Just to correct the record, black people absolutely had a problem with this movie when it came out. There was protests at theaters and there was boycott. All the black actors in it were criticized at the time, but we could also sympathize with them because it’s not like there was a ton of other opportunities out there.
You omitted the best line, when Jones suggests he now understands what it's like to be black in American and the white kid says, "no I didn't, because if I didn't like it, I could just stop."
@@peacecitizen1 Todd Bridges had one of my favorite lines from Little House on the Prairie. He asked Charles, "Would you rather be black and live to be 100, or would you rather be white and live to be 50?"
It's ironic in a way, because the story revolves around a white guy who just stopped being white. It would be interesting to see a modern take on this but make it a black guy trying to become white because he grew up being told that white people have a lot of privilege and black people don't. But when he becomes white he ends up just getting called a racist all the time.
Right!! I watch a ton of film review channels, so I can't believe they haven't recommended this to me until today! It's like the Rewatchables podcast but in short, goofy, ridiculous format!!
I'm 43 and and I'm black, my parents used to love this movie and they were VERY militant in the 70's Looking back I really just think they had protest fatigue, the 80's was a decade for them to have a family and relax I think the entire country had that feeling. The 80's really was an outlier decade.
@ that’s exactly how it felt. Right after the Rodney king video and riots, it was like in an instant the fun, carefree attitudes and optimism of the 80’s was over and movies like this were almost embarrassing.
I think people who experience the most brutal elements of racism and white supremacy are a lot less sensitive than other people when it comes to discussing or being entertained by issues of race.
Im 42, i really just think the 80s and 90s were the people who actually grew up dealing with stuff so they could take a joke. Think about it. Hogans Heros came out 20 years after WW2. Imagine if it came out in 2024 with how thin skin people are today. Also my parents lived this movie
Im biracial Black /Mexican, this movie when it came out, I was a kid going to see it, like 6th grade, and I LOVED IT, later in life after all the political qualms with the movie, I STILL LOVE IT, and purchased it off of youtube for my own collection. the thing about movies in the '70s through the 80s and early '90s was that they showed us social experiments, they were not afraid to push the envelope in how far they could take you in and people weren't as easily offended as they are now this is why I think we spend so much time now reminiscing over movies and shows from those years because there is almost no way they could remake this now. But I love it. thanks for your take on it. I agree and laughed right along with you!
Your being biracial doesn't discount the film from being super offensive. Even if it's funny. 2 things can be true at the same time. P.s. I also lived through the 90s.
@kifacorea and I am sharing that this movie doesn't offend me. If that is how you feel share your own story or kick rocks. It wasn't created in the ninety's... You must have had a hard time living through the 80s. Thank God for an iron clad sense of humor ... I'm also sure in living color snl and the Chappelle show are your worst nightmare...
One of the more disgusting things in this movie is when the main character says how much his complete Harvard education will cost and it's not even the cost of a single modern semester of any college today.......
Rae Dawn Chong was also in Commando, which is where I first saw and fell for her on sight. It's truly incredible that she didn't have a huge career at least on the same level as Lisa Bonet.
The landlord dad imagines him showing up dressed like a pimp, putting his boots on the dinner table and eating watermelon. Hi daughter was already pregnant. It was gold!
I was born in 1970 and the country I live in is 70% black people. The schools I went to were 95% black people. I went to this movie in the theater. And literally did not hear one peep from a Black person Complaining about this movie being racist. We were pretty much over the racism, Then mid-seventies to early 80s. Now they're ramping it all up again to conquer and divide. Anyway.
It was controversial even then. Spike Lee, for one, was on The Dick Cavett Show and he was very vocal about it. Black people are not a monolith. I don’t think this movie is particularly that funny or that sharp, but it definitely meant well.
It's easy to cringe when looking back on a movie like this but after watching it again backing 2023, the movie left you with talkin points. Also it had its moral teachings behind it that I feel capped it off nicely. That being said, as a kid watching this, that dinner table scene to this day had me in tears 😂. The 80s was truly a different beauty and a beast.
@@douglascarter2078I did like the concept of white chicks, but it didn’t make me laugh at all. I think black chicks been funnier with two white actors. But I know that been boycotted and protested by the woke cult.
So for me the funniest part about this movie which I loved, is that I used the picture of C. Thomas Howell when he was black as my work profile picture and it stayed up on our bank corporate website for at least 3 days before my boss noticed and had me change it although she approved it in the first place not knowing what I uploaded. lol! Always thought it was great if anyone seen it in those 3 days and didn't realize it was a reference to this movie.
Every black person back then had a problem with this movie in fact the NAACP and Spike Lee were protesting outside of the theatres for obvious reasons. The only black actors in here were just career background characters, James Earl Jones possible because he thought it was going to be the next Black Like Me and Rae Dawn Chong who married the guy in this movie in blackface. This is the definition of the past was doing it's best despite the past then screaming at them to not do this and somehow it lead to Song of the South got put into the vault and this hasn't stopped playing since. The movie is aware of everything except why it shouldn't exists and my all time favorite he didn't learn anything or lose anything for it. You nailed the message of this movie "Racism when it happens to a while guy its even worse" 😂
The Native American that the landlord's daughter bangs looks exactly like Iron Eyes Cody that was on a hugely popular anti-littering campaign in the 70s. That was supposed to be the funny part about it. However, later it turned out that Iron Eyes Cody wasn't Native American but the son of Italian immigrants named Oscar di Corti and was pretending to be Native American to get acting jobs in westerns. hahahahahhaha
I would not say this aged badly. It used comedy as a tool to give white people a little taste of how complex it is to navigate the whole race relations and equality argument as well as experiencing some true to life elements of discrimination when faced with living life as a person of color. As someone old enough to have living memory of life pretty shortly after the civil rights act I can say we have come a long way. As someone who also spent some time as a teen living in Apartheid era South Africa I can say we have come a very long way.
nah as a black person whose grandmother actually advocated heavily for Civil Rights and even helped black people in her community vote and was involved in politics in her local community and was born and grew up in the Jim Crow South and as someone who has parents old enough to remember apartheid and white flight and busing, it did age badly and there are better films that use comedy to discuss race
@@ronanobrien47 As another commented, South Africa was invaded by Europeans, mostly British, Dutch, and German but others as well. Just because Europeans were more technologically developed does not mean the native Africans were unhappy before Europeans came. Sadly the discovery of Gold and Diamonds pretty much doomed them to over a century of servitude to their white European overlords with Britain conquering the non-British settlers in the Boer Wars and taking full control in 1902. I remember hearing of a British Airways captain saying "Welcome to Johannesburg, set your watch ahead 2 hours and your mind back 50 years" upon landing. Keep in mind that back 50 years would have been referring to 1925 Britain and I would call his remark an understatement of Apartheid's reality.
@@audramcdonaldapologist3676 It was bad when it came out. It has aged poorly, but it was a total joke, when it came out. I was a kid, and it was a joke to us. Black kids thought it was hilarious, but it was like So Bad It’s Funny, when you’re a 10 year old. It was always terrible, and a stupid, and it was taken out of theaters, to be found by future generations at the video store.
I'm black and 51 and I remember feeling so ill when this came out. Just the trailers or however I encountered it (I never saw it). I remember despising C. Thomas Howell forever after. Just seeing his name made me recoil as if he was a klansman. I don't know how this movie got made. I mean, even for the eighties...
The scene where all the white jocks were fighting over which team gets the "black" dude killed me. Then he started playing ball badly and that had me rolling on the floor.
Granted, I was a just a little mixed kid when this movie came out, but I loved this movie back then! Now I kinda wanna watch it again. 😊 “The past was doin’ its best!!” 😂😂😂😂😂
This movie was a regular rental for us. It was freaking hilarious! And from my perspective, a black dude (teen at the time) from just outside of Boston, for me I loved how it showed how racism still exists up there. JEJ was great! Whenever I hear someone say Mr Watson, I say it in JEJ voice lol. You also can't critique this movie without understanding the culture at this time. I mean my man Eddie Murphy did this on SNL. It's racist AF but it also attempted to put a mirror in front of wppl.
I think Rae Dawn Chong had the same sort of quality and appeal as Rosanna Arquette, undeniably attractive with just a touch of unconventionality to make her special.
This was such a funny movie when I was a kid! 😂I got into c Thomas Howell b movies for a couple of years after. His career was making all these b movie thrillers. Wild times!
I used to love this when I was younger and would watch it when hbo would play it (all the time) because I loved C. Thomas Howell and Rae Dawn Chong but even as A child I was like no you don’t look black at all 😂😂😂 but I loved this movie and the ending
The 80s was wild and shit I know that and I wasn't born until 1987 but in the 90s a lot of old movies that really couldn't be shown today were still being aired on HBO Cinemax and USA and so on. Good times. Even I couldn't trip back then and it kind of taught me to focus on serious issues not something that affects me in no way. Yeah it's blackface but it really don't arouse any feelings whatsoever. When I saw it remember I was like 7 or 8 and it was just a movie where a white dude became 1970s Michael Jackson lmao let me go to bed bruh
I saw the trailer for this movie in the theaters and I believe my response was, "That looks like a really bad idea for a movie." It was bad on release, not just aging badly.
I am not going to lie, I absolutely loved this movie as a kid and I still do as an adult. I think it is absolutely hilarious and I just can't get over the fact that the protagonist is played by the same guy who is the sociopathic serial killer Foyer of "Criminal Minds".😲 He is an amazing actor!
I'm actually, right now, going to go on the adventure of binge watching all your content to catch up. You have a new subscriber and I think I really like your content... maybe 🤔
It gets looked back on now as blaxploitation due to the jokes and the blackface but it really wasn't. It sounds funny to say out loud as it's still a ridiculous movie but they went for trying to play it seriously by blending a little messaging with a love story. It was actually a pretty woke movie in its time.
The funny thing is that the movie does get a little preachy and does have some lefty nonsense in it but it's the left today that are so triggered by this movie. They really do eat their own.
@@BishopWalters12 I only recently learned it was written by the woman who created The Wonder Years. Rae Dawn Chong has some excellent quotes defending the movie and points out that it actually makes white people look pretty bad. It's essentially a white guilt film, you would think modern progressives would enjoy that. I have a gripe with the premise for him needing college money. They could have had it be a successful father who wanted his kid to learn the hard way instead of daddy taking care of everything, but instead they went with some goofy story about the dad's high priced psychiatrist convinced him to do it out of pure selfishness.
@@D-Fens_1632 I agree with you, I hate most white guilt movies, but I let it go with this movie because it's so over the top and several scenes really do make me laugh. I also agree that the big flaw with this movie is the set-up of the rich dad listening to shrink and not wanting to help his son. It really didn't make sense. Mark is your typical annoying rich kid but it's not like he's living home and doing nothing. That was some bad writing.
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Just to correct the record, black people absolutely had a problem with this movie when it came out. There was protests at theaters and there was boycott. All the black actors in it were criticized at the time, but we could also sympathize with them because it’s not like there was a ton of other opportunities out there.
i remember the trailers when i was young, but i still haven't seen it
The debate at the end was the important part...
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The “I felt 400 years of oppression in every thrust” made me spit out my tea 😂
Arizona iced?
is that 400 years of oppression per divided by the 4 inchs though? so 100 years per inch of the thrust
@@sargonsblackgrandfather2072 exactly…this movie is hilarious
Oh man. This movie would make new woke cult die from white guilt in seconds🤣.
Me too!! This movie felt so bonkers and insane even back when I saw it in the late 90s!
You omitted the best line, when Jones suggests he now understands what it's like to be black in American and the white kid says, "no I didn't, because if I didn't like it, I could just stop."
@@peacecitizen1 Todd Bridges had one of my favorite lines from Little House on the Prairie.
He asked Charles, "Would you rather be black and live to be 100, or would you rather be white and live to be 50?"
@@mr.pavone9719 I remember that line. Always stuck with me.
I came here to say this. Bravo man! This line brings it home 🎉🎉
It's ironic in a way, because the story revolves around a white guy who just stopped being white. It would be interesting to see a modern take on this but make it a black guy trying to become white because he grew up being told that white people have a lot of privilege and black people don't. But when he becomes white he ends up just getting called a racist all the time.
Id take black and live to 100. Y'all out of your damn mind if you think being black is bad
Black Guy starring White Man... I am so glad I ran into this channel.
the movie white chicks will blow your mind
Right!! I watch a ton of film review channels, so I can't believe they haven't recommended this to me until today! It's like the Rewatchables podcast but in short, goofy, ridiculous format!!
Rae Dawn Chong is the daughter of Tommy Chong of Cheech & Chong. She also was married to Soul Man star C. Thomas Howell for ONE YEAR from 1989-1990.
And she was awesome in Commando
She was in uhhh what’s the movie, early Abel Ferrara film I watched recently with Tom berenger. Keep seeing her pop up recently
@@DiamorphineDeathplatoon or sniper
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@@louciphre2803 nailed it; suprised to see her as i solely associate her with commando and that character
My favorite is when she invites him to the meeting of future Black leaders, and he arrives in full militant attire.
Because his friend told him it was a militant group.
No black people were harmed during the making of this movie.
I was waiting for them to get to that joke.
More like "no black people were Consulted during the making of this film."
😮
just darth vader
@@kNoWnUnKnOwNnOtkNoWnYeah, except the actors in the movie. 😅
My black family loved this movie in the 80's, had it on VHS.
Me too!
Same!
How did you get accepted into a black family?
@@MehYam2112😂😂😂😂😂😂
"The past was doing it's best..." Can't stop laughing at that.
Is that the theme to this movie?
It's been stuck in my head for days.
I'm 43 and and I'm black, my parents used to love this movie and they were VERY militant in the 70's
Looking back I really just think they had protest fatigue, the 80's was a decade for them to have a family and relax
I think the entire country had that feeling. The 80's really was an outlier decade.
@ that’s exactly how it felt. Right after the Rodney king video and riots, it was like in an instant the fun, carefree attitudes and optimism of the 80’s was over and movies like this were almost embarrassing.
I think people who experience the most brutal elements of racism and white supremacy are a lot less sensitive than other people when it comes to discussing or being entertained by issues of race.
@@cheriann6461wyepepo suffer"the most brutal elements " of that rword thimgy. 1350is reality.
@cheriann6461 wyepepo suffer"the most brutal elements " of that rword thimgy. 1350 is reality.
Im 42, i really just think the 80s and 90s were the people who actually grew up dealing with stuff so they could take a joke.
Think about it. Hogans Heros came out 20 years after WW2. Imagine if it came out in 2024 with how thin skin people are today.
Also my parents lived this movie
Great Sean Connery impression of Sean Connerys impression of James Earl Jones.
It's impressionception.
I thought that too!
Just saw this yesterday and was thinking about James Earl Jones all day. Then I heard the news. Crazy.
Rest in Peace King
RIP James Earl Jones. One of the greats.
You killed him lol
Im biracial Black /Mexican, this movie when it came out, I was a kid going to see it, like 6th grade, and I LOVED IT, later in life after all the political qualms with the movie, I STILL LOVE IT, and purchased it off of youtube for my own collection. the thing about movies in the '70s through the 80s and early '90s was that they showed us social experiments, they were not afraid to push the envelope in how far they could take you in and people weren't as easily offended as they are now this is why I think we spend so much time now reminiscing over movies and shows from those years because there is almost no way they could remake this now. But I love it. thanks for your take on it. I agree and laughed right along with you!
Thank you for sharing your take. 💛
Your being biracial doesn't discount the film from being super offensive. Even if it's funny. 2 things can be true at the same time. P.s. I also lived through the 90s.
@@kifacoreaWhat’s offensive about it?
@kifacorea and I am sharing that this movie doesn't offend me. If that is how you feel share your own story or kick rocks. It wasn't created in the ninety's... You must have had a hard time living through the 80s. Thank God for an iron clad sense of humor ... I'm also sure in living color snl and the Chappelle show are your worst nightmare...
@@kifacorea weird that a Korean is lecturing a half-black person on why they should be offended about blackface lol
im happy to see 30 years later....C Thomas Howell and RDC are still happily defending this great movie
Has they should lol
Don't stop this series, it's great.
Thank you!
What about the dinner table scene with Leslie Nelson picturing him treating his daughter badly and eating watermelon? Even more outrageous now
“ get me more watermelon and my hypodermic needle “
Father was a biggot, that was the point. Whole scene was hilarious.
That was the best! I'm black and I was dying laughing when I saw that the first time...and every time after that!😆
One of the more disgusting things in this movie is when the main character says how much his complete Harvard education will cost and it's not even the cost of a single modern semester of any college today.......
Spent most of my adult life and career in higher ed, and you're right.
And it’s an IVY LEAGUE school, as well… that would have cost a lot back then and how it’s nothing compared to just regular college tuition…
Yeah that part really messed me up.
Remember, it's from the 80s, when a coffee cost a quater. You always have to adjust for inflation and greed. Another Reagan legacy.
Say ya dont understand 40 years of inflation without saying ya dont understand 40 years of inflation.
I am really enjoying this series. A bunch of movies I haven't seen since the 80 when I was young and impressionable.
Rest in peace, James Earl Jones. “I’ll bring you your books”.
"He didn't give up, he got down." 😂🤣
Rae Dawn Chong was also in Commando, which is where I first saw and fell for her on sight. It's truly incredible that she didn't have a huge career at least on the same level as Lisa Bonet.
The fact that this is an actual movie is funny asf😂😂😂😂
6:37 oh man, you didn’t mention when she invites him over for dinner. That dinner table scene was the funniest part of the movie! 😂😂😂😂
The landlord dad imagines him showing up dressed like a pimp, putting his boots on the dinner table and eating watermelon. Hi daughter was already pregnant. It was gold!
@@timboslice9905And asking for his hypodermic needle for his "hare-own" 🤣
@1:26 “ son, we want you to know what it feels like to be a man, but not just any man, a black man.”😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Suggestion: Just One of the Guys. Was running frequently on HBO around the same time Soul Man was.
Every mf day
I grew up watching this as a kid in the 80's. This was on HBO all the time.
Right after Flash Gordon
And Just One of the Guys.
@@eddierascalhaskell4954 I loved that movie haha
I was born in 1970 and the country I live in is 70% black people. The schools I went to were 95% black people. I went to this movie in the theater. And literally did not hear one peep from a Black person Complaining about this movie being racist. We were pretty much over the racism, Then mid-seventies to early 80s.
Now they're ramping it all up again to conquer and divide. Anyway.
laughing at racism and being over racism is two different things. We can laugh and at the same time recognize racism is still here.
It was controversial even then. Spike Lee, for one, was on The Dick Cavett Show and he was very vocal about it. Black people are not a monolith. I don’t think this movie is particularly that funny or that sharp, but it definitely meant well.
It's easy to cringe when looking back on a movie like this but after watching it again backing 2023, the movie left you with talkin points. Also it had its moral teachings behind it that I feel capped it off nicely.
That being said, as a kid watching this, that dinner table scene to this day had me in tears 😂. The 80s was truly a different beauty and a beast.
I wonder if Jan's time spent on the reservation with her old boyfriend inspired her to create her bonfire scented candles.
I didn't even have one thought that is was bad. I liked it. It was funny.
I wonder why they havent rebooted this yet? 😂
They basically did, with a race and sex swap, it's called "White Chicks."
They kinda did in a way with that one transphobic comedy show about basketball
The kinda did but reversed the roles, there was that horrible "White Chicks" movie with the Wayne's brothers.
@douglascarter2078 white chick's was great!
@@douglascarter2078I did like the concept of white chicks, but it didn’t make me laugh at all. I think black chicks been funnier with two white actors. But I know that been boycotted and protested by the woke cult.
They used to play this all the time on Comedy Central when I was young 😂😂
So for me the funniest part about this movie which I loved, is that I used the picture of C. Thomas Howell when he was black as my work profile picture and it stayed up on our bank corporate website for at least 3 days before my boss noticed and had me change it although she approved it in the first place not knowing what I uploaded. lol! Always thought it was great if anyone seen it in those 3 days and didn't realize it was a reference to this movie.
dude these people are so entertaining, i cant get enough of their tap dancing, they are so good at it, god bless their hearts
The “she’s three things” part killed me
This is the thing to do now. One guy describes a movie, and the other guy laughs
Some inebriation😂😂 is clearly involved 😂. It ent dat funny bro . But he's a great cheerleader
Dangit, I cackled loud enough for my coworkers to hear me when you did the James Earl Jones impression! 🤣🤣🤣
Every black person back then had a problem with this movie in fact the NAACP and Spike Lee were protesting outside of the theatres for obvious reasons. The only black actors in here were just career background characters, James Earl Jones possible because he thought it was going to be the next Black Like Me and Rae Dawn Chong who married the guy in this movie in blackface. This is the definition of the past was doing it's best despite the past then screaming at them to not do this and somehow it lead to Song of the South got put into the vault and this hasn't stopped playing since. The movie is aware of everything except why it shouldn't exists and my all time favorite he didn't learn anything or lose anything for it. You nailed the message of this movie "Racism when it happens to a while guy its even worse" 😂
Soul Man was great. 👍🏾 😂 I love the ending.
A movie that wants to do the right thing in every decision except the main one.
Which is? (Seriously, I want to know as I loved this movie)
@@karlepaul6632 I'm just saying it's a poor idea to do blackface in the first place.
yo to be honest this is the most amazing series ive ever seen. yall are hilarious.
Jawanna Mann 2002 should be next!!! Then do Hiding Out 1987!!!
This outraged Spike Lee, well done.
The Native American that the landlord's daughter bangs looks exactly like Iron Eyes Cody that was on a hugely popular anti-littering campaign in the 70s. That was supposed to be the funny part about it. However, later it turned out that Iron Eyes Cody wasn't Native American but the son of Italian immigrants named Oscar di Corti and was pretending to be Native American to get acting jobs in westerns. hahahahahhaha
I would not say this aged badly. It used comedy as a tool to give white people a little taste of how complex it is to navigate the whole race relations and equality argument as well as experiencing some true to life elements of discrimination when faced with living life as a person of color. As someone old enough to have living memory of life pretty shortly after the civil rights act I can say we have come a long way. As someone who also spent some time as a teen living in Apartheid era South Africa I can say we have come a very long way.
What was South Africa before the Europeans settled there?
nah as a black person whose grandmother actually advocated heavily for Civil Rights and even helped black people in her community vote and was involved in politics in her local community and was born and grew up in the Jim Crow South and as someone who has parents old enough to remember apartheid and white flight and busing, it did age badly and there are better films that use comedy to discuss race
@@ronanobrien47You mean colonized?
@@ronanobrien47 As another commented, South Africa was invaded by Europeans, mostly British, Dutch, and German but others as well. Just because Europeans were more technologically developed does not mean the native Africans were unhappy before Europeans came. Sadly the discovery of Gold and Diamonds pretty much doomed them to over a century of servitude to their white European overlords with Britain conquering the non-British settlers in the Boer Wars and taking full control in 1902. I remember hearing of a British Airways captain saying "Welcome to Johannesburg, set your watch ahead 2 hours and your mind back 50 years" upon landing. Keep in mind that back 50 years would have been referring to 1925 Britain and I would call his remark an understatement of Apartheid's reality.
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It was bad when it came out. It has aged poorly, but it was a total joke, when it came out.
I was a kid, and it was a joke to us. Black kids thought it was hilarious, but it was like So Bad It’s Funny, when you’re a 10 year old.
It was always terrible, and a stupid, and it was taken out of theaters, to be found by future generations at the video store.
3:20 - Rae Dawn Chong is the daughter of Cheech And Chong's taller half, Tommy Chong. Believe it.
Porky's, now Soul Man!?? Keep the hits coming guys!!
Soul Man is hilarious! Ray Dawn Chong was a smoke show. Tommy Chong's (of Cheech & Chong) daughter.
I still go out of my way to smack it around to Rae Dawn. She was gorgeous!
I'm black and 51 and I remember feeling so ill when this came out. Just the trailers or however I encountered it (I never saw it). I remember despising C. Thomas Howell forever after. Just seeing his name made me recoil as if he was a klansman.
I don't know how this movie got made. I mean, even for the eighties...
As a 41 yr old Ive seen this movie a bunch of times as a young kid 😂
I don’t know what you guys look like and don’t want to. Please keep this auditory format, og podcast style. Love this pod!
Thank you!
Dude, gotta make one for The Principal.... It's got Rae Dawn Chong and everything!
The scene where all the white jocks were fighting over which team gets the "black" dude killed me. Then he started playing ball badly and that had me rolling on the floor.
Granted, I was a just a little mixed kid when this movie came out, but I loved this movie back then! Now I kinda wanna watch it again. 😊
“The past was doin’ its best!!”
😂😂😂😂😂
This movie was a regular rental for us. It was freaking hilarious! And from my perspective, a black dude (teen at the time) from just outside of Boston, for me I loved how it showed how racism still exists up there. JEJ was great! Whenever I hear someone say Mr Watson, I say it in JEJ voice lol.
You also can't critique this movie without understanding the culture at this time. I mean my man Eddie Murphy did this on SNL. It's racist AF but it also attempted to put a mirror in front of wppl.
Eddie Murphy bit was a complete joke. Whiteys aren't throwing parties after all the blacks got off the bus. Hilarious.
@@chazzx1018 of course, the party is hyperbolic, white ppl did prefer when blacks weren’t around.
@@chazzx1018 True no parties but not having to pay the fair is pretty sweet.
@wunderdoggy lacks intelligence this one
I love how James Earl b channeled the Wishmaster....great movie.
Soul Man was a good movie. It came out when I was a kid. It was funny and resonated then as well as today.
In the 80's no one dared to dictate what "should" make you laugh. As a black men, we found it to be one of the funniest movies ever.
I've been watching through these and "soul man" has been referenced a couple times. I can't wait to see this!
I'm binging this channel, it's hilarious, great job !
Same.
Thank you!
I saw this in the theater as a kid and I loved it!
I love this series!!! You guys are hilarious!
I think Rae Dawn Chong had the same sort of quality and appeal as Rosanna Arquette, undeniably attractive with just a touch of unconventionality to make her special.
Johnny told Ponyboy to "stay gold". I wish he had listened.
Saw this movie on TV in the middle of a weekend day when I was like 5. For years I thought this movie was a dream lol
This was such a funny movie when I was a kid! 😂I got into c Thomas Howell b movies for a couple of years after. His career was making all these b movie thrillers. Wild times!
this is my new favorite channel. laughed out loud many times. so glad you came up on my recommendations! 😊😊😊
Rae Dawn Chong from Commando. Yes, she was absolutely gorgeous back in the day!
I’m not going to lie… I love this film 😂
I love the suddenly its magic song on the soundtrack Vesta Williams .. Fun fact they were a couple at during this movie in real life
Thankfully C Thomas Howell made up for this by his stellar performance as a Union officer in the movie Gettysburg lols.
The fact that no one could tell that he was a white guy is utterly amazing
He's so blatantly a white guy 😂
I used to love this when I was younger and would watch it when hbo would play it (all the time) because I loved C. Thomas Howell and Rae Dawn Chong but even as A child I was like no you don’t look black at all 😂😂😂 but I loved this movie and the ending
Man, I can’t believe Rae Dawn Chong is 61 now! She really is so beautiful in this movie! But she is literally almost the same age as my mom now lol.
The 80s was wild and shit I know that and I wasn't born until 1987 but in the 90s a lot of old movies that really couldn't be shown today were still being aired on HBO Cinemax and USA and so on. Good times. Even I couldn't trip back then and it kind of taught me to focus on serious issues not something that affects me in no way. Yeah it's blackface but it really don't arouse any feelings whatsoever. When I saw it remember I was like 7 or 8 and it was just a movie where a white dude became 1970s Michael Jackson lmao let me go to bed bruh
This movie is ahead of it’s time.
That movie is a classic, I don’t know how many times we watched it back in the days!
I saw the trailer for this movie in the theaters and I believe my response was, "That looks like a really bad idea for a movie." It was bad on release, not just aging badly.
If you like Rae Dawn Chong, I have 3 words for you: Quest For Fire. #YerWelcome
Greatest sex scene of all time.
Is it corn?
@@TheStoicNinjanot really it's more of an exploitation film that was more acceptable to release in actual theaters
"Mom, Dad, I'm black!"
I am not going to lie, I absolutely loved this movie as a kid and I still do as an adult. I think it is absolutely hilarious and I just can't get over the fact that the protagonist is played by the same guy who is the sociopathic serial killer Foyer of "Criminal Minds".😲 He is an amazing actor!
Haven't see this in so many years. the way you break it down is funny but gives a different perspective
at 0:28 i lost it i'm trying to watch while working in a quiet office. dammit edit now 1:30 in i may have to turn this off until later 😂
'Black Guy Starring White Guy' 😂😂😂😂
The 1, 2 punch of Hitcher and Soul Man in 86 killed any momentum C Thomas Howell had coming off of Outsiders and Red Dawn.
The moment I saw Leslie Nielson I spit out my drink in shock
Jan from The Office has those hypnotic eyes, Jesus
I could have lived the rest of my life not remembering that I saw this movie. So thanks for reminding me
The scene where he sucked at basketball had me dying laughing
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I'm actually, right now, going to go on the adventure of binge watching all your content to catch up. You have a new subscriber and I think I really like your content... maybe 🤔
She a big part of the reason this movie was in my rotation whilst I was a lad.
Rae Dong Chong was in the movie Beat Street I always was in love with her❤
The Internet is so safe 4 so many ppl ,😂 its amazing
It gets looked back on now as blaxploitation due to the jokes and the blackface but it really wasn't. It sounds funny to say out loud as it's still a ridiculous movie but they went for trying to play it seriously by blending a little messaging with a love story. It was actually a pretty woke movie in its time.
The funny thing is that the movie does get a little preachy and does have some lefty nonsense in it but it's the left today that are so triggered by this movie. They really do eat their own.
@@BishopWalters12 I only recently learned it was written by the woman who created The Wonder Years. Rae Dawn Chong has some excellent quotes defending the movie and points out that it actually makes white people look pretty bad. It's essentially a white guilt film, you would think modern progressives would enjoy that.
I have a gripe with the premise for him needing college money. They could have had it be a successful father who wanted his kid to learn the hard way instead of daddy taking care of everything, but instead they went with some goofy story about the dad's high priced psychiatrist convinced him to do it out of pure selfishness.
@@D-Fens_1632 I agree with you, I hate most white guilt movies, but I let it go with this movie because it's so over the top and several scenes really do make me laugh. I also agree that the big flaw with this movie is the set-up of the rich dad listening to shrink and not wanting to help his son. It really didn't make sense. Mark is your typical annoying rich kid but it's not like he's living home and doing nothing. That was some bad writing.
study high, take the test high, get high scores.
SHOUT OUT TO ALL MY GEN X AND XENNIALS, WE HAD A GREAT CHILDHOOD, I LOVED THIS MOVIE
Isn't she the actress from Commando?
Yes
Still have this on VHS.. now bought the DVD
If ever there was a movie that should be rebooted and updated for modern audiences, it's this one.
They did. It's called "White Chicks".
“I don’t see Black or White, only shades of grey.”
When his buddy told him that one group was militant and he showed up in fatigues, excellent