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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?"
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!
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.
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.......
Great upload, guys! Subbed. 😅 Rae Dawn Chong was gorgeous. ♥ I was telling my g/f about this film just the other month, she'd never heard of it and she couldn't believe it was real.
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
@@elykalontar3847 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.
And then in 1991, James Earl Jones complimented this role by playing HIMSELF in the movie "True Identity", where British black comedian Lenny Henry plays an actor who witness a crime and undergoes makeup to disguise himself as a white guy to escape the mob
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.
If you take requests, there's an obscure 80s conedy titled HAMBURGER: THE MOTION PICTURE, and boy has that aged like milk! It's full of racial stereotypes, uncomfortable gay jokes and the ending is one long fat joke. So basically, it's the ultimate 80s comedy.😎
The whole idea that there weren't actually any eligible people to take up the scholarship actually makes things far worse. That would imply that the university deliberately set up the criteria in such a way that the scholarship would never actually be claimed, so you have a white guy in blackface getting his education subsidised by an institution that only set it up for the sake of good PR and never legitimately wanted to do anything to help address the issue. If the only way to claim that scholarship is through fraud it's an indictment on the institution as well.
I had this movie on VHS as a kid and I watched it all the time. I don't know why I liked it so much. But I thought it was great. I kinda forgot about it until your video came up.
I was 14 when this movie came out and the writer nailed it. I wasn't offended in the slightest. Btw, just like the character.. I'm not good at basketball. Also, I have been with girls like the landlord's daughter too. I'm also suspicious of liberals like that as well. I still enjoyed the film and if anyone white or black was offended, they missed the point.
The Kids in the Hall did a pretty funny skit on the rebellious liberal daughter thing. (Tony comes to Dinner) Unfortunately, like most of their performances, they insisted on playing ALL the parts themselves. So Scott Thompson is in blackface, but he kills it.
Y'all should read "Black Like Me" from 1961 by John Howard Griffin. It's the story of a white guy who puts on blackface and travels through the Jim Crow south.
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.
I remember seeing this movie when I was a kid. Not in theaters, but it was fresh on HBO. And I remember even at the time thinking "This movie is f---ed up."
The biggest mistake when taking in a movie from this era is thinking everyone is serious. This movie is borderline farce and was made to bring light to a lot of issues. "Walk a mile in my shoes" is the moral. Whites couldn't possibly know how blacks used to be treated unless they became black themselves, which is impossible, but in the movies you can do the impossible. That is what movies are for. I was only 11ish at the time so I wasn't aware of how things were, but I also wasn't set to default racism at birth either as from preschool onward it was nothing but mixed classes. My generation was completely oblivious to racism as all races grew up together from birth. It was great in the 90s when everyone loved each other and stacked black women would actually chase white guys like me. 20ish year old Irish boys were on every black girls menu it seemed and I had fun with it. Then sometime in the 2010s this wasn't good enough anymore so someone had to resurrect the hate and create drama that set events in motion leading to today because it is so much easier going through life as a victim vs putting forth even a shred of effort.
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.
Thanks for the Classic Flick Boyz, Cheers 🍺🍻🍺🍻🍺... This dude looks trippy. Like a Those things On Garbage Pal Kids The Movie... ps: Gotta do Adventures in Babysitting, or Weekend at Bernie's... Thanks For Da Laughs😂😂😂
I know your take on the Warriors would probably be legendary 😂 keep the 80s movies coming and do some shows too like Dukes of Hazard, there’s some good episodes of MASH too to do
Come on Ben, dont let these stupid channels make money when you got a good thing Channel: The past was doing it's best Start cranking out the videos Im going to sub and notification in the hopes you will make more content Im 48 and grew up with all these movies Love watching with new perspective
The girl in the movie is in the anthology horror film Tales From The Darkside and you should really check that out because it's one of the saddest horror stories I've seen.
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The “I felt 400 years of oppression in every thrust” made me spit out my tea 😂
Arizona iced?
"The past was doing it's best..." Can't stop laughing at that.
My favorite is when she invites him to the meeting of future Black leaders, and he arrives in full militant attire.
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
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@@louciphre2803 nailed it; suprised to see her as i solely associate her with commando and that character
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 🎉🎉
No black people were harmed during the making of this movie.
I am really enjoying this series. A bunch of movies I haven't seen since the 80 when I was young and impressionable.
Great Sean Connery impression of Sean Connerys impression of James Earl Jones.
im happy to see 30 years later....C Thomas Howell and RDC are still happily defending this great movie
Now, you need to watch "It's Pat" 😂😂😂.
I didn't even have one thought that is was bad. I liked it. It was funny.
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!
A movie that wants to do the right thing in every decision except the main one.
Soul Man was great. 👍🏾 😂 I love the ending.
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
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.
I grew up watching this as a kid in the 80's. This was on HBO all the time.
I wonder if Jan's time spent on the reservation with her old boyfriend inspired her to create her bonfire scented candles.
If you like Rae Dawn Chong, I have 3 words for you: Quest For Fire. #YerWelcome
Greatest sex scene of all time.
I saw this in the theater as a kid and I loved it!
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.
The fact that this is an actual movie is funny asf😂😂😂😂
yo to be honest this is the most amazing series ive ever seen. yall are hilarious.
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.
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.
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.
Jawanna Mann 2002 should be next!!! Then do Hiding Out 1987!!!
I'm still waiting for this movie to be thrust into the zeitgeist I'm so sure, that for years now, C. Thomas Howell spontaneously breaks into a sweat
Rae Dawn Chong from Commando. Yes, she was absolutely gorgeous back in the day!
I'm binging this channel, it's hilarious, great job !
Same.
Thank you!
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.
I love this series!!! You guys are hilarious!
Suggestion: Just One of the Guys. Was running frequently on HBO around the same time Soul Man was.
Great upload, guys! Subbed. 😅 Rae Dawn Chong was gorgeous. ♥
I was telling my g/f about this film just the other month, she'd never heard of it and she couldn't believe it was real.
I love an unexpected Churchill reference.
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!
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".
This movie was excellent and you should give it a chance. It could never be made now
Sounds like the book called “Black Like Me” 😂😂😂
I am BEGGING you guys to tackle Honeysuckle Rose, the Willie Nelson movie; PLEASE!
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
@@elykalontar3847You mean colonized?
@@elykalontar3847 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.
Soul Man if I recall was 1 of the highest box office comedy films of 1986 🍿. It made $.
Yeah this movie was hilarious!
Outstanding take. Keep going
And then in 1991, James Earl Jones complimented this role by playing HIMSELF in the movie "True Identity", where British black comedian Lenny Henry plays an actor who witness a crime and undergoes makeup to disguise himself as a white guy to escape the mob
Love this series, Ben, can't waIt for further instalments
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.
If you take requests, there's an obscure 80s conedy titled HAMBURGER: THE MOTION PICTURE, and boy has that aged like milk! It's full of racial stereotypes, uncomfortable gay jokes and the ending is one long fat joke. So basically, it's the ultimate 80s comedy.😎
Bears coach Dick Butkis starred in that movie, I believe.
The whole idea that there weren't actually any eligible people to take up the scholarship actually makes things far worse.
That would imply that the university deliberately set up the criteria in such a way that the scholarship would never actually be claimed, so you have a white guy in blackface getting his education subsidised by an institution that only set it up for the sake of good PR and never legitimately wanted to do anything to help address the issue.
If the only way to claim that scholarship is through fraud it's an indictment on the institution as well.
If you like Rae Dawn Chong, watch "Commando." Doesn't really fit the theme of your series, but she's in it. And hot.
"What happened to Sully?" "I let him go." Classic!
I had this movie on VHS as a kid and I watched it all the time. I don't know why I liked it so much. But I thought it was great. I kinda forgot about it until your video came up.
The plot (plot lol) of this motion picture classic is wild.
I was 14 when this movie came out and the writer nailed it. I wasn't offended in the slightest.
Btw, just like the character.. I'm not good at basketball.
Also, I have been with girls like the landlord's daughter too.
I'm also suspicious of liberals like that as well.
I still enjoyed the film and if anyone white or black was offended, they missed the point.
The Kids in the Hall did a pretty funny skit on the rebellious liberal daughter thing. (Tony comes to Dinner)
Unfortunately, like most of their performances, they insisted on playing ALL the parts themselves. So Scott Thompson is in blackface, but he kills it.
I saw it when it came out the dinner table scene is hilarious
"What you looking at?"
Y'all should read "Black Like Me" from 1961 by John Howard Griffin.
It's the story of a white guy who puts on blackface and travels through the Jim Crow south.
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.
This guy is F@$&!%G Hilarious!!! 😂
Thank you!
I remember seeing this movie when I was a kid. Not in theaters, but it was fresh on HBO. And I remember even at the time thinking "This movie is f---ed up."
i watched this so much as a kid
i loved this movie as a kid
This film was big, they should reboot it❤
Rae Dawn Chong is Tommy Chong's daughter. She was also in Quest For Fire.
Its so funny that this move exists 😅😅😅
The biggest mistake when taking in a movie from this era is thinking everyone is serious. This movie is borderline farce and was made to bring light to a lot of issues. "Walk a mile in my shoes" is the moral. Whites couldn't possibly know how blacks used to be treated unless they became black themselves, which is impossible, but in the movies you can do the impossible. That is what movies are for. I was only 11ish at the time so I wasn't aware of how things were, but I also wasn't set to default racism at birth either as from preschool onward it was nothing but mixed classes. My generation was completely oblivious to racism as all races grew up together from birth. It was great in the 90s when everyone loved each other and stacked black women would actually chase white guys like me. 20ish year old Irish boys were on every black girls menu it seemed and I had fun with it. Then sometime in the 2010s this wasn't good enough anymore so someone had to resurrect the hate and create drama that set events in motion leading to today because it is so much easier going through life as a victim vs putting forth even a shred of effort.
Brilliant!!
I think it was less that the black actors had no problem with the movie, and more that this was just Hollywood in the 80s and whaddya gonna do.
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.
5:12 THE PAST DO IT BEEEEEEST :d owww man oh no oh no oh man ...
He's lucky that Anakin didn't F him up lol.
It's not real, dude. The line was put in there SPECIFICALLY to wind you up
@@christophercleary6780 What are you talking about?
Thanks for the Classic Flick Boyz, Cheers 🍺🍻🍺🍻🍺... This dude looks trippy. Like a Those things On Garbage Pal Kids The Movie... ps: Gotta do Adventures in Babysitting, or Weekend at Bernie's... Thanks For Da Laughs😂😂😂
5:32 That’s real. Been there...many times 😄
6:52 And what? You’ve never met drunk Celtics fans? They are the worst
Great film
I always liked this movie
This movie was funny AF. It was C Thomas Howells best acting. Kinda sad but. There it is.
😂I 🔥🔥🔥😂👍🏾‼️ I been black a long time, great breakdown brother 💯💯💯💯💯💯🌌🛸🤟🏽🫡
LOVE THIS MOVIE :-)
Unpopular opinion. This movie is progressive if anything
Love this movie, sorry
LMAO at 0:24 to 0:36. This movie pretty much derailed C Thomas' movie career.
I remember the dude that was always telling black people jokes and then C Thomas Howell would awkwardly walk around the corner. 😅😒
How about a review on the 1980's classic Iron Eagle?
RIP James Earl Jones
How do you guys not have a million subs 😂😭😭 "pleeease don't watch this movie"
Dang, how could you not mention the dinner table scene?
Rae Dawn Chong has always been a beautiful woman
I know your take on the Warriors would probably be legendary 😂 keep the 80s movies coming and do some shows too like Dukes of Hazard, there’s some good episodes of MASH too to do
🎵🎶🎵the past was doin it wrong
Very substantial
Come on Ben, dont let these stupid channels make money when you got a good thing
Channel: The past was doing it's best
Start cranking out the videos
Im going to sub and notification in the hopes you will make more content
Im 48 and grew up with all these movies
Love watching with new perspective
The girl in the movie is in the anthology horror film Tales From The Darkside and you should really check that out because it's one of the saddest horror stories I've seen.
I need to watch that!
Tommy Chong’s daughter, btw.
Burnside Kyoto
The best movie ever? Lol. I haven't seen it but that seems like a stretch. 😸
The precursor to white chics!!
Geez, I had no idea there was a comedy 80’s movie that used medical race appropriation. I wonder if the script was inspired by Black Like Me?
Ponyboi becomes black 😂
something something he... joined the dark side (I'll take my number for the line to enter hell)
C Thomas Howell looks more East Indian than black.
If you're hot for Rae Dawn Chong, check out the movie Quest for Fire. You should do an episode on it.