Can anyone name Black Movies in the past 30 years that aren't Trauma Porn?

[Tribal Outkast]

The photograph
Little

These two don’t get no love.

 

[Tribal Outkast]

Love and Basketball
Love Jones
Hav Plenty
The Best Man
The first Madea movie
Like what the hell are you even asking right now?

Hav Plenty is underrated

 

[Black Excellence]

Lol some of yall are naming movies about slavery, the Civil rights struggle and boxers who grew up without their fathers like those aren't still trauma porn and tropes.

This thread shows How much we've normalized this stuff.

It’s a reason why Nia Long and Jeffrey Wright don’t want to be known as just “black actors” or starring in “black movies”.

We keep boxing ourselves in and foaming at the mouth calling them a sell out when someone objects to said box in. Ironically I say that with black excellence in my name lol.

 

[The God Poster]

Ran OP out his own thread


@UpAndRunning

 

[Warren Peace]

Trauma Porn as in:

- I made it out of the gutter Hood movies
- Gang movies
- I suffered from abuse but I made it out ok movies
- Slavery movies
- I was wrongfully accused and was in jail for a decade movies
- Etc etc


Hollywood is not going to do it for us, but it's time to end this genre or at least greatly limit it. If it means supporting more growth of Black Directors and Black screenplay writers, then I'm all for it. Please name them?

Harder They Fall
They Cloned Tyrone
Creed

 

[Luke Cage]

Trauma Porn as in:

- I made it out of the gutter Hood movies
- Gang movies
- I suffered from abuse but I made it out ok movies
- Slavery movies
- I was wrongfully accused and was in jail for a decade movies
- Etc etc


Hollywood is not going to do it for us, but it's time to end this genre or at least greatly limit it. If it means supporting more growth of Black Directors and Black screenplay writers, then I'm all for it. Please name them?

Trauma porn is needed. WHite people are constantly trying to erase our history and re-write the narrative to make it seem like we aren't discriminated against and that they actually have it worse than us. Its alright to like other types of movies, but complaining about these types movies is c00ning.

 

[Warren Peace]

I want more sci fi films with black directors and writers. Black escapist media. I think we need that.

 

[ELITE]

Well OP did say the past 30 years

Nothing in the last decade..

It wasnt that long ago there was a thriving Black entertainment sector, from film to movies..now its practically all gone, too much integration with mainstream cac society.

This is a very lazy thread. You can name 30 movies in the last decade alone if you wanted to:

They Cloned Tyrone
Beyond the Lights,
About last night
Think like a man, 1 and 2
The photograph
Harder They Fall
Creed Trilogy
Peele's catalogue
Black Panther 1 and 2
Night school
The perfect guy
Ride along
Girls Trip
Best Man holiday
Beats
Little
Almost Christmas
Call me King
Shaft
Don't let go
Black and Blue
Love, Beats Rhymes
Bad Boys for life
Addicted
Uncorked
Dolemite is my name
Top five
Black Box
40 year old Version
His House
Sylvies love
Spell
Da 5 bloods
Soul
Fall from Grace


The list goes on.... and on...

 

[Save $ not Hoes]

Op watching nothing but tubi and freevee movies

 

[BrothaZay]

what a try hard

 

[Hey_zeus]

Lottery Ticket

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

I want more sci fi films with black directors and writers. Black escapist media. I think we need that.

I like black sci Fi too but apparently TLR hates it when black sci Fi introduces time time travel into the plot because then you have to write around institutional racism.

Lovecraft Country wasn't too well received on here

 

[Phitz]

Black Panther has been the best one because it wasn't the factory made urban romance, hood flick, or slave movie

 

[Black Panther]

Black Panther.

 

[UpAndComing]

Trauma porn is needed. WHite people are constantly trying to erase our history and re-write the narrative to make it seem like we aren't discriminated against and that they actually have it worse than us. Its alright to like other types of movies, but complaining about these types movies is c00ning.

Sorry but this is a lazy excuse. It would be akin to someone supporting making gang movies. Then saying "Oh my God, so you're saying you don't support talking about Gang movies and showing how violent the hood is?? How dare you!"

So you're indirectly saying that the Black experience only consists of jail, sexual/physical abuse, gangs, violence... We don't indulge in comedy, don't start businesses, don't have interest in sci-fi, don't have healthy relationships, aren't inventors, aren't explorers, etc. But somehow it's ok to have a disproportionate amount of Films on the former instead of the latter

And it's hilarious to think Movies/Film are the only medium to address social issues. It's a cop out