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Post by geode on Apr 8, 2018 12:32:23 GMT
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Post by geode on Apr 22, 2019 22:38:03 GMT
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Post by gw on Apr 23, 2019 1:51:14 GMT
I've only seen a few. I watched Hell up in Harlem and ended up loving that movie. I watched Black Caesar after that but didn't like it all that much for some reason. After watching a couple Pam Grier movies and finding them rather dull I stopped watching blaxploitation because I never found anything else that entertained me anywhere near as much.
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Post by geode on Apr 25, 2019 6:28:04 GMT
Is "Black Panther" (2018) a Blaxploitation movie?
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Post by geode on May 6, 2019 16:21:20 GMT
Is "Black Panther" (2018) a Blaxploitation movie? It is too politically correct. Don't dare put 'black', or some derivative reference to it and 'exploitation' in the same word description today, millennials don't have much of a sense of humor. I see.
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Post by SuperDevilDoctor on May 6, 2019 18:49:46 GMT
BLACULA SCREAM, BLACULA, SCREAM DOLEMITE THE HUMAN TORNADO COFFY FOXY BROWN GUNN
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Post by lostinlimbo on May 6, 2019 21:02:53 GMT
My favourite is Truck Turner, but the last one I watched was Gordon’s War with Paul Winfield. Very character driven with gritty location shooting and some tense action scenes, especially the excellent motorcycle chase. Also Grace Jones made her film debut here.
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Post by amyghost on May 6, 2019 23:37:05 GMT
BLACULA SCREAM, BLACULA, SCREAM DOLEMITE THE HUMAN TORNADO COFFY FOXY BROWN GUNN Thank you for giving the nod to Dolemite. A blaxploitation list without that film is a travesty. Anyone seen The Liberation of L. B. Jones? Teeters on the brink of the blaxploitation genre, has a dynamite cast, and Lola Falana running around sassy in her scanties. Good ol' Southern deep-fried fun for sure.
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Post by geode on Jun 8, 2019 16:25:39 GMT
BLACULA SCREAM, BLACULA, SCREAM DOLEMITE THE HUMAN TORNADO COFFY FOXY BROWN GUNN Thank you for giving the nod to Dolemite. A blaxploitation list without that film is a travesty. Anyone seen The Liberation of L. B. Jones? Teeters on the brink of the blaxploitation genre, has a dynamite cast, and Lola Falana running around sassy in her scanties. Good ol' Southern deep-fried fun for sure. I saw it in first release....not since.
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Post by hi224 on Jun 8, 2019 16:52:10 GMT
Hit man.
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Post by amyghost on Jun 8, 2019 18:11:53 GMT
Thank you for giving the nod to Dolemite. A blaxploitation list without that film is a travesty. Anyone seen The Liberation of L. B. Jones? Teeters on the brink of the blaxploitation genre, has a dynamite cast, and Lola Falana running around sassy in her scanties. Good ol' Southern deep-fried fun for sure. I saw it in first release....not since.
I never got to see it in the theater, but it used to turn up on TV fairly often, needless to say pretty heavily expurgated. I got it on VHS when it was finally released, to watch it in full. It's something of a rarity these days--I also read the novel it was based on by Jesse Hill Ford. Very school of William Styron, but an interesting read.
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Post by geode on Jun 29, 2019 19:51:30 GMT
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Post by geode on Jun 29, 2019 19:52:47 GMT
I saw it in first release....not since.
I never got to see it in the theater, but it used to turn up on TV fairly often, needless to say pretty heavily expurgated. I got it on VHS when it was finally released, to watch it in full. It's something of a rarity these days--I also read the novel it was based on by Jesse Hill Ford. Very school of William Styron, but an interesting read. The full version is on YouTube and elsewhere.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jun 29, 2019 21:16:49 GMT
I've only seen a few but they've been fun, the most recent was Black Mama White Mama (1973) with Pam Grier.
I don't really see them as exploiting anyone, it was a chance to tell stories of black people, starring black actors, who would probably only be in minor supporting roles in whiter movies if not for this sub-genre. The 70's was more progressive then, with these movies and many more black lead characters on TV, than today. You'd probably not see a sitcom like All in the Family now, for example, too confrontational for these times.
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Post by amyghost on Jun 29, 2019 21:37:20 GMT
I never got to see it in the theater, but it used to turn up on TV fairly often, needless to say pretty heavily expurgated. I got it on VHS when it was finally released, to watch it in full. It's something of a rarity these days--I also read the novel it was based on by Jesse Hill Ford. Very school of William Styron, but an interesting read. The full version is on YouTube and elsewhere. Thanks for the heads up. I don't visit Youtube all that much these days, I forget that they can be a good resource for finding some of these unjustly obscure films.
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Post by geode on Jun 30, 2019 9:55:09 GMT
The full version is on YouTube and elsewhere. Thanks for the heads up. I don't visit Youtube all that much these days, I forget that they can be a good resource for finding some of these unjustly obscure films. I linked it above.
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