What happened to Black films like Soul Food?

[1LurkerChick9]

Why would you consider Moonlight a teaching black film @dora_da_destroyer ? I disagree.What would the movie possibly be teaching white people? They are literally absent from the film and racism is a non-factor.

It deserves all the praise it received ,imo.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Why would you consider Moonlight a teaching black film @dora_da_destroyer ? I disagree.What would the movie possibly be teaching white people? They are literally absent from the film and racism is a non-factor.

It deserves all the praise it received ,imo.

Black gay romance

 

[BXKingPin82]

Act like Tyler Perrys dont exist.




Theres this new joint on NETFLIX tho "Really Love" thats pretty good.

 

[Luke Cage]

Tyler perry cemented them shyts as a bargin bin genre so they hardly get released in theaters anymore or get any marketing.

 

[Bryan Danielson]

Tyler perry cemented them shyts as a bargin bin genre so they hardly get released in theaters anymore or get any marketing.

TP now has also put more black people through college and provided more jobs than rappers with these strippers

 

[Real]

I hadn't watched the whole movie since the 90's when it first came out
I watched it last night on Roku
Movie is truly one of the best movies of all time
Top 5 Black film in my opinion


What happened to Black films like this?
Is it the times we're in and are the times just not like this anymore?
Or is just a lack of interest in films like this? The lack of interest to authenticity?

I don't know, but a lot of films these days seem and feel so inauthentic and lack the connection to the actual Black experience these days.

Read the room. It aint just black movies.

 

[humminbird]

It was allowed to exist
Films like that today won’t be made
A writer today would make the characters say everything out loud
"I'm a black artist. I can't make money like Banksy!"
"No one wants to hire my black ass!"
"Get that white thinking out of here!"
"you know we're black people right?"

 

[Elim Garak]

That type of filmmaking died in the early 2000s.

 

[Elim Garak]

It legit seems like all the good black entertainment died at roughly the same time. Music, Movies, Television all made a major shift to shyt.

 

[humminbird]

It legit seems like all the good black entertainment died at roughly the same time. Music, Movies, Television all made a major shift to shyt.

It was getting too big to ignore so they killed it

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

Why spend money on a decent script, actors, locations, soundtrack,marketing, etc....when you can just pay Tyler Perry to crank out some shyt on the low and people will still pay to see it?

Tyler Perry makes some of the realistic depictions of Black life

And I ain't even a fan

Just speaks on today's climate

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

It was allowed to exist
Films like that today won’t be made
A writer today would make the characters say everything out loud
"I'm a black artist. I can't make money like Banksy!"
"No one wants to hire my black ass!"
"Get that white thinking out of here!"
"you know we're black people right?"

Lol facts

 

[ALMIGHTY GOD]

It was allowed to exist
Films like that today won’t be made
A writer today would make the characters say everything out loud
"I'm a black artist. I can't make money like Banksy!"
"No one wants to hire my black ass!"
"Get that white thinking out of here!"
"you know we're black people right?"

this, shyt would be absolute trash

 

[NatiboyB]

Them movies go straight to Netflix these days

Between Amazon Prime, Youtube, apps like Brown Sugar, and All Black that's where I'm seeing a lot of them.

 

[Wargames]

Tyler Perry kind of took this whole lane and made it his.