TAKERS

Let me tell you something! Before you take a deep breath and tell me that I lost it...Takers was a good movie!

Trust me.

But you want to know something funny? I just knew it was going to be a low budget film. I would get a couple of good laughs out of it. Then it would end up playing on BET at midnight...and it would slip away into non-existence.

Negative!

For one. There was too much beauty in this film to call it a bad movie. The tall and handsome Idris Elba was in it...hello! And then cutie pies, Michael Ealy and Chris Brown who played the most loving and loyal brothers ever. Followed by one of the finest looking white guys ever, Paul Walker. I don't care what anybody says because he can get it! I do the chocolate swirl.

Did you notice that I didn't mention T.I. or Hayden Christensen?

Hmm.

It's because T.I. looks so skinny and gross around the mouth....like he smoked too many glass pipes. I think it's funny how Rap Stars are so appealing to women. They know damn well, they wouldn't find them attractive if they weren't Stars. And Christensen? He looks like a pretty girl playing dress up in boys clothes. I suppose I'd like him if I were into women.

Sorry, but it is true.

The best parts of the movie? The chase scene between Chris Brown and the cops. It was pretty awesome! I was freaking out during this scene...praying the cops wouldn't catch him. He was fast as hell...or maybe his stunt double was? Not sure. But I completely forgot he was a woman beater, because he played this young kid brother who liked girls and riding his motorcycle. There was nothing not to like about his character!

Another favorite scene of mine? It was when Chris Brown and Michael Ealy hugged it out in their home...I get very sentimental about sibling love. I most definitely teared up during this part, yup. There is nothing like the love you have for your family members.

T.I. impressed me a lot though. I always thought he looked extra skeevy and dirty in real life...so no surprise, he played the same part in this movie. He radiated 'I'm a villan' from beginning to end...and he really was perfect for the role. I saw his interview on Chelsea Lately a while ago though, and he seemed very cool, down-to-earth, and he smiled and joked a lot with Chelsea. It surprised me. He didn't come off that way in his music videos...I think that Rappers should lighten up. Smile more. Laugh more. They would be perceived differently if they did.

The hot and sexy scenes in the movie? When Paul Walker was getting it on with some girls in his pool and Idris Elba was getting out of his bed in his underwear. I wouldn't have thought these sex scenes were so sexy years ago though. I use to make fun of women who would go insane and start screaming over a man who took his shirt off or was standing in his underwear....like what the hell are you screaming for? He's not even naked. I don't see a penius...a ball. Nothing. What is all the hoopla about? I get it now though. The older you get, the more attractive things about the opposite sex become...the back, legs, stomach.  Basically body parts nobody gave a shit about before become a hell of a lot more attractive!

The pointless parts of the movie? Idris Elba's drug addict sister...they could have done without her role. But I do appreciate that she showed a soft side to his personality. Zoe Saldana's role irked me too. She basically played the chick who abandoned her ex in jail (T.I.) to be with Michael Ealy...one of the crooks who got away when T.I. did not. T.I. rightfully so had a reason to be mad when he got out of jail. He didn't snitch on his old crew and one of the members stole his girl! But damn. He didn't have to kill her and destroy the crew because of it. He only served 4 years in jail for them, not 20! Good Lord. Not to mention that he had money and everything else set up for him upon leaving jail. Bitter much? Money hungry much?

If you are a fan of action movies with some robbery and gangster scenes...rent this one!

Of if you like attractive men. Rent it!

Salt or The Social Network?

Which is the better movie?

If you are a movie buff who has seen both please fill this survey out!

My friend and I got into a huge debate over which is the better movie on Facebook a couple of weeks ago.

I am aware that The Social Network won a couple of awards that Salt did not, but this was based upon box office numbers, movie critics and the academy award committee. Box office numbers aren't necessarily a reflection of the best movie in theatres, as much as it reveals how well a movie was marketed by PR teams. I do not always agree with movie critics' superlatives either. These be the same folks who gave Denzel Washington an award for Training Day and Halle Berry an award for Monster's Ball at the same awards ceremony!

I mean, seriously.

Could the academy award committee been any faker in trying to appease their African American actors that year?

Yes, Halle did a good job in Monster's Ball. But Denzel shouldn't have received an award for Training Day. It wasn't that great of a movie! He should have received an award for Malcolm X years before this. An award was long over due to him for his lead role, and many of us knew this. So, the academy award committee tried to make it up to him with Training Day.

This is why the academy award committee has lost all credibility to me!

Salt was creative and kept me on the edge of my seat! This movie kept me guessing from beginning to end what would happen in the next scene. I could not figure out (to save my life) the bad guy from the good guy until the end of the movie too. Did The Social Network make me feel this way? Not even close. It was a true story with very interesting information but everything was very predictable in this movie. There were a lot of typical party scenes, drug scenes...and friends fighting scenes. Stuff we have seen before in other movies, no? So, there wasn't any excitement there to me.

This is why I firmly believe that Salt is the better movie of the two, and numbers aren't always accurate in the depiction of superlatives. There are just too many factors to consider when creating surveys. Now he created a nice one, but there could have been a couple more questions added to it.

But seriously, I could really care two shits what anybody else says!

I didn't say this to him because it got nasty between us for a split second. I was convinced there was a moment in time during our argument that he wanted to cut me up in small pieces and feed me to baby sharks in a aquarium!

So, I keep some comments to myself.

This is why he called our debate on his survey a 'healthy' one.

He does believe that by taking this survey, you will help him understand psychometrics for his dissertation, aide his summer workshop students in understanding data analysis better, and settle a dispute between him and I on which is the better movie.

Please fill out this survey and vote for Salt!

I would really relish in the opportunity to shut him down once and for all.

Help make my dreams come true!

For Colored Girls Who Committ Suicide When the Rainbow is Not Enough

WOW!

Is all I can say about that movie. I have a migraine from holding in my cry, not to interrupt other movie goers.

It was passionate, raw, and real.

Kimberly Ellise, Thandie Newton, Phylicia Rashad , and Whoppi Goldberg were my favorite characters in the movie. If they don't get nominated for an award...then the hell with the Academy members because they all deserve one! Period.

I don't want to give the movie away, but it was good.

Tyler Perry did make the men in the movies look like monsters, this is true. But truth be told, there are real monsters out there...that come in many shapes and forms that include men and women too.

The women were all beautiful and damaged, and I loved them with all their imperfections. These imperfections made them beautiful and strong. I never thought it possible to hate and love a character at the same time, but Tyler Perry made me feel that way.

In the end they spoke about the word, 'sorry.' How that word attached to more words, affected them in a way that has shaped their very being.

My final thought after seeing the movie?

Is Tyler Perry gay? Or just a woman trapped in a man's body? How can this man be so accurate in depicting the feelings of women in such an authentic way? Unless you are a woman.

We're not the easiest creatures to understand or read. Or even love. What part of his male being allows him to sympathize with us the way he does? And while I know most men will watch the film, and scold him for depicting them like devils, Perry went ahead and produced this film anyway.

At the end of the day, he could probably care less about how he depicts black folks in his movies. Especially, when him and his wallet sleep just fine at night.