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This is a movie that is about being vulgar, hateful, and worthless. It in no way is an inspiration to anyone. There are people out there that live this way, but why promote it as a way of life? There needs to be more family friendly movies instead of this kind of garbage that actually perpetuates damaged families and their lack of importance to each other. Some families are broken as shown in this movie, but unfortunately, those same families will walk away from watching this movie feeling vindicated in living this lifestyle rather than seeing this as an embarrassment to their lifestyle. I have known people like this in my lifetime, and they would completely take this as, "...yep, this is my life and there's nothing wrong with it; they even made a movie about it." I HATED this movie. I want to bring good values to my family and friends. I don't want to validate this stuff. I don't want to ignore it and pretend that it doesn't exist, but it's better to help people who are like this than to make a glorified movie about it.

When Gollem died for his "precious" by falling into the fire he was dying for a scam. This Precious is a scam too, money and fame thrown at this movie and it still looks like it was made by my 12yr old with her $100 camera. The plot looks like something my 9yr old made by turning pages of a encyclopaedia and coming up with every bad thing that can happen to a child and adult and making a movie. Oprah loves a good child abuse movie and this one must remind her of her very own show pony the colour purple. Yeah we all know Oprah was abused and so was I- the difference between us is that I'm living in the real world now and I'm not obese.

Just seeing the trailer for this movie, I was blown away by the striking realism of lead actress Gabourey Sidibe's performance. The entire trailer radiated PAIN. I thought this movie was going to be heavy, dramatic, and depressing - but it took it all so much further than I could have expected. First of all, I would recommend this movie to just about anyone - but only if you can handle and take something from movies that are utterly disturbing in their depiction of a realistic CRAP LIFE. This is one of those movies that just does not let up. We've seen this a lot with dark comedies this decade - from directors like the Coen Brothers, but through those movies we are mostly laughing at the unfortunate events - this time around, we wish we could help but for people in these kind of dark holes, there is nothing we can do to help without damaging ourselves in our attempt to be saint-like. Mo'Nique shows a new side of herself in her performance as the most disgustingly terrible mother you'd never want as your own. I hope Mo'Nique gets offered more serious roles in dramatic movies after this because god damn she deserves it. She was THE WORST PERSON... EVER!!!! I HATE HER!!!!!!!!!!!!! How dare you treat PRECIOUS LIKE THAT!!!! WE HATE YOU!!!! I've never seen PIGS FEET used so effectively in a movie! So disgusting!!! There are no weak cast members - everyone portrays an entertaining, realistic, and believable character in this 80's NYC setting. Even Mariah Carey shows up as the welfare counseler and for once she puts on a worthy performance. Alternative school teacher Ms. Blu Rain (what an awesome name) - also ends up being a very memorable and lovable character, seen almost as the angelic being in the end. While I was thoroughly entertained throughout, I did feel like there were certain segments that were a little dragged out. Lots of shots of Precious walking around in slow motion for basically no reason. Whatever. I enjoy segments like this personally so it didn't bother me. Nice to create places to squeeze good music into your film. This was perhaps the only flaw of the film in general though. The movie was lengthy because of the drawn out scenes but it was a worthy ride. This one's definitely gonna be making my top 10 list this year. A surprise gem out of nowhere. I've never even thought about giant black girls raised into terrible life situations wishing they were a skinny blonde white woman. Now I know there's got to be a lot of them out there... Aside from that, mothers like hers belong in prison or dead. PRECIOUS is just a reminder... a warning... an effective cautionary tale... PRECIOUS deserves better. Precious deserves on Oscar.

The only reason I can see that this movie gets the attention that it does is the amazing acting and the pure shock value of poor inner city life. Story wise though Precious seems to be one long cliché. It's great to examine poor inner city life, but it can be done better than this. Take for example how the parents are painted as pure evil, while poor Precious is angelic, how can we not forgive her for not knowing what's appropriate? Teachers, social workers and so on are also inexplicably perfect as well as thin and/or white. Why do we have to have to have evil black archetypes and purely selfless saviors? It's unrealistic and a bit racist. Things just go from bad to worse to even worse, well that's quite sad but you can't cry the whole time you're watching this thing, so what's the point? Take away that and it's yet another Hollywood cliché of the unappreciated student and/or class that is reached by a special teacher. Where have we NOT seen that one before? OK the girl is fat, an important detail . OK her parents are horrible to her, every children's movie or fairy tale starts that way. She leads a rich fantasy life to escape daily trauma, again with the children's film parodies? OK she finally finds someone that understands and helps her fulfill her true potential despite parental influence. What is this a grimmer version of Roald Dahl's Matilda? A plot line that is meant for an 8 year old? I just don't get it. Skip this "Little Matchstick Girl" meets "Sister Act 2" tearjerker and go see a movie that tells a unique story.

I just saw this film at Sundance, and it was truly amazing. I confess I did not read the book (I will now), but I suspect that Daniels really took it to the next level. The story of Precious and her world was deeply moving and supremely well acted. I was particularly surprised at my own ability to laugh, along with the story, at the worst humanity can throw at us. After the film, Daniels, the producers, and the entire cast came forward to many standing ovations. Gabby was indeed charming, and I was particularly riveted by Mo'Nique's discussion of how she was able to become Mary, Precious' mother. Daniels fielded many questions from the audience, mostly directed at the task of realizing this story. I hope to see his work again. This is a heavy film, but I highly recommend it.

I was very curious about this movie since it was praised a lot. I was expecting a performance that is so great and a story that is so emotional. May be I expected too much or my emotions are not strong enough to understand this movie but I didn't find it good. Actually, I found it bad to be more precise. There was certainly nothing special about the acting, the story is boring and disturbing, the message is totally unclear and directing is just OK. If I had seen this on TV, I would change the channel in two minutes but I watched it till the end to see whether something will happen. It ended as it started, pointless and boring. I was really surprised by the Oscar awards this year. I had seen all the movies expect this one but this is even worse than the rest of the garbage. Save yourself, don't watch it. If you are forced to watch it, may the patience be with you.