Quote Originally Posted by Worf101
As you can see I left "Shaft" and "Superfly" off the list. Medicocre detective film at best and flawed story as well. Both are significant only in that they showed a desperate Holloywood a new source of money to be exploited and did they.
Good selections Worf.

But I may not agree with your commnet about Shaft. Before Shaft, african-american movies were very low keyed and centerd about their sruggle. But Shaft changed that image to a in your-face-kick-butt kind of movie that was not seen before. Just look at how many movies tried to immitate Shaft, but failed. It was very refreshing


Quote Originally Posted by RGA
It's also interesting because if you look at cop buddy movies like Lethal Weapon what would this be viewed as? Is this considered an African American movie and if not why not and if so why?

Is it ruled out because there is a white character?
Lethal weapon probably does qualify as African-American movie, but then catagory becomes too broad. Most movies that were listed had mostly afrcica american charactors or directed by one.

In movies like LW or Beverly Hill Cop, one probably could replace the leading black actor to a white guy, and story still come out the same. But you can not say the same thing about some movies that were listed