Back to the Drawing Board: 9 Black Films That Were Disappointing…

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Beloved

Granted, most films that are spawned from dope literature are usually a fail in most people’s eyes, but Beloved was all over the place. Maybe it was just a book that didn’t need to be turned into a movie and needed to be left to the imagination? Between Danny Glover’s awkward love scenes with Thandie Newton and Oprah, and my expectation that Lady O was going to kill it Color Purple style (she was…okay), a lot of the time, this movie was hard to work with. The book was able to do what the film could not:  jump from one time period to another and weave in and out the complicated lives of its characters without throwing you off. But then again, it took me two readings of the book to get it…so…?

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