Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)
Chicago, 1927. A recording session. Tensions rise between Ma Rainey, her ambitious horn player and the white management determined to control the uncontrollable "Mother of the Blues". Based on Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson's play.
Cast and Information
Directed By: George C. Wolfe
Written By: Ruben Santiago-Hudson, August Wilson
Starring: Viola Davis, Joshua Harto, Glynn Turman, Michael Potts, Jonny Coyne, Colman Domingo, Chadwick Boseman, Dusan Brown, Taylour Paige, Jeremy Shamos, Quinn VanAntwerp, Johanna Elmina Moise
Country: USA
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom belongs to 8 collections
1. Academy Award - Oscar - ALL Best Picture, Directing, Acting & Screenplay Nominees (public - 22 stars)
2. 2021 Academy Awards: Nominated Feature Films (public: moderated by joel-w-m - 2 stars)
3. Oscar: Best Costume Design (public - 1 star)
4. Netflix Sverige (public: moderated by Jakobostgren - 1 star)
5. 78th Golden Globe Awards: Nominated (2021) ? (public: moderated by 5Z5qjRCfM2)
6. Mini Reviewed (private: Adds)
7. Dämon 2020 (private: caffe)
8. 2021 Oscar (private: Ozancan)
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Viola Davis wasn't on screen nearly enough. The door was the best part. Too many movies adapted from plays are "tell me, don't show me" and barely go anywhere.
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Hawkins | 71 47% |
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"It's your cousin, Marvin Rainey! You know that new sound you been looking for? Well listen to this!" A welcome parable on the exploitation of black artists in America even if - spoilers - we already kinda know. Obvious theater origins don't bother me, and no I haven't seen the play for comparison. I think it's great acting but little secret about my reviews, I can't tell the difference between good acting and overacting. You basically have to be Tommy Wiseau to pull me out of it.
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| Jun 17 | siweq86 | 50 15% |
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Wow! That was so disappointing: Weak scenario - Cheesy, preachy lines - Overacting - Super annoying lead role - Weird transitions between emotions - Obvious continuity errors; and most importantly: NOT ENOUGH MUSIC. It really amazes me how they can make that many awful choices in a 90-minute movie. I'm seriously upset because I love blues and I was so happy to see them make a movie related to it. I wanted to like this movie so bad, but no chance.
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I am usually a sucker fucker filmed theater, but this was very dull. Overacted annoying characters in a repetitive plot.
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Very well acted, and very well done. This film offers up a look into 1920's Chicago, involving race and America at the time. Viola is perfect as usual and demands your attention in every scene she's in. This probably the best performance we've seen Boseman in, and he deserves all the praise he gets. He was truly a treasure and will be missed by millions everywhere. There isn't really too much going on in this movie when It comes to plot, but the insightful dialogue is great. Worth a watch!
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August Wilson is one of the great 20th-century playwrights and this score mostly reflects the strength of the original work. Don't think the adaptation did it any favors - all the directorial additions are distracting, and the loud acting, while maybe effective in the moment, really detracts from any nuance in the script.
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| Apr 19 | Sadman | 65 20% |
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So theatrical that the only thing that can break through the histrionics is Boseman playing as if he has the devil on his heels. It's a shame he gave it his all to something that rings so false. At any moment you can could have turned the camera around and I wouldn't have been shocked to see an audience. To the credit of the actors and August Wilson, it made me interested in seeing one of Wilson's plays on the stage.
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| Apr 19 | Rafael Reis | 55 5% |
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This feels very much like a filmed version of the kind of play I would have had to read in school and hated for that reason alone, regardless of its actual quality. I don't think this made me care for its characters enough to earn its ending, but it had its share of strong moments.
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There are bad intentions behind this trash movie.
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Boseman really does give his all here, and Davis (while not in as much as the movie as I had hoped) is unrecognizable she's so good. Also loved Domingo and the rest of the cast as well. I feel like the actual stage play had a lot more to say than what's been portrayed here. It seems some themes and plot points are touched on but never fully realized. There's also this side character that didn't really add much to the plot. Still, it has incredible dialogue and it's really well made.
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As soon as Viola Davis stepped in the story started to shape in. I liked the stuck door idea.
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This is what theatre kids want acting to be
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Chadwick's got it in the bag huh :/
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Glynn Turman is the MVP of this play turned "film". Solid performances with dull directing that could have tried to make the talky bits more cinematic. Talking isn't cinematic but drama is. This could have been accomplished with better blocking, using shot size to indicate drama and judicious use of close-ups. Here everything is mostly in over-the-shoulder and close-ups so that everything is equally highly important. That makes for a mediocre film with good performances.
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The handsome production design and the "Zeiss Supreme Prime Lenses" mitigate the staginess; though they may not transcend the performed monologues and the forced, jocular interplay between seasoned actors, they give you something to look at. Like black bottoms - there is (among other fast-moving exchanges) a well-directed sex scene here. Recommended for the recording sessions, less so for the protestations about racism: we know, and Boseman's character arc doesn't prove any point worth seeing.
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Oscar bait.
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With such an intriguing lead, the movie is lost by focusing too much on the band. It's not a surprise that this is a stage to screen adaptation, as the setting is too confined and the drama too contrived. Boseman is very good at times, but Ma is the only compelling character and it feels like she is only sprinkled in rather than being the star. Viola Davis is excellent, as usual.
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| Feb 05 |  |
umutheatre | 32 1% |
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PietHeijn | 62 65% |
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Sure it suffers from the drawbacks of being essentially a filmed play, but this also increases the sweaty claustrophobic tension of the setting and characters. Good performances across the board, especially from Chadwick & Viola. That said, it never reaches greatness.
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Sad to watch such a poignant text being turned into an Oscar bait show -- or, in most days, "prestige" TV. Of course the cast is awesome, specially Boseman, but it's the typical case where there's such little effort in flying above your average, awards-obsessed chamber piece that I will likely forget it in a few hours.
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A lotta talking But if you can get past that It's Sorta interesting hearing them speak on different perspectives of the "Black Experience "
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glumpy_99 | 77 48% |
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A first-rate actor's piece (and this cast and material would be electric on stage), but Wolfe struggles to combat the heavy, oppressive atmosphere - there's a point when you want to escape the seedy, ugly confines, which may be the point but it makes for a tough viewing experience. Davis and Boseman are obviously the MVPs (Davis' sweaty, earthy evocation of Rainey is unlike anything she's done before), but Turman quietly steals every scene he's in as the battle scarred "elder statesman".
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