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John Henrik Clarke: A Great and Mighty Walk (1996)
This should be shown to all people in all schools
This should be shown to all people in all schools as part of their history education. This is an amazing straight forward summary of history and the place that people of color have had in the world throughout time. It gives an excellent perspective on religion and how it is used to conquer and divide. This should be mandatory for all students in public schools throughout America. Because of it's take religion, history and how we got to where we are today I can see why it would be suppressed and ignored by the status quo. Thanks to all who were involved who made this movie possible. I saw it on the Sundance Channel and will never forget it. It reaffirms and adds to most of what I know of historically and religiously.
Four Brothers (2005)
Saw it on video for free ...GOOD THING IT WAS FREE {SPOILERS}
I got this winner on video for free {guarenteed in stock} It was so bad it mad me want to quit watching movies. Bad dialog, poor acting, I thought I was watching some crap on ActionMax. But it wasn't even that good and I didn't see the Dolph Lungren, Eric Roberts or Some French or Spanish or Danish or Canadian or Portegese Former Five Time Gymkata Champion in the movie so I realized it was a DVD rental and not ActionMax after all. What is Marky Mark thinking. Was it the opportunity to work with Singleton that motivated him to sign up for this garbage?
They tried to make it Detroit like. Shots of burn't out houses, Closed factories, hockey and some other standard slum shots. It's such standard BS. I'm from Detriot and the only place they ever played hockey was in the suburbs. Detriot is one of the most segregated cities in the country and I guarantee you that nobody with dark skin past 8 mile road is playing hockey with a bunch of white guys. If there is any game going on in the city limits of Detriot it's basketball and basketball only. Hockey is illegal inside the city limits unless they are playing inside Joe Louis Arena and the Red Wings are involved.
This movie had a disgraceful script combined with equally bad acting and directing. What bad guy works for a crimeboss who humiliates him and abuses him. They should have had him running a gang of Tammy Wynettes instead of gangsters. These guys are criminals, killers and business men and the CEO is going to talk about sleeping with one of the board members wives!!??!! I see this all the time in crappy gangster movies like this. In real life the boos would have been fired immediately and literally for treating the higher ups with such dis-respect. That's why in real life things are run like the Guidos do, if there is a problem with one of the managers they are fired discreetly with one behind the ear. Not constantly humiliated. Who would follow that? And yet time and time again in movie they have the over the top Crime Boss abusing people who are closest to him and responsible for his income and security. Give me a break.
They should have made a real movie about Detroit. The brothers come back and are surprised that Greektown is now Casino Town.... Shocking. That they lived in the mostly white Burbs and that the people of color are actually starting to segregate the whole city {slowly} and that there are actually Black people living one the 'other side' of 8 mile in Roseville, the Shores and other parts of the city {at one time unheard of, especially in Grosse Pointe or St Clair Shores} The Crime boss could have been a real business man with loyal employees/criminals who loved and respected him or her. The Brothers could have hunted down the killer{s} without crazy antics like whipping out a gun at a high school basketball game.... which in real life would have a few of Detroits finest working it... a mandatory presence for years at High School in the inner and and High School events.... that scene was retarded.
They could have pieced together the tragedy and confronted a sorry {maybe of course Christopher Walken playing an Arabic businessman which would have been perfect}crime boss working at some Party Store or body shop...located of course way out in the suburbs... Oakland county ....Way out in a good area where he washes some of his money at his supposedly legit business. The perpitraitors of the senseless act would have been executed immediately .... not because they killed the mother... but because the attention would cost some of the operations money... the real hanging offense for a crime family. The four brothers should have all been college graduates.... raised in a tough area but since they were raised right {by the martered and now sainted mother } they all left and were leading higher end lives instead of being a bunch of blue collar clowns {yes I know Andre was supposed to be in Real Estate}.
This movie was bad, over-the-top crap. Everyone involved drops a notch in my book. It was an easy check to cash for Singleton and Marky Mark... they should be embarrassed.
The Kids in the Hall (1988)
one of the best comedy shows on TV
One of the best comedy shows on TV. 1. Mr Show 2. Kids in the Hall {{ if you lived in Detriot you got to see it 4 times a day for a short while ..... channel 9 }} 3. Pee Wee Herman {{ HBO special, movie and beyond .... all kinds of stuff was loaded into that show }}
The rest..... Mad TV , SNL {once in a while}, what ever other shows I can't think of now.