Re-Evaluating Bad Movies

I need to re-watch. People talk it up like it's a cult classic, but I don't recall if I liked it or not.

Let me re-watch first, then watch this. I hope I remember.

Yes, but Clue is consistently good.

We need a "Re-evaluate good movies" thread.

This is what you’re looking for

comingsoon.boards.net/thread/370/call-me-crazy-again

THEY CALL ME MISTER TIBBS (1970) / THE ORGANIZATION (1971)



Did you know they made, not one, but TWO sequels to In the Heat of the Night? Both feature Sidney Poitier as Virgil Tibbs and both you'll forget exist the moment you finish watching them. The mindset behind these movies are muddled. They definitely weren't trying to capitalize on the success of the original because these sequels could exist in their own universe. Gone is the south. Gone is the racial tension between a black cop, a white cop and a backwards town. Here you have a run-of-the-mill cop in San Francisco solving run-of-the-mill crimes. It's like they watched Steve McQueen's Bullit and thought, "let's do that but with a black guy instead." For the time period, yeah, that could have been seen as progressive. These movies do sort-of precede blaxploitation and are definitely classier than blaxploitation, so it is cool to see a black man as the star of a commercial Hollywood movie, but the fact they're so vanilla is a major disservice. During this time you had French Connection and Dirty Harry breaking new ground, meanwhile the sequels to an equally ground breaking movie are taking the safe route. Minorities don't dig stuff like this - it's one step forward and then two steps backwards.

Just slow and busy, my man. Actually I've just completed another video, but it's for the class I teach so I don't think I'll be sharing it on my channel.

I'm also not crazy about Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.

I'd like to revisit it, but I found it bizarre and alienating my first time through.

‘Disorienting’ is the word I’d use, but like I said, it’s probably because I grew up with Young Guns and have a different perspective on the Billy the Kid lore. I just didn’t know what the heck was going on in the movie.