Tyler Perry's awkward adaption of the semi-classic For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf. The play is a cycle of poems that are not "dramatic" in the sense of a film but it is the sort of thing that works on stage.
As a fan of many of Perry's films I have to say I'm giving him points for trying really hard but at the same time it's a misfire. Part of the problem is that Perry and his team never manage to sculpt the material into anything that approximates a film you want to watch. The characters aren't characters but archetypes stuck in the decade that the source was written- the 1970's. The result is a general feeling of why am I watching this? Personally I think Perry has been pushing himself too hard with his TV, Film and stage work pushing him to the point of collapse (recent performances of his latest stage production were canceled because Perry was exhausted) and past the point of actually turning out anything of quality. His last film- Why Did I get Married 2 was a boring waste. Colored Girls runs close to that but get a half a step up because its not a pure Perry Production.
A few years ago I said that it was very likely that Perry would win an Oscar if he got a handle on his the fast and loose way he makes films. I was very much of the opinion that he he focused on one thing outside of Medea he might take home a bald man statue. Unfortunately Perry has moved in the wrong direction and the film I doubt he will ever win an Oscar.
I'm also curious is anyone other than me is getting tired of the Perry specialty of films about put upon black women, who's lives are pain and that through god and some other transcendence they become better. I'm sure there are women who live this way- but to my eyes its another stereotype similar to the one that has all black men criminals, absent fathers and gang members.
As a fan of many of Perry's films I have to say I'm giving him points for trying really hard but at the same time it's a misfire. Part of the problem is that Perry and his team never manage to sculpt the material into anything that approximates a film you want to watch. The characters aren't characters but archetypes stuck in the decade that the source was written- the 1970's. The result is a general feeling of why am I watching this? Personally I think Perry has been pushing himself too hard with his TV, Film and stage work pushing him to the point of collapse (recent performances of his latest stage production were canceled because Perry was exhausted) and past the point of actually turning out anything of quality. His last film- Why Did I get Married 2 was a boring waste. Colored Girls runs close to that but get a half a step up because its not a pure Perry Production.
A few years ago I said that it was very likely that Perry would win an Oscar if he got a handle on his the fast and loose way he makes films. I was very much of the opinion that he he focused on one thing outside of Medea he might take home a bald man statue. Unfortunately Perry has moved in the wrong direction and the film I doubt he will ever win an Oscar.
I'm also curious is anyone other than me is getting tired of the Perry specialty of films about put upon black women, who's lives are pain and that through god and some other transcendence they become better. I'm sure there are women who live this way- but to my eyes its another stereotype similar to the one that has all black men criminals, absent fathers and gang members.