Thursday, January 14, 2010
Film Black Dynamite: "Guaranteed to Put Your Ass in Traction!"
Posted by Jim Ridley on Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 2:00 PM
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The Dr. Black and Mr. Hyde trailer (which is NFSW) is glorious from start to finish: "A monster he could not control/Had taken over his very soul! Jump back, Jack, or your skull gets cracked! Superstrong, supernatural...and SUPERBAD!"
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And let's not forget that it is being shown in Cinemaphonic Quadrovision. Can't beat that with a stick.
Uh, make that NSFW.
bb: Cinemaphonic Quadrovision! Now I have to see it. That's what James Cameron used in Avatar!
BTW, if Mark Mays happens to be out there somewhere, we'd love a report. My brother saw Black Dynamite and gave it his highly coveted Seal of Ass-kicking Approval. Plus I hear Sean Maloney's a fan. That guy knows his Cinemaphonic Quadrovision.
Ooh, Cedric Yarbrough is in the trailer! I kind of (really) love him on Reno 911 and The Boondocks.
my ears were burning for a reason!
Dude. awe. some.
For those film snobs I would compare it to Van Zandt's PSYCHO remake, yet spread over 30 different films, from SWEETBACK to THREE THE HARD WAY. Somewhere under White's ridiculously huge mustache is Jim Brown's straight faced surliness and OJ Simpson's dopey self-centeredness; you'll all note White is playing a guy (a former pro football player no less) playing a guy (whose given name is apparently Black Dynamite, even his mother calls him that, which tickled me to no end); not that most of those Blaxploitation heroes were playing anything other than themselves. Still it's a neat trick. Like Neilsen in AIRPLANE, he never winks at us (unless it's in the script).
And he kicks crazy ass; the stunts are just a little too good.
Sanders, despite all the intentionally bad filmmaking and mega turbo zoom is never taking the piss, he's just doing things the same way Van Peebles did.
Black Dynamite, we need you now more than ever.
I've seen this movie already. It was called Undercover Brother the first time around.
If only the entirety of Undercover Brother had been half as funny as this trailer.
@mmmays: You have just planned my Saturday night for me. Followed by my DVD double feature of The Mack and maybe the most demented blaxploitation movie ever made, Darktown Strutters. That's the one where Col. Sanders tries to create a new generation of slaves with his doped fried chicken.
You've got to check out the Dr. Black and Human Tornado trailers, by the way.
I have a super grainy copy of Darktown Strutters that I watched mouth agape. It needs revisiting I think.
UNDERCOVER BROTHER only dreams of being as good.
GEEK ALERT: What do Darktown Strutters, Eraserhead and Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven have in common? The awesome production designer and art director Jack Fisk, whose credits range from De Palma's Carrie and Phantom of the Paradise to Mulholland Dr. and There Will Be Blood.
It's like Tourette's. I just have to let it out.
I'm on a Fred Williamson kick right now. I just watched Bucktown and Inglorious Bastards, 1990: Bronx Warriors in my queue and and I'm gonna stream New Gladiators once I finish this post. I know it's a bit off topic but I'll be damned if Fred Williamson isn't one the greatest actors of his generation. Those Italian sci fi films are awesome...
Oh and Undercover Brother was WEEEEEEAAAAAK. It's not even in the same league as Black Dynamite.
Black Caesar and Hell Up in Harlem are probably the two best Williamson movies I've seen, not counting M.A.S.H.. How is the "original" Inglorious Bastards?
Truck Turner is the best with Issac Hayes because Uhura from Star Trek says pussy and cusses a lot
Truck Turner is indeed a pretty great movie, not just for Hayes and Nichelle Nichols, but for Yaphet Kotto, who has an absolutely classic death (or should I say "deaf"?) scene.
The original Inglorious Bastards was aweseome, definitely one of the best Kelly's Heroes knock offs of the 70s.
Anybody have any explanation for why the turnout was so huge for this over the weekend? Here's a low-budget movie with no advertising and no big stars, and yet The Belcourt had 140 people for the 8:05 show last night and about half that at 10:05. They had even more Friday night apparently.
The 10:05 audience was great--people actually cheered the awesome gag about the boomerang.
