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01-16-2004, 12:09 PM
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Do You Have a Favorite "Blaxploitation" Film?
If so, what is it?
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01-16-2004, 12:25 PM
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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.
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01-16-2004, 12:52 PM
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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.
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01-16-2004, 12:55 PM
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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 
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01-16-2004, 01:25 PM
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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.
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01-16-2004, 03:26 PM
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Blacula would have to be one of my favorites. Its ridiculously hilarious!
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01-16-2004, 08:47 PM
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I liked Cleopatra Jones. Pam Grier was no joke!!! 
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01-17-2004, 02:48 AM
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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.
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01-17-2004, 02:50 AM
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Re: Hands down, my favorite "blaxploitation" movie is....
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Originally posted by Rain Man
...THE HUMAN TORNADO!! (sequel to Dolemite).
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Have you seen "Petey Wheatstraw, the Devil's Son-in-Law"? ROFLMAO...
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01-17-2004, 09:27 AM
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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.
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01-17-2004, 11:32 AM
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Blacula and Superfly
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01-19-2004, 02:03 PM
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Re: Re: Hands down, my favorite "blaxploitation" movie is....
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Originally posted by Sistermadly
Have you seen "Petey Wheatstraw, the Devil's Son-in-Law"? ROFLMAO...
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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).
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01-19-2004, 03:56 PM
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I liked Coffy and Friday Foster, but my favorite spoof of a blaxplotation film is I'm Gonna Git you Sucka.
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01-20-2004, 04:54 PM
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My faves....
THE MACK and BLACULA
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01-20-2004, 05:33 PM
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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"!!
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