Jerry is the Best! My friend wrote and directed this movie and it is a must-see. It will totally make you thing. Zoe and Blakemore gives awsome performances in this movie. Please support this movie.

Whoa! This looks like a really good movie! Damn me for canceling my cable. I’m gonna put this in my BB Online queue like….NOW.

I meant make you ‘think’.

Interesting I will be checking this out.

whoo!! i seen the previews it looks like a good movie…can’t wait to watch it!

I think I might check it out

IT HAS TO BE GOOD WITH JEFFERY IN IT!! FINALLY A BLACK MOVIE THAT SEEMS TO HAVE A PLOT AND MUTLIDEMENSIONAL CHARACTERS!

Looks pretty good..

First off let me say that i am from Brooklyn East Flatbush, and believe me it was serious but not as serious as their making this movie out 2 be, every1 went through there own issuse and honestly it was quite peaceful, yea there were a few fights, yea some ppl stole stuff of course we were hot as hell without the AC lol, but in all honesty it was that bad, we pretty much had fun and partied over here on flatbush lol

This is just hollywood trying 2 make a dollar and exaggerate a situation once again!

oh Michael B Jordan will be on 106&Park tonight

sorry i meant it wasnt that serious

@11. ITs not how Brooklyn reacted. Its about Jerry’s side of things. The things HE encounterd. There nothing the movie where everyone was looting and all that you are saying. He’s depicted like 3 or four situations from different ppls lives, not the lives of everyone in Brooklyn.

I wanna check this out for sure.

I’ll have to watch it. Looks interesting.

This movie is shady. I lived through the blackout in BKLYN and it was all peace on my bock. These stories are suspect.

Thats my old neighbourhood East 49th street between Linden Blvd and Church Ave big ups to my people……

@ 15, I was just about to say that I know there’s some NY’ers on this board. I was gonna ask if anyone lived in that area during that time…but you beat me to it :). We all know how movies can hype ish up.

Anybody remember the blackout of 1977 in New York? Yea they were looting and breaking into stores…..it was crazy, we heard glas breaking and saw people running down the street with furnisure it was crazy…

I remember talking to my friend on the cell and she didn’t even know what was going on. I was watching the news and had to inform her about everything.

I guess its a good concept, but most likely I won’t watch it

I have been waiting for ths movie to come out for a while now. I am HUGE Jerry LaMothe fan. Check out his movie Amour Infinity, one of the best & realistic love stories I have ever seen!

wanna see how prodigy’s acting is.

I went to the premier and this is a great movie. Black written and directed. NOTHING to do with Hollywood at all. The real issue is why no studio picked this up for National release. Hollywood would rather invest in dance movies than real black stories. Some of you need to wake up and some complaining about everything *cough* #9 *cough*

does anyone know what time it airs on BET? I try to stay away from that channel as much as possible, therefore I haven’t seen and advertisements.

i dont get zoe s, shes always raving about not being black and being latina, but shes always in black films?

this looks like a decent film

The shit that happened during the blackout happens everyday on Flatbush lol

I remember when the blackout happened…I’m interested in seeing the movie…

It seemed good dont get me wrong but people hyping it up like its oscar worthy…It looks alright to me…Maybe because this trailer didnt show much to me

This looks like it could be a Spike Lee Joint, which they can keep.

Im brooklyn too, Crown Heights, Brooklyn actually but the blackout wasnt that bad. Alot of people stayed up outside and had fun. The kids rode their bikes and so on.Everybody jus chilled outside. It was a lil scary for some but it wasnt that bad. I have friends that actually liked that night,lol. They look bad like “yo yall remember when we had the blackout” alot of people had fun that night.

I will pick up the DVD. Film looks interesting & i love Jeffrey Wright in everything he does so I will support it.
To the person who inquired about Zoe Saldana, the fact of the matter is SHE LOOKS BLACK, not really Latina so she is goig to get called for more roles that are written for BLACK women. Sadly there is a limit to how many available roles are written for Black Women specifically. It is what it is you know…?

all ii can say is ii knoo ALOT of ppl who robbed ALOT of stores….im not saying it was necessarily dangerous BUT I think it IS serious in the way that I feel bad for the stores who lost ALOT of product(s)/goods….

I will be watching, I’m feeling the young dude Michael B. Jordan.

@ 22, its not about complaining, its about ppl trying 2 add stuff to sitiuations that never happened, its 1 thing 2 make a blk film based on something real, but its another thing 2 over exaggerrate and add things that may not have happened! im from 40th and forster the center of east flatbush…believe me a lot of what that trailor showed a lot of it i didnt c and im sure ppl from east flatbush can back me up, the only thing i saw that night were ppl stealing goods! i was all up and through that neighborhood that night with my ppls and the most choas i heard and saw were a few arguments, 1 or 2 fights, ppl taken goods, but mostly ppl laughing, and having fun, and cooperating with 1 another the only thing i can relate 2 from that trailor r ppl complaing about how damn hot it was without the AC and boy was it…i have no problem with blk films that have substance I LOVE THEM!, but when u want 2 add crap 2 a real situation that more than likely didnt happen thats when i have 2 speak on it and have a problem!!!

I definitely will be watching since I lived through the blackout..
reppin Crown Heights all day !

@ # 9, I completely agree! I live in Bkyln and when the Blackout occurred, it was for the most part peaceful.

wATCH The damn movie! Its not talking about the damn blackout dummies!

@29
My sentiments exactly. I didn’t know my neighbors until the blackout. We sat on the stoops and fire escapes all night and talked. One dude broke out the grill because he’s afraid his meat would go bad. It was hilarious. A BBQ on Eastern Parkway in the middle of the night.

I must agree with all the talk about how fun the blackout was!!!!! Everybody was chillin. Out of everything I saw fights was NOT one of them. I don’t remember any to be honest. Everyone was just making the most out of breaking into stores and getting what they wanted (lmao). With flashlights ALL over Brooklyn it REALLY was something fun. Just Imagine a chill-good-time flick like cookout….It had that sorta mood to me….

BUT regardless I wanna see the movie….why nott…..

Can’t wait to watch this movie tommorow.

Not only reppin bk but I grew up in east flatbush…40th baby!!! Although I wasn’t in Brooklyn during the blackout I can imagine it being a fun time and not an apocalypse. None of my ppl from Flatbush shared that experience w/ me when I asked them about how the blackout played out. Nonetheless the movie looks interesting and I’d check it out. Just MHO I wasn’t there so I can’t really say….

Brooklyn ppl did yall even watch the damn clip

I aint see anything exaggerated in it. I’ll just save judgement for AFTER i watch the entire movie.

Looks really good, I’ll definately check this out! I heart Jefferey Wright also –> great actor!

that old guy sounds funny. BLACK OUT BLACK IN BLACK OUT!!!!!! i was like wow LOL i might check itout

I really dont fuck w/BET and cant take them seriously after they choose to show shit like the edited version of 3 strikes (over and over again)! This movie seems interesting tho’. Has a plot and all!

THE MOVIE WAS PRETTY GOOD I THINK DAT GUY DAT GOT STABBED WAS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FYNE

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