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KevLo
08-22-2010, 10:53 PM
Hi this is Kev-Lo

What's your top five favorite blaxploitation movies of all time

Mines are
1-Super Fly
2-Shaft[[ the 1971 Orlginal )
3-The Mack
4-Foxy Brown
5-Short Eyes

robb_k
08-22-2010, 11:35 PM
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What is "Baxploitation"? Ploitating Baxes? A reference that's even more obscure and esoteric than "Oolated Squiggs"! I knew I couldn't possibly know all the English nouns, but I thought I knew all the verbs. Live and learn.

marv2
08-23-2010, 02:04 AM
"Shaft" [[The original film)
"The Mack"
"Cleopatra Jones"
"Dolemite"
"Black Caesar"!

timmyfunk
08-23-2010, 05:20 AM
Any R-rated movie featuring Pam Grier
Slaughters Big Rip Off [[the un-cut version)
Slaughter
Hit Man

I guess that's eight right there.

arrr&bee
08-23-2010, 11:28 AM
Ok...let's see...shaft-comeback charlston blue-coffy-shaft's big score-claudine!

ladyvanaye
08-23-2010, 02:13 PM
Willie Dynamite
Truck Turner
Claudine
A Piece of The Action
Uptown Saturday Night

For my top five...:)

Honorable shout out to "Nothing But A Man"...although that was before this BPT era.

grapevine
08-23-2010, 03:08 PM
...a difficult one this as I cannot separate the soundtrack from the film ...so my 5 favourite Blaxploitation movies are...

1 Trouble Man [[Marvin Gaye)
2 Uptight [[Booker T & The MGs)
3 Thet Call Me Mr Tibbs [[Quincy Jones)
4 Shaft [[Isaac Hayes)
5 Super Fly [[Curtis Mayfield)

:)

marv2
08-23-2010, 08:59 PM
Ladyvanaye, "A Piece of The Action" was one of my favorites but we had to stick to only 5. Nowwwww.....if we were allowed to list our 10 favorites. My next 5 would go something like this:

A Piece of The Action
Scream Blackula Scream
A Book of Numbers
Sheba Baby
Cooley High

nysister
08-24-2010, 10:37 AM
Why is it that any movie made during the 70's and 80's that had an all black casts was put in the blaxploitation category?
A lot of the movies you guys listed were just great movies, like Claudine and Cooley High.

tomato tom
08-24-2010, 12:01 PM
1...Trouble Man
2... Blackula [[so bad,you got to see it once)
3....Norman..is that you?
4....Shaft
5....The Mack [[if only for the Sisters Love scene..well background).

Hey to mysister..I agree with you.I think its quite a negative phrase, but THATS what it was called at the time and I think thats what the question asked. As Much as we might disagree with the title..Corporate America jumped on it after the sucess of SHAFT & LADY SINGS THE BLUES et al, and all of a sudden these often CRAP movies, financed by Hollywood exploded on the scene.

It was like the Disco boom. All this wonderful BLACK dance music we had been dancing to for years, was suddenly, formulated, diluted and pressup for mass consumption by the Corporate record companies to appeal to main stream
AMERICA make a quick$$$$$. I mean, would you rather dance to War, Thelma Houston, Brick, Chic or Ethel Mermen, Disco Duck, Village People and the 1000s of other CRAP things that appeared then. whatever! Thats my rant done. SMILE..PAULO XXXXX

nysister
08-24-2010, 12:46 PM
I gotcha Paulo!

Well, here are mine....This is hard, only 5 KevLo?? Not fair...LOL

Shaft [[original)
Claudine
Five On The Blackhand Side
Cotton Comes to Harlem
Cleopatra Jones

everett552
08-24-2010, 12:50 PM
Cooley High is a favorite of mine. That movie is hilarious!

tomato tom
08-24-2010, 01:59 PM
OOOH...Forgot about Claudine. Loved that one. LADY SINGS THE BLUES too. Hell Up In Harlem was OK, GREAT for the EDWIN STARR soundrtrack..easin in! yeah! Does Pipe Dreams count, Gladys Knight? OK, But sort of straight to video. Remember seing one with FREDA PAYNE starring?? ..Paulo xxx

robb_k
08-24-2010, 02:22 PM
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Cooley High is a favorite of mine. That movie is hilarious!

The best thing about that movie is the great music. One of the best soundtracks ever. The fact that it was a very good movie, too, is a bonus.

tomato tom
08-24-2010, 02:51 PM
Oh yes, G.C. CAMERON singing Its So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday...and those ole Motown magic Memories...Paulo XXXX

KevLo
08-25-2010, 12:43 PM
Hi this is Kev-Lo

Your Right nysister i'll add a few more.

All Of Pam Grier's Flicks
The Education Of Sonny Carson
The Black God Father
The Human Tornado
Black Belt Jones
Truck Turner
Sounder
Three The Hard Way

GeeTee(HPK)
08-25-2010, 07:37 PM
Ok, I guess I could chime in.

1. Black Belt Jones [[corny dialogue,funny fight scenes) :)
2. Truck Turner [[not a bad movie,IMHO !) :)
3. The Mack [[ Max Julien ) :)
4. Superfly [[great soundtrack !)
5. Coffey [[Pam Grier,what else,and what they did to poor King George) :)

marv2
08-25-2010, 08:36 PM
Aww, sukee, sukee now.....!!!! hehehehehe......

nysister
08-26-2010, 01:10 PM
@Marve2, I met Pam Grier last year at a Dianne Reeves concert. Pam and Dianne are best friends. I must say that Pam was very gracious and nice, and still pretty as she is in that poster you uploaded.

rta5225
08-28-2010, 11:58 PM
I think I’d have to say “Shaft”.

splanky
08-29-2010, 11:50 AM
I never really thought of Coolie High as a "blaxploitation" film, just a great coming of age film which happened to feature
a black cast of characters. I thought it was as funny as it was deep in it's exploration of a lot of themes and issues
quite common in a lot of folks lives. I also have to second ladyv on Nothing But A Man which co-starred our recently
lost Abbey Lincoln.
Now Ms Pamela Grier, and I highly recommend her memoir released this year, was the business!...

jillfoster
08-29-2010, 10:39 PM
I got to say one thing about Tamara Dobson, that bitch knew how to put on some CLOTHES! Those foxtail furs she had!! and I love that scene where she is kickin ass on the luggage carousel at LAX.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYVX8JBjbMw

jillfoster
08-29-2010, 10:47 PM
Most of these flicks had some kick ass trailer, though... you all remember seein the trailers at the movie theatre?




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYRQNiXV3wo&feature=related

GeeTee(HPK)
08-30-2010, 06:12 AM
Wouldn't the term woman or lady be more appropriate that the "b" word ? [[I'm just saying)

jillfoster
08-30-2010, 01:25 PM
Wouldn't the term woman or lady be more appropriate that the "b" word ? [[I'm just saying)

Hell no!!! In her case, Bitch stands for BABE IN TOTAL CONTROL OF HERSELF.

thelastsupreme
08-30-2010, 03:45 PM
Sweet Sweetback's Badass Song!

catwoman55
08-30-2010, 06:01 PM
Hell no!!! In her case, Bitch stands for BABE IN TOTAL CONTROL OF HERSELF.

Mmm...An acronym? That's a new one for me. Anyway, as I recall, wasn't Tamara Dobson a former runway model? She definitely had that "swagga" goin' on...

I can't think of 5 that are my favorites, but I can think of 4:

Claudine
The Mack
Piece of the Action
Uptown Saturday Night

Honorable mention goes to Black Caesar - Much of the action and the plot was laughable, but James Brown and that soundtrack get an "A" from me.

robb_k
08-30-2010, 07:41 PM
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How are "Cooley High" and "Sounder" "exploitation films". Who or what was being exploited? They were both very good films that were very good enough to make on their stories, directing, acting and music. They should have been made, and were made. I don't think they qualify for exploitation films, made to exploit a trend of popularity.

marv2
08-30-2010, 09:26 PM
Shelly Winters was great as "Mommy"! Thanks Jill, those trailers brought back some really good memories.

jillfoster
08-31-2010, 11:25 PM
you know, Marv... these trailers were so well done, they really made you want to see the movie:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erD0pCe0S5Q&feature=fvst

jillfoster
09-01-2010, 01:59 AM
Sometimes...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnnCSdXnYZE&feature=related

grapevine
09-01-2010, 06:53 PM
...here's a comprehensive list of Blaxploitation films ...some are not quite in that genre ...but just films with black actors

A Change of Mind
A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich
A Piece of the Action
Aaron Loves Angela
Abar: Black Superman
Abby
Across 110th Street
Action Jackson
Addio zio Tom
Adiós Amigo
Albino
Amazing Grace
American Pimp
Baadasssss Cinema
Baby Needs A New Pair of Shoes
Bad Attitude
Bad Magic
Bamboo Gods and Iron Men
Bamboozled
Barbershop 2: Back in Business
Bare Knuckles
Big Money Hustlas
Big Time
Black Belt Jones
Black Belt Jones 2
Black Caesar
Black Devil Doll
Black Devil Doll From Hell
Black Dynamite
Black Emanuelle
Black Emanuelle White Emanuelle
Black Eye
Black Fist
Black Gestapo
Black Girl
Black Gunn
Black Heat
Black Jesus
Black Joy
Black Lightning
Black Lolita
Black Love
Black Mama White Mama
Black Samson
Black Samurai: Agent For Dragon
Black Shampoo
Black Sister's Revenge
Black Snake
Black Spring Break 2: The Sequel
Black Spring Break: The Movie
Black Starlet
Black Trash
Black Vengeance
Black XXX-Mas
Blackenstein
Blackjack
Blacula
Blazing Saddles
Blind Rage
Bloodz vs Wolvez
Bogard
Bone
Bones
Book of Numbers
Boss Nigger
Brainwrap
Brother on the Run
Brotherhood of Death
Brothers
Buck and the Preacher
Bucktown
Burakku ragūn
Candyman
Car Wash
Carbon Copy
C-Bear and Jamal
Change of Mind
Channeling Alphonse
Charley One Eye
Classified X
Claudine
Cleopatra Jones
Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold
Cobra nero
Cobra nero 2
Cobra nero 3
Coffy
Come Back Charleston Blue
Cool Breeze
Cooleyhigh
Coonskin
Coonskin 2
Cornbread Earl and Me
Cotton Comes to Harlem
Crack House
Crazy As Hell
Dangerous Evidence: The Lori Jackson Story
Darktown Strutters
Dead Heist
Death Dimension
Death Force
Death Journey
Death of a Snowman
Def by Temptation
Deliver Us from Evil
Detective Malone
Detroit 9000
Diamonds
Diggin' Up 'Bones'
Disco 9000
Disco Godfather
Do The Right Thing
Dolemite
Dolemite II: Human Tornado
Don't Play Us Cheap
Dr Black Mr Hyde
Drum
Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man
Dynamite Brothers
E yu tou hei sha xing
Ebony Ivory & Jade
Emma Mae
Enter The Dragon
Fade To Black: Song Of Freedom
Farewell Uncle Tom
Fight for Your Life
Final Comedown
Five on the Black Hand Side
For Love of Ivy
Fox Style
Foxtrap
Foxy Brown
Frankenpimp
Friday Foster
Funky Cops
Gang Wars
Ganja & Hess
Gayniggers from Outer Space
Get Christie Love!
Getting Over
GI Bro [[also known as Quel maledetto treno blindato)
Godzilla Versus Disco Lando
Golden Needles
Gordon's War
Greased Lightning
Hammer
Hangup
Harry Knuckles and the Pearl Necklace
Hearsay
Hell Up in Harlem
Hiding Place
Hit Man
Hit!
Holla
Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s
Honeybaby Honeybaby
Honky
Hookers In Revolt
Hot Potato
How She Move
How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass
I Escaped From Devil's Island
I Spy
Identity Crisis
If He Hollers Let Him Go
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
In The Heat Of The Night
In Your Face [[aka Abar the First Black Superman)
Insane in the Brain
Intimate Portrait
Ironside
J D's Revenge
Jackie Brown
Jive Turkey [[AKA Baby Needs A New Pair of Shoes)
Johnny Tough
Jungle Fever
Kill Bill: Vol 1
Kracker Jack'd
La Beuze
La Hiena
Lady Cocoa
Lady Sings the Blues
Leadbelly
Let's Do It Again
Live and Let Die
Lust for Vengeance
Mahogany
Malcolm X
Man and Boy
Man Friday
Mandinga
Mandingo
Mean Johnny Barrows
Mean Mother
Melinda
Miss Melody Jones
Mister Deathman
Mo' Better Blues...


:)

grapevine
09-01-2010, 06:54 PM
...here's more

Mr Mean
Nailed
Naked Acts
Negermagasinet
No Way Back
Norman Is That You?
Nothing But A Man
Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored
One Down Two to Go
Original Gangstas
Othello the Black Commando
Penitentiary
Penitentiary 2
Penitentiary 3
Petey Wheatstraw
Pipe Dreams
Planet X
Poor Pretty Eddie
Pootie Tang
Posse
Putney Swope
Quel maledetto treno blindato
Right On!
Roots
Sanford and Son
Savage Sisters
Savage!
Scott Joplin
Scream Blacula Scream
Secret Agent OO Soul
Seduto alla sua destra
Shadow: Dead Riot
Shaft
Shaft in Africa
Shaft's Big Score
Shantell Town
Shaolin Dolemite
Sheba Baby
Short Eyes
Shorty The Pimp
Slaughter
Slaughter's Big Rip-Off
Slavers
Slaves
Snoop Dogg's Hood Of Terror
Solomon King
Soul Patrol
Soul Plane
Soul Soldier
Soul Vengeance
South Bronx Heroes
Space Is the Place
Sparkle
Speeding Up Time
Starrbooty
Street Sisters
Sugar Boxx
Sugar Hill
Super Fly
Super Soul Brother
Super Spook
Superfly TNT
Sweet Jesus Preacherman
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
Sweets to the Sweet: The Candyman Mythos
Take a Hard Ride
Take Another Hard Ride aka Kid Vengeance
Tales From The Hood
Tamango
Tenafly
That Man Bolt
The Arena
The Bad Bunch
The Baron
The Big Bird Cage
The Big Doll House
The Big Score
The Black Angels
The Black Connection
The Black Gestapo
The Black Godfather
The Black Klansman
The Black Samurai
The Black Six
The Boondocks
The Bus Is Coming
The Candy Tangerine Man
The Colour Purple
The Cool World
The Devil's Daughter
The Education of Sonny Carson
The Gauda Prime Conspiracy
The Grasshopper
The Great White Hope
The Great White Hype
The Greatest
The Guy from Harlem
The Harder They Come
The Hebrew Hammer
The Hitter
The House on Skull Mountain
The Human Tornado
The Klansman
The Last Dragon
The Last Fight
The Legend of Dolemite
The Legend of Nigger Charley
The Liberation of LB Jones
The Lost Man
The Mack
The Monkey Hu$tle
The Muthers
The Omega Man
The People Under The Stairs
The PJs
The Red White and Black
The Return of Superfly
The Six Thousand Dollar Nigger
The Slams
The Soul of Nigger Charley
The Split
The Spook Who Sat By The Door
The Spy Who Loved Me
The Story of a Three-Day Pass
The Thing with Two Heads
The Wiz
The Zebra Killer
They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!
Thomasine and Bushrod
Three The Hard Way
Three The Hard Way 2
tickticktick
TNT Jackson
Together Brothers
Together For Days
Top of the Heap
Tough Guys
Tougher Than Leather
Training Day
Trick Baby
Trouble Man
Truck Turner
True Romance
Tupac Shakur: Before I Wake
Undercover Brother
Up Tight
Uptown Saturday Night
Urban Gothic
Vampiyaz
Velvet Smooth
Watermelon Man
Way Of The Black Dragon
Welcome Home Brother Charles
Werewolf Of Washington
Which Way Is Up?
Wild in the Sky
Wildcat Women
Willa Mae the Church Lady Vampire Slayer
Willie Dynamite
Youngblood

:)

jillfoster
09-01-2010, 09:23 PM
That's one heck of a list, grapevine.... some are really obscure. Here's the trailer for "Abby":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLX6BnmtWS4

grapevine
09-02-2010, 10:51 AM
...thanks jill

...I think they're being a little mean here ...to Mean Johnny Barrows

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTyILgrln-U

...music by Motown's ...Gordon Staples & The String Thing ...here's more

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTyILgrln-U

:)