Q&A: Decline of African American movies?
Question by Def Poet {#1 Heat Fan}: Decline of African American movies?
To start this off, I’m a black man.
Now, does anyone else who enjoys black movies as I do see this trend? In my opinion, ever since we entered the 2000’s it became luck that we’d get a genuinely good black movie after 4-5 bad ones, and its even worse recently. Definitely not like it was back in the 90’s, when we had great movies like Poetic Justice, Higher Learning, Rosewood, Eve’s Bayou, Coming To America, Lean On Me, He Got Game, New Jersey Drive, & School Daze just to name a few of them.
It seems like nowadays, we only have the same kinds of movies over and over again. Overly cliched, sub par or worse comedies for the most part. Highly stereotypical, predictable, lackluster dramas/romances. Where’s the originality, creativity, or freshness? Its like no one really wants to make a movie that steps outside the bounds of what society already knows good and well about us stereotypically, like everyone’s too afraid of the controversy that might come from a Malcolm X type of film. Though I do praise recent, relevant films such as Not Easily Broken, Idlewild, The Great Debaters, American Gangster, Hustle N Flow, Woman Thou Art Loosed, and Akeelah and the Bee for their overall depth, creativity, and/or originality.
Please, share your thoughts on whether I’m just trippin’, on why you agree with me, or your own opinion on this subject.
Where’s John Singleton and Spike Lee when you need them?
Lol Spike Lee made School Daze & Malcolm X, good enough for me, and I was just listing a few good movies recently.
Best answer:
Answer by Bri! R.I.P. MJ <3
OMG you are sooooo right! I agree with you like 100%. They need to start making better movies.
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