I'm a casual student of WWII history, and knew of this unit from long before the movie was made in a gee-whiz trivia sense; i.e.: "did you know there was a black female unit that handled the mail in the ETO?"
So, I think people are right that there might have been enough there to make a movie about and oddball WWII topic al la Monuments Men, it's just that being made by Tyler Perry and being made current day means it's got to be hammering The Message and I'm just not willing to waste my time watching that nonsense.
Eh, the setting often has little to do with the quality of the movie. If they tell a good story, I would watch a movie about a mailman or garbage man, or whatever.
For example, The Best Years of Our Lives is one of the best films about World War II, and it doesn't have any combat at all. It's about three servicemen returning home and each of their different difficulties with reintegrating into civilian life. It was an academy award winner and was ahead of its time back when men just didn't talk about the baggage they brought home from war.
In contrast, the previews for this had snippets like "these uniforms aren't made for our curvy negro bodies" and "the white man doesn't think we can do this and wants us to fail". It sounds like 100% modern-day dreck.
I'm a casual student of WWII history, and knew of this unit from long before the movie was made in a gee-whiz trivia sense; i.e.: "did you know there was a black female unit that handled the mail in the ETO?"
So, I think people are right that there might have been enough there to make a movie about and oddball WWII topic al la Monuments Men, it's just that being made by Tyler Perry and being made current day means it's got to be hammering The Message and I'm just not willing to waste my time watching that nonsense.
Eh, the setting often has little to do with the quality of the movie. If they tell a good story, I would watch a movie about a mailman or garbage man, or whatever.
For example, The Best Years of Our Lives is one of the best films about World War II, and it doesn't have any combat at all. It's about three servicemen returning home and each of their different difficulties with reintegrating into civilian life. It was an academy award winner and was ahead of its time back when men just didn't talk about the baggage they brought home from war.
In contrast, the previews for this had snippets like "these uniforms aren't made for our curvy negro bodies" and "the white man doesn't think we can do this and wants us to fail". It sounds like 100% modern-day dreck.