I've seen a couple of BP contenders. TPOD, Belfast, Spencer, Dune... King Richard was the top movie that made me feel amazing. It's also a damn good movie. I honestly think in a year where I don't really think any movie blows my mind, it could sweep in and be a contender or even win BP. It's a film most people will love and feel inspired by.
I was waiting for this! Great observations and commentary in this reaction. I also believe Will Smith will finally take home an Oscar ..... that is if Denzel Washington don't stand in his way again lol!
I really enjoyed King Richard. This a feel good inspirational film about one of the greatest sport stories of all time that not one but 2 African American girls that can come out of Compton and be tennis champions coached by a father who self taught them from tennis books, magazines and videos. Will Smith is terrific as Richard Williams in what I think is the performance of his career and he certainly has the narrative to win as this will be his 3rd nomination for Best Actor in what will probably be a Best Picture nominee. I think Aunjanue Ellis is going to get in as well as she offered great support as his wife Oracene and she looked so much like her. Also I really liked Jon Bernthal as the tennis coach Rick Macci who developed the girls games. The film while being a crowd pleasing type film is a bit generic so I think it will get in for Best Picture because they have 10 nominees I don’t think it will win Best Picture but I do think this film does give Will Smith his best chance so far at Oscar gold.
I loved this movie! I went in looking forward to a good story and performances. I came out inspired and in awe of amazing performances. I dont know about you all, but to me i felt like this movie played in real-time. When the parents argued or any of the family scenes it was as if i was sitting there with them. It was outstanding. I wouldn’t at all be mad if it won best picture.
I’ve seen people dunking on this year as a weak crop of movies but I don’t agree at all. The only awards movies to open near me so far are King Richard, Belfast, Dune, and Spencer and I would put every one of these movies over every movie nominated last year. I thought the 2020 batch was really weak but this is shaping up to be a strong year. If 3 out of Licorice Pizza, Nightmare Alley, Don’t Look Up, or West Side Story deliver the goods this could be a super strong year in my opinion.
What is crazy for me is that This year we have some clear front runners in the acting categories, but the last the award season was so crazy and uncertain that I dont know if we will see someone taking all the awards during this next season
For Best actress it's not that clear. People are saying Kristen Stewart but I like Jessica Chastain in Tammy Faye and Thomasin McKenzie in last night in soho more...plus hailee bennet in Cyrano might be promising.
I'm with you. It wasn't that special to me and I honestly didnt find it as inspirational as everyone says. They were good at Tennis because their tyrant father never let them be anything else.
I’ve seen that a lot of experts are predicting the race to be between King Richard, Belfast, and Power of the Dog. I’d be willing to put money on none of them winning best picture. I really think Licorice Pizza or Nightmare Alley takes it, leaning more towards licorice pizza
I'm glad to hear King Richard us good, but man, unless it's a revelation, I really need something more interesting than this or fucking Belfast to win Best Picture...
I didnt think it was all that special. Will Smith really did bring that character to life but ultimately it just felt like any other biopic with the typical run of the mill cliches that come along with it. 7.5/10
I liked the movie and all of the performances. Will stands out but I can see an acting ensemble nomination or two. Smith is a lock for his third nomination. Perhaps, 3rd time is the charm! 8/10
All this while, I was thinking Will might take home the trophy when it suddenly struck me that there’s Joaquin this time with his C’mon C’mon that am yet to watch…
Yeah I don't buy this winning any screenplay awards. This obsession pundits have with crowd pleasers is just nonsensical (I hope this doesn't age badly). With Licorice Pizza in contention I highly doubt Belfast is getting original screenplay and The Power of the Dog is being bafflingly underestimated despite it being the current director and adapted screenplay frontrunner for good reason (the divisiveness is overexaggerated ). I think it will be between TPOTD and Licorice Pizza but in the end anything can happen.
I love tennis and other sports more than movies and series, but tennis is my favorit thing in the World all my life is tennis and i am also cinefile but from Europe, i will love this movie 10000000000%, i want Nadal and his Roland Garros movie
@@PretentiousStuff I am Rafa fan and my favorit tournament are Roland Garros and my favorit surfaces is clay because i am from Europe and we only play on clay, all records of Fedex and Novak will fall but Nadal clay court records and 13 Roland Garros never, but Novak is best tennis player of all time i think
@@jonathanvelazquezph.d.2719 Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz but than they will to old, young Rafa and Bardem old and 80% Roland Garros story that will be my choice and you must had Fedex and Novak
@@nikitamohanan2124 I think both are based on real life charcaters, ofcourse Dangal is much more dramatized but in the core is very similar to king richard : Pov of an ambitious father who wants his daughters to an excel in a sport and in faced with odds.
@@milkfries Ya but in King Richard was he hoping for sons? Their struggles were different and the girl's personalities and relationship with their father might hsve been different.
I don't see how Will picking transformative roles like this isn't interesting? Because roles like this aren't something he "always" goes for. We can count on one hand of how many roles he has like this. Ali, Concussion and now King Richard. Most actors pick "safe" roles anyway. They gotta work to their own advantage. But I will say, he's never been a thespian, never grew up with an "actor mindset", or grew up with the idea of being an actor's actor. He's always had the box office mindset, and those type of movies are always "safe". But even if this role is safe for him, it shouldn't mean his performance isn't great or interesting or worth watching.
To me it wasn't that safe. Although Richard Williams was a good man and a good father with wisdom and pride. Unlike the other characters Will Smith have portrayed in the past, Richard Williams was a multi layered complicated man with several flaws. He was stubborn at times, overbearing, and we discover as the movie went on that he had several other children that he did not have relationships with. He also had a past that haunted him that effected how he raised Venus and Serena pushing them to their limits to the extreme. To me Will Smith's most powerful scene is when he bared his soul to Venus. He finally confesses his past trauma and fears that had followed him into fatherhood once he finally realize he was holding his daughter back. He had to let Venus go forward to the next level. This was the most multi layered character I ever seen Will Smith portray. And he did it effortlessly! He deserves that Oscar.
@@natedoggg2002 thank you! This role may seem “safe”… but that just means Will can dive into any role he takes and make it look easy. Because this was definitely one of the more complex characters he’s ever played. He did a great job in this role! He deserves all the hardware!
Really hoping it does not get into original screenplay or Director. I do not need that in my life. But it seems pretty unlikely that it doesn't get screenplay at this point (I would cheer if it drops out of the category and makes way for something like C'mon C'mon/Worst Person/Mass). Huge lock for Best Picture and might get every nomination including the BAFTA. It might win the Golden Globe if Belfast competes in Comedy/Musical. I also think this and Licorice Pizza have a better chance at winning the Producers Guild over Belfast because I have a hard time thinking they're gonna fall this easily for the obvious bait, especially when it doesn't have that kind of passion that other films like it had that propelled them to frontrunner status. Then again, PGA didn't give it to Roma or Jojo Rabbit so can't say that they're bored of this shit.
@@MisterFoxx i don't think C'mon C'mon/The Worst Person in the World have a shot in screenplay as of now, the only way they make it into the category is if King Richard and/or Don't Look Up slide. Mass could still get it but provided that they campaign it well, but I'm still very skeptical about it.
@@rambunctiousrohan but what are you implying the other movies in the category are? Lol because I could easily see C’mon C’mon being nominated still. And I doubt Don’t Look Up will be nominated in that category
@@MisterFoxx I have Belfast, Licorice Pizza, Don't Look Up, King Richard and Spencer in my top 5. Recently the writer's branch has kept sticking to Best Picture nominees in the screenplay categories, and that's why I have Spencer in over C'mon C'mon because it's more likely to get BP. It's definitely still not impossible that C'mon C'mon could get it, because the Academy nominated Mike Mills for 20th Century Women without it getting Best Picture or any other prior screenplay nominations from major bodies. It was a pleasant surprise. And its definitely is questionable whether Don't Look Up would deserve to be nominated or not, but the Academy loves Adam McKay way too much for me to not have it high in my predictions.
I enjoyed this movie. But, I don’t see this as an Oscar worthy film at all. But, it was a fun watch. The wife was better than Will Smith in this movie. I learned a lot about the family that I didn’t know. Never knew there were 5 girls in the family. This film left me wanting to know more about Venus. I don’t agree with you about Fox News being racist. How?
I don't understand why you don't agree with people having the ability to overcome barriers in their lives in order to better themselves and their situation in life. It was just kind of vague the way you said it. If you don't have that sort of mindset you won't really get anywhere in trying to better the adversaries and overcome whatever discrimination or barriers facing you. I was just wondering what barriers and "societal" discrimination people are facing right now today, that stops them from striving to make a better life for themselves. I just was confused what you meant in making this claim.
Brother bro here - it’s a good question. I agree it’s important to encourage people to achieve their dreams through hard work, even when they have a disadvantage compared to others. And you have to have that mindset in order to be extraordinary. Here’s where I think the shortcomings of this mindset lie. Our society says that each person’s success is completely proportionate to the amount of work they put in. So not achieving success is a personal failure of willpower. This mindset is applied very brutally towards black people and other racial groups to say “they are poor because they haven’t worked hard enough”. This completely ignores the fact that different factors objectively produce different outcomes. Consider education. In well funded “rich town” schools, most kids graduate. In poor, underfunded schools, the majority might not. This cannot be understood by the presence of a “hustle culture” mindset or lack thereof. It’s because one group is financially depressed which comes with a whole host of other factors. There 100% will be successful people / anomalies coming out of these terrible situations but it’s a poor indicator on the health of that community. Today, black people as a whole face more disparities than white people in just about every area simply by virtue of where they are born and their lack of financial assets (this is statistically a fact that they have much much less wealth out of the gate). At the very least this is an inheritance problem since white society has been allowed to be financially prosperous for all of society’s history whereas for black people were fighting financial discrimination even after civil rights were passed (that’s a whole history I can’t detail). But at it’s worst (and I think this is the society we live in), these majority black communities continue to be neglected by those who have financial power (white people as a whole - I know not all white people are rich). Education is one of many factors where majority black communities have it so much worse. The lack of urgency to do anything about it is part of racism in my opinion. It’s also been studied that poverty is a cycle and without stimulus it’s extremely difficult for people to pick themselves up and get out. Basic example - you open a restaurant in your poor neighborhood but no one has money to buy anything so you go out of business. Alternatively you can open it in a richer (whiter) neighborhood, but then you’re not employing and stimulating YOUR community anymore. And because there are things we can actually do to make people’s lives less shitty, this is where the “individual achievement” argument becomes pernicious. It’s used as an excuse to say “hey let’s do nothing”. But in my opinion, people in power have a moral obligation to do something because this is white society’s fault for being horrible to black people throughout history (again this did not end at civil rights). Hope that makes more sense!
I don't think I will ever be able to take Will Smith seriously as an actor. I will just always see the wise-cracking joker Will Smith not the character he's trying to play.
That beyonce song is so awful. So bad, worse than spirit from lion king. I don't see it getting a nomination. Billie eilish James bond soundtrack is winning best original song.
Bullshit. Not a single honest bone in this movie, it paints a one sided, rosy picture of Richard Williams and of their childhood. And of course not a single mention of Venus and Serena having muscles like two powerful men when they were dominating the female tennis world, resembling Martina Navratilova.
Why is Belfast more likely to be nominated for directing than King Richard? Because one involves a black family and white family stories are more oscar worthy while black family movies are more Kids Choice Awards worthy? Both are family stories. The only difference is one film is shoot in black and white.
You really have no fucking clue what film directing is. The exquisite craftsmanship on display in Belfast is leagues ahead of the TV-movie compositions in King Richard.
@@Zuranthium BS! One is about a white family and the other is about a black family. Black and white films tricks people into believing that the film is better than it actually is. King Richard is just as well made as Belfast!
@@joecoe4416 You're like a pre-Algebra student trying to talk about Calculus. You have no idea what you're talking about. Shut up and actually learn about film.
Beyonce will not win an oscar for that mediocre song . I've heard better original songs from other films this year. Even if she is nominated, she will face heavy competition from wayyy better songs and most likely not win
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Thank you for pointing out the issue regarding individual achievement and societal barriers for entire groups.
Wouldn't it be amazing if when Will Smith wins his Oscar and steps up to the mic, he says: "It was all a part of the plan..."
Do you think that he's winning one for this?
@@IWantToMature85 Yeah
Well, he had a crazy night.
@@IWantToMature85 Ohhh.....we sure did.
and then slapped Chris Rock..........
that would be craaaazyyyyyyy
its not gonna happen though....
I've seen a couple of BP contenders. TPOD, Belfast, Spencer, Dune... King Richard was the top movie that made me feel amazing. It's also a damn good movie. I honestly think in a year where I don't really think any movie blows my mind, it could sweep in and be a contender or even win BP. It's a film most people will love and feel inspired by.
Licorice pizza too. It has 95 on metacritic.
Dune was whack
I got this at 100/1 in Picture on Gold Derby! Finally dropped it from Director; no room for a Morten Tyldum this year
I was waiting for this! Great observations and commentary in this reaction. I also believe Will Smith will finally take home an Oscar ..... that is if Denzel Washington don't stand in his way again lol!
Denzel won't win it. I feel Will would as his performance is better.
@@leroych8528 slllllllaaaaaaaaap.
Ellis and Smith for Oscar nominations, their performances were just amazing and compelling to watch!
I really enjoyed King Richard. This a feel good inspirational film about one of the greatest sport stories of all time that not one but 2 African American girls that can come out of Compton and be tennis champions coached by a father who self taught them from tennis books, magazines and videos. Will Smith is terrific as Richard Williams in what I think is the performance of his career and he certainly has the narrative to win as this will be his 3rd nomination for Best Actor in what will probably be a Best Picture nominee. I think Aunjanue Ellis is going to get in as well as she offered great support as his wife Oracene and she looked so much like her. Also I really liked Jon Bernthal as the tennis coach Rick Macci who developed the girls games. The film while being a crowd pleasing type film is a bit generic so I think it will get in for Best Picture because they have 10 nominees I don’t think it will win Best Picture but I do think this film does give Will Smith his best chance so far at Oscar gold.
I loved this movie! I went in looking forward to a good story and performances. I came out inspired and in awe of amazing performances. I dont know about you all, but to me i felt like this movie played in real-time. When the parents argued or any of the family scenes it was as if i was sitting there with them. It was outstanding. I wouldn’t at all be mad if it won best picture.
I’ve seen people dunking on this year as a weak crop of movies but I don’t agree at all. The only awards movies to open near me so far are King Richard, Belfast, Dune, and Spencer and I would put every one of these movies over every movie nominated last year. I thought the 2020 batch was really weak but this is shaping up to be a strong year. If 3 out of Licorice Pizza, Nightmare Alley, Don’t Look Up, or West Side Story deliver the goods this could be a super strong year in my opinion.
What is crazy for me is that This year we have some clear front runners in the acting categories, but the last the award season was so crazy and uncertain that I dont know if we will see someone taking all the awards during this next season
For Best actress it's not that clear. People are saying Kristen Stewart but I like Jessica Chastain in Tammy Faye and Thomasin McKenzie in last night in soho more...plus hailee bennet in Cyrano might be promising.
@@nikitamohanan2124 thomasin has no chance for a nomination
@@Cinemaheals yeah Thomasin's performance wasn't that special to get a nom
@@Cinemaheals But why honestly I saw Spencer and kristen was good but I didn't find the movie or her performance mindblowing or overly spectacular!
@@nikitamohanan2124 Soho isnt a contender in general. Stewart is probably the favourite right now
It’s an ok film with some good performances. No Best Picture winner to me. 3/5
Belfast will win
I'm with you. It wasn't that special to me and I honestly didnt find it as inspirational as everyone says. They were good at Tennis because their tyrant father never let them be anything else.
Same for me. It was a feel-good popcorn flick, no more.
I’ve seen that a lot of experts are predicting the race to be between King Richard, Belfast, and Power of the Dog. I’d be willing to put money on none of them winning best picture. I really think Licorice Pizza or Nightmare Alley takes it, leaning more towards licorice pizza
Great analysis as always!
I can really see Will Smith being given the "It's time" Oscar.
I'm glad to hear King Richard us good, but man, unless it's a revelation, I really need something more interesting than this or fucking Belfast to win Best Picture...
Belfast will win
@@dariussalepetru6770 Which is sad.
I didnt think it was all that special. Will Smith really did bring that character to life but ultimately it just felt like any other biopic with the typical run of the mill cliches that come along with it. 7.5/10
Such powerful commentary at 6:24
Loved the breakdown fellas keep going
Great review. Great commentary.
I liked the movie and all of the performances. Will stands out but I can see an acting ensemble nomination or two. Smith is a lock for his third nomination. Perhaps, 3rd time is the charm! 8/10
Man I love you guys! ❤️
I’ve been waiting on this review, soooo glad y’all loved this movie as much as I did.
Best supporting actress is going to Ruth negga. Passing has 91 percent on rotten tomatoes. Ruth is a previous nominee for best actress (loving).
I’ve had her in Top 5 for awhile. I agree- she’s likely getting nominated. Win? Not 100% sure to call that yet.
Even I also think it's Ann Dowd vs negga vs Belfast ladies
Hoping she gets nominated and wins! She's phenomenol and deserves more recognition
Is Ruth negga in this film?
@@alexwest2945 no not in king Richard..she's in *Passing* movie by Rebecca Hall..with Tessa Thompson in lead role
I am starting to hear some people not as confident in Belfast...King Richard incoming 🗣
Licorice Pizza incoming, more like.
West side Story and C'mon C'mon looks strong too
All this while, I was thinking Will might take home the trophy when it suddenly struck me that there’s Joaquin this time with his C’mon C’mon that am yet to watch…
When are you doing Golden Globes predictions?
Dude this movie came out just 2 years ago and I remember the slap like it was yesterday crazy man im gonna see this again in 10 years
This is going to be Will Smith’s Leo DiCaprio moment at the Oscars
Supporting actress is between cate , Balfie , Ellis
Dunst
Yeah I don't buy this winning any screenplay awards. This obsession pundits have with crowd pleasers is just nonsensical (I hope this doesn't age badly). With Licorice Pizza in contention I highly doubt Belfast is getting original screenplay and The Power of the Dog is being bafflingly underestimated despite it being the current director and adapted screenplay frontrunner for good reason (the divisiveness is overexaggerated ). I think it will be between TPOTD and Licorice Pizza but in the end anything can happen.
So Anjanaue ellis is this year Ellen burstyn in pieces of a woman?
Still mad she didn’t get nominated. She was phenomenal
Tbh I thought Ellen Burstyn over-acted a bit in that big scene she had in POAW. But Aunjanue Ellis was perfect
Will Smith’s The Pursuit of Happyness is a similar American dream story. Even Fresh Prince was that. Seems to be a pattern.
Great insight! His first major film role, Six Degrees of Separation, is a darker take on the same theme
Only difference was Richard Williams character was more complicated and multi layered than Will Smith has portrayed in the past.
@@natedoggg2002 Pursuit was pretty complex
I love tennis and other sports more than movies and series, but tennis is my favorit thing in the World all my life is tennis and i am also cinefile but from Europe, i will love this movie 10000000000%, i want Nadal and his Roland Garros movie
Djokovic is GOAT.
@@PretentiousStuff I am Rafa fan and my favorit tournament are Roland Garros and my favorit surfaces is clay because i am from Europe and we only play on clay, all records of Fedex and Novak will fall but Nadal clay court records and 13 Roland Garros never, but Novak is best tennis player of all time i think
I want that Nadal story too 😀
@@jonathanvelazquezph.d.2719 Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz but than they will to old, young Rafa and Bardem old and 80% Roland Garros story that will be my choice and you must had Fedex and Novak
You should watch this Indian Film "Dangal", It might be very similar, the story is same but with wrestling.
It's not exactly the same. You know these are based on real life people right?
T Series
@@nikitamohanan2124 I think both are based on real life charcaters, ofcourse Dangal is much more dramatized but in the core is very similar to king richard : Pov of an ambitious father who wants his daughters to an excel in a sport and in faced with odds.
@@mikeyc0800ify Let me guess, you saw India and then typed T series.
@@milkfries Ya but in King Richard was he hoping for sons? Their struggles were different and the girl's personalities and relationship with their father might hsve been different.
I don’t know, Will Smith basically ALWAYS goes for safe roles. He’s just not interesting to me. I know that’s Pretentious but just my opinion
That’s not pretentious at all
I don't see how Will picking transformative roles like this isn't interesting? Because roles like this aren't something he "always" goes for. We can count on one hand of how many roles he has like this. Ali, Concussion and now King Richard. Most actors pick "safe" roles anyway. They gotta work to their own advantage. But I will say, he's never been a thespian, never grew up with an "actor mindset", or grew up with the idea of being an actor's actor. He's always had the box office mindset, and those type of movies are always "safe". But even if this role is safe for him, it shouldn't mean his performance isn't great or interesting or worth watching.
Hey compare this guy’s career to any other early ‘90’s sitcom star and get back to me
To me it wasn't that safe. Although Richard Williams was a good man and a good father with wisdom and pride. Unlike the other characters Will Smith have portrayed in the past, Richard Williams was a multi layered complicated man with several flaws. He was stubborn at times, overbearing, and we discover as the movie went on that he had several other children that he did not have relationships with. He also had a past that haunted him that effected how he raised Venus and Serena pushing them to their limits to the extreme. To me Will Smith's most powerful scene is when he bared his soul to Venus. He finally confesses his past trauma and fears that had followed him into fatherhood once he finally realize he was holding his daughter back. He had to let Venus go forward to the next level. This was the most multi layered character I ever seen Will Smith portray. And he did it effortlessly! He deserves that Oscar.
@@natedoggg2002 thank you! This role may seem “safe”… but that just means Will can dive into any role he takes and make it look easy. Because this was definitely one of the more complex characters he’s ever played. He did a great job in this role! He deserves all the hardware!
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what is your cats name?
we asked for our $ back....
Thought that was a little baby
Tired of bio-picks! Somebody write an original movie script please!,,
Best song for Beyoncé Omg
The Academy ain’t giving Beyoncé an Oscar. The James Bond film always wins as of late. They’d rather Billie Eilish win so they can appear hip.
Billies song feels so old by now, I would guess Beyoncé still
The academy won’t give it to Billie either. Beyoncé has a better shot at this point
Is Beyoncé or Lin Manuel Miranda for encanto but Beyoncé has this in the bag
But her song is like 2 years old
Now really Oscar’s.
they better give it to bey.
Who deserve more to win the oscar
Will smith or andrew???
After watch King Richard, prefer Will Smith
Clearly Andrew. And it's not even close in my opinion.
I would say Andrew due to the degree of difficulty. However, Will has the narrative and a great performance too.
Cumberbatch
Generic Oscar bait, but Will Smith deseves the oscar
Does he? Over Benedict Cumberbatch?
Good take! Check out our review on this movie when you get a chance.
Really hoping it does not get into original screenplay or Director. I do not need that in my life. But it seems pretty unlikely that it doesn't get screenplay at this point (I would cheer if it drops out of the category and makes way for something like C'mon C'mon/Worst Person/Mass). Huge lock for Best Picture and might get every nomination including the BAFTA. It might win the Golden Globe if Belfast competes in Comedy/Musical. I also think this and Licorice Pizza have a better chance at winning the Producers Guild over Belfast because I have a hard time thinking they're gonna fall this easily for the obvious bait, especially when it doesn't have that kind of passion that other films like it had that propelled them to frontrunner status. Then again, PGA didn't give it to Roma or Jojo Rabbit so can't say that they're bored of this shit.
Why don’t you want this to get an original screenplay nom? Especially if the other films you named could easily be nominated as well
@@MisterFoxx i don't think C'mon C'mon/The Worst Person in the World have a shot in screenplay as of now, the only way they make it into the category is if King Richard and/or Don't Look Up slide. Mass could still get it but provided that they campaign it well, but I'm still very skeptical about it.
@@rambunctiousrohan but what are you implying the other movies in the category are? Lol because I could easily see C’mon C’mon being nominated still. And I doubt Don’t Look Up will be nominated in that category
@@MisterFoxx I have Belfast, Licorice Pizza, Don't Look Up, King Richard and Spencer in my top 5. Recently the writer's branch has kept sticking to Best Picture nominees in the screenplay categories, and that's why I have Spencer in over C'mon C'mon because it's more likely to get BP. It's definitely still not impossible that C'mon C'mon could get it, because the Academy nominated Mike Mills for 20th Century Women without it getting Best Picture or any other prior screenplay nominations from major bodies. It was a pleasant surprise.
And its definitely is questionable whether Don't Look Up would deserve to be nominated or not, but the Academy loves Adam McKay way too much for me to not have it high in my predictions.
So good !!
I enjoyed this movie. But, I don’t see this as an Oscar worthy film at all. But, it was a fun watch. The wife was better than Will Smith in this movie. I learned a lot about the family that I didn’t know. Never knew there were 5 girls in the family. This film left me wanting to know more about Venus. I don’t agree with you about Fox News being racist. How?
Fox News is not racist?????
I don't understand why you don't agree with people having the ability to overcome barriers in their lives in order to better themselves and their situation in life. It was just kind of vague the way you said it. If you don't have that sort of mindset you won't really get anywhere in trying to better the adversaries and overcome whatever discrimination or barriers facing you. I was just wondering what barriers and "societal" discrimination people are facing right now today, that stops them from striving to make a better life for themselves. I just was confused what you meant in making this claim.
Brother bro here - it’s a good question. I agree it’s important to encourage people to achieve their dreams through hard work, even when they have a disadvantage compared to others. And you have to have that mindset in order to be extraordinary. Here’s where I think the shortcomings of this mindset lie. Our society says that each person’s success is completely proportionate to the amount of work they put in. So not achieving success is a personal failure of willpower. This mindset is applied very brutally towards black people and other racial groups to say “they are poor because they haven’t worked hard enough”. This completely ignores the fact that different factors objectively produce different outcomes. Consider education. In well funded “rich town” schools, most kids graduate. In poor, underfunded schools, the majority might not. This cannot be understood by the presence of a “hustle culture” mindset or lack thereof. It’s because one group is financially depressed which comes with a whole host of other factors. There 100% will be successful people / anomalies coming out of these terrible situations but it’s a poor indicator on the health of that community. Today, black people as a whole face more disparities than white people in just about every area simply by virtue of where they are born and their lack of financial assets (this is statistically a fact that they have much much less wealth out of the gate). At the very least this is an inheritance problem since white society has been allowed to be financially prosperous for all of society’s history whereas for black people were fighting financial discrimination even after civil rights were passed (that’s a whole history I can’t detail). But at it’s worst (and I think this is the society we live in), these majority black communities continue to be neglected by those who have financial power (white people as a whole - I know not all white people are rich). Education is one of many factors where majority black communities have it so much worse. The lack of urgency to do anything about it is part of racism in my opinion. It’s also been studied that poverty is a cycle and without stimulus it’s extremely difficult for people to pick themselves up and get out. Basic example - you open a restaurant in your poor neighborhood but no one has money to buy anything so you go out of business. Alternatively you can open it in a richer (whiter) neighborhood, but then you’re not employing and stimulating YOUR community anymore. And because there are things we can actually do to make people’s lives less shitty, this is where the “individual achievement” argument becomes pernicious. It’s used as an excuse to say “hey let’s do nothing”. But in my opinion, people in power have a moral obligation to do something because this is white society’s fault for being horrible to black people throughout history (again this did not end at civil rights). Hope that makes more sense!
@@TheOscarExpert yassss Brother Bro-couldn’t have said it better myself 👏🏽 well spoken!
I don't think I will ever be able to take Will Smith seriously as an actor.
I will just always see the wise-cracking joker Will Smith not the character he's trying to play.
That beyonce song is so awful. So bad, worse than spirit from lion king. I don't see it getting a nomination. Billie eilish James bond soundtrack is winning best original song.
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I think Encanto is going to win original song. The Academy loves Lin Manuel Miranda and This could be his first Oscar
The lies lmfaaaooo
@@lugogaliciaricardo5168 If that happens Miranda would become EGOT 😌
Beyonce over sang the song and ruined her chances.
She didn’t
Bullshit. Not a single honest bone in this movie, it paints a one sided, rosy picture of Richard Williams and of their childhood. And of course not a single mention of Venus and Serena having muscles like two powerful men when they were dominating the female tennis world, resembling Martina Navratilova.
Lol
U need help, seriously…
Why is Belfast more likely to be nominated for directing than King Richard? Because one involves a black family and white family stories are more oscar worthy while black family movies are more Kids Choice Awards worthy? Both are family stories. The only difference is one film is shoot in black and white.
You really have no fucking clue what film directing is. The exquisite craftsmanship on display in Belfast is leagues ahead of the TV-movie compositions in King Richard.
@@Zuranthium BS! One is about a white family and the other is about a black family. Black and white films tricks people into believing that the film is better than it actually is. King Richard is just as well made as Belfast!
@@joecoe4416 You're like a pre-Algebra student trying to talk about Calculus. You have no idea what you're talking about. Shut up and actually learn about film.
Beyonce will not win an oscar for that mediocre song . I've heard better original songs from other films this year. Even if she is nominated, she will face heavy competition from wayyy better songs and most likely not win