OUTSTANDING!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just truly an outstanding movie. I cried and I laughed. Very heartwarming. Definitely a must see movie. Good job, cast and production!!

*crash*

I haven't seen this yet but would love to. This movie and Spellbound, the real-life documentary, really bring back memories—I represented Alabama in the National Spelling Bee in 1980. :D The pressure is every bit as intense as you'd imagine ...

Did you take the GRE or ever study for it? Man I wish someone would coach me. LOL! CT4, I don't think you'd have any trouble. The way he broke it down though of big words being made of smaller words. I never took latin in high school, I wish I had now.

I never studied etymology but when I taught the last few years, I did teach my students certain Latin and Greek roots to help them with SAT and ACT verbal. We never had Latin in high school as an option.

And no I have never taken or studied for the GRE.

ETA: Oh and I failed to mention I was in spelling bees from 2nd - 8th grade. :cool: I won in 4th grade and took 2nd in the 8th grade. :cool:

I'm ready to go see this movie again!

And I absolutely loved Javier - he was just too doggone cute!

He really was. When he stalled for her, I LMAO. I found myself clapping and cheering several times like I was in the bee's audience.:)

Yeah when he stalled was very funny. Didn't he say can you use it in a song? LMAO. I couldn't help myself though when Angela and Larry were on screen together saying, 'eat the cake Anna Mae'. And wasn't Akeelah's brother the guy that use to play Jett Jackson? Where has he been?

Yes Javier asked for them to use ratatouille in a song, lmao.

Devon (Air Force brother) was Jett Jackson. According to IMDB profile, he has kept busy.

I did the same thing with Ike and Anna Mae references.:o

Guess I need to get dressed and head over to Starbucks!

Saw the movie yesterday - theater was packed! Babies managed not to cry and nary a cell phone rang (has to be a first!) Took my eleven year old cousins with me who teased me for crying at the end!! Loved the movie - absolutely LOVED it!:D

1. "RV," $16.4 million.

2. "United 93," $11.6 million.

3. "Stick It," $11.3 million.

4. "Silent Hill," $9.3 million.

5. "Scary Movie 4," $7.8 million.

6. "The Sentinel," $7.6 million.

7. "Ice Age: The Meltdown," $7.05 million.

8. "Akeelah and the Bee," $6.25 million. Shame it didn't do better. :(

9. "The Wild," $4.7 million.

10. "The Benchwarmers," $4.4 million.

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Scary Movie is supposed to really be sorry and it STILL beat out Akeelah and the Bee?? :( I told little btb that I bet it would come in at #1 this weekend. Disappointing.

Extremely!!!

Folks can make Tyler Perry #1 twice but not Akeelah and the Bee? Black folks still afraid to learn versus laugh. I learned, laughed and cried in the movie. I just knew with Tyler sending out 2 e-mails endorsing the movie that WE would go see it.

Hell AMC now charges $4 for movies on WEdnesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays for any movie before noon.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

That is very surprising that it didn't come in any higher than 6...I too received those encouraging emails from Tyler Perry to go see the movie; however, I can admit I did not go see it this weekend. Going to see it this week though.

Akeelah and the Bee is a great movie! If you have children this is a movie you must take them to see. I took my 9 year old son and we talked about the message after the movie.

I can't say that I'm surprised. We won't go support movies like this. I remember going to see a movie the same weekend that ATL came out and the AMC here was packed. There were people buying tickets for Saturday shows because all the Friday night shows were sold out. The larger problems is also that Black Hollywood doesn't support each other either. Tyler Perry should have been out helping to support this movie. At some point Madea can only be done so many times. Unless Madea is gonna live as long as Miss Jane Pittman. Mr. Perry doesn't understand that Madea doesn't give him carte blanche to do other types of movies and projects unless projects like 'Akeelah' are able to do well.

Hopefully for those of us who have seen this movie we can help encourage others to see this movie as well. 'Eve's Bayou' was a very good movie, but how many of us actually saw that movie when it was in the theater? Our movies are also not nominated for anything either unless they are a financial success. Why? Studios won't market and campaign for movies doing awards season if our movies don't do well during it's initial release. Akeelah not doing well just greenlighted ATLl 2, or the next 50 cent vehicle. And while 'Hustle and Flow' was a pretty decent movie do we really need another story about a Pimp who's trying to get of the game?