{"id":3777,"date":"2009-12-29T01:15:49","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T06:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=3777"},"modified":"2009-12-29T01:04:06","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T06:04:06","slug":"black-dynamite-2009-scott-sanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/3777","title":{"rendered":"Black Dynamite (2009, Scott Sanders)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the funniest movies I&#8217;ve seen all year.  And it&#8217;s the kind of humor that makes the film nerd in me very happy, lovingly referencing 70&#8217;s cheapie Blaxploitation movies, even down to the shitty edits, overacting and pointedly sloppy dialogue, such as &#8220;your mama would turn over in her grave if she were here to see this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image09\/blackdynamite6.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>Beautiful lines like &#8220;Ain&#8217;t nothing in the world get Black Dynamite more mad than some jive-ass sucka dealin&#8217; smack to the kids&#8221; are just icing on the cake.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image09\/blackdynamite4.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s Tommy Davidson, the only star of <em>In Living Color<\/em> who didn&#8217;t go on to much of a movie career (unless <em>Booty Call<\/em> and <em>Bamboozled<\/em> count).  Our star is Michael Jai White, <em>Spawn<\/em> himself, finally back on top where he belongs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image09\/blackdynamite2.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>Plot isn&#8217;t important.  BD avenges the death of his brother, wipes smack off the streets, foils Fiendish Dr. Wu&#8217;s evil chemical plot and then defeats Richard Nixon in a nunchuck battle.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image09\/blackdynamite1.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>Obviously destined to be a cult video classic alongside <em><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/316\">Wet Hot American Summer<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image09\/blackdynamite5.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the funniest movies I&#8217;ve seen all year. And it&#8217;s the kind of humor that makes the film nerd in me very happy, lovingly referencing 70&#8217;s cheapie Blaxploitation movies, even down to the shitty edits, overacting and pointedly sloppy dialogue, such as &#8220;your mama would turn over in her grave if she were here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,1020,33,1019],"class_list":["post-3777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-blaxploitation","tag-comedy","tag-michael-jai-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3777"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3891,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777\/revisions\/3891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}