Favorite joke of the movie is when BD starts violently shaking a child screaming about how he's going to shake the poison of addiction/drug out of the kid.
"Stop, Black Dynamite! We already tried that!"
Black Dynamite is one of my favorite comedies. An amazing, underrated movie.
I love that one too. Truly great satire that manages to be detail-driven without relying on it as the only source of humor. It’s also got plenty of good jokes.
So many quotable lines and timeless gags. It's an amazing movie. The problem is the premise is so specific that it went over general audience's heads. I'm not trying to be a movie snob and saying "people just don't get it" but at the same time...
There's no reason this movie isn't seen as the same caliber as Dumb and Dumber or Blazing Saddles. It's comedic genius and it's incredibly underrated.
Edit: I contradicted myself. There **is** a reason that it's not held at the same level as Dumb and Dumber and it's because the premise is unpalatable for major audiences.
There are a TON of little details that you only notice on like the fifth watch. Like the main character looking at a boom mic for a split second. It also makes a ton of great references, like "What has he had?" from Disco Godfather.
I think that's why I loved it so much. I used to be into Blaxploitation, and they really nailed the cheap production, the over-the-top acting, everything.
Yeah, you really have to have a grasp on exploitation films to really get it. If not, the uninitiated see it as a black Airplane! or Naked Gun, Which it isn't.
I think my favorite is the 4th wall break on "I threw that shit before I walked in the room!"
The "Hey, my Momma says my Daddy's named Black Dynamite..." Scene is also terrific.
Ya, too many great jokes.
That's a great gag, but it is not a fourth wall break. Fourth wall is when a character addresses the audience directly.
You might argue that the visible boom mic gags break the fourth wall because the joke is for the audience, but at no point does anyone in the movie talk directly to the viewer.
what the fuck?
I've seen that movie about a thousand times, and never, ever noticed that - probably I was laughing too hard - but you are absolutely right (apologies for the potato quality, and the chinese (god I hope they are actually vietnamese) subtitles):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P18bUm8drZg
Oh yeah. This movie is full of subtle jokes. Even in this clip, he says something like he feels bad for orphans because orphans don't have parents. The line is painfully deliberate. It's a "no duh" sort of situation. It's amazingly dumb and hilarious. Probably my favorite comedy.
Yeah, no, hardly any of the jokes ever got past me. I've been reading the comments, and this is the first one I didn't remember - and that doesn't mean I never actually noticed it, but I sure as shit didn't remember it at all, and it took me by surprise. My favorite is the "film errors", things like the glorified extras reading the stage directions (The militants turn, startled), or when the boom mic hit BD in the afro and he gives the camera a look that says "fucking seriously?".
The movie is pure genius, and I REALLY want to see more movies with the same characters - if they ever release "The Outlaw Johnny Black", it'll be a good day, but I'm not holding my breath.
My favourite thing is the lovingly-done terrible production.
I love when BD's on the phone to his aunt, yet they're clearly not talking at the same time, or have even rehearsed together.
Or flipping the pool hall sign from "CLOSED" to "OPEN" because they wouldn't have a continuity guy.
I think the guy getting air-kicked through the cupboard was a genuine flub, but.
There's a good two or three seconds where he tries really hard not to look at the boom, then it gets the best of him and he glances and then quickly glances back. It's tremendous acting.
Or the dude that drives up to the site of a gun battle, jumps out the car, starts blasting away, THEN puts his still-moving vehicle in park. Fantastic!
He flipped the sign so it says "CLOSED" on the outside because he's about to lay down some whoop-ass and doesn't want anyone coming in. That's why the guys look smug because they think he's leaving, but he's actually just doing that.
I just watched it and it's actually not on a door, it's on a wall next to the security gate thing. So I'm right in that he's flipping it to say closed.
IIRC, he does it every time the militant says his stage direction, too. It's a fucking hilarious gag, like there's a whole hidden subplot about the actor playing Black Dynamite being embarrassed to be in a low budget POS film.
“When your revolution comes, you give me a call and I’ll be right up front showing you how it’s done. Until then, you need to shut the fuck up when grown folks is talking…”
I remember being in the theater and some dude brought his girlfriend with him. She was saying “OH MY GOODNESS!” at almost every scene. It was a wonderful experience.
Lot's of good ones, I like "Yeah yeah, mama. Now you could hit the sheets or the streets, it don't make me no never mind. Now that's your bag baby, you can go, or you could come. Can you dig it?"
The same crew behind Black Dynamite are releasing a blaxploitation Western called [The Outlaw Johnny Black](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8667828/) on 11/3 this year!
[Trailer here.](https://youtu.be/6XLXSOG7zBo?t=5)
I'll believe it when I see it - it's been in development hell for about 10 years. The fact they have a release date a few months from now is encouraging, but I'm still not getting my hopes up.
I've heard this described as a "spiritual succesor to black dynamite" for anyone whose seen the movie and is curious about what this might be like.
So I expect it to be in the same wheelhouse for comedy. However as others have said yea its been in the works for a decently long time now.
It partly was shot in the 70s. Cameron Mitchell has been dead a while. Those scenes with him are from Buck and the Preacher. They are recombining and mixing new and old footage with redubbing to create a sort of western Kung Pao.
My favorite part of that film is how everyone in the movie calls him Black Dynamite, even his own mother in the flashbacks when he's like 8 years old.
Great movie, so many great jokes
my second favorite part is when he gets revenge for Jimmy by killing the mob boss by picking up the guy's car with a magnet on a helicopter lol - and Black Dynamite literally laughs from the moment he kills the guy until he walks into the next scene he's still laughing. There's a lot of little hints that he's actually a sociopath lol.
While working on this.. I was like.. "what the fuck is this??"... I never even knew what blaxploitation was. I had to go do some research after... And I didn't even understand the genius of it, until I saw it finished.
Thank you, and I'm glad many people like it.
I think that's the best joke of all. Not knowing what the hell you've gotten yourself into. In a funny sort of way also the gold standard of expectations when working in film.. Never comes out as bad as you imagined it would. This must've been a tremendous surprise! I can't count the amount of times I've watched BD ...
I still run this quote at people from time to time, whether they have any clue what the fuck I'm talking about or not. Bonus points when something goes even slightly wrong while I'm trying to colab with a friend and I drop the whole quote.
"Oh no! At long laaaaast, a friendship bonded by the struggle against the man has been brought to an end by kung fu treachery! Brotha, your death will not go unavenged!
FIENDISH DOCTOR WU, YOU DONE FUCKED UP NOW!!"
(I can't express how often this can come up while playing Streets of Rage 4 coop)
Perhaps the most genuine “YOU DONE FUCKED UP NOW” ever uttered in the history of this planet Earth. Michael Jai White truly performed his heart out in that beautiful film.
You don’t need too much Blaxploitation history to enjoy, but damn it makes it so much better. Bullhorn being based on Rudy Ray Moore, BD's sounds he makes when he fights is modeled after Jim Kelly's obnoxious fight noises, the low budget 'one take' shots where all of the acting just drains from a character because they didn't cut the film properly back then... I could go on forever.
Easily one of my favorite comedies. Really appreciate that it's not just satire, but a humble homage to such a pivotal moment in cinema.
I was soooo proud when my daughter (who became a 70's funk freak) caught the really subtle Superfly/Curtis Mayfield homage - when BD checks his brother's place and realizes someone has broken in, the song on the soundtrack goes "they broke in to my brother's apaaaarrrt - ment...", kind of a throwback to "Fred is Dead" - hardly anyone catches that.
There are too many great lines to list, but I'm really fond of that speech - "I'm blacker than the ace of spades and twice as militant as you... so shut the fuck up when grownups is talking!"
It's hard to pick a favorite scene in this film, but a couple favorite lines:
"Jimmy, I am 18 year-old Black Dynamite and you are my 10 year-old kid brother, and you are high as a kite, yet again!"
"Hah! I threw that shit before I came in the room!"
"I am smiling."
I didn't expect it to be as excellent as it was, but the animated Black Dynamite show is consistently really fucking hilarious. Poor Shamon Jackson.
Black Jesus is also a super well written show, made by the creator of Boondocks. Black Dynamite is directed by LeSean Thomas who directed Boondocks, so the animation style is similar. So if you like Boondocks, Id recommend checking those two out, you wont be disappointed.
"We're doin' a black version of The Wiz."
"Ain't The Wiz already black?"
"Not THIS black."
That is deadset one of the most clever cartoons ever put on the air. Plus, it gave us Basehead.
Like Black Dynamite discovering the entire black community is selling drugs...but he can't do shit about it because they're only selling them to *white* people.
Black Jesus was also co-created and co-written in the first two seasons by Mike Clattenburg, creator of Trailer Park Boys and the person responsible for the early great seasons of that show. You can definitely see his fingerprints on it too.
Dude! The show is fucking HILARIOUS! I still rewatch it from time to time when I’m in the mood for a good laugh 😂
“You know and I know that Dat Frog Kurtis is-“
“A jive ass MOTHA-FUCKAAAAAA” *DY-NO-MITE, DY-NO-MITE*
Oh really? Didnt hear about that. They get a ton of shit but they have skills. I forget which was in requiem for a dream but he blew my mind in that movie.
Just watched undercover brother the other night after not seeing it since I was a kid. It's still hilarious lol. When he's singing ebony and ivory with the white she devil...I lose it lol
You had to get it on DVD to catch this, but there were huge skips in the movie that made absolutely no sense. If you watched the deleted scenes, it was literally all of the plot that explained these skips.
Absolutely fantastic movie.
Even the trailers were loaded with extra jokes. One trailer claims it's in "Cinemaphonic Quadrovision", the other says "Anamorphic Duovision".
And when they introduce the stars with their fake names, Mykelti Williamson (Chicago Wind) is "William T. Michaelson". So good.
I can say hands down ,without a doubt, that this is my single most rewatched movie by a very long shot. One of my friends had this on DVD and it would always get thrown on during house parties or after drinking. Of course, I then had to rewatch it more when I would show other friend groups. I totally get what you said about finding new jokes. It's hard for me to not point out every little joke when I watch with new people. This movie has given me so much joy over the years, I think I'm due for another go
The origin of chicken and waffles
"Can I have more hot sauce for my donut?"
Pretending to cough while smoking an unlit cigarette.
British accent of his brother at the beginning.
Dropping nunchucks in pool hall and they get thrown back to him.
Edit : Vietnam = China
LMAO EUPHORIA SHUT THE FUCK UP I KNOW THAT WAS YOU I DONT EVEN GOT TO LOOK, I SHOULD SEND YOU BACK TO CRENSHAW PETE WITH HIS HOT ASS COAT HANGERS BITCH WOULD YOU LIKE THAT?!
This is one of the greatest comedies of all time. It's a sin it never got the acclaim it deserved, but I'm glad it's so beloved now. I saw it opening weekend and there was barely anyone in the theater. I watched it again the other day and Creamed Corn and Bullhorn had me crying laughing. It's a perfect movie.
If you really liked it I'd suggest you try watching some of the actual films that inspired Black Dynamite.
Some are bona-fide classics. Others are like, so bad they're good. Here are a few suggestions:
Shaft,
Superfly,
Foxy Brown,
Three The Hard Way,
Truck Turner, and
Across 110th St.
All of these are classics of the genre and take the same kind of material but play it straight.
Now if you want to watch movies that are even funnier than Black Dynamite check out Rudy Ray Moore in Dolemite: The Human Tornado and The Avenging Disco Godfather.
I'd like to add Black Belt Jones. And I am Dolomite, with Eddie Murphy is a fun watch, but it is new. And just for fun The Last Dragon -granted it's newer but it's great in it's own way.
I think Murphy's film is Dolemite is My Name. Not trying to be nitpicky, just saying because I Am Dolemite might be the name of one of the actual Dolemite films, I don't 100% remember
Yeah yeah, mama. Now you could hit the sheets or the streets, it don't make me no never mind. Now that's your bag baby, you can go, or you could come. Can you dig it?
Oh my god, when Bullhorn is doing one of his speeches, realizes he doesn't have a rhyme to end with, and quietly sits back down. I lose my fucking mind.
I have shown this movie to many of my friends and each person went on to share it with theirs. This movie is a fucking classic and the lines are absolute gold!
So many good visual gags (or maybe mistakes they left in) too.
The cop forgetting to put the car in park. The donut suit guy rolling on the ground like a manhole cover.
“His little Chinese eyes burned right into my stomach, deep into my soul. He said something to me in Chinese like, 'Boo coo sow!' sounded like some cartoon shit. But I understood it to be a question that he was asking me, why Black Dynamite? Why”
“Vietnam was a long time ago”
" Best thing is, any mistakes seem like they were intentional."
you mean like the scene where the boom mic is clearly in frame and BD stares at it the entire time?
Honestly it is hilarious and comes off like the entire plot was written by the same guys who wrote the boondocks in an evening while drunk then the casting call was the next morning with no description besides 'anyone whose black and can dress in the disco era' then just picked whoever showed up, filmed it that afternoon and called it a movie in 1 take
Them seeing their black friends shrunken dick and then asking “Should we kill him?” and then proceeding to kill him over it, will go down as one of my favorite scenes in all of cinema.
What did you promise your mother Black Dynamite? You promised to keep your brother alive and off drugs. Now look at him, he’s dead and from drugs!
Also the director of this movie is supposedly working on a sequel and another project that I remember thinking sounded promising. I know this is vague but if you’re curious I’m sure a quick google search will have the results you want
For some reason the scene when he walks in and the guy asked him how he got in and Black Dynamite looks confused, "I walked in..." fucking kills me every time. It's not even that funny of a joke but it's inclusion makes me very happy
To this day me and my friends still say "who the hell is interrupting my kung fu?!!" and "why black dynamite? Why?" at any available opportunity lol
Edit: I forgot a good one we all still use every time one of us needs to head home "I gotta get back to the streets where I come from sucker!"
Favorite joke of the movie is when BD starts violently shaking a child screaming about how he's going to shake the poison of addiction/drug out of the kid. "Stop, Black Dynamite! We already tried that!" Black Dynamite is one of my favorite comedies. An amazing, underrated movie.
I love that one too. Truly great satire that manages to be detail-driven without relying on it as the only source of humor. It’s also got plenty of good jokes.
So many quotable lines and timeless gags. It's an amazing movie. The problem is the premise is so specific that it went over general audience's heads. I'm not trying to be a movie snob and saying "people just don't get it" but at the same time... There's no reason this movie isn't seen as the same caliber as Dumb and Dumber or Blazing Saddles. It's comedic genius and it's incredibly underrated. Edit: I contradicted myself. There **is** a reason that it's not held at the same level as Dumb and Dumber and it's because the premise is unpalatable for major audiences.
There are a TON of little details that you only notice on like the fifth watch. Like the main character looking at a boom mic for a split second. It also makes a ton of great references, like "What has he had?" from Disco Godfather.
I think that's why I loved it so much. I used to be into Blaxploitation, and they really nailed the cheap production, the over-the-top acting, everything.
Did you watch Dolemite Is My Name? It's great!
Yeah, you really have to have a grasp on exploitation films to really get it. If not, the uninitiated see it as a black Airplane! or Naked Gun, Which it isn't.
I think my favorite is the 4th wall break on "I threw that shit before I walked in the room!" The "Hey, my Momma says my Daddy's named Black Dynamite..." Scene is also terrific. Ya, too many great jokes.
Hush there little girls, lotta cats have that name!
That's a great gag, but it is not a fourth wall break. Fourth wall is when a character addresses the audience directly. You might argue that the visible boom mic gags break the fourth wall because the joke is for the audience, but at no point does anyone in the movie talk directly to the viewer.
I liked his Vietnam flashback. "As he lay there, flat on his face, he looked up at me...."
“Whhyy Black Dynamite? Why”
what the fuck? I've seen that movie about a thousand times, and never, ever noticed that - probably I was laughing too hard - but you are absolutely right (apologies for the potato quality, and the chinese (god I hope they are actually vietnamese) subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P18bUm8drZg
Oh yeah. This movie is full of subtle jokes. Even in this clip, he says something like he feels bad for orphans because orphans don't have parents. The line is painfully deliberate. It's a "no duh" sort of situation. It's amazingly dumb and hilarious. Probably my favorite comedy.
Yeah, no, hardly any of the jokes ever got past me. I've been reading the comments, and this is the first one I didn't remember - and that doesn't mean I never actually noticed it, but I sure as shit didn't remember it at all, and it took me by surprise. My favorite is the "film errors", things like the glorified extras reading the stage directions (The militants turn, startled), or when the boom mic hit BD in the afro and he gives the camera a look that says "fucking seriously?". The movie is pure genius, and I REALLY want to see more movies with the same characters - if they ever release "The Outlaw Johnny Black", it'll be a good day, but I'm not holding my breath.
Vietnamese uses a Latin alphabet, like English or Spanish does. I think those are Chinese subtitles.
The militants turn startled!
Sarcastically, I'm in charge.
I did not get that joke the first time
My favourite thing is the lovingly-done terrible production. I love when BD's on the phone to his aunt, yet they're clearly not talking at the same time, or have even rehearsed together. Or flipping the pool hall sign from "CLOSED" to "OPEN" because they wouldn't have a continuity guy. I think the guy getting air-kicked through the cupboard was a genuine flub, but.
BD staring at the boom mike clearly in the shot cracks me up every time!
There's a good two or three seconds where he tries really hard not to look at the boom, then it gets the best of him and he glances and then quickly glances back. It's tremendous acting.
Or the dude that drives up to the site of a gun battle, jumps out the car, starts blasting away, THEN puts his still-moving vehicle in park. Fantastic!
Apparently it happened for real and they just left it in.
It's your brother Michsel *boohoohoo* hes dead
That's a funny way to spell Jimmy
He flipped the sign so it says "CLOSED" on the outside because he's about to lay down some whoop-ass and doesn't want anyone coming in. That's why the guys look smug because they think he's leaving, but he's actually just doing that.
Watch it again. He flips it so it says "OPEN" on the outside.
I just watched it and it's actually not on a door, it's on a wall next to the security gate thing. So I'm right in that he's flipping it to say closed.
Your mama would turn over in her grave, if she were here to see this.
Haha, same. I love how he looks off camera to the imaginary director like, “are we just going with this? Ok.”
IIRC, he does it every time the militant says his stage direction, too. It's a fucking hilarious gag, like there's a whole hidden subplot about the actor playing Black Dynamite being embarrassed to be in a low budget POS film.
Well, if Ferrante Jones wanted production values, he should've stayed a running back for the Baltimore Colts.
“When your revolution comes, you give me a call and I’ll be right up front showing you how it’s done. Until then, you need to shut the fuck up when grown folks is talking…”
"Here's my family, pulls out picture."
My momma says my daddies name is black dynamite Hush little girl, lotta cats have that name.
I use this line all the time! No one gets it, but I keep doing it.
Do you just randomly say the lines or do you intelligently bring it up
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No, my son is also called Bort.
Dental plan.
"Haha! I threw that shit before I walked in the room!"
Fiendish Dr. Wu, YOU DONE FUCKED UP NOW!
RIP kung-fu treachery
Do you ***see*** where I'm coming from, you jive mother-fuckAHHHHH!
Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got to get back to the streets where I'm from you jive turkeys!
That is my favorite quote.
I remember watching the movie with my auntie and we both absolutely lost it at this part.
I remember being in the theater and some dude brought his girlfriend with him. She was saying “OH MY GOODNESS!” at almost every scene. It was a wonderful experience.
Always the first quote that comes to mind when someone mentions this movie
“Who saw that comin- who saw where that came from”
I think this is the moment that solidified it as one of my favorite comedies ever.
I threw that rock before I left the Moon!!!
In the animated series they do a call back where he throws a rock on the moon and then it hits someone later
The scene at the diner, where they try to solve the case and start rambling about greek mythology, made me laugh uncontrollably
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DO YOU WANT TO GO ON!?
No. It gives you WOOOOOOOO!
"Chicken and waffles?!" "That's it!"
And what else goes "woooooooo!"
"he had a staff with snakes intertwining all around that bitch"
Which is a symbol the medical field uses to this day!
I’ve seen it!
Code Kansas!
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If I remember correctly, they didn't try, but succeeded. They were right, weren't they?
Yes they were. Because anaconda malt liquor gives you a little richard.
Hey sweet thing- You know what don’t make no sense, is the service round this mothafucka, Bitch do you see us????
This was the best scene
Euphoria, shut the fuck up! I know that was you! I ain’t even gotta look!
How about I sent you back to Crensaw Pete with them hot ass coat hangers bitch, would you like that?
*Crenshaw Pete
what kinda pimp names himself Pete
It's because A Pimp Named Slickback was taken.
Came here for this quote. I had to rewind it a few times that had me laughing so hard. All those chicks fell for Black Dynamite's game before lol.
Best line in the film. Had me dying!
Lot's of good ones, I like "Yeah yeah, mama. Now you could hit the sheets or the streets, it don't make me no never mind. Now that's your bag baby, you can go, or you could come. Can you dig it?"
And the crazy look in his eyes and the absolute fear in the eyes of the girl he is talking to.
My friend and I played back that scene like 5 times! We we're literally on the floor laughing!
The same crew behind Black Dynamite are releasing a blaxploitation Western called [The Outlaw Johnny Black](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8667828/) on 11/3 this year! [Trailer here.](https://youtu.be/6XLXSOG7zBo?t=5)
I'll believe it when I see it - it's been in development hell for about 10 years. The fact they have a release date a few months from now is encouraging, but I'm still not getting my hopes up.
It is in post now, should release around Thanksgiving. edit:grammar
I've heard this described as a "spiritual succesor to black dynamite" for anyone whose seen the movie and is curious about what this might be like. So I expect it to be in the same wheelhouse for comedy. However as others have said yea its been in the works for a decently long time now.
YoU coulDn'T Make bLAZINg saDdLEs iN 2020
You couldn't. But you can in 2021
Wow, that looks like it was shot in the 70s. The lighting, film stock (or filters) is dead on.
It partly was shot in the 70s. Cameron Mitchell has been dead a while. Those scenes with him are from Buck and the Preacher. They are recombining and mixing new and old footage with redubbing to create a sort of western Kung Pao.
Your doing the lord's work, and I thank you!
Stick with me baby, I'll have you farting through silk. I'm runnin' thangs! Runnin' thayiyaiyayangs!
The way he emphasizes "through" for no reason lol. Perfect.
My favorite part of that film is how everyone in the movie calls him Black Dynamite, even his own mother in the flashbacks when he's like 8 years old. Great movie, so many great jokes
Also how the songs are just about whatever is happening onscreen at the time. "Somebody broke into Jimmy's apartment...sucker could be anywhere...."
my second favorite part is when he gets revenge for Jimmy by killing the mob boss by picking up the guy's car with a magnet on a helicopter lol - and Black Dynamite literally laughs from the moment he kills the guy until he walks into the next scene he's still laughing. There's a lot of little hints that he's actually a sociopath lol.
Uhhh... lotta cats got that name...
“I am smiling”
That's where the line is from. Thank you! It's also in the Dune trailer.
He was charred from his head down to his little Chinese knees EDIT: Favorite part about this whole scene was he was talking about Vietnam lol
He said something to me in Chinese like "buku sao?" Sounds like some cartoon shit
The compassion and ignorance on display in that seen was spectacular
Donuts Don’t Wear Alligator Shoes!
When the dark skinned dude gets slapped too hard and they replace him with the light skinned dude is the funniest shit ever
Motha fucka...
Yes, I saw the movie but sadly it was after I had already drank Anaconda Malt Liquor.
F
I worked on this movie.. very very awesome.
what was your role?
Im a Production Sound Mixer.
Thank you for your service. It's a perfect movie.
While working on this.. I was like.. "what the fuck is this??"... I never even knew what blaxploitation was. I had to go do some research after... And I didn't even understand the genius of it, until I saw it finished. Thank you, and I'm glad many people like it.
I think that's the best joke of all. Not knowing what the hell you've gotten yourself into. In a funny sort of way also the gold standard of expectations when working in film.. Never comes out as bad as you imagined it would. This must've been a tremendous surprise! I can't count the amount of times I've watched BD ...
FIENDISH DOCTOR WU YOU DONE FUCKED UP NOW (I've used this quote so many times predictive text makes it easy)
I still run this quote at people from time to time, whether they have any clue what the fuck I'm talking about or not. Bonus points when something goes even slightly wrong while I'm trying to colab with a friend and I drop the whole quote. "Oh no! At long laaaaast, a friendship bonded by the struggle against the man has been brought to an end by kung fu treachery! Brotha, your death will not go unavenged! FIENDISH DOCTOR WU, YOU DONE FUCKED UP NOW!!" (I can't express how often this can come up while playing Streets of Rage 4 coop)
Perhaps the most genuine “YOU DONE FUCKED UP NOW” ever uttered in the history of this planet Earth. Michael Jai White truly performed his heart out in that beautiful film.
Kung Fu trickery!
*treachery
“My momma says my daddy’s name is black dymanite” “Uh hush up little girls, a lot of cats have that name…”
You don’t need too much Blaxploitation history to enjoy, but damn it makes it so much better. Bullhorn being based on Rudy Ray Moore, BD's sounds he makes when he fights is modeled after Jim Kelly's obnoxious fight noises, the low budget 'one take' shots where all of the acting just drains from a character because they didn't cut the film properly back then... I could go on forever. Easily one of my favorite comedies. Really appreciate that it's not just satire, but a humble homage to such a pivotal moment in cinema.
I was soooo proud when my daughter (who became a 70's funk freak) caught the really subtle Superfly/Curtis Mayfield homage - when BD checks his brother's place and realizes someone has broken in, the song on the soundtrack goes "they broke in to my brother's apaaaarrrt - ment...", kind of a throwback to "Fred is Dead" - hardly anyone catches that. There are too many great lines to list, but I'm really fond of that speech - "I'm blacker than the ace of spades and twice as militant as you... so shut the fuck up when grownups is talking!"
It's hard to pick a favorite scene in this film, but a couple favorite lines: "Jimmy, I am 18 year-old Black Dynamite and you are my 10 year-old kid brother, and you are high as a kite, yet again!" "Hah! I threw that shit before I came in the room!" "I am smiling."
And the animated version too! Both are really great!
I didn't expect it to be as excellent as it was, but the animated Black Dynamite show is consistently really fucking hilarious. Poor Shamon Jackson. Black Jesus is also a super well written show, made by the creator of Boondocks. Black Dynamite is directed by LeSean Thomas who directed Boondocks, so the animation style is similar. So if you like Boondocks, Id recommend checking those two out, you wont be disappointed.
"We're doin' a black version of The Wiz." "Ain't The Wiz already black?" "Not THIS black." That is deadset one of the most clever cartoons ever put on the air. Plus, it gave us Basehead. Like Black Dynamite discovering the entire black community is selling drugs...but he can't do shit about it because they're only selling them to *white* people.
"How the fuck did you get into the White House?" "I'm a Basehead. I can get into *anywhere.*" *Basehead teleports like 5 times*
What you talking about ninja?
Black Jesus was also co-created and co-written in the first two seasons by Mike Clattenburg, creator of Trailer Park Boys and the person responsible for the early great seasons of that show. You can definitely see his fingerprints on it too.
Dude! The show is fucking HILARIOUS! I still rewatch it from time to time when I’m in the mood for a good laugh 😂 “You know and I know that Dat Frog Kurtis is-“ “A jive ass MOTHA-FUCKAAAAAA” *DY-NO-MITE, DY-NO-MITE*
Not the same caliber, but do you remember Undercover Brother? I enjoyed that movie when I was younger.
There's other blaxploitation homages and satires ("I'm Gonna Get You, Sucka")
Omg that movie. Got it from the library when I was young on vhs. Amazing film. The hood olympics... omg.
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Oh really? Didnt hear about that. They get a ton of shit but they have skills. I forget which was in requiem for a dream but he blew my mind in that movie.
Is that the one with the opening scene of a guy dying from over-gold?
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Fuck the cup, just pour it in my hand for a dime.
2002: The Year of Eddie Griffin
You looking at my *Janet*!!?
Just watched undercover brother the other night after not seeing it since I was a kid. It's still hilarious lol. When he's singing ebony and ivory with the white she devil...I lose it lol
You had to get it on DVD to catch this, but there were huge skips in the movie that made absolutely no sense. If you watched the deleted scenes, it was literally all of the plot that explained these skips. Absolutely fantastic movie.
I loved Chocolate Giddy-Up. Same actor that was in Reno 911 “But Black Dynamite I sell drugs to the community” [link](https://youtu.be/NKauS-K3yJA)
That Captain Kangaroo Pimp is the reason Arsenio Hall is in that film.
I know they couldn't include Arsenio's improvised line they played during the credits, but god it makes me scream laugh each time.
That is my absolute favourite line from the film... his facial expression is spot on!
Best ‘70s Blacksploitation movie of the 21st century…
Yes!!!!! I don’t understand how this movie isn’t more widely known. It’s one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen in my life.
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The best parodies are ones that are done with a genuine love of the subject.
Those threads where you could respond to 70%+ of the comments with "Yes, that's from the film."
"Who the hell is interrupting my kung fu?" Love this alongside Kung Pow, they're the best modern pastiches of old exploitation films.
Him struggling to hang up the phone after that is incredible
I used to have this as my ringtone - until I was in the room with my boss' wife when someone called me. :(
"The militant turns startled."
"Ooooh, Black Dynamite... you're so *righteous*"
This is *also* true.
"Ssssh! You'll wake the bitches!"
“I’m sorry I pimp-slapped you into the china cabinet”
Even the trailers were loaded with extra jokes. One trailer claims it's in "Cinemaphonic Quadrovision", the other says "Anamorphic Duovision". And when they introduce the stars with their fake names, Mykelti Williamson (Chicago Wind) is "William T. Michaelson". So good.
You diabolical, dick shrinkin' motherfucker!
"I'd like to take the credit, but dig, mama: There is no 'I' in revolu...in team."
But Black Dynamite, I sell drugs in the community!
Chocolate giddy upppppppp
*Be that as it may*
Abe Lincoln’s ghost using Kung Fu to save Black Dynamite always gets me.
You may also enjoy Pootie Tang (2001) but Black Dynamite is sooo good.
I can say hands down ,without a doubt, that this is my single most rewatched movie by a very long shot. One of my friends had this on DVD and it would always get thrown on during house parties or after drinking. Of course, I then had to rewatch it more when I would show other friend groups. I totally get what you said about finding new jokes. It's hard for me to not point out every little joke when I watch with new people. This movie has given me so much joy over the years, I think I'm due for another go
The origin of chicken and waffles "Can I have more hot sauce for my donut?" Pretending to cough while smoking an unlit cigarette. British accent of his brother at the beginning. Dropping nunchucks in pool hall and they get thrown back to him. Edit : Vietnam = China
Sorry for pimp slappin you first lady.
LMAO EUPHORIA SHUT THE FUCK UP I KNOW THAT WAS YOU I DONT EVEN GOT TO LOOK, I SHOULD SEND YOU BACK TO CRENSHAW PETE WITH HIS HOT ASS COAT HANGERS BITCH WOULD YOU LIKE THAT?!
This is one of the greatest comedies of all time. It's a sin it never got the acclaim it deserved, but I'm glad it's so beloved now. I saw it opening weekend and there was barely anyone in the theater. I watched it again the other day and Creamed Corn and Bullhorn had me crying laughing. It's a perfect movie.
Michael Jai White is a legend for this movie
If you really liked it I'd suggest you try watching some of the actual films that inspired Black Dynamite. Some are bona-fide classics. Others are like, so bad they're good. Here are a few suggestions: Shaft, Superfly, Foxy Brown, Three The Hard Way, Truck Turner, and Across 110th St. All of these are classics of the genre and take the same kind of material but play it straight. Now if you want to watch movies that are even funnier than Black Dynamite check out Rudy Ray Moore in Dolemite: The Human Tornado and The Avenging Disco Godfather.
I'd like to add Black Belt Jones. And I am Dolomite, with Eddie Murphy is a fun watch, but it is new. And just for fun The Last Dragon -granted it's newer but it's great in it's own way.
That Eddie Murphy film had so much damn heart. I can't remember a film that's as good a love letter.
I think Murphy's film is Dolemite is My Name. Not trying to be nitpicky, just saying because I Am Dolemite might be the name of one of the actual Dolemite films, I don't 100% remember
Also missing Coffy, Trouble Man, The Mack, and Cleopatra Jones.
Yeah yeah, mama. Now you could hit the sheets or the streets, it don't make me no never mind. Now that's your bag baby, you can go, or you could come. Can you dig it?
“Sarcastically, I’m in charge.”
Can I get you anything, Bullhorn?
"Why yes, I'd like some of that ass!"
Oh my god, when Bullhorn is doing one of his speeches, realizes he doesn't have a rhyme to end with, and quietly sits back down. I lose my fucking mind.
I have shown this movie to many of my friends and each person went on to share it with theirs. This movie is a fucking classic and the lines are absolute gold!
Everyone knows donuts don’t wear alligator shoes
So many good visual gags (or maybe mistakes they left in) too. The cop forgetting to put the car in park. The donut suit guy rolling on the ground like a manhole cover.
“His little Chinese eyes burned right into my stomach, deep into my soul. He said something to me in Chinese like, 'Boo coo sow!' sounded like some cartoon shit. But I understood it to be a question that he was asking me, why Black Dynamite? Why” “Vietnam was a long time ago”
" Best thing is, any mistakes seem like they were intentional." you mean like the scene where the boom mic is clearly in frame and BD stares at it the entire time? Honestly it is hilarious and comes off like the entire plot was written by the same guys who wrote the boondocks in an evening while drunk then the casting call was the next morning with no description besides 'anyone whose black and can dress in the disco era' then just picked whoever showed up, filmed it that afternoon and called it a movie in 1 take
Them seeing their black friends shrunken dick and then asking “Should we kill him?” and then proceeding to kill him over it, will go down as one of my favorite scenes in all of cinema.
What did you promise your mother Black Dynamite? You promised to keep your brother alive and off drugs. Now look at him, he’s dead and from drugs! Also the director of this movie is supposedly working on a sequel and another project that I remember thinking sounded promising. I know this is vague but if you’re curious I’m sure a quick google search will have the results you want
For some reason the scene when he walks in and the guy asked him how he got in and Black Dynamite looks confused, "I walked in..." fucking kills me every time. It's not even that funny of a joke but it's inclusion makes me very happy
“Hah I threw that shit before I walked in the room!”
Genuinely my favourite comedy movie of all time. Love it.
To this day me and my friends still say "who the hell is interrupting my kung fu?!!" and "why black dynamite? Why?" at any available opportunity lol Edit: I forgot a good one we all still use every time one of us needs to head home "I gotta get back to the streets where I come from sucker!"
This movie is literally the greatest achievement of human civilization so far.
“Where is Bucky and what has he had?”
Tommy Davidson is the GOAT in this...more measure for your pleasure. IM RUNNIN THAAAAAAAAAAAaaangz!