last movie you watched (Flag Up SPOILERS)

[Master]

watched Defendor starring Woody Harrelson which was funny at times but sad.

[El Kabong]

The Missus and I will be watching the original 1925 'Phantom of The Opera' soon....I'll let you know how that goes. I've watched several silent films just recently and they are interesting. 'The Man Who Laughs' was a very good movie, 'Birth of a Nation' was ridiculously long but hell what the fuck are you going to do all day in 1915? 'Intolerance' another D.W. Griffith flick was tedious at times as well, but the sets alone made it very interesting. W.C. Fields in silent films is very interesting because I know him so well by his voice, but it puts his comic acting in greater focus rather than his witticisms

[smashup]

Hands Of Stone - Duran
I really liked it and theres links to it in a thread i started in this "Off Topic Board

Supersonic - Oasis
Brilliant Documentary on the band

[GustavoWoltmann]

Suicide Squad!

~~~You don't own me, Don't try to change me in any way
You don't own me, Don't tie me down cause I'd never stay~~~

~~~Don't tell me what to do. And don't tell me what to say
Please, when I go out with you. Don't put me on display~~~

Sincerely,
Gustavo Woltmann

[El Kabong]

Well the wifey and I have a new favorite Halloween movie.....1972's 'Blacula'....what a magnificent movie! It's dare I say epic! It's got everything 1970's fashion, dancing, a black vampire who was cursed by that evil whitey 'Dracula' who also killed his woman!

[Master]

G.I. Joe: Retaliation is a load of crap but one good fight scene on the mountains.

[Master]

Well the wifey and I have a new favorite Halloween movie.....1972's 'Blacula'....what a magnificent movie! It's dare I say epic! It's got everything 1970's fashion, dancing, a black vampire who was cursed by that evil whitey 'Dracula' who also killed his woman!

was it better than Vampire in Brooklyn?

[El Kabong]

Well the wifey and I have a new favorite Halloween movie.....1972's 'Blacula'....what a magnificent movie! It's dare I say epic! It's got everything 1970's fashion, dancing, a black vampire who was cursed by that evil whitey 'Dracula' who also killed his woman!

was it better than Vampire in Brooklyn?

Completely different movie altogether.

'Vampire in Brooklyn' is a comedy at the end of the day and it's a good one, I think Eddie Murphy was really good in that one, very funny and at a time in the movies where you were getting ready to see Tyler Perry hit it big and black people really make movies for black people featuring black people and the movies started really doing well. And of course not only black people watch those movies.


'Blacula' was done in 1972, that was an era where Hollywood was kind of hamstrung. You didn't have the big budget epics like Cleopatra and Ben Hur, you didn't have the rating system as we know it just yet. Nudity and graphic violence were still taboo. You had non-Hollywood motion picture studios start producing edgier material. Hammer famous for their 'Dracula' movies starring Christopher Lee and then you had Grindhouse films....of those was born the Blaxploitation genre which 'Blacula' is. 'Shaft' and 'Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song' released in 1971 set the stage for 'Blacula'. There are themes in 'Blacula' that were themes of the era for black people....finding your roots, understanding where you come from, understanding what your ancestors believed, struggling against "the man" (often symbolized in 'Blacula' by nameless faceless white cops wearing helmets despite just riding in cars...all of them had helmets), and there's a real sense of choosing your own path and running it yourself even if the end result would be the same. You really do get a glimpse of the culture in 'Blacula' and it's fun it's intriguing....there's an honesty to it and dare I say a wholesomeness to it.

[Master]

Obsession starring Beyonce and Idris. Good film.

[El Kabong]

The 1925 'Phantom of The Opera' is of course a silent film, but I will say visually stunning....great sets and costumes.

[El Kabong]

So I finished up 'Phantom of The Opera' 1925 ....it was very different than when I've seen more recent versions. The Phantom was a bit darker, a bit more insane, and a bit more rapey...Lon Cheney Sr. did quite well though. The ending was very anti-climatic and since the film was done in 1925 SPOILER ALERT I'll tell you what happens. The Phantom gets his ass beat to death and then Christine and Raol get married and go on honeymoon.


up next is 'Black Dynamite' an homage to Blaxploitation classics like Shaft and Blacula


Also DID YOU KNOW: The NAACP, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and National Urban League joined to form the Coalition Against Blaxploitation. Their influence in the late 1970s contributed to the genre's demise. Literary critic Addison Gayle wrote in 1974, “The best example of this kind of nihilism / irresponsibility are the Black films; here is freedom pushed to its most ridiculous limits; here are writers and actors who claim that freedom for the artist entails exploitation of the very people to whom they owe their artistic existence.”

Addison Gayle

[Master]

Pompeii which was very poor.

[El Kabong]

Black Dynamite is perhaps one of the greatest movies I have ever seen! Everyone go watch it right now!

[TitoFan]

Damn, you guys watch some strange movies.

[El Kabong]

Damn, you guys watch some strange movies.

Dude, you DO NOT dis Black Dynamite! It is all kinds of amazing.