Last night for my Friday night movie, I saw “Lee Daniels The Butler” and I think it was one of the worst movies of last year. I just felt that the movie was horribly written and their take on the civil rights movement was told pretty badly.

Don’t get me wrong, I think Forest Whitaker is one of the best actors of all time, he’s one of my favorites but I just didn’t care for this film. The civil rights story in this film seemed pretty inaccurate and the history of the film was re-written.

I thought it was silly seeing all of those actors playing different presidents… although, Robin Williams did the best job playing Pres. Eisenhower, he killed it even though Robin had a tiny role in the film.

I think the only reason this film was over hyped and shoved in our faces last year was because of Oprah Winfrey. If she wasn’t in that film, the film wouldn’t have been that big. Plus, I think people wouldn’t have cared about the film if the film didn’t show her big cleavage throughout most of it. Yeah, the film showed her cleavage and I think that’s the only reason the film was successful.

The Robin Williams performance was the only good thing about the film, in my opinion, other than that, I thought the film was trash and could have been better. I’m not a big Oprah fan and she was kind of annoying in this film just like she was annoying as hell on her talk show.

Lee Daniels “The Butler” is not a good civil rights movie. I thought “12 Years A Slave” with Lupita Nyongo was the better civil rights film. I wouldn’t recommend “The Butler”.

What’s even worse with “The Butler”, I don’t mean to spoil the ending but it’s gotta be said is that the film treated Barack Obama like he’s some sort of civil rights hero and I’m like really? Barack Obama a civil rights hero? No freakin’ way. I was disgusted with the film that it tried to make Obama look good. Obama is no way a civil rights hero. There’s a lot of black people out there that don’t like him anymore and regretted supporting him. There’s even some black people out there who despise Obama too.

There’s a lot of false information and fiction in, “The Butler”. I would avoid this one. If you wanna watch good civil rights films, I’d suggest films like Spike Lee’s “Malcolm X”, “In the Heat of the Night”, “The Help”, “12 Years A Slave”, and I’m sure there is many more to name. There is better out there.

Kev