This is a poll for the top 5 Blaxploitation Movies, My Choices are:
1) Shaft
2) Truck Turner
3) Across 110th Street
4) Superfly
5) Cotton Comes To Harlem
Best Hero: John Shaft, Shaft
Best Villian: Harvard Blue, Truck Turner
Everyone else please vote accordingly
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1. Cleopatra Jones
2. Shaft
3. Foxy Brown
4. Across 110th Street
5. Black Caesar
6. Coffy
7. Superfly
8. The Big Doll House
9. Detroit 9000
10. Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song
"It says here breakfast anytime. I'll have the pancakes in the age of enlightenment"
WHAT ABOUT WATERMELON MAN, AND THE HARDER THEY COME?
Either they don't know, don't show, or don't care about what's going on in the hood.
really didn't care for across 110th street
1) Cooley High
2) Cotton Comes To Harlem
3) Let's Do It Again / Uptown Saturday Night
4) Shaft
5) Five on the Black Hand Side
others: Black Caesar, Three the Hard Way, The Education of Sonny Carson, Foxy Brown, Bucktown
Best Hero: John Shaft, Shaft
Best Villian: "Geechie" Dan Beauford, Nicodemus "Silky Slim" Williams
The first and most dangerous of them all:
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (Melvin Van Peebles, 1971)
People always yell at me for my list, but I think I define Blaxploitation a little differently than others, so here goes (no throwing potato salad at me...)
1. Lady Sings the Blues
2. The Wiz
3. Blazing Saddles
4. Shaft (long may he live)
5. Training Day
The reason I include Blazing Saddles which is inherently a white film, is that one of the definitions of Blaxploitation is when a Black actor is playing an iconic figure normally associated with the white world. If Cleavon Little doesn't qualify via this definition, nobody does. And what a great performance he gave, God rest his soul.
1. The harder the come
2. Coffy
3. Sweet Sweetback's bad ass song
4. Across 110th Street
5. Black Ceasar
6. Shaft
7. Superfly
8. The Big Doll House/ Coonskin
9. Bucktown
10. Get Christy love (Come on it's a classic)
I think Shaft is the best one! Though I havent seen that many.
shareShaft is the best (and you can say only good one) of these listed. This was acted and directed by blacks, and white Ernest T. won an image award for creating shaft.All the others have racial sterotypes and mindless violence poor writing.
Shaft was like "Peter Gunn" "Mike Hammer" and the other private eyes, he just happened to be black and work in Harlem. Shaft was miles away from the other Pam Grier type junk where its just showing your tits, shooting and slaughering people, and other junk.
Shaft (1971)
Across 110th Street (1972)
The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973)
The Education of Sonny Carson (1974)
Cooley High (1975)
More then just being entertaining, or the "best", these are important films in cinema history.