Monica Calhoun almost didn’t get the part due to her skin complexion..the layers to unpack in that comment alone but I’ll be lying to say I am not surprised!
This franchise is just so much fun and interesting to watch! I distinctly remember watching it when I lived in Los Angeles. Magic Johnson owned a Theater at the time and it was packed with a diverse audience that night. People were whistling and applauding as the credits rolled! Some finally exited and missed Q and Shelby in the hotel room at the end 😂 Just absolute iconic and memorable performances!!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
The Best Man was part of that special era of film in the late 90s and early 2000s that showed us an entirely different world for Black people on screen. The aspirational "young black professionals" movies as a I like to call them showed the world that there was way more to Black life than "the hood" or violence or racism and all that other stuff. The Best Man, Love Jones, Soul Food,Love & Basketball, Brown Sugar, Barbershop 1 and 2, The Brothers, Breakin' All Da Rules, Two Can Play That Game, Deliver Us From Eva and Just Wright have all become classics and were great follow ups to what great films like Boomerang and Waiting To Exhale started. And just like Malcolm and the others said, these were not "Black films" the stories and characters happened to be Black and there were certainly Black nuances and culutural aspects, but they were universal stories about love, friendship, careers etc that were seen through the eyes of Black people. The industry needs to remember this.
I love this movie. It premiered 2 years after I finished college and although very fictional, it reflected my friend group of young professional HBCU graduates. In fact, we were just 2 months past the 1st wedding of the core group...two classmates who had met via a 3rd. Although the principal cast are all a bit older than us, the film depicted an aspirational version of young, black professionals being fabulous (and messy) as they navigate their post-college years.
Yes, The Best Man was a great movie sibling to Living Single. Both of those along with Boomerang, Love Jones, The Brothers. Deliver Us From Eva etc. really represented the young black professional world and the issues with love and relationships so well while also representing the deep familial bond between a friend group that are also like family.
I mean....they are not completely wrong....the most I can remember before she did The Best Man was her having a role in an episode of Family Matters. Love and Basketball and Brown sugar and the wood came after The Best Man
@@arvelynlewis Love and Basketball and Disappearing Acts came out after The Best Man The Wood and The Best Man came out within a couple months of each other. And She didn't have a bid role in The Wood. She was shown literally at the end of the wood So technically yeah she was still a newcomer
Did anyone else get the feeling that this unsung was supposed to be much longer and it was edited very very poorly? It just seemed like everyone has so much more to say and they just tried to wrap it up as quickly as possible without expounding upon anything. A work of this magnitude in the black community deserve so much better editing then it received
All the Best Men franchise movies and the series went 3x platinum in my household 🙌🏾
Monica Calhoun almost didn’t get the part due to her skin complexion..the layers to unpack in that comment alone but I’ll be lying to say I am not surprised!
I was like nigga what??
This franchise is just so much fun and interesting to watch! I distinctly remember watching it when I lived in Los Angeles. Magic Johnson owned a Theater at the time and it was packed with a diverse audience that night. People were whistling and applauding as the credits rolled! Some finally exited and missed Q and Shelby in the hotel room at the end 😂 Just absolute iconic and memorable performances!!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
The Best Man was part of that special era of film in the late 90s and early 2000s that showed us an entirely different world for Black people on screen. The aspirational "young black professionals" movies as a I like to call them showed the world that there was way more to Black life than "the hood" or violence or racism and all that other stuff. The Best Man, Love Jones, Soul Food,Love & Basketball, Brown Sugar, Barbershop 1 and 2, The Brothers, Breakin' All Da Rules, Two Can Play That Game, Deliver Us From Eva and Just Wright have all become classics and were great follow ups to what great films like Boomerang and Waiting To Exhale started. And just like Malcolm and the others said, these were not "Black films" the stories and characters happened to be Black and there were certainly Black nuances and culutural aspects, but they were universal stories about love, friendship, careers etc that were seen through the eyes of Black people. The industry needs to remember this.
How is the best man unsing with a sequel and a mini series
I love this movie. It premiered 2 years after I finished college and although very fictional, it reflected my friend group of young professional HBCU graduates. In fact, we were just 2 months past the 1st wedding of the core group...two classmates who had met via a 3rd. Although the principal cast are all a bit older than us, the film depicted an aspirational version of young, black professionals being fabulous (and messy) as they navigate their post-college years.
Yes, The Best Man was a great movie sibling to Living Single. Both of those along with Boomerang, Love Jones, The Brothers. Deliver Us From Eva etc. really represented the young black professional world and the issues with love and relationships so well while also representing the deep familial bond between a friend group that are also like family.
Man, I seriously got stuck on them calling Sanaa Lathan a newcomer, unknown who had not done much. Hunh?
I mean....they are not completely wrong....the most I can remember before she did The Best Man was her having a role in an episode of Family Matters. Love and Basketball and Brown sugar and the wood came after The Best Man
@@dillinghamfilm She was the lead in Love and Basketball and Disappearing Acts, Terry McMillan film. I do believe the Wood came before Best Man.
@@arvelynlewis Love and Basketball and Disappearing Acts came out after The Best Man
The Wood and The Best Man came out within a couple months of each other. And She didn't have a bid role in The Wood. She was shown literally at the end of the wood
So technically yeah she was still a newcomer
Did anyone else get the feeling that this unsung was supposed to be much longer and it was edited very very poorly? It just seemed like everyone has so much more to say and they just tried to wrap it up as quickly as possible without expounding upon anything. A work of this magnitude in the black community deserve so much better editing then it received