Fun Fact: My dad passed up watching Blue Velvet and The Color of Money in theaters to watch this movie instead. In his own words, "It was the biggest mistake of my movie-going life".
@@isaiahfreeman I can comment with his thoughts since he told them to me. To add onto it, he enjoyed both Blue Velvet and The Color of Money when they eventually came on cable/HBO.
@@mediaikonz she could have been such a good ally and activist, she was really invested in the community and was educated. but in the end she was just too fucking weird wanted to LARP
This NEEDS to be an Adum and Pals. I hope Adum won't tell Scoot what this movie's about. Scoot will absolutely explode with joy once he realises where this story is going.
Hold on, can someone please let me know who Scoot is again and why he would like this movie? I have mostly watched the YMS solo reviews, and on the Adam and Pals I can't tell their voices apart, so can someone explain the joke because I can't find much on Scoot at all.
@@IsaiahINRI Holy crap I must have missed that! When did that start, or could you please try and let me know a video where it happens? Sorry if that's a lot to do.
I'm surprised they even bothered putting it on Blu Ray, like it's such a forgotten and not really marketable film, it couldn't possibly be worth the money spent on putting it on DVD let alone Blu Ray.
From wikipedia: "The film was seen by President Ronald and Nancy Reagan at Camp David. "The Reagans enjoyed the film and especially enjoyed seeing their son Ron," a White House spokesman said at the time"
The second most racist movie ever screened for a POTUS, the first one of course being when Woodrow Wilson chose "The Birth of a Nation" to be the first film ever screened at the White House. No. America has never been okay.
As a proud black man myself who knows programming, I will literally create a bot dedicated to getting you falsely copywrite struck, banned from youtube, and Minecrafted in real life if you refuse to do an Adum and Pals with Scott Hensen, and Gael. You've been warned.
This is my brother's favorite film. I just bought him the deluxe 4K steelbook for Christmas, with commentary by the Reverend Al Sharpton and over 2 hours of deleted scenes.
Before reading this comment I thought to myself, "There can't be anyone who honestly says that this is their favorite movie. What kind of person would even put this in their top 5 favorite films, let alone in the # 1 spot?" lol So, no offense, I'm curious because of my previous thoughts but, is your brother the kind of person who says, "You just can't say anything today without someone getting offended!" Or, "What are you gonna do, cancel me?!" Or, "I definitely would've fought for the south in the US Civil War." Of course I'm not asking if he says these examples word for word, I mean does he say things along those lines, at least? I really want to know who'd unironically say this is their favorite movie lmao.
I somehow found out about this movie before high school. I used to tell people about it when the topic of strange old films came about, and they still didn't believe me so they looked it up when they got home. I should have started a watch party for them.
I first saw Soul Man on TV as a child and didn't really think anything about pretending to be a black guy being inappropriate; I simply couldn't understand how anyone would think that guy was actually black!
Check out the Roger Ebert review - he completely overlooks the blackface - "This is a genuinely interesting idea, filled with dramatic possibilities..."
I love chat saying "this aged poorly" when this shit wasn't widely culturally acceptable in the 80s either! There is no universe where this would've aged well lmao
It's great to see Adum 'discover' this when I've known about it my whole life. IT STARS JAMES EARL JONES FFS. My dad was the one who introduced me to this and he really likes this film ...
Soul Man actually has a pretty good anti racism message but the way it portrays that message is so tone deaf it’s insane. One of those “how did this get made” kinda moments
An Indian guy actually did this, because India is part of Asia, and big colleges stopped accepting as many Asians. So, he just pretended to be black, and it worked like a charm.
It was not about him being Asian though. And while it is kinda funny, the guy is not really credible and there is a huge chance he is making it all up.
@@horusreloaded6387 *Edit:* Thought this was replying to a different comment thread which had shared elements. My bad. *My actual response:* I think he's credible enough since the story has been verified. I have no doubt that it was exaggerated a bit, but I do think it actually happened. My understanding was always that he didnt get accepted as himself, so he presented himself as black and was accepted. The background as to why he wasnt accepted just lines up with how for the past few decades, major colleges have subtly put a cap on how many asian students they accept per year. I don't think he ever presented things in a way to imply that he wasn't accepted because he's Asian; just that he wasn't accepted when being honest about his ethnicity.
@@OpinionParade Oh I didn't know it was verified. I though his famous sibling was generally rolling their eyes at his book, but maybe for different reasons dunno. Apparently he is an activist against affirmative action, so the book sounds more politically motivated, so that part made me doubt it more. Ohh going through the book's website, this movie is mentioned: "Almost Black: The True Story of How I Got into Medical School by Pretending to Be Black combines the comic tone of 1986’s Soul Man," Btw, what was your original comment, I missed it?
@@horusreloaded6387 Oh, it was almost completely irrelevant. There's a different thread where a guy is saying he's not getting dates, and some people think it's due to the way Asian men sometimes have a hard time dating in the west. I thought you were replying to that and was razzin' ya a bit, because your comment had different implications in that context.
I’m tremendously old so I remember this being shown on UK TV before we all knew better. Don’t get me wrong, my generation are doing better at understanding why it’s wrong but it’s been an uphill struggle to explain it to people.
They may have said this "poorly aged," but I'd argue it was extremely out of date and out of touch when it was first conceived. Like, if you wanted to tell this story, prolly should've kept it to a novel.
I've seen this movie. Multiple times. I was working at a movie theater that was showing it. Yeah, the comedies of the 1980s did not have the best value system.
It's cool that we exported all our racist stereotypes to Japan and then there's like nobody over there decades later to tell them hey, that's bad. Otherwise they'd just be racist toward Koreans and Okinawans like the good old days.
I have this as a 2-movie DVD with "18 Again!" - both flicks are truly products of their time, LOL!! 🤣😂 If you ever need the DVD, Adum, hit me up and you'll get the classic George Burns "swapping bodies with his grandson" comedy, 18 Again!, as a bonus - Scoot will love it 😉🙃
This is from director Steve Miner. This guy directed this and another problematic comedy movie called My Father the Hero. I believe it’s about a father trying to marry his daughter. Fuck dude. He also directed Friday The 13th parts 2 and 3, and Halloween H20. Those films are fun.
Apparently that was not the first but the second time Gerard Dippitydoo starred opposite an underage costar and played her dad/fake boyfriend because that version of My Father The Hero was a remake. Dude's...dude's looking a little sus
I'm of the generation that watched this growing up and didn't really think twice to be offended by it either way. It's primarily (imo) trying to be a comedy first and foremost, but it's an average one at best. It also attempts some half-hearted social commentaries, particularly pertaining to white stereotypes of people of color but the lesson learned in the end is fairly cringe and disingenuous. I still wouldn't say it's a bad movie or exploitive, it's biggest crime is being an average high concept film with a main character that's a fair bit too selfish and self-centered to be redeemable.
Soul Man didn’t “age horribly.” It was already hated when it came out and ruined the lead’s career. The filmmakers should’ve known to stop when they first put Howell in that makeup.
I knew of this movie as a kid because of VH1s i love the 80s, to no ones surprise the people talking about this film didnt condemn it like they should have.
