Do You Have a Favorite "Blaxploitation" Film?
 

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If so, what is it?

No.

I don't like them, generally because I'm not down with the whole 'bitch/ho' persona for women in films.

Plus my first experience watching one was at some random white guy's dorm room. I was with my friends and he put on Dolemite.

Let's just say I was not amused.

Hands down, my favorite "blaxploitation" movie is....
 

...THE HUMAN TORNADO!! (sequel to Dolemite).

I thought that was THE funniest, campiest blaxploitation flick I have ever seen, and I have seen a LOT!

Bad (read: campy) special effects, loehme dialogue, ugly middle aged white women, what more could you ask for?

I got more comments on this flick in the "Mystery Ghetto Theater 3000" thread if you would like more of my .73 cents.

I have to say I kind of liked the one Blaxploitation film I ever saw...
 

Superfly. I was getting my hair braided in high school (a million little braids - took 20+ hours) and my braider put on Superfly. I thought it was great, but, I was 16 and, although I didn't know it then, I may have been feeling the effects of a little ganja. I didn't figure out until I was in my mid-twenties what that smell was and why about once every hour she went back to her room to take a 2-minute "break." LOL :rolleyes:

LOL @ Soror Choo Choo

Well, in college my friends and I decided to have a blaxploitation movie night. I mus say that I enjoyed Coffy.

Blacula would have to be one of my favorites. Its ridiculously hilarious!

I liked Cleopatra Jones. Pam Grier was no joke!!! :)

Cleopatra Jones, baby! (I'm pretty sure it was Tamara Dobson as Cleo, not Pam Grier... Grier played "Coffy" in the 70s) I like blaxploitation films. I know that they were exploitative, but sometimes I think that it's possible to overanalyze things to death.

Re: Hands down, my favorite "blaxploitation" movie is....
 

Have you seen "Petey Wheatstraw, the Devil's Son-in-Law"? ROFLMAO...

hmmmm...
 

it would have to be THE MACK.

i saw it with my dad as a double feature with the movie Blue Thunder with Roy Scheider.

he always made time for me and him and i will always cherish that.

:D

Blacula and Superfly

Re: Re: Hands down, my favorite "blaxploitation" movie is....
 

Yeah, I finally had the courage to rent it last summer. The only parts I thought was interesting though was the drive-by in front of the church (and the rewind/replay thereof w/the organ music), and the magic stick scene when he turned fat women skinny, turned unfaithful men into dogs, etc. and I loved the background song that was playing (Ghetto Life?, or something Ghetto).

I liked Coffy and Friday Foster, but my favorite spoof of a blaxplotation film is I'm Gonna Git you Sucka.

My faves....
 

well...
"the jerk"....i am not sure if it is considered as "blaxploitation", but i'd think so since steve martin's character grew up thinking he was colored!!! i love this movie!!!!


i also love and own, "i'm gonna git you sucka"!!

I'm also a fan of "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka!" It's a more "recent" parody of blaxploitation films made during my generation. It has me on the rolling on the floor laughing everytime I watch it. I love watching Chris Rock in the infamous "How Much For A Rib?" skit.

"Good, Lawd! That's a lot of money!":)

Yep. That was crazy (Chris and the ribs). Plus the INFAMOUS....




CRAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMPPPPPPPPSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS SSSSSSSS! :mad: :mad: :mad: :D

I know this isn't a blaxploitation movie per se, but....
 

....has anyone besides me saw Rudy Ray Moore's stand-up movie Rude? (1982).

I thought that was a rather old-school stand up flick, with "intermission" comedians Skillet and Leroy, along with Cathy Cooper doing burlesque comedy routines. Truly IMHO the last bastion of vaudeville style burlesque comedy routines was in this movie.

Highlights of the movie:

Dolemite for President speech complete w/a Q&A session by members of the audience. HEE-LARIOUS.

The anecdote on the African missionary and the lion
The anecdote on the Italian boy spelling the word Mississippi

The anecdote on Dolemite hiding from the lady's husband by "hiding" over the front door with his goodies hanging below.

The anecdote on the two Vietnam vets who returned home, one Black, one White and the one "wish" they each got from the US government. (this was mentioned in the movie Dolemite).

Oh, and let's not forget the Dolemite rap and the Shine & the Great Titanic rap

Yeah, it was low budget, and BTW, the original title wasn't even called Rude (as you could tell by the CG font graphics being inconsistent with the opening credit graphics).

OMG, I want to own this flick; it is a classic.

Oh I LOVE "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka!" I just bought it on DVD and that movie has me CRYING it is so funny!

Blaxploitation...
 

I have never seen many blaxploitation classics. I was a child during the heyday of it, and of course, couldn't see them back then. For instance, I haven't seen Dolemite and was :confused: when Calvin Broadus bka Snoop referenced it in "Ain't Nothing but a G Thang."

*Slight hijack* This morning, there was a Melvin Van Peebles film, "Don't Play Us Cheap," that featured bats trying to invade a Harlem party. I couldn't finish watching it because I was on my way to work, but I saw some parallels between some images we still see today.