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Toure Calls Tyler Perry Movies 'Cinematic Malt Liquor'

Loop 21 Staff

1 year ago

Author goes on CNN and goes in on filmmaker

Toure heard Spike Lee's rant on Tyler Perry and raised him one on CNN earlier today. Toure was spitting straight venom against the richest man in Hollywood. Here's one quote of many:

"Tyler Perry is definitely serving an audience that is underserved by Hollywood. Especially black southern women who do not see themselves at all in Hollywood fare. So, when he’s serving them movies where they appear to be in situations that are naturalistic and recognizable to them and definitely have that Christian message, I absolutely understand why my grandmother, my mother, and my aunts love this stuff, and my family down south, they love this stuff. I just can’t watch it without cringing because I’ve seen good movies and I know these are poorly made films."

Damn brah.

To defend Perry, Dr. Boyce Watkins, though he has a problem with him wearing a dress, says that Perry is creating jobs. To that, Toure compared Perry to drug dealers who also supply jobs.

We guess.

Toure also made it a point to compare his analysis of Perry's movies to the CBC and their criticism of President Obama. Guess living in a "post-racial" society means it's open season on other black folks.

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