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Well, someone has finally decided to recapture the power and the glory of mid-’70s blaxploitation cinema, and it wasn’t even the Wayans Brothers! Black Dynamite was sold at Sundance this week to Sony for two million dollars. That ought to buy a lot of 40s and chicken wings! (What? What’s the matter?) Trailer, you guys:
The thing is, this movie looks good. It looks like it’s going to be funny and EXCITING. And the pitch-perfect homage to an outdated genre is simultaneously kitsch-pleasure and POLITICAL STATEMENT. And bonus: it wasn’t directed by Quentin Tarantino.
But I already hate the people who are going to love this movie SO MUCH. Take every involuntary shudder you ever shuddered when some jackass shouted “I’m Rick James, bitch!” at a party, put it into the physical reaction you will inevitably experience when some dumbass happily says “I will shake this poisonous shit out of your smacked up body if I have to” at the bar, and we’re talking HOSPITALIZATION levels of UNBEARABLE DISGUST/SADNESS.
I’m just going to go ahead and call us all ambulances right now. How many do we need? All of them? Perfect.
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Actually, this looks painfully unfunny. Parodying something that was already that close to parody is redundant. They appear to add nothing other than ironic quotes.
I was trying to find something like that to say, but you did if for me. Thanks.
They had me at Captain Kangaroo.
They had me at Rated R-ra
I don’t normally find parodies of blaxploitation movies very funny, kinda just annoying, but I laughed at this. I don’t care if it’s redundant, it looks good to me.
NSFW
I just got fired
this will be amazing at a midnight premiere showing. so many drunk honkies!
I’ll bring the watermelon!
I’m excited for BD, but I know it will be, as you described, butchered by the anxiously awaiting for something new to quote Borat crowd. I’ll just stick to yelling out quote’s from Rudy Ray More’s Avenging Disco Godfather.
PUT YOUR WEIGHT ON IT!
sigh
I went up to a showing in Sundance and some brah was telling me how cool this movie looked. and all he said was “it’s like old blaxploitation movies! so funny!” I didn’t know the wayans bros had something to do with it. blerg
They don’t.
I clicked the link for the star to see if I could get any more info on Black Dynamite and to make a long story short, for five minutes I was under the impression that Nick Hornby wrote BD. Yeesh.
Blacksploitation-sploitation…. awesome…..
I’m going to be one of those people.
Hate me, Gabe. Hate me.
I will say it screw this movie man, it is not funny! Sheep may thinks so. Wake up people and stop drinking the cool aid.