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Faithless
08-25-2004, 12:14 AM
Found this link from the spielberg site. Someone, there, asked for people's opinions of the best black themed movies.

The guy came up with this list, but there's still probably more.

http://www.silkysoul.com/soulmovies/

If Sidney Poitier has not been given a lifetime achievement, then there's something wrong with Hollywood. :cool:

Joe Louis Story, The (1953)
Carmen Jones (1954)
St. Louis Blues (1958)
Imitation of Life (1959)
Porgy and Bess (1959)
A Raisin In The Sun (1961)
Nothing But A Man (1964)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
The Learning Tree (1969)
Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)
Shaft (1971)
Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
Sounder (1972)
Superfly (1972)
Mack, The (1973)
Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
Claudine (1974)
Cooley High (1975)
Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975)
Sparkle (1976)
Piece of the Action, A (1977)
Which Way Is Up? (1977)
Wiz, The (1978)
Bustin' Loose (1981)
Cotton Club, The (1984)
Purple Rain (1984)
Soldier's Story, A (1984)
Color Purple, The (1985)
Krush Groove (1985)
Last Dragon, The (1985)
She's Gotta Have It (1986)
Hollywood Shuffle (1987)
Coming To America (1988)
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988)
School Daze (1988)
Glory (1989)
Harlem Nights (1989)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Tap (1989)
House Party (1990)
Long Walk Home, The (1990)
Mo' Better Blues (1990)
Boyz 'N The Hood (1991)
Daughters of the Dust (1991)
Five Heartbeats, The (1991)
Jungle Fever (1991)
New Jack City (1991)
Boomerang (1992)
Deep Cover (1992)
Juice (1992)
Malcolm X (1992)
Mo' Money (1992)
Menace II Society (1993)
What's Love Got to Do with It (1993)
Poetic Justice (1993)
Posse (1993)
Above the Rim (1994)
Crooklyn (1994)
Inkwell, The (1994)
Jason's Lyric (1994)
Clockers (1995)
Dead Presidents (1995)
Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
Friday (1995)
Higher Learning (1995)
Losing Isaiah (1995)
Panther (1995)
Waiting To Exhale (1995)
Girl 6 (1996)
Preacher's Wife (1996)
Set It Off (1996)
Thin Line Between Love & Hate, A (1996)
Amistad (1997)
Eve's Bayou (1997)
Booty Call (1997)
How to Be a Player (1997)
Hoodlum (1997)
Love Jones (1997)
Soul Food (1997)
Asunder (1998)
Beloved (1998)
Blade (1998)
Down in the Delta (1998)
He Got Game (1998)
How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)
Player's Club (1998)
Why Do Fools Fall In Love (1998)
Best Man, The (1999)
Hurricane, The (1999)
Life (1999)
Wood, The (1999)
Bamboozled (2000)
Big Momma's House (2000)
Love & Basketball (2000)
Men of Honor (2000)
Shaft (2000)
Ali (2001)
Baby Boy (2001)
Two Can Play That Game (2001)
Brothers, The (2001)
Antwone Fisher (2002)
Barbershop (2002)
Brown Sugar (2002)
Civil Brand (2002)
Drumline (2002)
Deliver Us from Eva (2003)
Fighting Temptations, The (2003)
Johnson Family Vacation (2004)
younggiftedandblack
08-25-2004, 01:31 AM
He got it two years ago.
Faithless
08-25-2004, 10:12 AM
My picks go beyond what others typically picked.

Although The Color Purple was good, I would not put it at the top of my list. I like Sounder and its early allstar cast.

(I used to watch Cotton Comes to Harlem whenever it came on some latenight TV movie.)
SunWuKong
08-25-2004, 10:39 AM
what??? how come Shaolin Dolemite is not in that list?

on a more serious note. i haven't watched many of these movies, but i just have to say that Crooklyn was such a great movie.
krome
08-25-2004, 10:46 AM
He got it two years ago.
LMAO.

But how could y'all omit The Last Dragon?
http://www.stomptokyo.com/badmoviereport/evidence/evidence_pics/BF2003Dragon.jpg
I still remember one line - something like:
Dude: *Points to Bruce Lee medallion* Wow, was Bruce your martial arts master?
Bruce Leroy: No, acting.

Now, where can we get Shaolin Dolemite? :biggrin:
SunWuKong
08-25-2004, 10:48 AM
But how could y'all omit The Last Dragon?


he didn't.
rice cracker
08-25-2004, 10:48 AM
what??? how come Shaolin Dolemite is not in that list?

on a more serious note. i haven't watched many of these movies, but i just have to say that Crooklyn was such a great movie.

Shaolin Dolemite is horrible. Don't watch it. Topless Ninja Ho scene was ok, but does not redeem this piece of unutterable dreck. Trust me, I know what I'm talking about when I say a movie is totally unwatchable.
SunWuKong
08-25-2004, 10:49 AM
Topless Ninja Ho

well that's all you needed to say. i'm going to have to watch it now.
rice cracker
08-25-2004, 10:50 AM
well that's all you needed to say. i'm going to have to watch it now.

My respect for you has sustained a critical hit for 15 damage.
krome
08-25-2004, 10:53 AM
he didn't.
Ah, I stand corrected. Now, I am impressed with that list, lol.
SunWuKong
08-25-2004, 10:56 AM
by the way, he forgot Sweet Sweetback’s Badasss Song as well as its tribute Badasss!.

My respect for you has sustained a critical hit for 15 damage.

that's ok. the fact that i bought Marlboro 100s for our car ride to DC will heal me for 20 damage.
krome
08-25-2004, 10:59 AM
by the way, he forgot Sweet Sweetback’s Badasss Song as well as its tribute Badasss!.
And what about Blacks on Blondes Vol. 1-2342244577464565?
Furious Ming
08-25-2004, 11:13 AM
where is Roots up in that list? guesss cause it was only a miniseries, but still, the only show i remember growing up.

Whats yo name, boy!?

Kunta Kinte

SNAP! CRACKER WHIP! POP!

ur name is Toby

SNAP! CRACKER WHIP! POP!

and the blood runs down his back...

thinking back, it was some good powerful shit for its day. i might even name my kid Kunta...sounds almost asian.
Faithless
08-25-2004, 11:28 AM
where is Roots up in that list? guesss cause it was only a miniseries, but still, the only show i remember growing up.

Whats yo name, boy!?

Kunta Kinte

SNAP! CRACKER WHIP! POP!

ur name is Toby

SNAP! CRACKER WHIP! POP!

and the blood runs down his back...

thinking back, it was some good powerful shit for its day. i might even name my kid Kunta...sounds almost asian.
Yeah, some of the made for TV stuff was omitted.

There was also the Tuskegee Airmen movie with Lawrence Fishbourne.
SunWuKong
08-25-2004, 11:32 AM
And what about Blacks on Blondes Vol. 1-2342244577464565?


ahh... but those two movies i mentioned are real movies. i haven't watched Sweet Sweetback’s Badasss Song, but i've watched Badasss!. Sweet Sweetback’s Badasss Song was the movie that started the trend of blaxploitation.
krome
08-25-2004, 11:39 AM
^ But Blacks on Blondes are real movies too - and arguably the parallel "blaxploitation" movies of Y2K. They both trade off the exact same racial-stereotyping, in fact. And p0rn today is just as fringe-sinema as Badasss! was a few decades ago. So, it's really the exact same shyt - just repackaged. Only difference is it's updated and more explicit in tune with post-s*xual revolution modern society now. But same concepts, same stereotypes.

I'm only surprised no Black leaders have decried them all as racist, but I guess it's "good" racism. :biggrin:
nonamerasian
08-25-2004, 11:43 AM
A Soldier's Story was good. Even though most of the cast was White, it was about a Black man.

Rosewood and Stand and Deliver.

I'm only surprised no Black leaders have decried them all as racist, but I guess it's "good" racism. :biggrin:

Sure about that?

Usually those who say "Black leaders" don't say this or that are those who haven't listened to many "Black leaders."
Faithless
08-25-2004, 11:52 AM
And what about Blacks on Blondes Vol. 1-2342244577464565?
Do you see any X rated blackspoitation films on the list above?

Probably why they've elected not to mention yours.
krome
08-25-2004, 11:52 AM
^^ True, but knowing how us men are - I don't really see it happening (or at the most, some empty lip service in passing just to appear consistent). The vast majority would rather milk Mandingo for all it's worth! :biggrin:
nonamerasian
08-25-2004, 11:59 AM
Soul Food should be added to that list.

The movie makes me nostalgic.

I also love how it shows a family like I know families to be. With extended bonds and with grandma as the matriarch.
Faithless
08-25-2004, 12:09 PM
Soul Food should be added to that list.

The movie makes me nostalgic.

I also love how it shows a family like I know families to be. With extended bonds and with grandma as the matriarch.
It's on there. Circa 1997.

But a definite great choice.
nonamerasian
08-25-2004, 12:11 PM
Oops.
tommyhtown
08-25-2004, 02:41 PM
I didn't see 'Car Wash' on that list. What's up w/ that?
Faithless
08-25-2004, 02:48 PM
^ Don't know. But I asked the author(s), here.

http://www.silkysoul.com/tipinfo.asp

It's a pretty good list, though.
Hiroshi2
08-25-2004, 08:15 PM
Johnson Family Vacation? LOLOLOLOLOLOL.




You can't take this list too seriously if they included that. It looks like that they just included every black movie (i.e. a movie with a majority-black cast) made since..................forever, I guess.


When I think of "soulful" movies, I think of more serious, often romance/relationship movies that usually have a message or something behind them. Friday was just another movie about black people smoking weed and shooting people. Nothing soulful about that (even tho I thought it was funny as hell, it's just that - a comedy).
nonamerasian
08-25-2004, 11:59 PM
Ghosts of Mississippi.

I meant Mississippi Burning.

That's a great one.
asvenus
08-26-2004, 08:31 AM
where is Roots up in that list? guesss cause it was only a miniseries, but still, the only show i remember growing up.

Whats yo name, boy!?

Kunta Kinte

SNAP! CRACKER WHIP! POP!

ur name is Toby

SNAP! CRACKER WHIP! POP!

and the blood runs down his back...

thinking back, it was some good powerful shit for its day. i might even name my kid Kunta...sounds almost asian.

you crazy!!
SunWuKong
08-26-2004, 08:55 AM
^ But Blacks on Blondes are real movies too - and arguably the parallel "blaxploitation" movies of Y2K. They both trade off the exact same racial-stereotyping, in fact. And p0rn today is just as fringe-sinema as Badasss! was a few decades ago. So, it's really the exact same shyt - just repackaged. Only difference is it's updated and more explicit in tune with post-s*xual revolution modern society now. But same concepts, same stereotypes.

no, the difference between blaxploitation and pornos such as Blacks on Blondes is the basic issue of porn itself - that of sexual exploitation and the purpose of entertaining purely to pique the sexual desires of the audience. just that in and of itself makes the comparison apples and oranges.