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    Is It Racist?: The British Couples Retreat Poster
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    Image of A Message To Rudy A Message To Rudy
    11/16/09

    In reply to Is It Racist?: The British Couples Retreat Poster
    Slightly racist? (Was that an option?) Marketing, schmarketing. If it was just as question of photo composition, why not take out another couple and leave the black couple in? And if you say "Well, the black actors are probably not that well known in the UK and they want to sell tickets," then you're also trying to tell me that Brits are very familiar with Kristin Bell and Malin Ackerman (and I live in the U.S. and I don't know who they are). So yeah, not sure who's responsible (the US distributors who may have shuffled this version of the poster to the Brits without giving them an option or some Brit distributors who sais "Blimey! We can't have this!"), but, yeah, slightly racist. #couplesretreat
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    Image of BlinkyMcChuck BlinkyMcChuck
    11/16/09

    In reply to Is It Racist?: The British Couples Retreat Poster
    Eh. They try to act like there's no black people in Britain when it comes time for the lit prizes too, so, no surprises here. #couplesretreat
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    11/16/09

    In reply to Is It Racist?: The British Couples Retreat Poster
    Faizon Love is best known for being "Big Worm" in Friday and don't you forget it! #racism
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    Image of Richard Lawson Richard Lawson
    11/16/09

    In reply to Is It Racist?: The British Couples Retreat Poster
    I'm more offended by the continued farce that any of those men could actually land any of those women. #racism
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    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    11/16/09

    @Richard Lawson: You and me both... This movie clearly takes place at a resort in TV SitCom Land.
    #couplesretreat
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    Edited by City_Dater at 11/16/09 1:16 PM City_Dater was starred City_Dater was unstarred
    Image of Rozelle’s Bagman Rozelle’s Bagman
    11/16/09

    In reply to Is It Racist?: The British Couples Retreat Poster
    I'm firmly in the Let's-play-the-1978-single-"Dreadlock-Holiday"-by-10cc camp. #racism
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    Image of D2theMatthews D2theMatthews
    11/16/09

    @Rozelle’s Bagman: It's interesting that Tyrone is the only black guy from the cast that is featured in the Snatch poster: [vanillabomb.files.wordpress.com] #racism
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    Image of kajsa kajsa
    11/16/09

    @Rozelle’s Bagman: And that's why I don't like cricket. #racism
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    Image of johnivdaly johnivdaly
    11/16/09

    @Cecil's Wielder: Vinny and Sol were far more central to the plot.
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    Edited by johnivdaly at 11/16/09 8:45 AM johnivdaly was starred johnivdaly was unstarred
    Image of lionboy lionboy
    11/16/09

    In reply to Is It Racist?: The British Couples Retreat Poster
    I'll throw in the Old Whitey McWhitneyness comment: I'm sorry. I barely know who the white people are in this movie. If name recognition helps sell tickets, I sorta get why....OK, it's racist. Wait, maybe it's weightist. #racism
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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    11/16/09

    In reply to Is It Racist?: The British Couples Retreat Poster
    I'm firmly in the "Not (Any More) Racist!" camp. I mean, I think the US poster may even be worse. #racism
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    Image of pureblarney pureblarney
    11/16/09

    @Phyllis Nefler: Agreed. British shows are an interesting hybrid of weirdly racist (early-morning kids show with bit characters named things like "Mocha" and "Java") to defiantly [whatever the opposite of racist is, e.g. groovy]--Sir Trevor McDonald, Doctor Who and Freema Agyeman, Chiwetel Ejiofor in... everything. I would never accuse another country of overt racism while we still cast Morgan Freeman as the "magical negro" 95% of the time. #racism
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    Image of VioletViolet VioletViolet
    11/16/09

    In reply to Is It Racist?: The British Couples Retreat Poster
    I hate to repeat myself, but it's still not as bad as the Polish Microsoft ad where they awkwardly took out a black person and added a white person.
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    Edited by VioletViolet at 11/16/09 1:21 AM VioletViolet was starred VioletViolet was unstarred
    Image of Go Like Hell Machine Go Like Hell Machine
    11/16/09

    In reply to Is It Racist?: The British Couples Retreat Poster
    I'm not going to weigh in on whether it's racist or not, since it seems like a fantastically awful movie.

    But Time consistently has the slowest servers on planet Earth. It's like they are powered by hamsters. #racism
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    Image of ronniedobbs ronniedobbs
    11/16/09

    In reply to Is It Racist?: The British Couples Retreat Poster
    My sample size is admittedly small ("Love Actually," "Dirty Pretty Things," and "Secrets and Lies," among other examples), but I'm inclined to say that British films traffic in fewer offensive stereotypes about black people than their US counterparts. In which case, I'm starting to wonder if the folks behind the British version of the poster decided that it was "Couples' Retreat" that was racist in its depiction of black people, and opted to erase them as a way of implicitly distancing themselves from what I can only imagine is the typical tomfoolery handed to black actors in white movies.

    Anyway, I know the above guess is a stretch. My point is that I'm too busy pressing the "THE ENTIRE US FILM INDUSTRY IS RACIST" button to be outraged by this.
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    Edited by ronniedobbs at 11/16/09 1:08 AM ronniedobbs was starred ronniedobbs was unstarred
    Image of IamnotStarJones IamnotStarJones
    11/16/09

    In reply to Is It Racist?: The British Couples Retreat Poster
    It would be racist if they photoshopped Madea into the poster.

    At this point, it's just marketing! #racism
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    Image of ronniedobbs ronniedobbs
    11/16/09

    @IamnotStarJones: Well now you've gone and given Tyler Perry his next movie idea! #racism
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