Diary of a mad black woman

[TMan]

Anyone know what gun that Madea (the grandmother, played by Tyler Perry) is using? It looks a little like a Beretta, but doesn't look big enough.

Incidentally, this was my introduction to Tyler Perry's work, and I was extremely impressed. Unlike most stuff out of Hollywood these days, there was a high moral under-current in the movie. It is very much unlike the "progressive" teaching we have become used to seeing.

["DoubleAction"]

TMan; When the movie first came out I first thought of the movie "Diary of a Mad Housewife", starring Carrie Snograss, from somewhere in time during the 60s or 70s. I have not seen either of these movies but heard tale about the one you mention as having been filmed on locations around Atlanta. Just for the sake of the gun, and the fact that you gave honorable mention, I might try to give this movie a look.

["DoubleAction"]

TMan; Everytime I go to this movie, on my satellite menu , I drop in on a woman chewing her husband out, with a fit scream like I never heard, and the husband just sits like a cowardly dog. Another time I went into it,was when a mushy soundtrack played while two people goo goo eyed each other in the front seat of a car. I tried another time, where much of the same mushy music was playing while a woman wandered from one scene to the next.

I seem to get a funny feeling that most of this movie is geared toward the black chick audience. I know the movie has more credible content than what I've seen, but I just can't seem to catch it at the right time.

[TMan]

DA, here is a novel idea for you: watch the start of the movie, and continue watching the movie until it ends.

It is a comedy and Tyler Perry, the writer, plays 3 parts: the cousin, who is a lawyer, the grandmother, and her brother. It is hard to believe the way he is made up to play the brother.

By now you have a pretty good idea what a sick sense of humor that I have, and this movie really appealed to that.

It does stress some moral values, which are very scarce in what you see that comes out of Hollywood. I'm sure it appeals more to some audiences that it does others. I doubt if "rednecks" would appreciate it all that much.

["DoubleAction"]

TMan; I watched Oprah Winfrey when some of the cast was on her show, when this movie first premiered. I think it was the producer, whose large Atlanta mansion was also used in the movie. I'll give it another go from the very start, if I can catch it between the History Channel, Discovery, TLC, Docu, Travel, Food, my other movie channels.

The western channel had the original wide screen theatrical version of of the Wild Bunch the other night. Starz also broadcasts the original wide screen versions on selected evenings. I found the wide screen version of "Two Lane Blacktop' on the Sundance channel one night. If I miss the start of the east coast feeds, I still have time to retrieve an empty tape for the west coast feed three hours later.

One of my favorite wide screen versions, on Starz, was "The Aviator" with Leonardo Decaprio. The DVD is a good one on this movie, covering alot about Howard Hughes and Hughes Aircraft in the bonus section.

I finally got "The Killers", with Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Ronald Reagan, John Cassevettes, Claude Raines, and a few other period actors of the time. This one was made in 1964, and usually showed at rare times. I now have it added to my Lee Marvin collection of my library.

[MLB]

I've been wanting to see the Aviator. Stories about folks that had the tenacity to simply get things done impress me.

["DoubleAction"]

MLB; Beware, There are two different " The Aviator" movie out there. One has Christopher Reeve in it and has nothing to do with Howard Hughes. This is happening with alot of movies, that are not even similar to one another. I once bought "Point Blank" off pay per view and it was listed as having Lee Marvin and Angie Dickinson in it. After I bought it, and began watching it, I found it to be a stupid Mickey Rourke action flick. Unfortunately, the customer service reps at the pay per view knew little what I was talking about when I called them.

Tommy Lee Jones also made a movie about Hughes some years ago, it too was pretty good. The sets, film editing, sound, writers, special effects, and computer generated imaging, not to mention superb acting and directing, made "The Aviator" one of those few motion pictures which I never grow tired of watching.

Please rent the DVD for the bonus materials on what went into the making of this motion picture. The dvd also shows the film in it's original wide screen format, as it is intended to be viewed.

["DoubleAction"]

TMan; I finally watched this movie the other night, from start to finish, as you advised. I found out why the guy was getting such a butt chewing, while remaining silent in the chair.

Tyler Perry's choice of locations seems to rest around Atlanta; a news investigation has been ongoing about the unsafe code violations of one of his studios in Atlanta.

I could not get a long enough look at Madea's gun because it kept getting covered up by the pocketbook book or small glimpses of it were in the shadows.