After seeing "When The Bough Breaks," my friends and I started discussing black cinema throughout the years. There were milestones like blaxploitation films, the rise of the hood movie and Gen X films like "Jason's Lyric" and "Love Jones."
What would you say are the films in Black cinema that really changed the game?
Boys in the hood
Idk if there's just 1
But Boyz in the Hood, Poetic Justice & Friday are up there
Player's Club
Coming To America hands down
I LOVE Poetic Justice. I don't really buy movies but that's one i actually had to get
Quote from: Vonc2002 on September 15, 2016, 11:05:47 AM
I LOVE Poetic Justice. I don't really buy movies but that's one i actually had to get
Yea luv that movie. Jans was such a bitch
Big Mommas House
Boyz II Men
Poetic Justice
Waiting To Exhale
Color Purple
Coming To America
I feel like this is so cliche but the color purple. I used to watch that movie everyday damn near. When people can recite lines from ur movie and their known, it's iconic
Quote from: Kaeli. on September 15, 2016, 11:07:01 AM
Quote from: Vonc2002 on September 15, 2016, 11:05:47 AM
I LOVE Poetic Justice. I don't really buy movies but that's one i actually had to get
Yea luv that movie. Jans was such a bitch
She played really great ghetto girl.
they gon fck u UPACT Jans
Was Soul Food mentioned yet... because yeah.. it NEEDS to be on everyone's list!
Quote from: Capricorn King on September 15, 2016, 11:09:04 AM
Boyz II Men
Poetic Justice
Waiting To Exhale
Color Purple
Coming To America
Not boys 2 men :plzstop:
The color purple was so fucking LONG OMG
And i loved every minute of it
Quote from: Capricorn King on September 15, 2016, 11:09:04 AM
Boyz II Men
Poetic Justice
Waiting To Exhale
Color Purple
Coming To America
Set it Off
Soul Food
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
Purple Rain
Training Day
Quote from: Vonc2002 on September 15, 2016, 11:10:49 AM
Quote from: Capricorn King on September 15, 2016, 11:09:04 AM
Boyz II Men
Poetic Justice
Waiting To Exhale
Color Purple
Coming To America
Not boys 2 men :plzstop:
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My mum had some Bore II Men on
The Color Purple
Harlem Nights
Do The Right Thing
Set It Off
Lean On Me
Boomerang
School Daze
:stressed: I can't decide
Save the Last Dance
Quote from: D.I.E.G.O. on September 15, 2016, 11:14:38 AM
The Color Purple
Harlem Nights
Do The Right Thing
Set It Off
Lean On Me
Boomerang
School Daze
:stressed: I can't decide
YES!!!!!!
I watched Harlem nights not too long ago and i actually was gonna post do the right thing. All these movies are iconic tho
Who said Player's Club? :plzstop:
Malcolm X (Denzel Washington)
Quote from: Capricorn King on September 15, 2016, 11:19:10 AM
Malcolm X (Denzel Washington)
That's where I got my name. Iconic film.
Training Day, Independence Day & Bad Boys
proved that leading men of color could pull huge box office numbers
Soul Food
Waiting To Exhale
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
I agree with a few of these
Friday deserves a mention
John Q
Precious
Imitation of Life
Crooklyn
The Inkwells
Juice
Tales from the Hood
Probably the Color Purple or Roots. Friday not far behind..
Quote from: Boomer on September 15, 2016, 11:00:40 AM
Player's Club
wow yeah. still waiting on chrystale wilson to get her honorary oscar one day tbh.
(http://i.giphy.com/uuA34Jt1exvBm.gif)
No one mentioned Menace II Society
Aw...TSR just posted this:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BKYlWOIBbaj
Such an underrated film.
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The Best Man
The Wood
Love & Basketball
Brown Sugar
He Got Game
Baby Boy
I forgot about "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka" :plzstop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYhyyuwuDHE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-1C6QlvHl8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNQRqAoT-2c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2XGIcXR1OM
These CLASSIC ass scenes :dead:
House Party 1 & 2
I Got The Hook Up
State Property 1 & 2
Paper Soldiers
Paid In Full
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka>
Quote from: AYR on September 15, 2016, 01:10:18 PM
House Party 1 & 2
I Got The Hook Up
State Property 1 & 2
Paper Soldiers
Paid In Full
:udontlookok:
Quote from: D.I.E.G.O. on September 15, 2016, 01:08:48 PM
I forgot about "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka" :plzstop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYhyyuwuDHE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-1C6QlvHl8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNQRqAoT-2c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2XGIcXR1OM
These CLASSIC ass scenes :dead:
The fact that I remember my cousins playing this movie. Is this where the dad from Good Times gets shot in the toe :plzstop:
Ray...I said ICONIC, bby.
I LOVE im gonna git u sucka :dead:
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:plzstop: This shit still sends me :dead:
Kim Wayans singing and acting a black fool on that stage :plzstop: :plzstop: :plzstop:
Quote from: AYR on September 15, 2016, 01:07:56 PM
The Best Man
The Wood
Love & Basketball
Brown Sugar
He Got Game
Baby Boy
ssss
this greasy ass list
Guess it's true what they say
ya can take a nigger out
But ya can't take the nigger out of a man
luv & bask' >>>
Probably Friday
Whats love got to do with it
Why do fools fall in love
Introducing dorothy dandridge
The temptations
Catwoman
Set it off and soul food
Juice
5 heart beats
Set it off
Quote from: TheNextLew on September 15, 2016, 04:19:08 PM
Whats love got to do with it
Why do fools fall in love
Introducing dorothy dandridge
The temptations
Catwoman
bb
Quote from: AJ on September 15, 2016, 11:10:35 AM
Was Soul Food mentioned yet... because yeah.. it NEEDS to be on everyone's list!
TBTFHWY!!!!
THE 5 HEARTBEATS!!!!!!!!! YES!
Soul Food
Waiting to Exhale
Poetic Justice
Friday
What's Love Got to Do With It
Set It Off
did anyone mention BAPS yet
Player's Club
How To Be a Player
Quote from: TAE! on September 15, 2016, 05:01:57 PM
Player's Club
How To Be a Player
I consider those to modern blaxploitation films
I consider catwoman to be fckn disgusting
I've never seen 5 heartbeats
:uhh:
:)
It's kinda greasy in here
We need more cinema tbh
Tired of slave movies, biopics, n hetero love triangle stories
Need a black movie about witche n warlocks
I dunno, sumthin with hallie berries
:butim16robert:
B.A.P.S. is one of my faves
A Low Down Dirty Shame :stressed:
And Meter Man SLAYS me to this day
Color Purple always makes me cry
Quote from: Magnolia Maymuru on September 15, 2016, 11:23:01 AM
Quote from: Capricorn King on September 15, 2016, 11:19:10 AM
Malcolm X (Denzel Washington)
That's where I got my name. Iconic film.
a fucking CRIME he didn't get that Oscar. now that deserved a boycott of some kind cuz ch
Ain't no way
Quote from: Lazarus on September 15, 2016, 12:52:37 PM
John Q
Precious
Imitation of Life
Crooklyn
The Inkwells
Juice
Tales from the Hood
ugh Kimberly Elise was phenomenal in John Q
Yes she was
Poetic Justice and Set It Off were the first two that sprung to mind...
Wow, jans was exalted in hea
The Color Purple is the only the right answer i can think of. Its the most referenced.
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Are we talking about iconic films or just our favorite nigger flicks?
Cuz Video GODDESS >>>>
:ohwow:
CROOKLYN :stressed:
Quote from: Trey on September 15, 2016, 07:08:41 PM
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Are we talking about iconic films or just our favorite nigger flicks?
Cuz Video GODDESS >>>>
:ohwow:
jkkjkjjk :stressed:
Quote from: MelMel on September 15, 2016, 07:36:43 PM
Quote from: Trey on September 15, 2016, 07:08:41 PM
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Are we talking about iconic films or just our favorite nigger flicks?
Cuz Video GODDESS >>>>
:ohwow:
jkkjkjjk :stressed:
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Its kinda my favorite movie, tbqfh.
Whats love got to do with it
Waiting to exhale
Menace to society
Juice
Babyboy
Why do fools fall in love
Set it off
Soul food
Are all iconic black cinema
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What's that movie when Jamie Foxx chased Mei Ling up that fire escape? The movie was kinda dumb, but that part always has me screaming.
SO Many!!
CROOKLYN comes to my mind right away.
Set It Off
Jason's Lyric
Lean on Me
Sister Act II
B?b?'s Kids
:shannonsmissing:
House Party was a huge mainstream success. That has to count for something.
Boomerang
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