My black co-worker asked me today to reccomend him a white people movie, and he'd give me a black people movie.

At first I reccomended Live Die Repeat (also known as Edge of Tomorrow) then remembered Wes Anderson exists and said anything by him maybe.

He reccomended Salt and The Tourist. I intend to watch them on the weekend.

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[–] 56 points 2 weeks ago

For a white movie, I'd recommend Office Space from 1999. It's one of my all time favorites

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  • [–] 88 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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  • [–] 39 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    White Chicks. Then you’ve got both bases covered.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    Sorry To Bother You is an amazing movie with a scene that will make any white person uncomfortable (in a good way). Bonkers cast too.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago

    I love that movie so fucking much. It saddens me that I will never again experience the thrill of watching it with a white person (many white people in fact) in a movie theatre. I'm not sure I'd want to because it made me feel physically ill but what a thrill.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Somehow that movie was aytoplaying while I was asleep. I woke up at the very end when the symptoms show. I was thoroughly confused but intrigued.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    The Grand Budapest Hotel. Whitest feeling movie I've seen.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    The whitest film I've ever seen is Christopher Guest's Best in Show (2000).

    I don't think you can outdo John Singleton's Boyz N the Hood (1991), but I think the most universally agreed upon movie that black people enjoy is actually Love and Basketball (2000).

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    I'd argue that A Mighty Wind is even whiter.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    I think Titanic is probably the whitest movie ever made. couldn't tell you what a black movie would be.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 weeks ago

    Braveheart is about as white as it gets.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

    I'm pretty sure Fight Club is a white movie, and it's actually good, or I' maybe m just that white.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    It's very white technically (cast), but its various messages speak more to class struggle and patriarchy which affect all the races, so I personally wouldn't consider it a "white movie" in the same sense as some others in this thread.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    I never got any "antipatriarchal" vibes from Fight Club, maybe I should watch it again, lol. It did feel very "nihilistic anger and sadness that turns into violence", it made me feel like I was listening to Papa Roach or Evanescence (which are as white as art can get, and I enjoy both just for the record, I had the CDs and everything!).

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 child)

    Fight Club at its core is about how society fails to provide men a safety net for their emotions / personal development and instead pushes them to things like consumerism and unrealistic expectations of masculinity. This is what triggers the narrator to become nihilistic, angry, and eventually violent. The reason society is the way it is towards men is because it was set up that way by the patriarchy to keep them in their societal place and so that capitalism can keep capitalizing.

    There's lots of articles about it (and how its so often misunderstood). I'd also recommend the book, as the different ending drives the point home in a different way imo.

    Interesting point about evanecessence (JFC what a word to spell). I get more depression rather than anger from them lol

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  • I agree with everything in your first paragraph up until the last sentence! But I don't wanna start a long argument (which happens to me often... I'm starting to think I'm the reason 🙃) and hijack the thread, if that's okay. I'll definitely read the lit hub article though, and thanks for the comprehensive reply. 👍

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Steel Magnolias is the whittest movie ever made.

    Maybe some white apologist shit like El Torino for a guy. That's a pretty good one.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    White: The LOTR original trilogy

    Black: Coming to America, They Cloned Tyrone, Get Out (gave 3 movies since the trilogy is technically 3 movies)

    Bonus

    Asian: Kung Fu Hustle, Old Boy (very dark thriller warning), Spirited Away

    Hispanic: Instructions Not Included, Coco, Pan's Labyrinth

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    I'd be quite irritated if I offered to "trade" movies with someone and I gave them an 80 minute comedy and was told to watch a 12+ hour trilogy, lol. They are indeed white movies though.

    Source: half-white LotR nerd

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    White movie: The Princess Bride

    Black movie: Poetic Justice. Also, since the holidays are coming up, The Holiday and The Best Man.

    Also, your coworker likes Angelina Jolie and that's all their picks mean. It's like they didn't even understand the question

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

    white men can't jump

    vampire in brooklin

    friday

    deliverance

    a time to kill

    pootie tang

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago

    The Wizard of Oz and The Wiz.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 weeks ago

    White people movie: Cruel Intentions (incredibly privileged and wealthy people being horrible to each other for no reason other than they can)

    Black people movie: His House (South Sudanese refugees adapting to their new lives in England experiencing racism and hostility, oh and their house is haunted)

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Die Hard and Caddyshack come to mind as white people movies.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    Hackers, The Matrix, Ferris Bueller, Risky Business

    Bonus: Abre los Ojos is the Spanish precursor of Vanilla Sky

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  • [–] 14 points 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

    Uh oh. I'm starting to notice that they're ALL white movies. It's almost as if the entire industry has been dominated by a single voice since it's inception. 🤔

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  • [–] 12 points 2 weeks ago

    Yeah. I thought it was bizarre when some people complained about a black actor playing the little mermaid. We could list Americans of northern European ancestry playing almost every other race, ethnicity and nationality without anyone blinking an eye and we could do it for days without being close to a complete list.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    White: Harold and Maude.
    Black: I Love Boosters.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    Salt and tourists are excellent movies not sure how those fall under black peoples movies though

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago

    White people movie: Death at a Funeral (2007)

    Black people movie: Death at a Funeral (2010)

    Bonus fun: Peter Dinklage plays the same character in both.

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  • Live Die Repeat is Japanese though, I don't get the "whiteness" in it, personally. IMO, some great "white people" movies, understood as Anglo-Saxon/Germanic/Nordic (else I'd have to include Spanish, French and Italian which certainly have a very different vibe), could be "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", "In Bruges" or "Master and Commander".

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    How about Casablanca? It's black and white.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    My vote for the whitest movie of all time is Metropolitan (1990). I enjoyed it, but i feel embarrassed recommending it. From Wikipedia:

    Metropolitan (1990 film)

    1990 film by Whit Stillman


    Metropolitan is a 1990 American romantic comedy-drama film produced, written and directed by Whit Stillman, in his feature directorial debut. The film concerns the lives of a group of wealthy young socialites during debutante season in Manhattan. In addition to some of their debutante parties, it covers their frequent informal after-hours gatherings at a friend's Upper East Side apartment, where they discuss life, philosophy and their fate; form attachments, romances and intrigues; and react to an interesting but less well-to-do newcomer.

    Quick facts Directed by, Written by ...

    Metropolitan was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the 63rd Academy Awards.[4] The film is often considered the first of a trilogy of Stillman films set in the 1980s and portraying privileged young adults, followed chronologically by The Last Days of Disco (1998) and Barcelona (1994).[5]

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    Winter's Bone

    I guess it depends on what kind of white people movie.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 weeks ago

    I'm not sure I understand what you both meant by white people or black people movies. If I'm getting the correct titles, it looks like both movies he recommended star Angelina Jolie (and incidentally both released in 2010). They don't appear to have any prominent black characters in them, but I could be mistaken. Why are those black people movies? Because black people enjoy them?

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  • [–] -5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    the below question

    The following question or the question below.

    Adjective order matters.

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