Black Dynamite.

Yes. However, yours is just as good and deserves a feature. Except than you would be the rip-off.
 
I was half-joking. They put me to shame...Odd coincidence, the guy who supervised the visual effects for Black Dynamite was my neighbor growing up. I ran into him randomly in Los Angeles. Odder coincidence, he has the same birthday as me, as did another kid who grew up on the same street as us.
 
Ha! I LOVE Black Dynamite and I also watched it twice the first time I saw it. For the first half I was only casually enjoying it, though a bit distracted as I had it on while I was making dinner. Then it got to the diner scene, and I said, "What? Was this actually made by smart people?!" and then I watched the rest from a different perspective and loved it. Then I watched the special features, got a better understanding of what they were doing, then watched the whole thing again, laughing the whole time.

It's a brilliant sort of crossover between spoof and mockumentary. It's not really a spoof of Blaxploitation films, but a totally lovingly made movie ABOUT the making of a Blaxploitation movie.

Dig it.
 
But Black Dynamite... I sell drugs to the community!

This movie was classic. I've seen it a few times.
 
randin said:
It's not really a spoof of Blaxploitation films, but a totally lovingly made movie ABOUT the making of a Blaxploitation movie.
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I agree with the rest of your post, but I don't understand this. Did I miss something? I completely didn't notice anything that showed making a Blaxploitation film within the movie.


edit: Just saw that the budget was 3 million but they only made $250,000. That's rough for such an enjoyable film.
 
Drew Ott said:
I agree with the rest of your post, but I don't understand this. Did I miss something? I completely didn't notice anything that showed making a Blaxploitation film within the movie.


edit: Just saw that the budget was 3 million but they only made $250,000. That's rough for such an enjoyable film.
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You didn't miss anything. It's not a movie about making a blaxploitation film.
I've no idea what that means either.
 
it is a parody of b-rated movies with blaxploitation film sub-genre from the 80s.



at least it's better than some big budget movies released in the past few years
 
Drew Ott said:
I agree with the rest of your post, but I don't understand this. Did I miss something? I completely didn't notice anything that showed making a Blaxploitation film within the movie.
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It's not literally shown, but it's in a meta sort of way. Get the DVD, watch the extras and listen to the commentary and you'll see what I mean. Actually, just watch the trailer for a hint of it. At the end, the v/o gives fake names for all the actors in the movie - "starring all-star running back Ferrante Jones..." In reality it stars Michael Jai White, who's playing the role of Ferrante Jones who's playing the role of Black Dynamite. There's scenes where Ferrante briefly breaks character, like when the boom mic bumps his afro or when one of the militants is such a dumb actor that he says the stage directions along with his lines. Ferrante tries to keep cool but gets pissed off and his eyes dart over to the director, expecting to hear "cut!" but as they say on the commentary, the blaxploitation films were so rushed and so low budget that they couldn't afford the film!

There's heaps more like that throughout the movie, and that's a lot of what I didn't appreciate as much the first time I watched it. The second time through, I watched it with that frame of reference, rather than just as a spoof like "I'm Gonna Get You Sucka" and I enjoyed it a lot more.

The lead actress said something about this in the extras, saying something like, "it's not a spoof, it's a satire" (which I don't think is quite right, but I get what she means). They weren't just making a movie with jokes about all the stupid stuff that happened in blaxploitation films, they were totally getting into it, playing the parts of people making a blaxploitation film. To me, that's what makes it smart and funny.

You dig?
 
I have not seen it as yet...but if it's anything like "I'm Gonna get You Sucka" then I have to see it. From looking at the trailers Michael Jalil White reminds me of Kung Fu Joe...lol.
 
randin said:
It's not literally shown, but it's in a meta sort of way. Get the DVD, watch the extras and listen to the commentary and you'll see what I mean. Actually, just watch the trailer for a hint of it. At the end, the v/o gives fake names for all the actors in the movie - "starring all-star running back Ferrante Jones..." In reality it stars Michael Jai White, who's playing the role of Ferrante Jones who's playing the role of Black Dynamite. There's scenes where Ferrante briefly breaks character, like when the boom mic bumps his afro or when one of the militants is such a dumb actor that he says the stage directions along with his lines. Ferrante tries to keep cool but gets pissed off and his eyes dart over to the director, expecting to hear "cut!" but as they say on the commentary, the blaxploitation films were so rushed and so low budget that they couldn't afford the film!

There's heaps more like that throughout the movie, and that's a lot of what I didn't appreciate as much the first time I watched it. The second time through, I watched it with that frame of reference, rather than just as a spoof like "I'm Gonna Get You Sucka" and I enjoyed it a lot more.

The lead actress said something about this in the extras, saying something like, "it's not a spoof, it's a satire" (which I don't think is quite right, but I get what she means). They weren't just making a movie with jokes about all the stupid stuff that happened in blaxploitation films, they were totally getting into it, playing the parts of people making a blaxploitation film. To me, that's what makes it smart and funny.

You dig?
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That doesn't mean it's a mockumentary though. SPINAL TAP is a mockumentary, or FORGOTTEN SILVER.

This falls more in the category of BLUES BROTHERS when it comes to the actors taking on a fake persona or HOUSE OF THE DEVIL when it comes to the filmmakers immitating the style of the films that was common when the movie is set.
The boom mic is there to keep the appearance of it being a low budget exploitation flick, but the film is not meant to be a fake documentary about the shooting of a film.
 
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The tone was spot on.
Number one rule of satire:
If the situation is serious, play it as ridiculous as possible...
If the situation is ridiculous, play it as serious as possible.
 
Jawa Ex Machina said:
That doesn't mean it's a mockumentary though. SPINAL TAP is a mockumentary, or FORGOTTEN SILVER.
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Relax, there's no need to seriously debate the categorization of a comedy film. I didn't say it WAS a mockumentary, I said it was a sort of crossover. I just mean that it's way smarter than most spoofs and has way more subtleties that are inspired by the cast and crew trying to make a film like they would have in the 70s. Many might think at first look at the trailer that it is just a spoof, which might call to mind films like 'Scary Movie', 'Epic Movie' or whatever that are just a series of dumb gags with as many obvious references to other movies as possible. This movie is definitely not that. It's much smarter and most of the humor is about the making of Blaxploitation films, thanks the star/writer creating the character and the whole script around that idea. That's all I'm saying.

That said, can we drop it? It's also just freakin' funny.
 
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