Am I racist?

[Doctor Phibes]

@89th said in Am I racist?:

Will be an entertaining watch one day.

One very bleak day.

[LuFins Dad]

Wait, I just saw the trailer all the way through. Was that Robin Diangelo at the end? Okay, I will go to the theaters for this one, and it will not be a bleak day at all!

[Doctor Phibes]

@LuFins-Dad said in Am I racist?:

Wait, I just saw the trailer all the way through. Was that Robin Diangelo at the end? Okay, I will go to the theaters for this one, and it will not be a bleak day at all!

Each to their own, I guess. I must admit I don't find her particularly sexy.

[LuFins Dad]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Am I racist?:

@LuFins-Dad said in Am I racist?:

Wait, I just saw the trailer all the way through. Was that Robin Diangelo at the end? Okay, I will go to the theaters for this one, and it will not be a bleak day at all!

Each to their own, I guess. I must admit I don't find her particularly sexy.

Oh, she’s the exact opposite of sexy. A real horror show.

[LuFins Dad]

[LuFins Dad]

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[LuFins Dad]

An actual reviewer gave an honest review…

[Horace]

I can't speak for the movie, but it's obvious, if you watch clips of his show, that Walsh is funny. He delivers wry sarcasm as well as any of the pundits of any tribe, including the ones who got their start as professional comedians.

[LuFins Dad]

Not a single review showing on the Tomato Meter, but plenty of actual reviews if you scroll down… Hmmm

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/am_i_racist

[Horace]

I'm sure mainstream critics would be happy to register a review, if they hated it. Maybe they are exercising their option to say nothing, after seeing it and grudgingly granting that it's not too bad.

I tried to find any negative review online but came up empty. Spoiler alert, some of it sounds hilarious:

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In perhaps the funniest moment of the film, Walsh opens his own Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion workshop, to which he invites attendees from Craigslist. In one scene, Walsh lectures the attendees about “white silence” and the necessity to confront racist family members at the dinner table before wheeling his disabled, chair-bound ‘uncle’ out in front of the audience. After screaming at and berating his disabled uncle for making a racist joke about Mexicans, Walsh encourages the audience to join in with the abuse, to which they gladly oblige.

[Horace]

This right-wing youtuber held it to a high standard, and found it lacking:

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[Horace]

One of the official critic reviews cited by Rotten Tomatoes was an NPR outlet in Los Angeles. The review was on a podcast. There are two reviewers who give their opinions on a slate of movies, seven in total. One of the reviewers was clearly in the LGBTQ community. Both reviewers gave their opinions of all the movies, except the LGBTQ guy recused himself from Am I Racist. I thought that was adult of him. He can feel his feels, but not feel the need to alert the world to his feels. The other guy thought it was ok, but that it might run into the same problems as Michael Moore films run into, with the divisiveness and lack of ability to convince anybody of anything, if they are not already convinced coming in.

[Horace]

Critics ignoring the film en masse. Uniquely ignored, in the history of Rotten Tomatoes. This is as close as we'll get to admission from the mainstream that the movie isn't terrible, I suppose.

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[LuFins Dad]

Yeah, the Rotten Tomatoes thing is very odd and telling. It would be so easy to win pop culture points by completely dissing the movie. The fact that they aren’t?

[Renauda]

Definitely want to watch this film.

I know I would like it.