The Official Black Dynamite Appreciation Thread
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But...instead of making it mainstream...it's pretty much keeping it grounded in it's 70s nature.
also..it looks like it's better film making also..
also..it looks like it's better film making also..
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chud has a review up here: http://chud.com/articles/articles/19...ITE/Page1.html
for those too lazy to click the link:
for those too lazy to click the link:
Spoiler:
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New (?) trailer from MTV:
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Goddamn, do I want to see this!
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Goddamn, do I want to see this!
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I was able to see this at the LA Film Festival and it's fucking hilarious in that it's very serious about recapturing the 70's blaxploitation genre. This is no I'm Gonna Git You Sucka.... this is in the vein of a Dolemite film.
I felt it ran just a bit long but I'm sure there will be some trimming before it gets released.
I felt it ran just a bit long but I'm sure there will be some trimming before it gets released.
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So this comes out Friday....on 70 screens ![Frown](/images/smilies/frown.gif)
Nothing around me of course. Sad.
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Nothing around me of course. Sad.
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This and Black Devil Doll are two of my most anticipated films. Blaxploitation FTW!
Also, does anyone else think the lead chick in BD (I think she's the lead) looks a little like Pam Grier?
Also, does anyone else think the lead chick in BD (I think she's the lead) looks a little like Pam Grier?
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I don't think that's a coincidence. Though in reality, every black woman w/ an afro after Pam Grier's cinematic debut looked like her. She just had a look you know?
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If Apparition's next release, Boondock Saints II doesn't play in Vegas opening weekend, I'm going to be pissed.
Oh wait. I'll probably be in LA that weekend partying it up for my birthday, so I may be safe.
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Yeah, I went on there right after posting and used the linked moviefone site to search the demographics. Nothing in Massachusetts. Maybe I'll go see the high level of awesomeness that is Whip It ten times this weekend since that's the only shit that people feel worth playing theatrically these days. What a fucking joke.
This is a big disappointment.
Other than that I have no strong feelings about the matter.
This is a big disappointment.
Other than that I have no strong feelings about the matter.
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Seems to getting a limited theatrical run before it hits DVD like other "genre" films (Grace, Trick 'r Treat, Dead Snow for example).
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The DVD isn't coming out in November, unless it got retitled to Black Soul Dynamite as Sony sold the DVD rights to some company known as Video Asia.
Sony has always intended it to be a platform release. We will see more theaters get the film within the next few weeks.
Sony has always intended it to be a platform release. We will see more theaters get the film within the next few weeks.
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Caught it last night at a half-empty theater in NYC's Upper West Side. This is what "Undercover Brother" and "Grindhouse" (minus the 'phony' trailers) wished they could have been but weren't: a tribute to a dismissed period of cinema that feels like it belongs (and comes from) its era.
But this isn't just a collection of random jokes or stabs at blaxploitation genre cliches without rhyme or reason. There is an actual story (convoluted and non-sensical but it's there, and even allows long scenes that advance the plot to unfold without a single obvious joke), there are real characters (over-the-top and cliche' but not two-dimensional walking cardboards) and there are action/fighting scenes (enhanced via the same seamless green screen/CG technology used in "Kung-Pow" a few years back) that make this an actual blaxpoitation movie that just happens to be funny because it's being so true and respectful to the genre it represents. Michael Jai White looks and inhabits his lead role like he stepped out of the 1970's; it's the best casting for a movie since Christopher Reeve got the Superman/Clark Kent role, and I'm not kidding. Supporting actors really get into their blaxpoitation roles (Arsenio Hall and Tommy Davidson are hilarious in too-brief cameos) but they don't overplay their OTT personalities or overstay their welcome. The way "Black Dynamite" gets around its 'R' rating to sneak in a graphic sex scene is not only genius but ties directly with the movie's best scene in which the 'heroes' crack the code in a cafeteria. And the orphanage scene has to be seen to be believed.
Only the overblown finale that pushes things way past the breaking point (think "Shoot 'Em Up" and yes, it's that big a misfire) betrays the cinematic illusion that this is a 70's flick that's been rotting in a vault somewhere.
I got my $12.50's worth and will gladly wait for the DVD because I'm sure there's a joke or two I missed. The one's that hit the mark are hilarious though. Don't listen to the DVD Talk reviewer on this one (they're usually right but this time he's way off), "Black Dynamite" is a winnah!
But this isn't just a collection of random jokes or stabs at blaxploitation genre cliches without rhyme or reason. There is an actual story (convoluted and non-sensical but it's there, and even allows long scenes that advance the plot to unfold without a single obvious joke), there are real characters (over-the-top and cliche' but not two-dimensional walking cardboards) and there are action/fighting scenes (enhanced via the same seamless green screen/CG technology used in "Kung-Pow" a few years back) that make this an actual blaxpoitation movie that just happens to be funny because it's being so true and respectful to the genre it represents. Michael Jai White looks and inhabits his lead role like he stepped out of the 1970's; it's the best casting for a movie since Christopher Reeve got the Superman/Clark Kent role, and I'm not kidding. Supporting actors really get into their blaxpoitation roles (Arsenio Hall and Tommy Davidson are hilarious in too-brief cameos) but they don't overplay their OTT personalities or overstay their welcome. The way "Black Dynamite" gets around its 'R' rating to sneak in a graphic sex scene is not only genius but ties directly with the movie's best scene in which the 'heroes' crack the code in a cafeteria. And the orphanage scene has to be seen to be believed.
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I got my $12.50's worth and will gladly wait for the DVD because I'm sure there's a joke or two I missed. The one's that hit the mark are hilarious though. Don't listen to the DVD Talk reviewer on this one (they're usually right but this time he's way off), "Black Dynamite" is a winnah!
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For the most part, "Black Dynamite" is a hilarious send-up of the blaxploitation genre, but the film is filled with peaks and valleys, meaning, when it's funny it's really funny, while the valleys come from the transitions from scene to scene at times, but overall, I got a lot of big laughs, laughs I haven't had at the cinema in quite a while, so it gets a recommendation from me. The plot is kind of loopy, but you just roll with it because the film swings for the fences, and connected on more swings than it misses.
I give it 3 stars, or a grade of B.
I give it 3 stars, or a grade of B.
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I loved every minute of it. I agree with the peaks and valleys comment, but still enjoyed it all. A- / B+ Good time at the movies.