited for. New Jersey will likely be playing it at the Lowes in Edison and if so, I’ll see it. I’m not going to go out o my way to see this.

Who knows? It might be a great movie, but I highly doubt that. It’s just another sappy movie about poor black people who blame whites for everything. Sorry if I’m not rushing to the subway to see it in Union Square.

This is my stand on Precious. In the meantime, I’m focused on seeing the wide releases, hopefully catching some limited releases on the weekends in New York, and passing Math class. Highschool is a bitch so I have a ton of work to do but I still make sure I see at least two movies a week. Is Precious really worth it? If all I have to do is bug someone for a ride to Edison, then no problem. If on the weekend I have to get a ride to Park Slope and meet my friend to go to Union Square, no way. I’d rather go to the Landmark on Houston St. and ponder the meaning of A Serious Man.