The Women King (2022)

[knightrider2099]

Is anyone going to watch this movie this weekend. I mean I honestly wasn't going too because I just don't go to the movies anymore. The movie itself I was just sort of like "Hey great. Real world historical drama/action movie."


But after reading up on the history of the tribe this movie is based on I just have to ask who the hell thought this movie was a good idea.

[chrom]

They are literally trying to say that the slavers are the heroes of this.

[knightrider2099]

I know. I understand in historical pieces the history is never perfect but this is on another level.

[jimmyjackezekiel]

So wait... They thought audiences would accept a bunch of slavers as the heroes because their leader is a woman?!

[chrom]

Sept 16, 2022 17:17:57 GMT -5 knightrider2099 said:

I know. I understand in historical pieces the history is never perfect but this is on another level.

If I have to take a guess, I say they took a glance at it in a book and believed The French were automatically the bad guys who were trying to enslave them. Never mind that France had outlawed slavery since The 1790s.

The King of Dahomey at that time is considered The Richest person to have ever lived with all of his wealth coming from capturing and selling slaves. And Dahomey also did mass executions and sacrifices as well numbering in the hundreds or thousands.

[knightrider2099]

Sept 16, 2022 17:23:18 GMT -5 jimmyjackezekiel said:

So wait... They thought audiences would accept a bunch of slavers as the heroes because their leader is a woman?!

Apparently the whole reason the king of the tribe let the women fight was because he lost too many male warriors in battles where they were attempting to get more slaves.

[Natural Born Farmer]

Wouldn't a woman king be a queen?

[chrom]

If they really wanted a story about Dahomey, they should have gone with Sara Forbes Bonetta, who was enslaved by them and would go on to be freed and become Queen Victoria's Goddaughter

[hassanchop]

They say it's now an alternate history

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

Sept 26, 2022 19:58:18 GMT -5 hassanchop said:

They say it's now an alternate history

Yeah there's no saving this film, they're gonna get f***ed

It didn't have much traction before the historical f***ery they were pulling with it, should have just tried to make an original story, and now you don't just have a Box Office Flop, you have a controversial one.

[chrom]

The fact that some are calling it this generation's Gladiator makes me weep for humanity.

[jimmyjackezekiel]

Sept 26, 2022 20:05:14 GMT -5 chrom said:

The fact that some are calling it this generation's Gladiator makes me weep for humanity.

Hey. Braveheart pissed in actual history's mouth too, and that's considered an all-time classic.

["Trickster Dogg" James Jesse]

Sept 26, 2022 20:44:45 GMT -5 jimmyjackezekiel said:

Sept 26, 2022 20:05:14 GMT -5 chrom said:

The fact that some are calling it this generation's Gladiator makes me weep for humanity.

Hey. Braveheart pissed in actual history's mouth too, and that's considered an all-time classic.

At the end of the movie, William Wallace wails, "wee-dom!"

[GodzillaIsMyMonster]

It honestly looked like a high budget Black Panther knock off anyways.

[BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps]

I saw it a couple of days ago, it was alright. At least you know Viola Davis can do action. It’s pretty much a more emotive 300.

[hassanchop]

I don’t get it, instead of announcing it as an alternate history story couldn’t they just re-edit it and redub it by saying it’s a different nation, like they did with Red Dawn 2012?

[Bones58]

Sept 26, 2022 20:44:45 GMT -5 jimmyjackezekiel said:

Sept 26, 2022 20:05:14 GMT -5 chrom said:

The fact that some are calling it this generation's Gladiator makes me weep for humanity.

Hey. Braveheart pissed in actual history's mouth too, and that's considered an all-time classic.

It was, but the outcome of the Battle of Falkirk & Stirling were correct. Had Braveheart shown Scottish soldiers raping and pillaging through the south of England with Longshanks the head of a rag tag English resistance you would have something truly close to the inaccuracy of the Woman King.

[BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps]

I’ll say this, between the two James Bond girls from No Time To Die, Lashawn Lynch was in the recent better movie.

Ana de Armas had a nice lead performance in Blonde. The rest of the movie? Oof. OOOF.

[Banjo Is Broken]

This isn't a movie about Don King's wife?

[tirtefaa]

Sept 26, 2022 20:44:45 GMT -5 jimmyjackezekiel said:

Sept 26, 2022 20:05:14 GMT -5 chrom said:

The fact that some are calling it this generation's Gladiator makes me weep for humanity.

Hey. Braveheart pissed in actual history's mouth too, and that's considered an all-time classic.

Braveheart is an all time classic, if only for the greatest moment where Mornay awakens from a horrible nightmare, only to suffer an even more horrible and brutal death.



How could anyone hate this movie?!