[YMS] She then sits on a bench for a few seconds after eating
a whole bucket of fried chicken and there's an obvious cut
as she's, you know, jumping off of the bench to throw up in the
garbage can or whatever, and by obvious cut I mean; from the same angle.
And from the same angle, I mean one of two things;
either they couldn't figure out a way to get
this girl to hold fake vomit in her mouth for
seven seconds or she sat there for way too long and they had to cut it so
that the audience wouldn't start to think about anything in the movie during
a moment where nothing would happen. Either way it was
Sloppy...
Yes, I know I'm ripping off Red Letter Media,
I don't care. Near the beginning of the
film they establish that Precious needs to hold down the "listen" button in order
to hear anybody through the intercom.
[Precious] Stop it! [Mom] Press "listen", stupid.
[YMS] And yet here she is able to hear through
without actually pressing down the button first.
[Intercom] I spoke to Mr.Wicher and he told me you're one
[YMS] Sloppy.
Not many of the characters had any character.
The only real thing distinguishing her classmates from each other was that one
of them dressed funny and one of them would switch back and forth between
a very thick accent;
[Girl With Thick Jamaican Accent] I got all the way to Brooklyn
the church was up the block and around the corner from the train.
I was born in Kingston, Jamaica. [YMS] to not much of an accent at all;
[Much Less Thick Accent] How was he? Was he screaming?
...to get my reading up so I could get my GED.
[YMS] Sloppy...
We have a wonderfully forced scene in the movie where Precious'
mother is watching TV and she tells her that
she's starving and to go make her some food.
Precious makes a giant plateload of fatty, greasy food for her and her mother says:
[Mother] How am I supposed to eat pigs feat with no collard greens?
[YMS] Then she tells Precious that she has to eat the food because she made it wrong.
[Mother] You eat it. [YMS] Precious says she's not hungry but
her mother verbally forces her to eat it somehow.
Anyway, the entire point of that scene is that so that they can
rip the last shred of responsibility from the character
that we, as an audience, possibly could have interpreted
away from us; her weight problem. The scene served no other purpose than to say;
"Look how innocent she is! Nothing is her own fault. Even her weight problem is
completely because of her mother."
Does it manner that this forced idea completely contradicts the
fried chicken scene I mentioned earlier?
Apparently not. And why is she watching a subtitled film if she can't read?
I guess that could be intentional? I'll let that one slip.
Precious begins to speak in front of her class
then we see her make some weird expression on her face for
not even enough time to notice. Then it cuts to her in the hospital
delivering a baby. I guess I can tell what the director was trying to do
with that but he didn't really do it very well at all.
Anyway what bothers me about this scene is that all of her classmates
who have hated her throughout the entire movie
are at the hospital acting like her best friends. First of all
why are they there? Did they have some sort of impromptu
field trip? Second, weren't they completely haiting her throughout every previous scene
in the movie? They all changed simultaneously as
if the first half of the movie didn't even happen.
It's not even like it was convenient to deliver some cheesy plot device.
It was just Sloppy...
I hate- I hope I don't have to justify myself and every
single thing I do. Red Letter Media, you inspire me.
There you go. I love your stuff. Shoutout!
Last but opposite from least we have the scene in which Monique earns her Oscar.
She was nothing short of fantastic during the previous scenes but in this
scene she steals the show from everyone.
Do I have a problem with this scene? Not really, no. If someone
only saw this scene in the movie and gave it a four-star review I wouldn't complain.
Monique delivered an outstanding performance that completely deserved
her win in the Best Supporting Actress category.
Unfortunately I feel like the majority of the film just kept most people at a
neutral stance where they didn't really understand anything.
With this being the last scene of the film and the only effective one, it left people
with a powerful impression that completely
governed their overall outlook of the movie.
A good example of this effect is in the movie "Funny Games", where everyone will
love the first 75 percent of the movie until the director breaks the fourth wall.
The movie nearly changes genre in an interesting and daring way
but after that scene everybody but few changes their opinion of the movie
from amazing to terrible. I love that movie, it's great.
Anyway, Precious is one of sloppiest movies I've ever seen.
People will watch it thinking they're cultured
having broken away from mainstream films but
fail to realize how much financial and commercial
backing this movie had from Oprah and Tyler Perry.
No, being popular does not make a movie worse but elevating yourself from
people out of misconception for that same reason
makes you look like a jackass. Don't get me wrong I think this movie had a lot of
potential but it was not amazing! It had an amazing performance.
But considering all the things I pointed out,
it was still nominated for Best Picture.
It won Best Adapted Screenplay instead of "Up In The Air". The fact that this film
was nominated for Best Director is insulting.
The only deserving Oscar it got was Monique's performance.
If I'm supposed to like this movie because the
events kind of happened to real people in some
vague way then I guess we're all supposed to like
every movie that's based on a true story like
the "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and "Fargo". [Joke Rimshot Sound]
And for those of you who are still mad at me,
I'm sorry I had problems with a movie that I'm supposed to like.
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