Wait, what?!!

"Kind of like 'The Color Purple', only in airplanes" and "like a Tyler Perry movie, only without jokes."

As far as I can see the only two things those two examples have in common are... lots of black actors. Have I missed some deep, film-school-nerd connection or is he really trying to say that he's made a movie for black people without mentioning race?

His quotation works elsewhere, too: I suppose the Prequels were "Like a Star Wars movie, only without a heart, some spectacle and a sense of fun and adventure."

His work is a sad example of what happens to great artists when they don't die young.