*shrug* I don't like "based on a true story" movies to be making shit up. That annoys me in general, but especially when it has troubling racial implications. I don't think that makes me part of a "nothing is ever good enough" crowd, so please don't try to lump me into some strawman group. Thanks.
I wasn't at all, so you're welcome.
I was lumping you in the "encourage you to see it yourself to decide" group. Is it not fair to want you to see the movie and judge it for yourself?
I tend to agree about "making shit up", but that really is this entire movie. You have to accept that it's playing very fast and loose with history (characters that represent general attitudes rather than specific individuals, decades of events compressed into a story of a few years, etc.).
If you can't get over that, that's totally okay, but I find the idea that "troubling racial implications" only works one way rather troubling in itself. Why is it okay to "make shit up" that vilifies the white characters, but as soon as one of them is portrayed positively they've gone too far? Calling it "whitewashing" is such an uncharitable and racially charged attack against a film that, while not great, I think really doesn't deserve it.