movie The Color Purple (2023) | Fantasia, Danielle Brooks, Taraji P. Henson | $62M WW

[Kool_Aid_King]

4 hours ago, Femalien said:

i saw this last night and loved it. but man the audience was messy, it was like stacked to the rafters with Brenda-from-scary movie types with incessant yaasing during the movie. it was like rocky horror picture show with how many familiar cues there were for the audience, which was really fun. the whole theatre including me stuck our hand up in the Celie curse claw during that part!

A grown ass man was upset when Celie and Suge kissed... he was like "Fantasia is doing that?????" Out loud and ****. His family was shushing him. And then we had some characters who made some comments throughout. 

 

Lowkey love when they get interactive but not TOO interactive.

[Reverse Warholian]

Secured my tickets for Friday! I know it's not exactly like the '80s film but just the THOUGHT of reliving this moment makes me wanna bawl my eyes out 

 

 

 

[X~MoviePoP]

19 hours ago, Reverse Warholian said:

Secured my tickets for Friday! I know it's not exactly like the '80s film but just the THOUGHT of reliving this moment makes me wanna bawl my eyes out 

 

 

 

Well....spoiler

Spoiler

They dont keep this in the movie and it made me mad because i was waiting for halle to say "why, why???"

 

[Life Savers]

This was great. Fantasia is truly a generational talent. Danielle was fantastic too. Taraji was good but, controversial take maybe, she felt miscast. 

[fridayteenage]

i think they definitely wanted an Oscar Nominee in the cast especially with the $100 mil price tag.

 

wicked has erivo, les miz had hathaway/crowe, mamma mia/into the woods/the prom had meryl, chicago had renee, dreamgirls had jamie, phantom had miranda, sweeney had johnny/helena...

[Mellark]

I went to see this yesterday and it was moving. The visuals and cinematography were amazing. I feel the cast was perfect, and I am glad Fantasia is getting her flowers. The audience wasn't that bad though in my showing.

 

Spoiler

The Whoopi cameo threw me off 

 

[X~MoviePoP]

So this came and went. Its not doing the best at the box office. Unfortunately i can see it getting 0 noms come oscar nomination morning

[Poxy]

Fantasia and Danielle Brooks…  they stole my heart!!

[Lightbringer007]

this was absolutely stellar! went to see it with my mom and it was so impactful, made us both tear up

[TaylorNation]

saw it tonight and really enjoyed it!

 

Fantasia and the cast is absolutely INSANE but this movie had the same problem as In The Heighs for me, and that is that it looked and felt so cheap

[Lovett]

 

 

Incredible.

[Inverted]

Still haven't seen it. I just rewatched the original and will see this version next weekend.

[Lovett]

 

[kishi]

Isn't the international theater release this weekend? Why is it available to streaming so soon?

[rac7d]

8 hours ago, kishi said:

Isn't the international theater release this weekend? Why is it available to streaming so soon?

No streaming for purchase

but essentially it’s now pirate ready

[BNF91]

Really perplexed at the box office performance of this film.. it just fell off a cliff after opening day even with such high audience scores. 

 

Regardless I did go to see this with my mom, and we enjoyed it. But it really doesn't hold a candle to the original film and I think the musical aspect is what gets in the way of that most of the time. You end up missing a lot of that character work that is so essential. 

[rac7d]

This is bad bad

box office flop

little to no award nominations and no win chances

 

 

the entire promotion campaign went to talking about on set controversy or pay disparity 

 

worse of all this film doesn’t help taraji argument for pay at all and is gonna hurt her working in the future 

 

 

[Lovett]

Fantasia had me bawling at the reunion scene.  The cinematography of this film was gorgeous. Such a shame it's not getting much love.

[Life Savers]

Yeah, it tanked bad unfortunately. The gross is actually even worse since the studio itself bought out many of those theaters. Good thing they had Wonka to cushion the blow (Barbie was cushion for all the failed DC releases, although Aquaman will probably break even). 

[sciencemagic]

Saw this today, and it was good! I think that the tonal changes from scene to scene were a little jarring, and honestly, I'm here didn't seem that tramp fit just given the setting and everything. Great vocals, but it just seemed a little bit anticlimactic?

 

Also, lol at HER showing up for only two lines of singing   

[Inverted]

I saw it and I think Taraji was miscast.

[DammnBaby]

The bag was fumbled because Taraji wouldn't stop making it about herself, and that's all the media could talk about after it opened. There's a time and a place to discuss these issues, sis. The eve of release of your potential smash hit film is not it.

[SoldierofLove]

The movie got added to streaming a few days ago. I finally got to watch it.

 

I thoroughly enjoyed it! It's a shame it didn't do well. I realize that's coming from someone who didn't pay to watch it at the theatre lol but still. Too bad it was a major flop. 

[fridayteenage]

per screentimecentral, screentime for original vs. musical:

Whoopi 40% vs. Fantasia 45%

Margaret 22% vs. Taraji 26%

Oprah 15% vs. Danielle 17%

 

Danny 31% vs. Colman 25%

Desreta 15% vs. Phylicia 13%

Akosua 15% vs. Halle 10%

Willard 12% vs. Corey 15%

[PopMusicJunkie]

I just watched, and I liked, but there were some moments that didn’t quite hit like in the original.  

 

For example, when Celie was about to kill Mister with that straight razor is done so well in the original.