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The Slept on Black Movies From the 90s Thread

All of these movies I've watched more times than I could count but my favorite is Devil in a Blue Dress,they need to follow up on that with Denzel and People Under the Stairs.

I don't know if these movies made it to theaters or not but I would find most of them at block busters like when I found the 70's movie WaterMelon Man,Sweetback,The life of Sonny Carson,shit that I shouldn't have been watching but it was there so I got it and the funny thing is the further you went out of urban area the more unrented black movies I would find.
 
ballscout1 said:
Title says slept on but mofokrs just posting titles to participate. .

Most aint slept on shit aint even napped on
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Well, that depends on what your definition of... 'slept on' actually is. :dunno:

Some Food for Thought...

Movies like Titanic, Jurassic Park, Star Wars (Phantom Menace), Lion Kin & Independence Day... each made around like $1 BILLION Dollars apiece, at the box office. :yes:

Then you also had movies like Die Hard With a Vengeance, Jumanji, Unforgiven, Con Air, Se7en, American Pie, Batman & Robin, Analyze This, Wild Wild West (Will Smith), Enemy of the State, Speed (Sandra Bullock), Total Recall, The Mask (Jim Carrey), Toy Story (1 & 2), Men in Black, Saving Private Ryan, Dances With Wolves, The 6th Sense, Forrest Gump... which all made well over $100+ million dollars apiece. :yes:

And ALL of these movies came out in the 1990s, right alongside the Black movies. :yes:

Now, I can't speak for anyone else :dunno:... but ALL of the movies that I posted made LESS THAN $30 million dollars each, at the box office. :smh:

And only 2 of the movies I posted... even made MORE THAN just $20 million dollars at the box office. :smh: (i.e. Hoodlum & Low Down Dirty Shame each made somewhere around $24-28 million. That's All. :smh:)

So yeah... I'd say alot of these black movies got 'slept on'. :yes:
Especially when you compare them to other 'mainstream movies' that came out at the same time. :yes:

Looking back, they may have gotten popular at the barbershop... or they got popular in the hood / or got popular on Cable TV over the last 20-25 years... but unfortunately... they didn't get 'a ton of love' at the box office, when they originally came out. :smh:

For example >> "Devil in A Blue Dress" is a prime example.
AN OUTSTANDING MOVIE. :yes::yes: But highly disappointing ticket sales. :(

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"Devil With a Blue Dress" only made $16 million at the box office. :(
Meanwhile movies like "Mrs. Doubtfire", "Austin Powers" and "The Mummy" each made OVER $200 million. :rolleyes:

Damn Shame. :smh:
 
grownazzblakman said:
Well, that depends on what your definition of... 'slept on' actually is. :dunno:

Some Food for Thought...

Movies like Titanic, Jurassic Park, Star Wars (Phantom Menace), Lion Kin & Independence Day... each made around like $1 BILLION Dollars apiece, at the box office. :yes:

Then you also had movies like Die Hard With a Vengeance, Jumanji, Unforgiven, Con Air, Se7en, American Pie, Batman & Robin, Analyze This, Wild Wild West (Will Smith), Enemy of the State, Speed (Sandra Bullock), Total Recall, The Mask (Jim Carrey), Toy Story (1 & 2), Men in Black, Saving Private Ryan, Dances With Wolves, The 6th Sense, Forrest Gump... which all made well over $100+ million dollars apiece. :yes:

And ALL of these movies came out in the 1990s, right alongside the Black movies. :yes:

Now, I can't speak for anyone else :dunno:... but ALL of the movies that I posted made LESS THAN $30 million dollars each, at the box office. :smh:

And only 2 of the movies I posted... even made MORE THAN just $20 million dollars at the box office. :smh: (i.e. Hoodlum & Low Down Dirty Shame each made somewhere around $24-28 million. That's All. :smh:)

So yeah... I'd say alot of these black movies got 'slept on'. :yes:
Especially when you compare them to other 'mainstream movies' that came out at the same time. :yes:

Looking back, they may have gotten popular at the barbershop... or they got popular in the hood / or got popular on Cable TV over the last 20-25 years... but unfortunately... they didn't get 'a ton of love' at the box office, when they originally came out. :smh:

For example >> "Devil in A Blue Dress" is a prime example.
AN OUTSTANDING MOVIE. :yes: :yes: But highly disappointing ticket sales. :(

"Devil With a Blue Dress" only made $16 million at the box office. :(
Meanwhile movies like "Mrs. Doubtfire", "Austin Powers" and "The Mummy" each made OVER $200 million. :rolleyes:

Damn Shame. :smh:
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I feel but after all this time you should know by now everything I respond to and how is the black experience.

So when I say not slept on......by black folks...

One more time what crakkas think and what their opinions are is of not concern of mine..what they like never enters my mind..

If it dont affect the global majority....fuck it

:lol:
 
ballscout1 said:
I feel but after all this time you should know by now everything I respond to and how is the black experience.

So when I say not slept on......by black folks...

One more time what crakkas think and what their opinions are is of not concern of mine..what they like never enters my mind..

If it dont affect the global majority....fuck it

:lol:
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OK, I hear ya. :yes:

The only thing I was trying to point out was... movies like Bad Boys, Coming to America, Straight Out of Compton, Big Momma's House, Boomerang... all have made lots of loot (i.e. well over $100+ million at the box office) exclusively off the Black Community... and have become 'household names' in the hood... but not all the films that are being posted have been quite as successful... so some of them were/are still slept on by black folks also.

Especially if you are looking at it from a 'box-office perspective'... which I tend to do :yes:

If that makes sense. :dunno:
 
grownazzblakman said:
Well, that depends on what your definition of... 'slept on' actually is. :dunno:

Some Food for Thought...

Movies like Titanic, Jurassic Park, Star Wars (Phantom Menace), Lion Kin & Independence Day... each made around like $1 BILLION Dollars apiece, at the box office. :yes:

Then you also had movies like Die Hard With a Vengeance, Jumanji, Unforgiven, Con Air, Se7en, American Pie, Batman & Robin, Analyze This, Wild Wild West (Will Smith), Enemy of the State, Speed (Sandra Bullock), Total Recall, The Mask (Jim Carrey), Toy Story (1 & 2), Men in Black, Saving Private Ryan, Dances With Wolves, The 6th Sense, Forrest Gump... which all made well over $100+ million dollars apiece. :yes:

And ALL of these movies came out in the 1990s, right alongside the Black movies. :yes:

Now, I can't speak for anyone else :dunno:... but ALL of the movies that I posted made LESS THAN $30 million dollars each, at the box office. :smh:

And only 2 of the movies I posted... even made MORE THAN just $20 million dollars at the box office. :smh: (i.e. Hoodlum & Low Down Dirty Shame each made somewhere around $24-28 million. That's All. :smh:)

So yeah... I'd say alot of these black movies got 'slept on'. :yes:
Especially when you compare them to other 'mainstream movies' that came out at the same time. :yes:

Looking back, they may have gotten popular at the barbershop... or they got popular in the hood / or got popular on Cable TV over the last 20-25 years... but unfortunately... they didn't get 'a ton of love' at the box office, when they originally came out. :smh:

For example >> "Devil in A Blue Dress" is a prime example.
AN OUTSTANDING MOVIE. :yes::yes: But highly disappointing ticket sales. :(

Devil-In-A-Blue-Dress-blu-ray-review.jpg


"Devil With a Blue Dress" only made $16 million at the box office. :(
Meanwhile movies like "Mrs. Doubtfire", "Austin Powers" and "The Mummy" each made OVER $200 million. :rolleyes:

Damn Shame. :smh:
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Most of the movies OP posted deserved to be slept on,there's only a few that should've recognized, especially DIABD
 
I don't think its a matter that these movies were slept on. They just didn't have broad appeal to black people and you know there was probably zero appeal to whites.

Plus when you have a budget to produce a movie you also have to budget to promote that movie, guest appearances by the stars, movie trailers. The movies production doesn't end with the editors final cut. Our producers sometimes fail in this regard. An if its a black production do not expect the promotion company to promote your product. That also goes for those in the music industry.

Look at the job done promoting Black Panther I couldn't wait to see Black Panther. Guess what? I knew nothing about Black Panther, had never heard of Black Panther but they made the effort to promote the movie and characters. It makes that much of a difference.

As for appeal there's a few movies listed here that just didn't appeal to me. We're no longer in the 50s or 60s where you called family and friends anytime a black person on TV. Most of you are too young to have lived that.
 
World B Free said:
1993 Sankofa

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My high school English teacher forced us all to watch this movie. She said go see it, bring back the ticket, and write a report or you will not pass my class.

Some smart-ass said "What if I turn in the rest of my work?"

Mrs. Harvey: "Somehow...I.... Won't....Get...it"

At Cleveland School of the Arts, nobody tested Mrs. Harvey. RIP

I enjoyed the movie
 
grownazzblakman said:
A Rage in Harlem (1991) - A gangster's sexy girlfriend flees to Harlem with a trunkload of gold after a shootout... unaware that the rest of the gang (and a few other unsavory characters) are hot on her trail.

Sidenote >> A young "Bunk Moreland" cameo appears at the 0:25 sec mark. :D

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I Used to Love A Rage in Harlem and Robin Givens was fucking gorgeous in this movie, and one of the scariest motherfuckers I've ever seen in my life Badja Djola (you may remember him as one of the first guys to scare the shit out of Bernie Mac in Players Club "I was supposed to get some puuuuussy tonight"

One other part that I remember is when Robin Givens was cursing out one of her boyfriends men, clearly spurned on by the fact that her boyfriend was the boss

FUCK YOU

NO, FUCK YOU

NO...FUCK YOU

NO, FUCK... YOU

Gregory Hines, Forest Whitaker if you haven't seen it go see this movie
 
godofwine said:
My high school English teacher forced us all to watch this movie. She said go see it, bring back the ticket, and write a report or you will not pass my class.

Some smart-ass said "What if I turn in the rest of my work?"

Mrs. Harvey: "Somehow...I.... Won't....Get...it"

At Cleveland School of the Arts, nobody tested Mrs. Harvey. RIP

I enjoyed the movie
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Cool story, glad you liked it.....

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crossovernegro said:
POP GO THE WEASEL!!!
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BlueCarpetTreatment said:
When Danny Glover’s character called him a “chump”.....then proceeded with “chump pussy.” The shit was on at that point! Lmao!
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That shit was hilarious.

Danny Glover: Your girl Emma Belle got another part of me worked up... And it ain't my head."

Slim "Pop go the weasel"

Danny Glover "Take that Nursery School shit back down to Mississippi chump."

Slim: "Chump?"

Danny Glover: "Yeah, chump. Pussy."

:roflmao::roflmao2:

I might watch that shit tonight. That shit, and everybody commenting on how ugly Forest Whitaker's mother was..:giggle:

If you haven't seen it, go check that shit out
 
godofwine said:
That shit was hilarious.

Danny Glover: Your girl Emma Belle got another part of me worked up... And it ain't my head."

Slim "Pop go the weasel"

Danny Glover "Take that Nursery School shit back down to Mississippi chump."

Slim: "Chump?"

Danny Glover: "Yeah, chump. Pussy."

:roflmao::roflmao2:

I might watch that shit tonight. That shit, and everybody commenting on how ugly Forest Whitaker's mother was..:giggle:

If you haven't seen it, go check that shit out
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:roflmao:
“Who is that?”

“That’s Jesus.”

“I know who Jesus is, who’s in the other picture?”

“That’s his mama.”

“Got Damn!”

Lmao! I think i remembered that correctly.
 
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Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. (1992) - Chantel Mitchell (Ariyan Johnson), a hip, articulate, black high-school girl in Brooklyn, is determined not to become "just another girl on the IRT" (the IRT is one of NYC's subway lines).

This is a coming-of-age story about a teenage girl (Chantel) from a working-class family in Brooklyn, with dreams of going to college, and becoming a doctor. Chantal dreams of going to medical school & finding an escape from the generational poverty and "street-corner life" her friends seem to have accepted as their lot. However, her dreams are challenged when she becomes pregnant & tries to hide it.

 

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