Tuesday, September 10, 2013

My Reaction to Lee Daniels' The Butler in GIFs


I've tried to gather my thoughts on Lee Daniels' latest film, but it was a bit messy. While it's not a terrible film, it was all over the place tonally. It never found its footing, making my reaction quite varied throughout the course of the film. Here's the best I can do in GIFs.










27 comments:

  1. OK, your review is totally awesome. I haven't seen The Butler as I'm pretty mixed on Lee Daniels as a filmmaker. Plus, I just don't really like Oscar-bait movies where there's this guy and that person and that person and blah, blah, blah.

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    1. Thanks man. I'm mixed as well, but I did kind of love The Paperboy as a guilty pleasure. Yeah, I'm not a big fan of Oscar-bait movies either, even though I watch the new ones every year.

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  2. The Keanue Reeves reaction to the real world is how I feel pretty much all of the time to anything. I'm not surprised that you had a similar feeling towards The Butler, among many others. I was already confused by including Oprah Winfrey in the film alone, not really sure how the rest of it would do.

    Love the post, great concept.

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    1. Thanks, Cherokee. Oprah was actually decent in the film, but her performance wasn't Oscar-worthy.

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  3. Oh, that Franco gif is priceless! :)

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  4. Love the one of Keanu. Still confused as to what you thought about the movie, but I liked all of these. Nice stuff!

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    1. Thanks Dan! I'm still not sure what I think of it. I didn't hate it, but I can't say it was good.

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  5. This is BRILLIANT! I haven't even seen this mess yet and I'm pretty sure I'll just copy and paste your post when I review it myself :-P

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    1. Thanks man! Haha, if it helps you out, just copy and paste it then. :D

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  6. This is such a cool idea!

    I have so many pointless GIFS on my hard-drive, might have to put them to some use.

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    1. Thanks! Yeah, GIFs are always fun to use in posts.

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  7. Ahahaha!!! This is awesome Josh! LOVE 'em all! Yeah the movie is pretty uneven but in the end I still like it :D

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  8. Hahahaha @ stop crying stop crying gif from Perks.You know I adore anything with gifs.

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    1. Yeah, I couldn't resist including the Perks gif. Glad you liked it.

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  9. Put me down for Hermione. That's perfect. I've never seen this, and likely never will.. but a great post regardless!

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    1. Thanks! Despite the cast, it's really a forgettable film. So you're not missing much.

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  10. Oh god! Genius! i'm like *eyeroll* *eyeroll* *eyeroll* *scoff* throughout the entire film! XD

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  11. Hahahahaa this is perfect, genius, flawless reaction post to the film!
    I share your sentiment! XD

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