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Can someone reccomend some good blaxploitation Movies ??

posted 17 years ago by Movies255
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Hey I havent seen any blaxploitation films and Im just wondering where should I start. What are some good blaxploitation films with good action??? Let me know. thanks alot

[–] andy-1588 17 years ago

Good place to start is Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, which effectively defined this wave of films. Superfly is another important film. Avoid the later tongue in cheek ones such as Blacula. to be honest you can't do better than Shaft.

[–] carvalhido 17 years ago

well

the previous movies are good, but the ultimate blaxplotation movie altough is a western is "Boss *beep*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTIklFsMjjU

the music alone makes it worth.

regards

[–] petevasile 17 years ago

Shaft.
Truck Turner.
Coffy.
Foxy Brown.
Blacula.
Sheba, Baby.
The Omega Man.

[–] bradford-1 17 years ago

TO continue:
COTTON COMES TO HARLEM (predates "Shaft" and "Superfly" and presents a blueprint to follow: car chases, graphic violence, white gangsters and nudity)
TRUCK TURNER
BLACK CAESAR
THREE THE HARD WAY (Jim Brown, Jim Kelly and Fred Williamson try to foil white supremacist plot to turn black folks into zombies. Nuff said!)
TROUBLE MAN (worth seeing if only because it features Marvin Gaye's only film score)
THE MACK
WILLIE DYNAMITE

[–] brocktonsfinest02303 17 years ago

Cleopatra Jones and Cleopatra Jones and the casino of gold.

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[–] blur81 17 years ago

Across 110th Street while I wouldnt call it blaxploitation, it really captures many of the elements of the genre.

[–] andrewwjohnson 16 years ago

...One that most people haven't heard of; "The Spook who sat by the Door". It's an importent political film about urban racial concerns of the late sisties and early seventies that probably should not be dismissed as a blaxploitation, but was. It recieved limited release, because of it's then timely black revolution theme. That it was filmed in Chicago in 1972, given the climate of censorship, seems incredible.
People are just getting dumber, but more opinionated-Ernestine (Silks) in "The Human Stain"

[–] speedwaypics 16 years ago

Black Lightning. I just saw it at a film festival last week and I thought it was a hilarious homage to old blaxploitation films. It doesn't even have a page on IMDb yet, but I still managed to find a trailer on youtube miraculously. Keep your eye out for this one.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=OrZ4L60FRZo

What do you call money in space?

Starbucks

[–] fashion103 16 years ago

Definatly not a Blaxploitation movie, but has some relevent scenes with Super Soul...Vanishing Point (1971 version). Shares alot of the messages that the Blaxploitation films of the era conveyed too.

"Even a big bitch cockroach like you should know... never, but never, fu_ck with the King"

[–] boywonderpowpunch 16 years ago

Anyone know any good whitesplotation films.

[–] Tarasicodissa 16 years ago

See the hilarious parody of blaxploitation that Damon Wayans made with Jim Brown, Isaac Hayes, and a short hilarious turn by a then unknown Chris Rock.

"I'm Gonna Git You Sucka".

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