The Woman King - Group Movie Reaction 

"That's the first time he realized...he could be with Black people." I *DIED* 💀💀💀💀💀✨

I think the fact that the child and mother talked about the rape is HEALTHY. It’s apart of the healing process. Which is hard to address because it’s discouraged. Seen as being negative when it is addressed and brought up. And people see you as just being a product of rape. While projecting their feelings into thinking that the people effected will never get past it. Meanwhile it’s the listeners who can’t get past and stop seeing you as a person as they associate you as nothing more than the product of rape. This response is typical of most forms of trauma including being the victim of rape, slavery and systematic oppression. Infact the RESPONSE to the trauma is ANOTHER form of trauma that leads to re-victimization. Many of the responses like projecting your feelings that traumatized people are damaged goods and writing them off, is actually WORSE than the original trauma. Misinformation that de-humanizes and disempowers survivors is not only prevalent, it’s the environment that enables rape culture. It also creates the feeling nothing can be done. Which is often an excuse to NOT help or even prevent these kinds of situations when thy are happening and overlook it. The rapist knows that and in some cases brags about, “doing whatever the f¥

"Your lightskin your not a fighter" 🤣🤣🤣

can't believe they tried to sell this movie as historical, and still censored the other things that happened to them (like the warriors being the king's property and that each one were castrated)

I LOVE this movie. Saw it FIVE times. I was wondering why there is a timer in the corner? Are you trying to keep the clips for the movie under a certain amount of time? (less than half of the total video time?)

I saw this in the cinema. A beautifully crafted movie. I do with some of the women of the crew joined this reaction.

"Baptized to death"😂😂😂💀💀💀💀

Speaking of Wakanda: The scene in the first Black Panther movie where Killmonger is in the museum talking about the artifacts, the curator says the item is from 'The Edo people of Benin', and Killmonger says 'No, it's Wakandan'. The kingdom of Dahomey was located in what is modern day Benin. Dahomey is Wakanda. Canon: Accepted.

Loved the film reaction but as a History student I feel it'd be wrong not to defend the people in the comments pointing out the film's historical inaccuracies. The Dahomey were indeed dominated by female warriors but they were brutal, cruel, and a major slave-trading African kingdom. Like the Ahanti and Oyo Empires they sold their own people and others to white Europeans into slavery. Unlike the others, however, they sold so many of their males and kept so many of their women that they became the female society they're depicted as in the film. Also, while many of the characters in the film are based on the idea of the Dahomey's women warriors, a lot of them were not real people. One of the few Dahomey characters who was real was King Ghezo. He ruled in the early to mid-1800s as the Dahomey attempted to reinvigorate their slave-trade oriented economy against the wishes of the British, who, having banned slavery by then, blockaded their ports to stop them (I've checked and you can indeed verify this on Ghezo's Wikipedia page). That's the true story of the Dahomey. The Woman King is a wonderful film about African women fighting for freedom against enslavement, as many African women did in history. But still, please do not connect the Dahomey with this. If you want a real story of a female African ruler who fought European slavers, I'd suggest looking up Nzinga Ana. Honestly, I'm astonished they didn't base this film on her instead. But yes, long story short, please understand peoples' frustration with this film. It takes the story of real freedom-fighting black women in history and associates their actions with the sorts of people they were fighting against. It doesn't matter whether you're black or white or whatever: that's something that will justifiably make you a little angry.

the King's wife Shanté, was played by Jayme Lawson who was in also in The Batman

"Baptized to death, it's the closest way to get to God'"😂😂

23:25 “baptized to death” PLEEASSSE 😭

7:30 Chris' reaction! LMAO.

22:19 😭😭😭😭 not the drake strays

I think the point many are getting at is this film is being harshly judged (on a large scale) solely on historical inaccuracies, while films like Braveheart, Gladiator, 300 and many others were not

Everyone crying about historical accuracy, which this film never claimed to 100% be. Greatest Showman wasn't nearly close to historically accurate but no one cried about that. The film keeps its core truth while expanding its own story, like every film does. Enjoy the film and research the tribe for authenticity

The actors were amazing in this movie!

YOOOO. 😮 SUB-FUCKIN- _SCRIBED_ ! 😃 I expected some interesting reactions...but I didn't know there'd be good convo after. Y'all have brains and you *use* them! I love it! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾✨

We couldn't just enjoy the film, due to the stakes always being higher. Ended up consuming and defeating ourselves over how to carry the struggle.

when you will react to Vox machinaaaa?

People kill me ITS A MOVIE made for entertainment plus noon was alive back then to see what these people had to do to survive everybody wanna be fake woke enjoy the blood sweat and tears put into this by these women

She did that for izogi ❤, her friend

On the battle field we are our doc's

The evil historical revisionism of this movie is nicely matched by Chris going off about how the intra-african trade was humane and the trans-atlantic one was uniquely vicious. It's like this movie was made for these dolts.

“Is her sword a sword or a bat” **tony stark voice** is it too much to ask for both?

Watching the woman king without 1 woman on the couch 😫😫😭

Historical inaccuracies aside, the movie is beautiful. I loved it. People did what they did to keep their people safe and that's what this king felt he had to do. There are plenty of other tribes of all nations who are reported to be cannibals, too. I think changing the story to fit more current narratives is fine. It's a fiction story, not a history piece. So if historians are actually upset, they need to calm down cause the movie isn't even being advertised as a true story or anything as far as I know. Just enjoy a good movie about powerful warriors.

You watched *this* of all movies, with just the guys?

35:06 the white guy is kid voldemort

Because of izogi he was hit that forcefully 🎉🎉❤

I'd suggest looking up the real history that this movie "portrays", because the movie is just an horrible manipulation of history and an insult to the history of black people and everything they have suffered.

Oh no

umm, there's a reason Lupita Nyong'o, dropped out of this film, look it up guys. And No, the handful of people saying "historical accuracy" doesn't matter are the same ones who say IT does when it comes to 'other' movies with "historical inaccuracies". Especially in a society that claims everything they see in entertainment as fact.

I enjoyed this movie for what it was, an entertaining story. The fake outrage over this movie was ridiculous. Most people were pretending to be outrage to go viral. I noticed those same fake outragers knew absolutely nothing about the Dahomey people, just what they heard other You Tubers say. Also, Hollywood has never been in the business for telling the truth. Hollywood has always been about selling entertaining stories. It amazes me how people suddenly developed amnesia regarding the history of Hollywood movies smh.

It was based on true events, but mostly pretty inaccurate with how the last fight went…the Dahomey we were completely destroyed in a few hours And they were not the good guys unfortunately

You should not look upon the warriors because many may come back with war injuries

Lashana wasn’t in Queen’s Gambit, that was Moses Ingram (Reva from Obi Wan) but she was Maria Rambeau in Captain Marvel and Multiverse of Madness, she’s also 007 in No Time To Die and Miss Honey in Matilda the Musical

I thought the movie was brilliant. I especially loved Viola Davis and Lashana Lynch. They were outstanding! I don't get all the hate it's receiving. I hear people saying that the movie is historically inaccurate... but why are people acting like it's the first hollywood "war" movie to not be historically accurate? This is going to trigger people but Idc 😂 if the cast weren't a group of black woman... there would be no outrage at all 👀.

I love this reaction even though I didnt really care for the movie. And before anyone asks, no, its not because of the inaccuracy. I couldnt care less if its accurate (if I wanted to know the real history, I’d watch a documentary or read a nonfiction book. I dont know what people really expect from fictional movies at this point. “Based on true events” is basically equivalent to “I saw something like this once and created a new world around it”.) I don’t like the movie because It seemed distracted. There was a lot of unnecessary story. And it was so long for no reason. Like I love a long movie. If you need 3 hours to tell a great story, please use every second. But so much of this plot was useless. I wish they wouldve just picked a problem and stuck with it. This movie couldve been 1.5 hours at most. Also “Woman King” as a title was… definitely a choice. I dont know if it was the right choice… (For the record, I am always aware of the possibility that I’ve missed something. So I’m open to disagreement) But i love watching you guys!! And your reactions are always worth seeing!

What's crazy is that people are actually crapping on this movie and it's actors because it paints the dehomy people in a good light when they were actually barbaric and they were a vital part in the slave trade. But what those people don't understand because they decide not to watch is that is represented but then change throughout the story which is completely fine considering this movie is not advertised as a true story. Nobody would have known that this as any actual historic figures depicted in it if not for the haters being so spiteful in regards to this movie.

Please do some research about the history behind this film as the movie is incredibly historically inaccurate. It made the film unwatchable for me as they claimed it was "based on a true story". Love your reactions normally guys just hope you guys look up the real history as there is too many rewritings of history and people making stuff up to suit themselves nowadays.

It's too bad that this movie didn't address any of the horrible things they did during slavery!!! Such a silly propaganda film.

7:31 has me cracking up 😂

Go to the 👑👑 Kingdom of Dahomey

Loved this movie and loved this review. The story was beautifully told, albeit a little predictable. It is accurate that slavery was not new to Africans, but chattel slavery was. As shown in the film, a captive could become a revered soldier. Completely accurate, by no means, but no more creative license than any other depiction of the Civil war or WW war movie.

No fear in these women i love it.

Lol the like/dislike ratio says it all. What were they thinking...?

Can you react to the anime movie bubble it's really good

Such an amazing movie. DC and Marvel have been using these girls all wrong. Amazing the possibilities. Hell one of the. Would have been a more believable black panther in the last movie. Lol

As an Afro Latino and grandson of a former slav3 I believe this movie to be 💩 and refuse to glorify these butchers as heroes! This movie should be called fiction from a parallel universe, that’s how far from accurate it is! It’s like glorifying the naz1s as heroes of WWII. Love you guys work, I’m a big fan and I truly try to respect the opinions of others, but this was a huge loss from you guys!

Not a single Emmy or Oscar nomination..now ask yourselves y

the fact that they had no stunt doubles for this movie... and it's getting paid dust from the awards???

I really enjoyed this film on release and it's such a shame it's been completely shut out of the Oscars. I know there was some boycott of it because people say it's not historically accurate, as I think people don't like how it paints the warriors as heroic when they were a big part of the slave trade, but I thought it did a good job of pointing out that they were involved in that trade but wanted to stop and find new income. It always frustrates me that I saw so much fuss about historical accuracy for this, but no other film and plenty based on some real event/person aren't accurate. It seemed a lot wanted this film to fail. The performances are great here and I found it a thrilling and engaging watch.

it's too bad none of the ladies were on this one

Powerful movie, I loved every minute I’m so happy y’all reacted to it. ALOT of reviewers didn’t even review it even though it had a 99% on Rotten Tomatoes at some point.

I enjoyed seeing u guys hype to get to this movie because that was my exact reaction to this in theater the 3 times I watched

a great celebration of slave trading this movie conned alot of people

This movie is one of those ones that is so historically irresponsible it's hard for me to even watch without that constantly nagging. It'd be like making a story about any other major historical atrocity and making it's persecutors the good guys, and those who opposed it the bad guys. So like making a movie about how native americans are trying to wipe out american colonists and put them into reservations in a manifest destiny drive before the heroic colonists defeat them to save their people. Or like making a movie about how the Nazis were trying to save the Jews from the evil French and Polish in 1939. At least we can take comfort that in real life the Dahomey Female slavers were nearly annihilated by the French and then forcibly disbanded.

I absolutely LOVED this movie

In the real story, the Dahomey tribe was an aggressive slave society, that often raided neighboring african tribes to capture slaves to sell. Eventually they raided a tribe that was protected by the french. That tribe then asked the french to help them, and the french destroyed the Dahomey in one battle with almost no casualties. Thats the war which is shown in the movie. Its a pretty movie with good cinematography, but its depicting history very badly.

The main characters are slavers

For those who care: *This movie is the equivalent of saying the Nazis were trying to save Jews from the evil Anglo-Americans in World War 2.* At the time of this battle, the Dahome were fighting to keep the slave trade going, and the European involved wanted to end the slave trade. And (thankfully), the Dahome were massacred. And this tribe only had an all-woman battalion because their pool of men had been whittle down from constantly capturing new slaves to sell.

Loved this movie

Thank you thank you! I enjoyed this movie so much!

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This whole movie is very inaccurate and quite frankly racist to African history not black history African I hated it worst movie of 2022

... everyone worried about historical inaccuracies in the movie and I'm over here latching onto the mere mention of "electric rocks" 😅🤓 please don't get led astray by folks peddling inaccurate present day news stories, sorry I'm like this. 🙃

Movie was absolute flames. I want the blu-ray now

I liked the movie. When this movie come out all of a sudden everyone became a history major???

All the wounds are CGI.

I don't understand why this movie wasn't looked at during award season.....there were some amazing performances in this.

I definitely went to see this in theaters and I loved it. I saw the trailer and knew I had to see this in theaters. I loved the performances by all the actors. You can see they gave everything to make a beautiful and strong movie showing the strength of women. The story it tells is sad but beautiful. This is definitely one movie I have to watch every year.

I wanted to see this when I saw the trailer…I’m gonna have to check it out then come back to the reaction. I love me some Viola Davis.

Nice reaction. This was my favorite movie of 2022. It was released well ahead of Wakanda Forever and it did decently at the box office. For all the trolls in the comments crying about the "historical inaccuracy" of this fictional movie, please point us to your criticism of other Hollywood films that failed to meet this standard...there are so many to choose from, it should be easy. No? Only films with Black stars have to pass the accuracy test? Your intentions are very transparent. NGL, I am disappointed none of the girls were here to react to this one. They could have offered an important perspective.

The disgusting historical inaccuracy in this movie is the equivalent of showing John C Calhoun or Jefferson Davis as an abolitionist.

Me seeing this in my sub box be like: Oh no... Please just take this movie as entertainment and take what it presents with waaaay more than a pinch of salt. RRR cartoonishly changes horrific British colonial crimes in an entertaining way, but this movie is just a big no. The kingdom kept slavery and committing slave raids against neighboring kingdoms until the French established Dahomey as a protectorate (basically a colony) in the 1890s, 70 years after the movie takes place (1823), and forced the ending of the practice in the kingdom. From what I've read, that tends to be the biggest issue with the movie, the representation of the ruling king. I should add, by no means was French colonialism any good, they were horrendous. But for an American example: There's a massive difference between the treatment of Irish indentured servants and the treatment of African slaves in the US. (Though Eastern European serfs might be a better comparison instead of the Irish.) Also, for everyone else (I do not foresee the Normies watching Tucker fucking Carlson, or something), please avoid right-wing pundits' who talked about the movie, they tend to twist criticism of the movie into just straight up racism by themselves. Personally, the youtuber "veritas et caritas" (an anarchist) has the best breakdown of the movie.

how to fake history in a nutshell

I'm struggling to identify if the comments are genuine or if they are trolling.

I find that a lot of people who want to history check this film on the slave trade (and it does get quit a bit wrong, true) are the same crowd that will have a fit when films like The Patriot are criticized for the same.

Worst movie of 2022

Dope movie

Black power!!

Love this movie 🔥🔥🔥

This movie sucks. 😂

I saw this in theaters and Wakanda Forever.

Great movie, awesome movie reaction. The inaccuracies are very small as in the ruling king in the movie was born during this time his father was, the 2 main characters are real people but the lived during different times, the mother daughter aspect is made up and the Malik character is made up. Yet everything else is tru. Don't let people who have not done any African studies fill up your with lies and misogyny because their male egos are hurt. People like to say that they never talked about how they sold slaves and did human sacrifices but if u real watch the movie more then once and watch with open eye and open ears they touch on so much in the movie. Other people are say they shouldn't have just spoke about they should have showed it. Have people every heard of editing looked the directors cut. Lol I would like to see more people react to this movie. P.S Their uniforms were also different. When I first saw the trailer for this movie i took a deep dive into this historic kingdom.

Y'all need to do your history, I can't believe you uploaded this thinking it was a good idea. 1.6K Dislikes.

Even if you put aside the major historical inaccuracies, this movie is still average at best. Average action sequences, average story, average acting, it is being propped up solely based on its social agenda.

This movie was fantastic. I remember seeing the trailers for it and thinking it would be good but it was better than I thought. I didn't think a movie about the slave trade in Africa could be serious and also so funny.

Rant incoming: The movie was well done from a technical point but I just didn´t enjoy the story as much as I enjoyed the Reaction. There are people who actually think that the Agoji were these amazingly brave people forced into this lifestyle and it is thanks to all the people who went on the offensive to educate people that this number is not the majority. Some people like to compare it to 300 or other movies like it. I have the same problem with that if those movies claim to be inspired by real events and then depict something totally different. I mean 300 had freaking goat people and Monsters in it because it was based on a comic that took a more mythical approach and never claimed to be based on true events. The Woman King would have been more impactful to me if it had depicted the real events. To me the movie is just trying to sell some fake pride to black people just as so many other movies that are trying to sell it to white people or Americans. One comment in the movie discussion at the end anooyed me a bit: Classic double standard when buying all the stuff produced using resources from exploited nations and then blaming it on rich white people, with an emphasis on rich and white as if skin color has anything to do with greed, instead of not buying those products but that would mean to give up some luxuries. Capitalism works on demand and not morality.

This movie was too good!😩

What a bunch of revisionist history.

it's a great movie. it is based on true events so it's not completely accurate. Creative license was taken. Great review and insight fam!!

All the movies you could react to and you choose one that glorifies slavers and bastardizes history

why so many dislikes on this video? Because they didn't watch with the women?

One of the best films of the year and I was not expecting it to be... such brilliance in all aspects. The action sequences were top notch. Thrilling and emotional.

*pats starts talking about pro life in discussion* Me: “yeaaaa it about time I click off this one”

this movie is just the worst. Acting is poor, plot and subplot are boring af not to mention that they "forgot" to tell people how the true "woman king" was a slave trader and how her warriors were subjected to horrifying genital mutilation. What a joke

"The Woman King" could've just watched Fate or played FGO.

For you people in the comments, yes “YOU people” .. nobody cares but you. We didn’t ask you what you could & couldn’t watch or get past. If you don’t like it then don’t watch and comment! It’s that simple 🥱