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I am saying this in the most DMX voice possible. This is what the fuck I’m talking about. This is what I want Hollywood. Four women (predominantly of color) getting theirs the ski mask way? Yes. A thousand times Yeaaaasssss. Ric Flair “Woooo!” Lemme calm it down for a minute. I’m so sorry. I’m just excited. Staff writer Mikkel put the trailer for this new movie Widows in the Slack, and I dunno how to act right now.
We see Liam Neeson in this film married to Viola Davis and dude’s got a crew that’s out here getting it in the ski mask way. I’m talking stick up kid style. Steady mobbin’ Lil Wayne track. What’s a goon to a gobblin’? Got it? Listen, I was only 20 seconds into the trailer, and I already know I’m seeing this in theaters cause they got Jon Bernthal in here plus Michelle Rodriguez. Which means so far, we got dude from Taken being married to Analease Keating from HTGAWM plus The Punisher and Fast and Furious’ (I-XXV) Letty are all in this film? Take my fucking money now. The premise of the movie is these robbers get murked doing a job. They’ve stolen a lot of money from a lot of people. The police and rival crime bosses are putting pressure on their wives, the widows Veronica (Viola Davis), Linda (Michelle Rodriguez), Belle (Cynthia Erivo), and Alice (Elizabeth Debicki). You know damn well these women ain’t about to let that shit slide. They aren’t folding for anything, and they all do what women always do. Fix the shit their damn selves. Yes siiiiir, I said that Set …
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