The Six Triple Eight (2024, Dir: Perry) - S. Kerry Washington
03-13-25 | 03:23 PM
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The Six Triple Eight (2024, Dir: Perry) - S. Kerry Washington
The Six Triple Eight (2024)
Director: Tyler Perry
Writers: Tyler Perry and Kevin Hymel
Staring: Kerry Washington, Ebony Obsidian, Oprah Winfrey, Dean Norris
Based on a True Story
Distributor: Netflix
Oscar Nomination: Best Original Song | "The Journey" by H.E.R.
Rotten Tomatoes: 56% Tomatometer, 72% Popcornmeter
Plot: During World War II, 855 women joined the fight to fix the three-year backlog of undelivered mail.
Faced with discrimination and a country devastated by war, they are determined to sort more than 17 million pieces of mail ahead of time.
Director: Tyler Perry
Writers: Tyler Perry and Kevin Hymel
Staring: Kerry Washington, Ebony Obsidian, Oprah Winfrey, Dean Norris
Based on a True Story
Distributor: Netflix
Oscar Nomination: Best Original Song | "The Journey" by H.E.R.
Rotten Tomatoes: 56% Tomatometer, 72% Popcornmeter
Plot: During World War II, 855 women joined the fight to fix the three-year backlog of undelivered mail.
Faced with discrimination and a country devastated by war, they are determined to sort more than 17 million pieces of mail ahead of time.
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03-13-25 | 03:29 PM
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Re: The Six Triple Eight (2024, Dir: Perry) - S. Kerry Washington
This movie wasn't on my radar, except I'm trying to wrap up seeing every movie that was up for the 23 categories of the Academy Awards this year (6 to go).
I was pleasantly surprised by this. It had a $70 million budget, and my understanding is that's Tyler Perry's largest film budget, yet it still felt more like elevated TV than movie, when it came to the overall vibe. Maybe that's the immensely flat lighting, the pedestrian music, the by-the-numbers pacing, some eyerolling special effects (CGI fires are too obvious), and some acting that teeters between wooden and scenery chomping. Yet the production value was there, and dang if I just didn't get caught up in the story. It starts off following a woman who enlists as a private but then shifts to being about her commanding officer. It's a little jarring, but the drama was there.
Everything they had to fight for, I felt it. When it came to the ending, yes with a bit too much sappiness drizzled on for good measure, it still got me right in the feels. And the flash-forward to present-day people from the real story was magical. Yes, this was based on a true story I'd never known, and I was glad to learn about it (and read up on how much of it was accurate).
Some fun supporting work by Sam Watterson, Susan Sarandon, Dean Norris, and Oprah Winfrey. This was Kerry Washington and Ebony Obsidian's movie all the way through. And I still contend the "Journey" song by H.E.R. is still my pick for Best Original Song at this year's Oscars.
I'm also pretty sure this is my first Tyler Perry movie, too!
I was pretty sure this would be a 3.0 or 3.5 out of 5 for me, as I say, the ending hit me and elevated the entire piece. I give this 4 out of 5 stars.
I was pleasantly surprised by this. It had a $70 million budget, and my understanding is that's Tyler Perry's largest film budget, yet it still felt more like elevated TV than movie, when it came to the overall vibe. Maybe that's the immensely flat lighting, the pedestrian music, the by-the-numbers pacing, some eyerolling special effects (CGI fires are too obvious), and some acting that teeters between wooden and scenery chomping. Yet the production value was there, and dang if I just didn't get caught up in the story. It starts off following a woman who enlists as a private but then shifts to being about her commanding officer. It's a little jarring, but the drama was there.
Everything they had to fight for, I felt it. When it came to the ending, yes with a bit too much sappiness drizzled on for good measure, it still got me right in the feels. And the flash-forward to present-day people from the real story was magical. Yes, this was based on a true story I'd never known, and I was glad to learn about it (and read up on how much of it was accurate).
Some fun supporting work by Sam Watterson, Susan Sarandon, Dean Norris, and Oprah Winfrey. This was Kerry Washington and Ebony Obsidian's movie all the way through. And I still contend the "Journey" song by H.E.R. is still my pick for Best Original Song at this year's Oscars.
I'm also pretty sure this is my first Tyler Perry movie, too!
I was pretty sure this would be a 3.0 or 3.5 out of 5 for me, as I say, the ending hit me and elevated the entire piece. I give this 4 out of 5 stars.
03-14-25 | 09:31 AM
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