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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."
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.
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😂😂😂
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.😎
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.
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.
@@oliverklosov5153 man this is bullshit. I totally knew I was having an issue w/ knowing what spelling to use and I asked google and GD Google somehow made me think 'sense' was correct. fml
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 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
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.
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 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.
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.
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
i rembder i was in santa cruz and this preview came on the whole crowd was pissed yelling shit at the screen same with better off dead on that joke throwing away good whit folk
hillarious...you missed the whole point of the movie....he said: "I dont know what its like to be black....because if i didnt like it...i could always get out".
Soul Man is so badly written that it's fascinating it ever got made in the first place. From the beginning , it goes wrong. His wealthy parents won't help their son get through Harvard Law School ? Really ? What are they Yale graduates?
the problem with the film was that it was a liberal fantasy about a world where (1) a poor black single mom loses a scholarship to a rich white guy who then (2) gets treated badly by cartoon racists just because his skin is darkened. the real scenario would be a high-achieving but poor white kid losing out to an upper middle-class black kid with parents who went to college but who wasn't as academically impressive. plus, even in 1986 people were more likely to bend over backwards to avoid getting misinterpreted as racist than they were likely to actually just be racist.
This and Just One Of The Guys are classic stupid 80s comedies that'll never be remade. So we got that. Remakes suck. Are they inappropriate? Yup. So what.
