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[eCat]

Eddie Murphy has signed on to do a sequel of Coming to America with most of the original cast including Arsenio, John Amos and James Earl Jones.

[hedge]

What's the plot, they get stopped at the border? MAGA!

[sardis]

The barber shop scenes are what made the original movie. Probably wont be in the sequel.

[eCat]

The barber shop scenes are what made the original movie. Probably wont be in the sequel.

if he doesn't do the barber shop, people will hate that movie

the problem with Eddie Murphy in a character role like that is he feels he has to push the character beyond what defined them

He ruined those characters in Nutty Professor 2 by making them move over the top than they need to be

Ideally you wouldn't want anything to change - those guys still sitting in the chairs arguing over stupid shit - like Conner McGregor, Kanye West marrying Kim Kardashian - certainly alot has happpened they can comment on since the last movie.

[hedge]

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[eCat]

so I'm watching The Green Book

great movie, but of course the first city he encounters real racism is Louisville

I'm at the point where I cringe when I see someone chain smoking in a movie now

[Jungle Rat]

They always tell me to put mine out

[DooKSucks]

so I'm watching The Green Book

great movie, but of course the first city he encounters real racism is Louisville

I'm at the point where I cringe when I see someone chain smoking in a movie now

1) I'm sure Adolph Rupp was directing the racism.

2) You grew up during the 70's and 80's. Everyone had at least one parent who smoked, and they would smoke in the car with the windows rolled up to the top.

[eCat]

so I'm watching The Green Book

great movie, but of course the first city he encounters real racism is Louisville

I'm at the point where I cringe when I see someone chain smoking in a movie now

1) I'm sure Adolph Rupp was directing the racism.

2) You grew up during the 70's and 80's. Everyone had at least one parent who smoked, and they would smoke in the car with the windows rolled up to the top.

you must not have seen the movie

The racism they encounter gets progressively worse

Guess which state they go to next?

[DooKSucks]

I have not seen the movie yet. It's on the to do list.

I'm sure he encountered racism in North Carolina. North Carolina didn't look like complete dipshits during de-segregation because we had governors like Terry Sanford, Dan Moore and Bob Scott, but that doesn't mean racism did not exist, especially in the eastern half of the state.

[eCat]

I read a review by a Black Woman who said that the movie was written by white people to make white people feel good about racism

I don't think this movie was intended to be Mississippi Burning, its more about the friendship developed by the two over the course of this trip. That said, they do a pretty good job of showing how bad it could get.

[Jungle Rat]

DSs pappy owned slaves

[DooKSucks]

DSs pappy owned slaves

No. The last family member to own slaves was my great, great, great grandfather. He was none too pleased when my great great grandmother married a Union officer who fought under Sherman and was stationed in Goldsboro during the occupation.

In a way, you can say my paternal grandfather named my father after a black man who was one of my grandfather's closest friends (a true rarity in those days). My grandfather could not decide on the first name for my father and while discussing the naming, my grandfather heard someone mention Mr. Raynor asking how the birth went. My grandfather said that they would use "DS" because he liked the name and that if my father was half as good of a man as Mr. Raynor, he (my grandfather) would have done well raising him. My grandfather didn't really give two shits about what anyone thought, but then again, if you survive the Battle of the Bulge and finding an SS war crime with your regiment (https://www.scrapbookpages.com/Gardelegen/Massacre.html), I doubt you would really give a damn about many things.

[sardis]

This ain't Ancestry.com, chubby.

[eCat]

LOL

but his soul feels better

[hedge]

I was digging thru some of my ancestry and saw some citations of wills wherein a few slaves were left to wives and children...

[eCat]

not in my neck of the woods. I'm one generation removed from sharecroppers.


I just read they are making a Soprano's prequel called The Many Saints of Newark

Gondolfini's son is going to play him.

[Saint]

DS comes from suck up stock, literally.

[hedge]

It was a little disappointing in one way, b/c this history of that line of my fambly was much more credible (due to the citations of wills, marriage records, etc) and it basically invalidated this other website that I had been looking at (I think I shared my findings in here a couple of years ago from the bogus site) that had me as a direct descendant of British royalty back to William the Conquerer and also Charlemagne. Now the most I can claim is that I'm a descendant of a captain of some half ass local militia named James Blount...

[Jungle Rat]

not in my neck of the woods. I'm one generation removed from sharecroppers.


I just read they are making a Soprano's prequel called The Many Saints of Newark

Gondolfini's son is going to play him.

Yep