re: Oprah's ultra-PC ‘Wrinkle in Time’ stung with bad reviews as ‘cringeworthy’

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DuVernay, who directed the civil rights film "Selma," told the New York Times she selected Australian actor Levi Miller to play Meg’s friend “because that was so powerful, to show a white boy following a black girl” throughout the movie.

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For a group of people who claim to want a post-racial America, they seem to focus an awful lot on race, don't they?

And there's this gem:

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The review by Yolanda Machado features the quote, “Because of this film, my daughter will never question that she can be strong.”

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If my daughter can only derive strength from a movie, then I've failed as a parent. These people are all psychos.

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If you are upset that a film version of Wrinkle in Time espouses liberal politics, then you clearly have never read the book nor are familiar with its author.

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Thank you. It was pretty damn progressive reading it when I was a kid (I’m in my 30s FWIW). Female sci-fy writers in the 60s weren’t exactly common and there were a ton of criticisms when it was released that her Christian themes in the books were “too liberal” for the church at the time. It’s literally on the ALA’s 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books List because it challenges typically religious beliefs and combines themes like philosophy and science with religion.

If you’re complaining about an adaptation being too PC, you probably need to readjust your meter. Now if it sucks because of acting or shitty adaptation that’s legitimate.

“because that was so powerful, to show a white boy following a black girl” throughout the movie“

...is very different from..

“challenges typically religious beliefs and combines themes like philosophy and science with religion.”

In the trailer Mindy seems like she is about to crack up laughing while delivering her serious lines

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What makes it Ultra-PC? Have they changed the book that much?

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It's considered Ultra-PC because they cast different ethnicities instead of having everyone be white.

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Probably because the rest of America is very selective about what they spend $20-$50 on when/if they go to the movies and/or they would rather wait to spend $5.99 to see it On-Demand.

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The Emoji Movie made 86 million in the US.

The target demographic should be people who liked the book, which I did. Also something about Oprah being in it really shatters my suspension of disbelief. She’s just not an actress and I’m really aware I’m looking at Oprah and not a character.

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The Emoji Movie made 86 million in the US

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$86 Million over a period of 6 weeks.

$86 Million divided by an average of $10.85 per ticket rounds out to a grand total of...

Just over 7.9 million tickets purchased over a span of 6 weeks. That means less than 3% of the U.S. population cared enough to see it in theaters, even if none of those were multiple viewings.

Contrast that to Black Panther, which has earned over $516 million domestic since February 16th (3 weeks).

That's an average of $172 million per week, or almost 16 million actual ticket sales each week.

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“I don’t care what anybody thinks about it,” she told the Times. “I know it’s $100 million for the studio. They’ll be fine.”

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I have a feeling this comment is going to come back to bite her.