Are any other African-American Women sick-and-tired of depressing movies about black women?

Personally I am sick to the back teeth of depressing movies dedicated to and 'celebrating' the black woman's plight. At length and last we finally have decent black directors but they still continue to churn out the same clich茅d stuff year after year. Honestly, it's little wonder any black women get married at all. By all accounts we appear to be damaged goods and no one goes out intentionally looking for damaged goods; I wouldn't. Can anyone see a pattern below ?



Waiting to Exhale - A movie dedicated to black women and their non existent love lives

Diary of a Mad Black Woman - The title speaks for itself ( in fact throw in all the Tyler Perry movies)

Jungle Fever - Black man would prefer to love a white woman ( in fact throw in all the Spike Lee movies)

American Gangster - Black drugster makes it big by having black women working in his crack factories

Madea's family Reunion - Incest, child abuse and physical abuse

Disappearing Acts - Black woman and her useless black man

The Brothers - Black men who have issues loving black women

Two can play that game - Black people and their stupid games of love

Soul Food - Sister sleeps with other sister's man

The Color Purple - Incest and sexual abuse

How Stella got her groove - Black woman can't find a man in America so she goes to Jamaica to find herself a toy boy

Good Hair - Huh ????? I mean why was this even made. People don't have Google ?

Precious - Violent sexual abuse of a child by her father culminating in her becoming pregnant TWICE.



The list goes on and on but I'm sure anyone reading this see's what I am driving at. No more drama. please. Can we sit down and PLEASE be entertained with stories of young black people finding love, respecting themselves and each other, getting married, not being baby mama's, not being raped by their fathers, step fathers, uncles, lovers and boyfriends, can we watch movies of professional black people and blue collar black people being respectful and loving towards each other. Can we see movies of black people taking romantic trips to Europe and drinking latte's in Rome. There is drama in other communities. I don't know why we black people feel a need to share OUR failings with the whole world and worse of all, we must be raging mas*chists to want to sit down, part with good money to watch two hours of depression centred around our people.Are any other African-American Women sick-and-tired of depressing movies about black women?Hey now..just stepping in to defend Spike Lee. All of his movies definitely don't attempt to focus on the plight of black woman, which is pretty good considering most of his films have at least some degree of focus on race. Take "The 25th Hour," woman of color is involved, her plight is not the issue. "Malcolm X", based on a biography, but still, his wife is depicted as a strong, level-headed individual. A Huey P. Newton Story, Inside Man, etc. while common elements are found in many of Spike Lee stuff, please don't ever put him on a list with Tyler Perry.

Then there's Antoine Fuqua and Hughes Brothers. Fuqua did Training Day, Shooter, Tears of the Sun, and King Arthur. The Hughes did From Hell, The Book of Eli, and are doing a live action remake of an anime called Akira.

Still, I see what your saying, but again

1. Never associate Spike Lee with Tyler Perry
and
2. There are black directors who are far more versatile than you think.