Green Book

[Brian in Mesa]

Green Book

Release date: November 21, 2018
Studio: Focus Features
Director: Peter Farrelly
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for thematic content, language including racial epithets, smoking, some violence and suggestive material)
Screenwriters: Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallenlonga, Brian Currie
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Biography

Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini, Sebastian Maniscalco

Plot Summary: When Tony Lip (Mortensen), an Italian-American bouncer with a seventh-grade education, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley (Ali), a world-class African-American pianist on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on the “Negro Motorist Green Book” to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for Blacks. Confronted with racism, danger—as well as unexpected humanity and humor—they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive on the journey of a lifetime.

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[Chaplin]

This has Oscar favorite written all over it.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Ali and Viggo were very good, but for me... it played like a very well done hallmark White Savior movie that just skimmed the surface of the reality of the world back then, so people could have warm fuzzies leaving the theater.

 

[Chaplin]

Ali and Viggo were very good, but for me... it played like a very well done hallmark White Savior movie that just skimmed the surface of the reality of the world back then, so people could have warm fuzzies leaving the theater.

Just to pick a nit, but Hallmark doesn’t do movies like that. They do feel good movies but more romantic and historically without a minority in a lead role.

 

[Bert]

I went in not having seen any trailers but I really liked it.

At first I was like, oh god another one of these movies where hearts and minds are changed miraculously and everyone is happy. On some levels it was that, but I thought the writing was really good, the acting was phenomenal and the character development was very solid. They did some cliches and some stereotypes, but they did them really well. It got heavy but not too heavy and it left you feeling a little bit of hope, and hey, whats wrong with that?

 

[Shane]

This movie was excellent from top to bottom!!! Made you feel every emotion!!! Walked out of the house about 10 mins into the first Quarter if the Cards game and am I glad I did what a treat!!!

 

[AZ Native]

I loved this movie. I joined the service and was stationed in Louisiana in 1971. My neighborhood that I grew up in Phoenix in the 50's and 60's was like Happy Days, though we didn't know it at the time.

Anyway within a week of being sent there I was arrested. Myself and 4 of my new friends went to a few bars just past the base gates for a little fun. Next thing I know, me and 3 of my friends, all white, were hauled off to jail for fighting and breaking furniture at the previous bar we were at. That never happened, but we were arrested and hauled off to jail. At about midnight our First Sergeant arrived to bail us out and I got the lectures of all lectures. What were we doing out in bars with a black guy, this is the south? It seems we brought a black man into a bar which was a no-no. They called the cops, made up false claims and we were arrested while our black friend, Charlie Thompson, was allowed to go home.

Long story short, at the trials, 2 were convicted and myself and another were found innocent. There were bartenders testifying against us who were not even working that night. There was never proof of any damage to the bar. It was a complete set up.

Fast forward to 1973. I was playing golf on the BASE COURSE and hit a 215 yard hole-in-one. I could not believe it. When I finished my round and let them know I scored a hole-in-one, I was asked who were the witnesses. I said "my buddy here, Charlie Thompson" (my black friend). He then stared at me and asked it I had any other witnesses. THIS WAS ON A COURSE ON OUR BASE!

Again, I enjoyed this movie.

 

[UncleChris]

This movie was excellent from top to bottom!!! Made you feel every emotion!!! Walked out of the house about 10 mins into the first Quarter if the Cards game and am I glad I did what a treat!!!

8/8

 

[cardncubfan]

Good movie. I enjoyed it.

 

[Finito]

Everybody black I know thought this film was a joke. I didn’t even bother watching it. Been there done that

 

[Shane]

Everybody black I know thought this film was a joke. I didn’t even bother watching it. Been there done that

 

[Bada0Bing]

This has Oscar favorite written all over it.

It did quite well.

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I thought it was fantastic, especially the interactions between Mortensen and Ali.

I just learned that the real Tony Lip played Carmine Lupertazzi on the Sopranos. Wow.