The only thing scarier than a fictional 'Candyman' is the reality of racism - Yup, another White people be scary n shiet movie. You'll never guess who produced it!

I thought it was about social media being fags and following/doing anything as popular regardless the danger involved.
 
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The new film opens with a flashback to police swarming the projects and beating Sherman, a local Black man, to death after wrongfully accusing him of handing out candy with razor blades in them.
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I don't care if it was the 50s, this is goofy and frankly it's reflective of some weird cultural anxieties that something so goofy would be seen as good storytelling. Maybe they make it compelling, but I doubt it.

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"That's sort of the history of Black people in America," DaCosta explains. "It's all about what we produce, whether it's continental cotton, or it's art, or it's music or whatever. But then when it comes to the actual human (behind the work), the human story, the human suffering, or even just the human joy, it gets ignored."
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Hey dumbass. Nobody owes you interest or time. Artists need to get the fuck off their high horse and stop acting like the product itself isn't what matters. You want people to care about your story and your suffering? Make it into a great book, or go talk to your friends.

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Floyd, Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, George Stinney, Sandra Bland – the list of Black men and women killed in the name of racism is tragically long. Their names turn into hashtags pleading with people to stop killing Black folks simply for living. Their lives are put on display for the entire world in attempts to humanize them and prove they were good, educated, hardworking people who didn't deserve to die like this.
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still, think pieces and news commentators try to justify Black people's murders by pulling up dusty records of a marijuana citation or an anecdote from an unknown neighbor about how said Black person appeared "suspicious."
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"Marijuana citation," yeah, that's it. Sure.

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"We sort of hypothesize on what happens if the invocation of those names and those spirits came along with consequences as well," Abdul-Mateen says. "I think the question is: What would happen if we could bring them back? If I could bring back George Floyd, if I could bring back Tamir Rice, if I could bring back Breonna Taylor, what would they do?
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Idk about the others but I can venture a guess as to what Floyd would do.
 
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The original wasn’t a masterpiece, but it still had a brooding atmosphere, Tony Todd giving a foreboding but charismatic performance and it handled the topic of racism and urban decay decently enough. I like it. Saw the trailer for this and it looks like another bog standard bottom of the barrel horror flick for modern audiences who have the attention span of a fruit fly and is about as subtle in it’s themes as being bludgeoned over the head with a brick. Hard pass
 
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Looks like alt-right trolls have already started review-bombing this masterpiece:

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It just proves how timely and necessary this film really is.
 
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Dysnomia said:
Can we let Roach live this time please? He deserved it the most.

Wonder if they'll gloss over the fact that the couple "adopting" all the children are a brother and sister with a creepy BSDM relationship.

Anyway, Candyman is a vengeful spirit. Tony Todd carries the character so well that you sympathize with him to a degree. I don't see why you need a remake.

This remake looks so cheap. The original was dark and creepy. This just looks like a dumb stoner movie with a ghost in it. And Candyman don't care what color you are say his name five times and you get the hook.

His origin was racism. He committed miscegenation with a rich white man's daughter. It's not like no one knows that or you need to be even more blatant about it. If you watch the end of the movie where the heroine is crawling through the bonfire to save the baby you can see that his whole grudge is to get his family back.
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Wait they changed his orgin story? motherfuckers!!!!!!!!!
Autumnal Equinox said:
The original wasn’t a masterpiece, but it still had a brooding atmosphere, Tony Todd giving a foreboding but charismatic performance and it handled the topic of racism and urban decay decently enough. I like it. Saw the trailer for this and it looks like another bog standard bottom of the barrel horror flick for modern audiences who have the attention span of a fruit fly and is about as subtle in it’s themes as being bludgeoned over the head with a brick. Hard pass
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I mean the orginal delt with those issues very well. Why are newer movies so offer with these topics than in the past?
 
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The first one had a "romance" angle (for lack of a better term) between Candyman and the main character, Helen, It's a shame that this interesting aspect is being gotten rid of in favor of oppression porn. Not to mention that the original had a more interesting origin .
 
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Let me get this straight: They decided to make the Candyman, a supernatural killer, into a metaphor for George Floyd and other victims of police brutality?

I mean yeah, the first film established he was the victim of a lynch mob because he slept with a white woman, but was racism really the core theme of the original? I thought this idea died out after all those articles comparing the original Candyman to Get Out when the latter first came out.
 
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My takeaway from the original movie's message is that while Candyman had good reason to be angry and he's painted as sympathetic throughout most of the movie, by the end it's ultimately revealed that he's let his resentment make him a literal monster and is more interested in self perpetuating this resentment than actually finding peace.

Very relevant message to today's world as that's essentially what's going on with the BLM type mindset, resentment is making them into a monster that does more harm than good.
 
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Dom Cruise said:
My takeaway from the original movie's message is that while Candyman had good reason to be angry and he's painted as sympathetic throughout most of the movie, by the end it's ultimately revealed that he's let his resentment make him a literal monster and is more interested in self perpetuating this resentment than actually finding peace.

Very relevant message to today's world as that's essentially what's going on with the BLM type mindset, resentment is making them into a monster that does more harm than good.
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It had a better message than this offer dumpster fire. By saying that resentment can turn you into something offer
 
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KEKMUHLORD said:
Watch any Jordan Peele directed film or film he produced. This is all it is. Just social commentary beating you over the head the entire movie with white people bad.
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Which is ironic since Peele is half-white, has a white mom, and married a white woman. I remember that Aaron McGruder said that he based Uncle Ruckus on mixed-race people who over compensate and over-exalt whites. So would this make Peele a reverse Uncle Ruckus?
 
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Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
Which is ironic since Peele is half-white, has a white mom, and married a white woman. I remember that Aaron McGruder said that he based Uncle Ruckus on mixed-race people who over compensate and over-exalt whites. So would this make Peele a reverse Uncle Ruckus?
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Maybe. I more so think he found a grift and just sticks with it now. Cause self loathing white people love this shit.
 
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Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
Which is ironic since Peele is half-white, has a white mom, and married a white woman. I remember that Aaron McGruder said that he based Uncle Ruckus on mixed-race people who over compensate and over-exalt whites. So would this make Peele a reverse Uncle Ruckus?
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So does his mom eat his woke shit up?
 
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