Black Dynamite
Description
An all-star cast led by Michael Jai White is featured in this 1970’s-style blaxploitation action fiilm about the legendary super crime fighter “Black Dynamite.” The Man killed his brother, pumped heroin into local orphanages, and flooded the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor. Black Dynamite was the one hero willing to fight The Man all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House.Amazon.com
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March 12th, 2010 at 2:27 am
I’m a big fan of 70’s Blaxploitation films, but you don’t have to be to hate this. It was one of the most idiotic movies I have seen in a long time.
African action legend Black Dynamite goes after ‘The Man’ for killing his brother Jimmy, for pumping heroin into local orphanages and for flooding the ghetto with hopped-up malt liquor.
It’s just so cliched and dumb. So it’s acceptable for a black person to use racial slurs against white people as long as its in a comedy huh? And to shoot honkeys in the [blank]? There was no moment in this movie where I completely lost my serious face.
I didn’t laugh once in the theater, maybe just once but that was at a fat lady who had fallen out of her chair in the theater.
Pretty awful movie and it’s a shame you can watch this film in Germany.
Rating: 1 / 5
March 12th, 2010 at 3:07 am
I fail to see why people say that this movie was funny. It wasn’t. Sure it was a 100% spot on portrayal of a 70’s blaxplotation movie. The costumes, dialect, style and original music was excellent.
I just did not find this funny at all. It seems people found the humor in the fact that it just mimmicked an old movie. However, the movie didn’t have anything funny.
Let see: Wow, was it hilarious that a boom mike appears in while MJW was filming. No.
Was the whole Richard Nixon scene at the end funny because he knows kung fu. Not really. Nor
was it funny when a ghost of Lincoln appears.
The cut scene while driving on the highway. Nope no hilarious.
The pimp scene with Arsenio, Tommy Davidson, Brian McNight, no humor there either.
Did I watch a different movie? All the slight gags in this movie have been done before in more recent movies. If you never saw them then maybe I can see why you laughed.
This movie was totally flat. The best part of this movie was the Original Music.
This movie was released in 70 theatres and had buzz created from those screens. I can tell why the studio did this, because if it was released wider you’d see more reactions like mine.
I guess some people will laugh at anything.
The funniest movie of 2009 was “The Hangover”. How anyone found this movie funny is beyond me.
Rating: 2 / 5
March 12th, 2010 at 3:37 am
I pre-ordered “Black Dynamite” back in September. I patiently waited to receive the disc which should have been released on 11/17/2009. You can imagine how P.O.’d I was to open my package from Amazon on 11/19/2009 to find I’d been shipped “Black Soul Dynamite” a 3 disc collection of marginal 70’s/80’s exploitation films instead! Evidently the DVD release has been pushed back until early 2010 with not specific date given as of yet.
Amazon’s customer support explained their shipping error. However no explanation was given as to why customers who pre-ordered the “Black Dynamite” DVD were not informed of the change in the release date or why the original orders were not put on hold. Anyone else have this experience? Two big thumbs down to Amazon’s customer support for not being on point informing it’s customers about the pre-order status for this title.
Update 02/17/2009: I’ve finally viewed the DVD (courtesy of Redbox). Very Funny film overall. No real complaints here. However I was hoping that the DVD extras would be more extensive. It would have also have been nice to included the alternate cut of the film that’s circulating on the net for some time now. A no-brainer purchase for those who enjoy the “Blacksploitation” genre this film is such a loving and hilarious homage to.
Rating: 5 / 5
March 12th, 2010 at 5:34 am
I agree with reviewer R.Tubbs. In my opinion this movie was horrible! I anticipated it’s release for Blue ray weeks before it was released to video. Now usually I’ll rent a blue ray movie before I buy it (I have a large collection of dvd’s that don’t get watched often), but in this case I just knew I’d enjoy this movie, so I bought it. I love the 70’s and most things about it, clothes, music,slang etc., so I figured that I couldn’t go wrong with this purchase……man was I wrong!
This movie is very “corny” the laughs were few and far between (I loved the clothes, the slang, and other homages to the 70’s though),no wonder it didn’t get much advertisement when it was in the theaters.
Yeah, different strokes for different folks. Some of you may find it funny, but I say watch it first and be sure, so you don’t waste your money on another dvd that wont get much air play at home. For you Blue ray owners, they put an old 1970’s look to this movie with the camera, so the colors aren’t very vivid, kind of toned down, doesn’t do justice for blue ray.
Rating: 2 / 5
March 12th, 2010 at 8:13 am
What makes this movie so bad, except for a few tidbits here and there, is that its lacks any true comedic vision. It’s just a mediocre bunch of silly names and noises, gags and juvenile jokes that all fall flat.
Now I know I know… you are going to say “The point is it’s supposed to be parody”. Come on… the fact is this movie is so bad it often becomes a parody of itself. It’s like a movie that pretends to be funny to the point that it believes it actually is funny. I found myself not laughing at the humor within the movie but the irony of the movie itself. I wouldn’t be suprised if the movies that Black Dynamite is parodying are actually much more humorous.
Imagine an accountant or a librarian writing and directing a comedy saying to himself “Oh this is -supposed- to be funny… oh and this is -supposed- to be funny”. For instance, the parody of showing the boom microphone was -supposed- to be funny but it felt so flat and forced. Some of the more talented comedic actors did their best to pull the movie out of the mud but most of the time all the actors seem bored and just “playing along” since they know they are getting a paycheck.
A real stupid part was the animated sex scene… I might have thought that was funny when I was 13 years old but now I think sarcastically “Okay I guess I am supposed to laugh hysterically now… ha ha ha”. The absolute worst part of the movie was the fact that the movie basically culminates to being a dick joke. I guess it’s just as well. As Bill Hicks would say “Don’t worry folks, we’re all going to pull our chutes and float down to dick joke island together.”
I am sure one of the reasons this movie is liked as much, besides as a result of our culture’s continually lowering standards, is because of the novelty of seeing a movie like this. But I guess I just judged it for what it actually is and not what it is supposed to be so that’s why I didn’t like it.
Rating: 1 / 5