Vonyetta’s Favorite Things
Beasley Media GroupSo the past decade there have been some serious movies that have come out and I am here for it! So over the past decade, I've seen some really great movies and thought I'd share them with you.
10. Hidden Figures (2017) Let me start with a movie that should give hope to every little girl. Really hope to anyone that you can do anything if you strive to break down the doors no matter what. The actresses in this movie were the perfect fit! I do mean PERFECT!
9. Girls Trip (2017) - Honey, Girls Trip was such a great movie! I struggled with where to put this on the list, but I'm telling you, everyone in this cast did an amazing job. I truly loved seeing Jada and Tiffany Haddish together in the same movie. Ladies, this was epic.
8. Selma (2014) - The next few movies will kind of fall in line with each other, but they represent a time that helped to shape our current future. I've always wanted to take my children to a piece of history to the Edmund Pettis bridge because I want them to know and understand that this movie showed how much some people did not want us black and brown faces here! This movie was exceptional. A little hard to watch at times, but exceptional.
7. 12 Years A Slave (2018) - This movie I too struggled where to put it, but I put it above Selma simply because the way this movie was written. The story that it told and how it was told. This movie was a roller coaster full of emotions that made me feel so many different ways. Again, amazing acting and Lupita sold it for me here! I mean sold it!
6. Fruitvale Station (2013) - Man! Michael B. Jordan did an AMAZING job in this movie. This movie told the story of a man trying to get his life on track and doing the right thing left his daughter fatherless. This movie is another one that made me angry, but it was a necessary movie. Ryan Coogler told a story here that no one else could have told it better in the form of a movie that he did.
5. Get Out (2017)/Us (2018) - Man! This one here, I'm sure everyone said sheesh. This was a fictional story that I swear I can't be the only person that felt it COULD happen. Like for real. There are so many things that go on that we don't know about and this could seemingly be one. Jordan Peele outdid himself. Or so we thought. The reason why I say so we thought is because he came right back a year later with Us. Honestly yall, I loved these movies equally and I had to share a spot. Us was a brilliant yet creative mind of a movie. Just EXCEPTIONAL.
4. Straight Out Of Compton - Loving hip hop as much as I do, this told a story that the current generation that loves hip hop needed to see and hear. The casting was EXCEPTIONAL.
3. Django - "Boss who that there on that nag." Baby this was one of those movies that I will watch anytime it's on tv. I mean record it on the DVR just to go back and watch it again. Jamie Foxx and Kerry Washington were out of sight. Jamie was a bad ass you know what.
2. Avatar - Avatar was a movie I just don't know if I can put into words. From the visuals, to the creativity, to everything. When I went to Disney last year to see what an Avatar would look like if they were real, were out of this world. Then on top of that, Disney has the Avatar ride at Animal Kingdom. That is beyond this world you hear me! I will watch Jake Sully all day because this movie is just so great.
1.Black Panther - Listen! I WISH Wakanda were real! You hear me?! REAL! EVERYTHING about this movie was exceptional. All the behind the scenes videos, the costumes, the casting was absolutely PERFECT! That's all that I can say! PERFECT!
Hope you guys enjoyed my favorite things for my favorite movies of the decade. The one movie that I didn't add and should have was Harriett. I had to weigh that with Straight Out of Compton, and you know who won. Harriett was one exceptional display of a movie. I just didn't really care for part of the story line with Harriett's, slave master's son. He aggravated me and although there was a twist at the end where he probably got was coming to him, but his character aggravated me.
