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Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 1312
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, July 18, 2005 - 05:18 pm: | 
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I saw "Soul Plane" this weekend. I had a totally unexpected reaction.
I was amused and repelled. Why is it this kind of stuff is funny when it is one of those straight to DVD, in the hood on a hand held camera movies and not funny when it is a big production?
Basically they were doing a Black version of "Airplane". I tried to disable my Black Militant filter, but it kept saying, yea this is what white folks think if Black people actually got an airline.
I mean I started thinking, if folks think this is funny what is wrong with Amos and Andy.
Has anybody else seen it? What do you think? Is it a Nadir in Black Cinema? |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 2327
Registered: 01-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 19, 2005 - 01:50 pm: |
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What do you care what others think about black people, Chris? Why do you seek their approval or concern yourself with their standards? Where's all your bravado? Poor baby. You sound like you have a need to beat up on your own race. tsk-tsk. |
Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 1315
Registered: 03-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 19, 2005 - 02:02 pm: |
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Si-nook:
(Or schnookie baby)as we call you down here in Da Lou.)
Have you seen the movie? |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 2329
Registered: 01-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 19, 2005 - 03:37 pm: |
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Did you answer my question? |
Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 1318
Registered: 03-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 19, 2005 - 04:17 pm: |
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Sneak:
You answer mine first. |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 2332
Registered: 01-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 19, 2005 - 05:08 pm: |
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I saw the coming attractions which were pretty much the gist of the picture. Unlike you, I have the guts to have found excerpts from this movie funny. It's a sorry culture that can't poke fun at itself. But all of this is lost on somebody who is afraid of what other ethnics might think. |
Yvettep
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 620
Registered: 01-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 19, 2005 - 05:53 pm: |
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I did not see the movie. The way I look at it, though, is that White folks have been getting $$ to make stoopit movies for forever. So, some Black folks got some of the money this time.
I think this is the director, Jessy Terrero: http://tinyurl.com/dxkk7
I'll probably end up watching this on dvd as my husband is a big fan of these types of silly movies. I'll let you know what I think then.
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Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 1320
Registered: 03-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 20, 2005 - 09:43 am: |
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Cynique:
So you didn't see the movie. I don't know about anyone else, but in my book that disqualifies you from commenting on it.
It's like if I comment on the fit of a pair of pants without trying them on.
I understand that has never stopped you before. Continue your mad ways. You are fast becoming the biggest laughingstock on AALBC--then again, that will be some accomplishment in a misspent life.
Yvettep:
Thank God for a breath of sanity. By all means check back in after you see it. |
Babygirl
AALBC .com Platinum Poster
Username: Babygirl
Post Number: 77
Registered: 04-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 20, 2005 - 12:24 pm: |
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Chris, I saw the movie with my son and thought it was meant more for that adolescent age bracket than any other and clearly that is who it appealed to, because any adult with an ounce of maturity couldn't begin to fathom anything serious one way or the other from its pathetic drivel. Sure, there were moments of funny, where you couldn't help but laugh if you had a sense of humor at all. Overall though it was a total waste of budget but served the purpose it's producers wanted. It made THEM money. As for whether or not white folks think of us in such a manner, since most come to the table with their own preconceived notions anyway, it doesn't much matter. It's more disappointing to me though that some blacks would actually see themselves in such a manner and think nothing wrong with it. |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 2335
Registered: 01-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 20, 2005 - 12:51 pm: |
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Heh-heh. Gettin a little testy, aren't you Chrissy? After seeing an extended promotional preview of Soul Train on the DVD for another movie, unlike you, I had sense enough to know it was not something to waste my money on. But you're so out of the mix that you apparently don't know that movies like this come out on a regular basis, or that Soul Train was panned from the get-go. And what I have come to realize is that you are actually square. Your hipness is stuck in the 70s. You're also a negroid schzoid who doesn't know where his head is. |
Roxie
Veteran Poster
Username: Roxie
Post Number: 58
Registered: 06-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 20, 2005 - 03:59 pm: |
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I saw an unedited version of the movie on bootleg(downloaded,not camcorder)and they didn't spare ANY group from a cheap insult: Amer. blacks,Africans,Gays,Texans(!), Middle-Easterners, and the now very tired "unhip white people" jokes. Let me elaborate:
* African music was played with drums and a female singer going "bakka bakka bakka",literally.It reminded one of those cartoons with the bone-nosed savages.
* The passengers of "Texas Air" were all wearing cowboy hats.
*The gay flight attendant was cartoonishly flamboyant (complete with lip gloss) while snoop dog and the other male flight staff accused him of trying to come on to them. (*sigh*)
*the Coach section of the plane was designed like a bus, including that some of the passengers were standing up and holding onto poles.
*The ME passenger boarded,you know the rest, you'd think black people would act better than that.
* the white wife goes after the large-dicked black man,the son adopts hip-hop clothes, and Dad (Tom Arnold) gets nervous about his 18-yr old daughter being around so many ghetto,40-drinking black men. same old stuff.
You'd wonder if the screen writer or director have ever seen any of the groups they insulted. Those jokes seemed like something an culturally-isolated grade schooler would write. At least "Amos and Andy" has the disadvantage of being from a less enlightened time in history. What's this movie's excuse?
BTW,which one of thse geniuses thought the subplot with the ownwer's ex-girfriend would be taken seriously? |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 2336
Registered: 01-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 20, 2005 - 04:33 pm: |
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"Soul Plane" was broad humor to say the least, humor being the operative word here. "White Girls" starring the Wayan brothers wasn't even funny. |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 2337
Registered: 01-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 20, 2005 - 04:42 pm: |
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Oops, I meant White "Chicks". |
Libralind2
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Libralind2
Post Number: 172
Registered: 09-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 20, 2005 - 05:07 pm: |
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I loved Soul Plane for what it was: a satire in the vein of the Airplane flicks. I thought it was very over the top and Snoop was a fool. Why cant "we" lighten up and laugh when the shyets funny.
LiLi..running really fast agin..cause I KNOW its coming.
PS..if you dont want to laugh at "yourself" then I aint speaking to you..::hoping that stops some of the.....::: |
Roxie
Veteran Poster
Username: Roxie
Post Number: 62
Registered: 06-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 20, 2005 - 05:16 pm: |
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The scene I honestly found funny was when one of the pilots asked for "geyman(the african) to come to the cockpit immediately" and catholic priests are among the crowd of flamboyants and trannies erroneously running toward the cockpit. |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 2340
Registered: 01-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, July 21, 2005 - 01:10 pm: |
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OK, I watched "Soul Plane" all the way through and - I agree with the points made by Baby Girl and Libralind and Roxie. "No fools, no fun," I always say. |
Nels
First Time Poster
Username: Nels
Post Number: 1
Registered: 07-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 27, 2005 - 06:24 pm: |
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Maybe the flick was just an abberation. |
Renata
Regular Poster
Username: Renata
Post Number: 30
Registered: 08-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 08, 2005 - 10:06 pm: |
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I didn't see the movie, because I figured I might feel as you do. |
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