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Post by Sprague Dawley on Sept 24, 2022 1:54:37 GMT
So much fun. Got a bit bogged down in the soppy romance aspect and needed WAYYYY more barbershop scenes and Kunta Kinte gags but damn good fun. Holy shit New York was like a warzone back then. The subway cars were an absolute betty crocker. Graffiti and squalor. Detritus and rubble all over the streets too, ffs, the place looked like the aftermath of Aleppo  |
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Post by beta on Sept 24, 2022 15:13:27 GMT
It was the only movie on VHS when I arrived in Japan 27 years ago at some roach-infested guesthouse, there was only one cheap escape. I have seen the movie more than any other movie on this planet. It is beyond "like" for me. It has weaknesses, but it is, in the end, a good fucken laugh. Nowadays, of course, it wouldn't be made.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Sept 24, 2022 21:42:01 GMT
They'd never let an old Jewish guy refer to a black man as "Kunta Kinte" these days. Even if it is Eddie Murphy in makeup referring to himself as Kunta Kinte. How dare Murphy make fun of himself in such a clearly racist manner.
Murphy: CANCELLED.
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Post by beta on Sept 25, 2022 5:39:33 GMT
The Arsenio Hall drag scene would not get past the studio execs nowadays either. Oh well, it was funny the first 110 times I watched it. It is now part of some "ism" or "archy" that must be destroyed. Christ, where do people learn to be so fucking boring?
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Post by Ladyfingers on Oct 18, 2022 11:22:03 GMT
Pleased to have finally watched it. More or less exactly what I expected.
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