This is topic Maybe I'm just a sucker for blacksploitation [Now: We're Black in action!] in forum Books, Films, Food and Culture at Hatrack River Forum.
[ March 05, 2005, 03:58 PM: Message edited by: Hobbes ]
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
I thought so too...
Posted by Little_Doctor (Member # 6635) on :
That looks like a really good movie! I definitly want to see that one!
[ March 04, 2005, 09:44 PM: Message edited by: Little_Doctor ]
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
Hobbes darling, of all the qualities I could think of attributing to you, "sucker for Blacksploitation" is not one I would have ever picked.
Posted by HesterGray (Member # 7384) on :
I had never heard of it, but I think it looks great!
Posted by Zamphyr (Member # 6213) on :
You Got Served.....on wheels!
Posted by urbanX (Member # 1450) on :
I was thinking the same thing. Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
You guys obviously haven't seen too many blacksploitation films.
Posted by Irami Osei-Frimpong (Member # 2229) on :
Hobbes, this isn't blacksploitation. It's a story about a bunch of kids. It looks kind of sweet, and closer to Lean on Me than Superfly or Dolemite.
[ March 05, 2005, 12:33 AM: Message edited by: Irami Osei-Frimpong ]
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Apparently I'm not being funny...
quote:Hobbes darling, of all the qualities I could think of attributing to you, "sucker for Blacksploitation" is not one I would have ever picked.
That's why you've got eternity to get to know me baby.
Hobbes Posted by Lisha-princess (Member # 6966) on :
Hobbes, I have never once in my entire life heard you refer to anyone, even Annie, as "baby". Words I have never heard uttered. I'm not sure how I feel about that.
Posted by Zamphyr (Member # 6213) on :
quote:You guys obviously haven't seen too many blacksploitation films.
While I don't own it, I will admit to sitting through Blackula multiple times. Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
His bite was outta sight!
Hobbes Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Possible Blacksplotation titles:
Love Blacktually The Blackifier The Empire Strikes Black
Hobbes
[ March 05, 2005, 04:11 PM: Message edited by: Hobbes ]
Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
I gotta get me summa dem antenna headphones!
Posted by Irami Osei-Frimpong (Member # 2229) on :
There is something subtle and beautiful about the roller skate work. I'm talking about the scenes on the sidewalk and the street, not in the rink. There is a smoothness and style.
I'm a sucker for 1970s black culture. We were figuring ourselves out, getting the man's foot out of our ass, all of the big leaders had already been shot and white people were feeling guilty, for cause. The country's culture wasn't controlled by the market. The hair was big, the clothes were stylish, and people were proud to be black, and the art was interesting. Something happened in the eighties. Maybe America got more conservative and crowded us out, I don't know, but I love the black seventies aesthetic. Then again, I say that I'm Earth, Wind and Fire black, not Jay-Z black.
[ March 05, 2005, 05:52 PM: Message edited by: Irami Osei-Frimpong ]
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
quote:There is something subtle and beautiful about the roller skate work. I'm talking about the scenes on the sidewalk and the street, not in the rink. There is a smoothness and style.
Despite my kidding I really do think this looks fun, for that exact reason. Well and the rink...
Call to Blacktion Blackdraft
Hobbes
[ March 05, 2005, 05:40 PM: Message edited by: Hobbes ]
Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
quote:Something happened in the eighties.
The Jeri curl?
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Sister Act: Black in the habit The Black Pack
Hobbes Posted by JamGodJeff (Member # 7457) on :
Quick question, what's up with the heart on the chick's butt? Why do some girls think that all we care about is their butt? Sure it's a nice part, but there's a lot more to women than that.
Though the movie does look pretty good. I'm a big fan of the head phones
[ March 05, 2005, 05:45 PM: Message edited by: JamGodJeff ]
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
That's a dude, dude.
Crackerblack Samuria Black
Hobbes Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Kinck Knack Black Don't Look Black Blackknife Action Blackson (from Action Jackson) Black and the Beanstalk
Hobbes
[ March 05, 2005, 07:45 PM: Message edited by: Hobbes ]
Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
Hey Hobbes, what's the deal? Are these funny to you or something? I'm totally confused as to why you keep posting them.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
I'd like to take this opportunity to say that "Thank God it's Friday" cracks me up.
The Blackyard Black 29
Yes Primal, I'm posting them for my own amustment, tough I'm flattered that you took the time to tell me you didn't think it was funny.
Hobbes
[ March 05, 2005, 07:57 PM: Message edited by: Hobbes ]
Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
Who ever said I was Mr. Givesacrapaboutyourfeelings?
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Probably a German.
Hobbes Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
You're in a world all you own, champ.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
(German = long, run together words)
Hobbes Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
Does Jim Kelly in Enter the Dragon count?
Back in the day I thought Starsky and Hutch's Huggy Bear and Baretta's Rooster were amusing characters. I now think that it was wrong.
The black guys at my high school in the 70s put too much effort into emulating those street-smart pimp-types. Since the seventies we've had a wave of Michael Jackson dancing machines, Eddie Murphy clown-types, and bling bling rappers.
Ya know, I think it has more to do with young people trying to figure themselves out than it has to do with blacks collectively trying to figure themselves out. Asians, Hispanics, and whites all go through the same thing growing up. The media stereotypes don't do much to help.
Posted by Heffaji (Member # 3669) on :
Black to the Future(Thanks Family Guy)
Posted by mothertree (Member # 4999) on :
For a second there, I wondered who bumped a thread from way back when. Then I realized that it's March now!
"Love Blacktually" was funny, to me at least. What can you do with "Asian"?
What would you look for in a movie pitched as "BlacksploitAsian?" Or have I just sucked the funny out of this thread with a Kirby?
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