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Lionsgate's arty new one-sheet for Lee Daniels' Precious (11.6), which HitFix's Gregory Ellwood exclusively revealed this morning, is stylish and striking -- a visual hint that Precious isn't up to the usual-usual. It tells you it's a film that comes to grips and flexes artistic muscle.

Gabourey Sidibe

The silhouette figure is a slight cheat. I presume it's meant to be Gabourey Sidibe , the morbidly obese young girl who plays Precious, but the silhouette is of a woman who should probably be described, in all fairness, as simply large or overweight. I'm just saying.

I just watched the trailer again and as much as the film touched me when I saw it in Cannes I don't know if want to see it again. That is, I don't know if I can take more hangin' time with Mo 'Nnique's mother-from-hell character. She'll almost certainly be nominated for Best Supporting Actress, but "the pleasure of her company" is not a term that comes to mind. What comes to mind, in all honesty, is that spending time with a person this deplorale and abusive is an unpleasant thing no matter you slice it. Except Mo 'Nique really knocks it out of the park in her final confession scene.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on July 1, 2009 at 11:13 AM

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BurmaShave says ...

You're completely mad sometimes, but as a man who could be described, in all fairness, as simply large or overweight, I can't say I'd have it another way.

Also is this something that seriously benefits for ten Best Picture nominees?

Posted by BurmaShave at July 1, 2009 12:29 PM

comment #2

Josh Massey says ...

Lionsgate has put out some beautiful posters for Tyler Perry's films - and then they always ruin it by putting some generic, Madea-heading crap closer to the film's release. Hopefully this film - which is among my most anticipated - will get more respect.

Mo'Nique will win an Oscar this year. I'd put money on it.

Posted by Josh Massey at July 1, 2009 12:31 PM

comment #3

BurmaShave says ...

*from, rather

Posted by BurmaShave at July 1, 2009 12:32 PM

comment #4

Breedlove says ...

Karl Malden passed away...

Posted by Breedlove at July 1, 2009 1:09 PM

comment #5

DeafBrownTrashPunk says ...

Cool poster. and yeah I heard about Malden's passing... he was a fine actor.

Posted by DeafBrownTrashPunk at July 1, 2009 1:23 PM

comment #6

crazynine says ...

Mo'Nique? Oscar??

MO'NIQUE???

Excuse me, I'm going swimming with a toaster. . .

Posted by crazynine at July 1, 2009 1:30 PM

comment #7

berg says ...

awesome poster, in fact it reminds me of the best posters made for movies which are from Poland and a couple of other eastern euro countries ... some of the names of artists whose posters are works of art include Andrzej Pagowski, Constantine Belinsky, Henryk Tomaszewski, there are many others ... check em out

Posted by berg at July 1, 2009 1:33 PM

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bmcintire says ...

I do like this one, but I would have to say that I preferred the original Soul Bass-inspired one from the festivals. It also used the horrid sexual abuse as an effective motif. This one looks too soft for as harsh a picture as this really is.

Posted by bmcintire at July 1, 2009 1:57 PM

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Deathtongue_Groupie says ...

D.Z. has his Tarantino issue that mentally compels him to respond to any mention of the man or his films.

Jeff has body issues that do the same. At least this time it was fairly innocuous

Posted by Deathtongue_Groupie at July 1, 2009 2:48 PM

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LexG says ...

How come really poor, undereducated people don't just masturbate?

Sounds like a snide, crude question, and conservatives tried to run Jocelyn Elders out of town for suggesting teaching masturbation during the Clinton years.

But I always feel compelled to ask just that when great numbers of poor, overweight, unattractive people are still having shit-tons of (unprotected) sex and become baby machines at a young age. (My understanding of the plot of PRECIOUS is that the chick is already on her second child?)

Like, when you're poor and you just HAVE to get off, you absolutely, 10000% HAVE to have sex with another person, even if they're unattractive and no one has a condom? Really, at some point rubbing one out to porn wouldn't be an improvement on BECOMING A PARENT with a 350-pounder?

Posted by LexG at July 1, 2009 3:11 PM

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BurmaShave says ...

Lex really is emerging as the son of Wells, in an Uday Hussein sort of way.

Posted by BurmaShave at July 1, 2009 3:16 PM

comment #12

George Prager says ...

Perhaps, you've found your calling, LexG. You should go to the poor black neighborhoods and preach about the joys of masturbation. Hand out copies of "Black Tail" and bottles of Astroglide.

Posted by George Prager at July 1, 2009 3:16 PM

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