The Woman King - Group Movie Reaction
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I think the fact that the child and mother talked about the rape is HEALTHY. It’s apart of the healing process. Which is hard to address because it’s discouraged. Seen as being negative when it is addressed and brought up. And people see you as just being a product of rape. While projecting their feelings into thinking that the people effected will never get past it. Meanwhile it’s the listeners who can’t get past and stop seeing you as a person as they associate you as nothing more than the product of rape.
This response is typical of most forms of trauma including being the victim of rape, slavery and systematic oppression. Infact the RESPONSE to the trauma is ANOTHER form of trauma that leads to re-victimization. Many of the responses like projecting your feelings that traumatized people are damaged goods and writing them off, is actually WORSE than the original trauma. Misinformation that de-humanizes and disempowers survivors is not only prevalent, it’s the environment that enables rape culture.
It also creates the feeling nothing can be done. Which is often an excuse to NOT help or even prevent these kinds of situations when thy are happening and overlook it. The rapist knows that and in some cases brags about, “doing whatever the f¥
"That's the first time he realized...he could be with Black people."
I *DIED* 💀💀💀💀💀✨
"Your lightskin your not a fighter" 🤣🤣🤣
I saw this in the cinema. A beautifully crafted movie. I do with some of the women of the crew joined this reaction.
I LOVE this movie. Saw it FIVE times. I was wondering why there is a timer in the corner? Are you trying to keep the clips for the movie under a certain amount of time? (less than half of the total video time?)
can't believe they tried to sell this movie as historical, and still censored the other things that happened to them (like the warriors being the king's property and that each one were castrated)
What time period did the movie take place?
@@_VISION. 1800s
@@crazytanks2001 Which decade?
White people censor what they did all the time though? They are doing it till this day. I see what this is lol
Americans trying to tell us our history is crazy to me💀😭google isn’t factual
Loved the film reaction but as a History student I feel it'd be wrong not to defend the people in the comments pointing out the film's historical inaccuracies. The Dahomey were indeed dominated by female warriors but they were brutal, cruel, and a major slave-trading African kingdom. Like the Ahanti and Oyo Empires they sold their own people and others to white Europeans into slavery. Unlike the others, however, they sold so many of their males and kept so many of their women that they became the female society they're depicted as in the film. Also, while many of the characters in the film are based on the idea of the Dahomey's women warriors, a lot of them were not real people. One of the few Dahomey characters who was real was King Ghezo. He ruled in the early to mid-1800s as the Dahomey attempted to reinvigorate their slave-trade oriented economy against the wishes of the British, who, having banned slavery by then, blockaded their ports to stop them (I've checked and you can indeed verify this on Ghezo's Wikipedia page). That's the true story of the Dahomey. The Woman King is a wonderful film about African women fighting for freedom against enslavement, as many African women did in history. But still, please do not connect the Dahomey with this. If you want a real story of a female African ruler who fought European slavers, I'd suggest looking up Nzinga Ana. Honestly, I'm astonished they didn't base this film on her instead.
But yes, long story short, please understand peoples' frustration with this film. It takes the story of real freedom-fighting black women in history and associates their actions with the sorts of people they were fighting against. It doesn't matter whether you're black or white or whatever: that's something that will justifiably make you a little angry.
If you keep the same energy for every movie in Hollywood history, I could respect this position.
If you're selective about which films have to meet this historical accuracy standard, I have questions.
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The problem is that none of of the other comments have pointed out any specific inaccuracy, they're all making broad claims like "How to fake history in a nutshell," when it really doesn't deviate from fact as much as I thought it would. Movies like The Gladiator, The Last Samurai, and The Patriot, have more inaccuracies. The Woman King actually showed most of the things you mentioned: female warrior were brutal and slave-traders? Check, we see that in the first 20 minutes. The Dahomey sold their own people? Check, King Ghezo and Nanizca have a full conversation about it (it's not in this reaction, but it's in the actual movie, which I'm starting to think you didn't watch). The part about King Ghezo? That happened AFTER the events shown on the film, after the defeat of the Oyo.
So really, I don't see where the *lie* is in this movie, other than the names of the characters, which...really? Lol you expect historians to know the history of every Agoye warrior and slave trader? That's ridiculous.
@@hoos3014 I believe he's totally being selective.
@@bernardsoul5186 They can't be specific because they don't actually know the history. They are just repeating comments they heard on some other "Fandom Menace" type TH-cam video.
"Baptized to death"😂😂😂💀💀💀💀
Speaking of Wakanda:
The scene in the first Black Panther movie where Killmonger is in the museum talking about the artifacts, the curator says the item is from 'The Edo people of Benin', and Killmonger says 'No, it's Wakandan'.
The kingdom of Dahomey was located in what is modern day Benin. Dahomey is Wakanda. Canon: Accepted.
nahh, wakanda is on the other side of the continent. The curator was just mistaken is all
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Would've been a great Easter egg
@@vikkidonn sure they may have taken inspiration from it, but the basis of wakanda is that its in East Africa, where the first humans supposedly were found. I know cus punk ass creators took my home country off the map to put wakanda there lol
is wakanda then also a slave society like the Dahomey were? that canon too?
the King's wife Shanté, was played by Jayme Lawson who was in also in The Batman
Wait, she was Bella Reál?!?
"Baptized to death, it's the closest way to get to God'"😂😂
I think the point many are getting at is this film is being harshly judged (on a large scale) solely on historical inaccuracies, while films like Braveheart, Gladiator, 300 and many others were not
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lmao, not the same thing at all. 300 actually comes from a graphic novel, it never wanted to be an accurate representation of what happened between Spartans and Persians. Gladiator and Braveheart are inaccurate, that's true, but they're great movies: writings, acting, pacing are amazing. This movie on the other hand is trash and depicts a story that is, in fact, totally different from reality. Not to mention that this movie is full-on woke, with women easily beating men that are double their size. What a joke
This is quite clearly a stupid take 300 we know and the director said it not based in real life the battle is gladiator we know isn't true and braveheart wasn't meant to be accurate
@@supersuede6493 My guy, these people are deceptive and playing in bad faith. Unfortunately this is how woke people are...
😂😂😂really? Because theres been articles and videos for years trashing braveheart for its inaccuracies. Nice try with the race card though.
The actors were amazing in this movie!
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Everyone crying about historical accuracy, which this film never claimed to 100% be. Greatest Showman wasn't nearly close to historically accurate but no one cried about that. The film keeps its core truth while expanding its own story, like every film does. Enjoy the film and research the tribe for authenticity
They portrayed slavers as heroes. I don't care if they advertised it as "fiction", you have an OBLIGATION to depict history like this accurately.
7:30 Chris' reaction! LMAO.
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It wasn't a bad movie, but man they should not have advertised it as being real history. They could've just made it historical fiction that had nothing to do with real tribes.
We couldn't just enjoy the film, due to the stakes always being higher. Ended up consuming and defeating ourselves over how to carry the struggle.
23:25 “baptized to death” PLEEASSSE 😭
YOOOO. 😮
SUB-FUCKIN- _SCRIBED_ ! 😃
I expected some interesting reactions...but I didn't know there'd be good convo after. Y'all have brains and you *use* them! I love it! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾✨
She did that for izogi ❤, her friend
Watching the woman king without 1 woman on the couch 😫😫😭
The evil historical revisionism of this movie is nicely matched by Chris going off about how the intra-african trade was humane and the trans-atlantic one was uniquely vicious. It's like this movie was made for these dolts.
the indentured servitude between the warring tribes of Africa is very much different than the chattel slavery of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade. Everywhere Europeans docked, filth followed. You haven't even seen the film.
@@brothercinnamon2479 It's amazing that you think that African slavery was all the same across a very diverse continent or that it was somehow nice just because it was in Africa.
There's no fucking way you can possibly think that indentured servitude in Africa (or "African slavery" as a lot of Westerners will refer to it as, not realizing or caring that it was not the same in the slightest) was the same as the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Are you high? This is a serious question. What are you on? I want some.
And another thing...this isn't revisionist history. It's a FICTIONALIZED telling of one single point in the kingdom of Dahomey's history mixed with some facts here and there. A lot of other "historical" films have done the same. Nowhere on the screen did the movie say "Based on true events"...because it fucking wasn't.
Grow up and pay more attention before spouting off nonsense. You sound dumb.
@@TheConnorian it was nice
they get to play tag first
they pillage the village and they gather strong working man
maybe breed the females for more bonus slaves after a few years
theyre pretty humane compared to the transatlantic slave trade
they bring you to merica and made their decedents merican citizens
how horrible
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“Is her sword a sword or a bat” **tony stark voice** is it too much to ask for both?
when you will react to Vox machinaaaa?
I enjoyed this movie for what it was, an entertaining story. The fake outrage over this movie was ridiculous. Most people were pretending to be outrage to go viral. I noticed those same fake outragers knew absolutely nothing about the Dahomey people, just what they heard other You Tubers say. Also, Hollywood has never been in the business for telling the truth. Hollywood has always been about selling entertaining stories. It amazes me how people suddenly developed amnesia regarding the history of Hollywood movies smh.
the movie is showing an aggressive slave society in a war that they started, like some heroic victims. the outrage was 100% justified.
@@antonlykkegaard1487Is there the same outrage for the inaccurate Napoleon?
Shouldn't there be? I don't understand the argument. Are you suggesting that these kinds of damaging misportrayels are ok, because some slip under the radar? And i wouldn't say that that the outrage for Woman King is nearly severe enough for what it is.@@WilliamGarrow
@@antonlykkegaard1487ooo aggressive is certainly a choice. They sold slaves just like others during that time. How was they to know it would become the trans Atlantic slave trade. They lived their life, this movie shows that. Why should movies for us make us only be pretty and not realistic?
@@darholland3566 it doesn't matter what they knew, because they didn't care. that's the thing about slavery, they didn't care about the slaves they stole and sold, because all they were to them was property. the movie depicts the dahomey like some tribe that was victimized by europeans. in reality, they were the ones terrorizing others, and it eventually came back to bite them.
You watched *this* of all movies, with just the guys?
It’s 💩 anyway so the girls were spared the agony!
It's a shame the girls weren't around for this movie.
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People kill me ITS A MOVIE made for entertainment plus noon was alive back then to see what these people had to do to survive everybody wanna be fake woke enjoy the blood sweat and tears put into this by these women
It's a movie made to include people they took a look at a story and turned it into their benefit of pushing a woke agenda
Because of izogi he was hit that forcefully 🎉🎉❤
Historical inaccuracies aside, the movie is beautiful. I loved it. People did what they did to keep their people safe and that's what this king felt he had to do. There are plenty of other tribes of all nations who are reported to be cannibals, too. I think changing the story to fit more current narratives is fine. It's a fiction story, not a history piece. So if historians are actually upset, they need to calm down cause the movie isn't even being advertised as a true story or anything as far as I know.
Just enjoy a good movie about powerful warriors.
They weren't powerful warriors though
The movie literlay was sold as a movie inspired by true events
@@barry2349 That's really it's only big fault. Sure you have to suspend you belief a bit with the action, but it's a movie ya know
What's crazy is that people are actually crapping on this movie and it's actors because it paints the dehomy people in a good light when they were actually barbaric and they were a vital part in the slave trade. But what those people don't understand because they decide not to watch is that is represented but then change throughout the story which is completely fine considering this movie is not advertised as a true story. Nobody would have known that this as any actual historic figures depicted in it if not for the haters being so spiteful in regards to this movie.
Except this movie is sold as non fiction
22:19 😭😭😭😭 not the drake strays
It was based on true events, but mostly pretty inaccurate with how the last fight went…the Dahomey we were completely destroyed in a few hours
And they were not the good guys unfortunately
No what was mostly inaccurate was the fact that they spoke English💀
@@kc_h7h they weren’t speaking English?😭 it was just so the audience understood
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@@kaylal741 I know it's called a joke
According to Wikipedia, you're WRONG:
"At the film's onset in the 1820s, as in real life, Dahomey is a tributary state of the Oyo Empire, which it had become in 1730. As portrayed in the film, Dahomey fought successfully to be freed from its status under Oyo. Also in the film, European colonization is a threat to Dahomey, but in real life, territorial disputes began with France in 1863 and led to the First Franco-Dahomean War in 1890, followed by the Second Franco-Dahomean War in 1892."
How embarrassing for you, boo. To anyone reading this, if a commenter claims a piece of knowledge without naming their source (even if it's wikipedia, which names THEIR sources) it means they're full of caca.
In the real story, the Dahomey tribe was an aggressive slave society, that often raided neighboring african tribes to capture slaves to sell. Eventually they raided a tribe that was protected by the french. That tribe then asked the french to help them, and the french destroyed the Dahomey in one battle with almost no casualties. Thats the war which is shown in the movie. Its a pretty movie with good cinematography, but its depicting history very badly.
Is that from an African narrative or a non-African narrative?
@@adeOLUWA an obejctive truth. the same as saying europeans sold slaves is neither afro centric or euro centric
I'd suggest looking up the real history that this movie "portrays", because the movie is just an horrible manipulation of history and an insult to the history of black people and everything they have suffered.
are you black? no. don't speak for us nor act as if you care. I bet you loved Django and many other inaccurate films.
Lol the like/dislike ratio says it all. What were they thinking...?
I thought the movie was brilliant. I especially loved Viola Davis and Lashana Lynch. They were outstanding! I don't get all the hate it's receiving. I hear people saying that the movie is historically inaccurate... but why are people acting like it's the first hollywood "war" movie to not be historically accurate?
This is going to trigger people but Idc 😂 if the cast weren't a group of black woman... there would be no outrage at all 👀.
It’s not just historically inaccurate. The kingdom of Dahomey was built on slavery. The transatlantic slave trade was only possible because of the slaver kingdoms like Dahomey. I know that the idea that white Europeans invaded Africa and captured people appeals to some people, but it was just not accurate. The kingdom of Dahomey was just as responsible for the transatlantic slave trade as any white slaver.
@@Stevie8654 The United States, was built on slavery as well. General George Washington ordered that all slaves who were freed by the retreating British were to be returned to bondage. But, he's a "hero."
breaking news: you're part of the problem
I really enjoyed this film on release and it's such a shame it's been completely shut out of the Oscars. I know there was some boycott of it because people say it's not historically accurate, as I think people don't like how it paints the warriors as heroic when they were a big part of the slave trade, but I thought it did a good job of pointing out that they were involved in that trade but wanted to stop and find new income. It always frustrates me that I saw so much fuss about historical accuracy for this, but no other film and plenty based on some real event/person aren't accurate. It seemed a lot wanted this film to fail. The performances are great here and I found it a thrilling and engaging watch.
The problem is that they did not actually stop being involved with the slave trade, and actually chose to go back to it after ceasing it for a few years. Moreover, they used slaves to produce the palm oil that this movie suggests was their alternative. The film is the epitome of Hollywood including representation not for equality or their audience but for money. It chose to glorify a group of strong women of color and sweep under the rug the fact that those same women were integral to the slave trade. It’s akin to saying that unit 731 liberated the concentration camps for the sake of having a movie with Asian characters. I will concede the point that many other movies do this sort of thing. The Patriot comes to mind first, given that the film suggests Francis Marion owned no slaves when in reality he was a slave-owning piece of sh*t. The difference between the two movies is that the central plot of The Patriot was not Francis Marion fighting against slavery.
Apparently that Marilyn Monroe movie a while back got flack. Regardless if other movies got away with it in the past, it shouldn’t mean that movies should continue to do so.
I don't like slave traders being depicted as heroic.
Why do you like that standard?
They didn't want to find new income, they literally fought the French because the French wanted to abolish slavery.
Imagine making a movie about naz1s as heroes of WWII?! that’s what this pile of 💩is!
the fact that they had no stunt doubles for this movie... and it's getting paid dust from the awards???
Research the real tribe that this movie is loosely based on and you will understand why!
Lashana wasn’t in Queen’s Gambit, that was Moses Ingram (Reva from Obi Wan) but she was Maria Rambeau in Captain Marvel and Multiverse of Madness, she’s also 007 in No Time To Die and Miss Honey in Matilda the Musical
Oh no
On the battle field we are our doc's
For those who care: *This movie is the equivalent of saying the Nazis were trying to save Jews from the evil Anglo-Americans in World War 2.*
At the time of this battle, the Dahome were fighting to keep the slave trade going, and the European involved wanted to end the slave trade. And (thankfully), the Dahome were massacred.
And this tribe only had an all-woman battalion because their pool of men had been whittle down from constantly capturing new slaves to sell.
35:06 the white guy is kid voldemort
Please do some research about the history behind this film as the movie is incredibly historically inaccurate. It made the film unwatchable for me as they claimed it was "based on a true story". Love your reactions normally guys just hope you guys look up the real history as there is too many rewritings of history and people making stuff up to suit themselves nowadays.
if you actually knew the history instead playing a colonizing expert on African History, you would know it based on true events. Your full of nonsense
@Brother Cinnamon come on man, you know how loosely it's based. You can't turn these people into heroes they were some of the worst slavers out there especially the king depicted in the film. My main issue is they claim any historical basis other names of places and people, they aren't clear enough in representing that this is fiction.
@@lukethompson4879 they weren't made into heroes. did you watch the film? Your main concern is how the white people are depicted other than that you'd have no interest int the film. The liberties they took with film is no different than the whitewashed historical Hollywood films, ie Lincoln, etc..Where was your angst then?
@Brother Cinnamon Did I ever mention any issues with how the white people are depicted? I have no issue with the horrors of the slave trade being depicted in cinema from all sides, especially the major part white civilisations ruling classes played in it, but that doesn't allow the film to take away the blame from others who are just as responsible and misrepresent the dynamics of the country at the time. Anyway all I said in my original comment was for them to educate themselves on the true story of dahomey which I think everyone should agree is an important part of history to learn along with all other parts of history especially the trans-atlantic slave trade. Plenty of films have gotten history wrong and I dislike them for that reason. The patriot and braveheart are great examples of films completely misrepresenting time periods and historical settings and negatively affecting what the public knows about the real history and I believe that this film can cause the exact same issue. My view points have nothing to do with race, I literally only care about the historical validity, all it would take is to call it fiction or talk about a different topic. There are plenty of stories to talk about that can empower black culture and the fight against slavery, they just chose to make up one and call it "based on truth". They got a lot of the cultural aspects right which is nice though.
@@lukethompson4879 this movie is not a documentary nor did it sell itself as one. you haven't seen it. go rest. A colonizer is going to tell us about our history and how to tell our stories? Those days are over. You want a history lesson, pick up some books and dive deep. You know nothing of African History let alone this tribe.
It's too bad that this movie didn't address any of the horrible things they did during slavery!!! Such a silly propaganda film.
@Rick King 22 R u ok?
@@supersuede6493 don't use woke when you don't know what it means. It's clear anything black or female led is what you consider to be woke. Educate yourself if you can
@@RandomNPC001watch the movie they addressed slavery and their role several times. Stop being a nincompoop and just say either you didn't watch or you didn't pay attention.
@@brothercinnamon2479 really?! No black persons or women have been successful in anything ever put out by Hollywood huh?! The level of bending reality from the last 50 years of Hollywood is S tier! Congrats! 👏👏👏
@@ringsofblayze4026 you mean the “fake indignation” shown in the movie, even though in reality this tribe was massacred by the British because they wouldn’t stop slav1ng their neighbors?! I consider you read a book called 1984 by George Orwell so that you can understand what is being done to the real world history and how that is affecting your world view! That’s the reason why this is called w0ke! Nothing to do with people of color or women. I am black by the way so spare me your reverse rac1sm!
I love this reaction even though I didnt really care for the movie. And before anyone asks, no, its not because of the inaccuracy. I couldnt care less if its accurate (if I wanted to know the real history, I’d watch a documentary or read a nonfiction book. I dont know what people really expect from fictional movies at this point. “Based on true events” is basically equivalent to “I saw something like this once and created a new world around it”.) I don’t like the movie because It seemed distracted. There was a lot of unnecessary story. And it was so long for no reason. Like I love a long movie. If you need 3 hours to tell a great story, please use every second. But so much of this plot was useless. I wish they wouldve just picked a problem and stuck with it. This movie couldve been 1.5 hours at most. Also “Woman King” as a title was… definitely a choice. I dont know if it was the right choice…
(For the record, I am always aware of the possibility that I’ve missed something. So I’m open to disagreement)
But i love watching you guys!! And your reactions are always worth seeing!
I think the problem was this movie tried to tell people it was more historically accurate than it was. Whether from the interviews of people working on it or subtext within the film etc.
This whole movie is very inaccurate and quite frankly racist to African history not black history African I hated it worst movie of 2022
Dunkirk was inaccurate and cut out the Black people from Trinidad who served and were also on the beach... The Beguiled erased the whole storyline about Black women's issues that was in the original book source material... The Green Book isn't even about the thing it is named after...
@@WorldsPhamous Ok?? Dunkirk is very accurate in its viewpoint from the soldiers and the battle in general apart from some occasional dramatisation however that viewpoint is almost entirely from that of the British troops who had the most to be evacuated counting at 198,000. The film is not racist it only focuses on one group pretty much apart from sometimes the French so if you really are going to complain about how the other countries were not represented well than include all the other countries who were present. The difficulty with that is that there were hundreds of thousands of individual people many of whom were very scattered about and probably didn’t even have a lot of contact together and couldn’t speak the same language so that would have made things very difficult to deal with in real life as well as putting that to screen.
@@WorldsPhamous That is not me trying to undercut what those guys did not at all but Dunkirk is not inaccurate it’s simply not long enough or quite frankly relevant when the movie has chosen to follow a character from the biggest contributor of men at the time. Not to mention the whole reason they got out was due to the British sending civilian and military ships so I think it is fair that the Brits get the main focus in the film.
Did you watch 300 or Game of Thrones? This movie takes some parts of history and creates a story. Not everything is accurate. But it is a great story introducing people to the history. If you want to know more research.
@@brandyspain7125 300 its made from a comic and Games of Thrones is fiction. This movie uses real history as a base to portray a tribe of slavers as heroic warrior women. The truth is, these women were slavers and sold their own people, also fought the French for trying to abolish slavery. It's not introducing people to history, it's manipulating history.
The main characters are slavers
They don't hide that, the opening scene is literally them on a raid where they capture people to sell...
another one who hasn't seen the film.
@@Seek1878 movie is set in the 1820s, they were still taking slaves till the 1860s.
cant act like they were against it with one scene when they had to be forced to stop twice and brought it back twice.
So is every movie about America's Founding Fathers...
@@hoos3014 precisely. the white folks complaining are trolling and conveniently forgetting the creative license they've had on historical films as well as history itself. It ain't no fun when the rabbit got the gun.
You should not look upon the warriors because many may come back with war injuries
Go to the 👑👑 Kingdom of Dahomey
Loved this movie and loved this review. The story was beautifully told, albeit a little predictable. It is accurate that slavery was not new to Africans, but chattel slavery was. As shown in the film, a captive could become a revered soldier. Completely accurate, by no means, but no more creative license than any other depiction of the Civil war or WW war movie.
So do you agree that the dahomey was only trying to protect their slave trade
What's chattel slavery?pretty sure Africans selling other slaves weren't kind to each other ffs also this tribe was cannibals btw😂
@barry2349 I don't know about "kind" but some were allowed to be absorbed into their capture's society, not just used as labor without hope of freedom for them or their descendants. The instance in this movie of the Mahi being given the chance to become a part of the kings guard was such an example.
7:31 has me cracking up 😂
it's too bad none of the ladies were on this one
They should have had some of the ladies on the couch. Hopefully they do a second reaction.
They all pulled a Lupita Nyong’o 😅
@@zapan101313 she recused herself from the movie because she refuses to glorify slav3rs as heroes and I applaud her for it! Speaking as an Afro Latino and grandson of a former slave!
The disgusting historical inaccuracy in this movie is the equivalent of showing John C Calhoun or Jefferson Davis as an abolitionist.
No fear in these women i love it.
In real life they were annihilated for trying to save their slavery, which is based.
Not a single Emmy or Oscar nomination..now ask yourselves y
Worst movie of 2022
This movie sucks. 😂
As an Afro Latino and grandson of a former slav3 I believe this movie to be 💩 and refuse to glorify these butchers as heroes! This movie should be called fiction from a parallel universe, that’s how far from accurate it is! It’s like glorifying the naz1s as heroes of WWII. Love you guys work, I’m a big fan and I truly try to respect the opinions of others, but this was a huge loss from you guys!
If u refuse to watch this then u bring shame upon u African and enslaved ancestors. Black history is not always pretty. No one's history is pretty and perfect. You do not have to agree with what happened in the past but u most acknowledge it because it is black history the good and the bad. It's is apart of who u and I are. So suck it up and pu on you're big boty pants. History is history. Learn as much as you can about our forgotten and hidden history. Al we can do now is learn from the mistakes of the past and present and do better. Much love my brother you and the ancestors.
@@jeremiahbrown9997 the problem is that nothing in this movie is real, they completely changed the story to the point that this movie is no longer a historical based and should be called fiction! Trying to shame someone who pointed “facts” to you over a garbage like this just because they have black people in it, is as low as it gets. Thanks for proving my point!
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Powerful movie, I loved every minute I’m so happy y’all reacted to it. ALOT of reviewers didn’t even review it even though it had a 99% on Rotten Tomatoes at some point.
powerfully innaccurate, the movie makes it look like they were fighting european oppressors in reality the British were trying to end the atlantic slave trade, but the dahomey through a major hissy fit because that was their main source of wealth. they were also cannabals
No one is reviewing this movie because it’s 💩!
@@houseofaction I know the true history of Dahomey, but speaking as a black man it made me feel good to see powerful black woman fighting back and fighting against oppression. This is just a movie, it’s entertainment. No one criticizes The Sopranos or other shows and try to perfectly match them to real history. It’s a loosely based fiction based off of true history. The plot of this movie was awesome, the acting was awesome, the action was awesome, music awesome, costumes awesome. Lastly for anyone who says it sucks (mostly people who never actually saw it) I would say look at the rotten tomatoes which has a 94% and that’s even with people trying to purposely bomb it just to hate.
@@yololife4748 really, “powerful women fighting oppression?!” These powerful females WERE the oppressors.
@@RandomNPC001 I’m talking in THIS MOVIE!!! Not in real life. 300 never got this kind of slack. It’s a entertainment action movie not a documentary. You wanna see a true interpretation of that tribe I believe there’s a documentary out there narrated by Lupita, never saw it, don’t care too. Btw the warriors in Black Panther also loosely based on the Dahomey Agoji warriors, you gonna say those movies suck also?
I liked the movie. When this movie come out all of a sudden everyone became a history major???
The critics were taking a break from doing their COVID-19 research 😂.
a great celebration of slave trading
this movie conned alot of people
as if you're concerned about black people and their history. spare the bs
@@brothercinnamon2479 the cope is real
cope is so high SOME people are willing to glorify the thing they hate (slavery) and pass it as heroic and brave.
next thing you know same person would think wakanda is their history and their culture
delusion to the max
I absolutely LOVED this movie
This movie is one of those ones that is so historically irresponsible it's hard for me to even watch without that constantly nagging.
It'd be like making a story about any other major historical atrocity and making it's persecutors the good guys, and those who opposed it the bad guys.
So like making a movie about how native americans are trying to wipe out american colonists and put them into reservations in a manifest destiny drive before the heroic colonists defeat them to save their people. Or like making a movie about how the Nazis were trying to save the Jews from the evil French and Polish in 1939.
At least we can take comfort that in real life the Dahomey Female slavers were nearly annihilated by the French and then forcibly disbanded.
I doubt you watched the movie, as others have pointed out in your various other comments. The opening scene is literally a raid where they capture people to sell. At 3:33 they literally state that Dahomey prospers due to their slave trade.
@@Seek1878 exactly
if you think the French had good intentions with their actions, your revising history yourself. The French were never heroes. After the Europeans drained the areas of their human resources, they then turned to colonialism and still wallow from its benefits. Everywhere they went, destruction ensued. Ask Haiti for starters. The French were scum.
@@Seek1878 Ah so that one bit justifies the rest?
Again if you actually read what I've written you see that making one reference then pretending they are now heros is simply not enough.
If they wanted to make fantasy they should have just done so.
@@Seek1878 Then they lie about everything else.
I enjoyed seeing u guys hype to get to this movie because that was my exact reaction to this in theater the 3 times I watched
I don't understand why this movie wasn't looked at during award season.....there were some amazing performances in this.
Probably because the story it’s based off of was changed were the neglected to include that the tribe the movie is based off of conquered other tribes just to sell them off
You really don’t know why?! Look up the tribe in real life and you will see why no wanted to touch this with a 10ft pole.
@@animemuse8613 that has nothing to do with how the academy votes. There have been many films nominated that weren't historically accurate. Let's go back to white faces used to depict biblical characters. Inaccurate af but still praised.
@@RandomNPC001 another poor take. The film has done well and if you understand how Hollywood works, this film, amongst many other black films, go through many hoops to be made. Till is a perfect example.
@@brothercinnamon2479 ''this film, amongst many other black films, go through many hoops to be made.'' these days less hoops than films with white people xD
disney for example has admitted that they dont seriously consider any story with white people in the main role, no matter what.
Loved this movie
Such an amazing movie. DC and Marvel have been using these girls all wrong. Amazing the possibilities. Hell one of the. Would have been a more believable black panther in the last movie. Lol
All the movies you could react to and you choose one that glorifies slavers and bastardizes history
history is not pretty. nothing was glorified. stop bandwagonning.
@@brothercinnamon2479 it made the bad guys good guys, and the good guys bad guys
@@brothercinnamon2479 this movie is literally like portraying the Nazis as the ones trying to stop the holocaust because you want a feel good movie about Nazi Germany.
@@TheConnorian not even close. you have no interest in African history nor have you seen the film.
@@dontsteponsnek6457 🤣🤣yeah, thanks for confirming you haven't seen it.
This movie was too good!😩
I'm struggling to identify if the comments are genuine or if they are trolling.
If you’re referring to what I think you’re referring to then… yeah, I’m feeling a bit uncomfortable here.
What comments, the ones saying the movie is a bad representation of history?
trust me. the trolls stay in the comments for this flick.
@@Agherosh the ones that prefer the continued whitesplaining of history and those who haven't seen it. if that's you, absolutely
they’re trolls lmao
how to fake history in a nutshell
Which parts? Or "just in general" because you don't actually know? Really wondering
@@bernardsoul5186 read dohemy's history
@@aligmal5031 I did, as soon as I finished the movie the first time. The fact that you couldn't answer my question tells me everything
@@bernardsoul5186 what is your question exactly?
@@aligmal5031 you can read it, it's right there
Even if you put aside the major historical inaccuracies, this movie is still average at best. Average action sequences, average story, average acting, it is being propped up solely based on its social agenda.
The acting was not average. The rest sure but not the acting.
@@atypical1242 Yes it was, every single performance was serviceable. Viola Davis played the same character she always does but with some fight scenes and an African accent. If we kept the same movie but swapped the race and gender of the characters, this would be a 70% max on rotten tomatoes.
Can you react to the anime movie bubble it's really good
Me seeing this in my sub box be like: Oh no...
Please just take this movie as entertainment and take what it presents with waaaay more than a pinch of salt. RRR cartoonishly changes horrific British colonial crimes in an entertaining way, but this movie is just a big no.
The kingdom kept slavery and committing slave raids against neighboring kingdoms until the French established Dahomey as a protectorate (basically a colony) in the 1890s, 70 years after the movie takes place (1823), and forced the ending of the practice in the kingdom.
From what I've read, that tends to be the biggest issue with the movie, the representation of the ruling king.
I should add, by no means was French colonialism any good, they were horrendous. But for an American example:
There's a massive difference between the treatment of Irish indentured servants and the treatment of African slaves in the US. (Though Eastern European serfs might be a better comparison instead of the Irish.)
Also, for everyone else (I do not foresee the Normies watching Tucker fucking Carlson, or something), please avoid right-wing pundits' who talked about the movie, they tend to twist criticism of the movie into just straight up racism by themselves.
Personally, the youtuber "veritas et caritas" (an anarchist) has the best breakdown of the movie.
All the wounds are CGI.
I find that a lot of people who want to history check this film on the slave trade (and it does get quit a bit wrong, true) are the same crowd that will have a fit when films like The Patriot are criticized for the same.
No you can go ahead and criticize it. The Founding Fathers were rich slaveowners who started a revolution to protect own interests
A "yeah, but I think you would do this..." arguement does not detract from how badly this movie portayed history. The Dahomey were slavers - those warrior women were real, but they were also slavers. They did not figbt to end slavery, they were massacred by Europeans trying to end slavery. This movie spits in the face of history.
@@The_Sigillite i think the argument shows that they cant justify the inaccuracies so instead have to find a way to dismiss the comment of those pointing them out instead.
@@The_Sigillite lol I never said that? I never said they weren't slavers, and neither does the film. The opening scene is literally Dahomey warriors doing a raid and capturing people to sell. They openly say Dahomey's wealth is from the slave trade. When in the film did they fight to end slavery?
@@Seek1878 The opening scene is them liberating Dahomean women who were captured by the Oyo. Who, if am remembering correctly, are stated to be trading with the Europeans for weapons through the evil that is the slave trade (like the Dahomey). And did you miss all the lectures from the fictional head of the warrior women about how bad slavery is to the king? The king doing the same to the Portuguese merchant (yes, I know I'm terrible at remembering character names)? Then the warrior leader going back to attack the slave port? And then the king again making his little speech lying about them ending the slave trade?
What a bunch of revisionist history.
Movie was absolute flames. I want the blu-ray now
Nice reaction.
This was my favorite movie of 2022. It was released well ahead of Wakanda Forever and it did decently at the box office.
For all the trolls in the comments crying about the "historical inaccuracy" of this fictional movie, please point us to your criticism of other Hollywood films that failed to meet this standard...there are so many to choose from, it should be easy.
No? Only films with Black stars have to pass the accuracy test? Your intentions are very transparent.
NGL, I am disappointed none of the girls were here to react to this one. They could have offered an important perspective.
if this was your favourite film of 2022 then this must have been the only film you have seen. hot. garbage.
@@deviousmiscreant4662 Cartoon profile photo: IGNORED.
... everyone worried about historical inaccuracies in the movie and I'm over here latching onto the mere mention of "electric rocks" 😅🤓 please don't get led astray by folks peddling inaccurate present day news stories, sorry I'm like this. 🙃
Thank you thank you! I enjoyed this movie so much!
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I definitely went to see this in theaters and I loved it. I saw the trailer and knew I had to see this in theaters. I loved the performances by all the actors. You can see they gave everything to make a beautiful and strong movie showing the strength of women. The story it tells is sad but beautiful. This is definitely one movie I have to watch every year.
Too bad it depicts a tribe that were slavers as heroic.
@@Agherosh your not wrong. But much respect to the actors for their hard work and great performance.
Beautiful showing of women’s strength?! That’s what you got from this movie?! 🤦♂️🤦♂️
it's a great movie. it is based on true events so it's not completely accurate. Creative license was taken. Great review and insight fam!!
Should be called fiction from a parallel universe, that’s how far from accurate this movie is!
@@RandomNPC001 you clearly haven't seen it. I can only imagine why your panties are in a bunch considering you read Wikipedia and know nothing else of African history. sit and spin
I’m Afro Latino and grandson to a former slav3 and you have the balls to tell me I don’t know anything about African history, but you are ok with the glorification of some of the worst slav3rs in Africa because it depicts strong black females? Really?!
@@supersuede6493 you white people that have no idea what woke means are hysterical. You clearly haven't seen it and have used cliff notes to comment. As I suspected, your concern is how white people are depicted, nothing more.
@@RandomNPC001 it wasn't glorified which confirms you haven't seen it. This tribe had a history long before the Europeans poisoned Africa. Act like you have African roots instead of being a mouthpiece for these bigoted trolls
this movie is just the worst. Acting is poor, plot and subplot are boring af not to mention that they "forgot" to tell people how the true "woman king" was a slave trader and how her warriors were subjected to horrifying genital mutilation. What a joke
Rant incoming:
The movie was well done from a technical point but I just didn´t enjoy the story as much as I enjoyed the Reaction. There are people who actually think that the Agoji were these amazingly brave people forced into this lifestyle and it is thanks to all the people who went on the offensive to educate people that this number is not the majority.
Some people like to compare it to 300 or other movies like it. I have the same problem with that if those movies claim to be inspired by real events and then depict something totally different. I mean 300 had freaking goat people and Monsters in it because it was based on a comic that took a more mythical approach and never claimed to be based on true events.
The Woman King would have been more impactful to me if it had depicted the real events. To me the movie is just trying to sell some fake pride to black people just as so many other movies that are trying to sell it to white people or Americans.
One comment in the movie discussion at the end anooyed me a bit: Classic double standard when buying all the stuff produced using resources from exploited nations and then blaming it on rich white people, with an emphasis on rich and white as if skin color has anything to do with greed, instead of not buying those products but that would mean to give up some luxuries. Capitalism works on demand and not morality.
This movie was fantastic. I remember seeing the trailers for it and thinking it would be good but it was better than I thought. I didn't think a movie about the slave trade in Africa could be serious and also so funny.
Except it depicts the slave trade in Africa in a wrong way.
its horribly historically innacurate. the dahomey were a major player in the trans atlantic slave trade and the war happened because the british wanted to end the slave trade but the dahomey didn't
Y'all need to do your history, I can't believe you uploaded this thinking it was a good idea. 1.6K Dislikes.
I wanted to see this when I saw the trailer…I’m gonna have to check it out then come back to the reaction. I love me some Viola Davis.
"The Woman King" could've just watched Fate or played FGO.
Love this movie 🔥🔥🔥
No thanks, I don’t glorify slav3 traders! This is why Lupita Nyong’o stayed far away as she possibly could from this project!
One of the best films of the year and I was not expecting it to be... such brilliance in all aspects. The action sequences were top notch. Thrilling and emotional.
Not the compliment you think it is.
@@supersuede6493hope you heal from your need to troll and be a moron.
@@supersuede6493get therapy.
@@supersuede6493 you said wokeness in first response. stop the lies
Dope movie
why so many dislikes on this video? Because they didn't watch with the women?
This movie was the target of a review-bombing campaign from the usual suspects. Now that the movie is out on streaming, that has carried over to the reaction videos.
@@hoos3014 movie is shit tho
@@aussenseiter2000 The movie was objectively good to decent, with more than acceptable action, acting and themes. You should be honest and tell us your real problem with the film...
@@hoos3014 lmao yeah that film was so increadibly good, that when someone says it was a bad movie he must be lying to distract from his "real problem". Clown Ass
@@hoos3014 the real problem Hollywood twisting real historical facts so they can fill there pockets with this movie that's historically accurate Cruz these woman and the king were the ones who completely helped with slave traders and the lead female characters and the king helped to fill there pockets they are traitors to every African country
Great movie, awesome movie reaction. The inaccuracies are very small as in the ruling king in the movie was born during this time his father was, the 2 main characters are real people but the lived during different times, the mother daughter aspect is made up and the Malik character is made up. Yet everything else is tru. Don't let people who have not done any African studies fill up your with lies and misogyny because their male egos are hurt. People like to say that they never talked about how they sold slaves and did human sacrifices but if u real watch the movie more then once and watch with open eye and open ears they touch on so much in the movie. Other people are say they shouldn't have just spoke about they should have showed it. Have people every heard of editing looked the directors cut. Lol I would like to see more people react to this movie.
P.S
Their uniforms were also different. When I first saw the trailer for this movie i took a deep dive into this historic kingdom.
I saw this in theaters and Wakanda Forever.
Wakanda is not real and this movie glorifies slav3rs!
*pats starts talking about pro life in discussion*
Me: “yeaaaa it about time I click off this one”
Black power!!
For you people in the comments, yes “YOU people” .. nobody cares but you. We didn’t ask you what you could & couldn’t watch or get past. If you don’t like it then don’t watch and comment! It’s that simple 🥱
you want to stop ppl from talking about something that is published online ?😂
@@aligmal5031 People trying to be dictators lmao