@@mediaikonz she could have been such a good ally and activist, she was really invested in the community and was educated. but in the end she was just too fucking weird wanted to LARP
Fun Fact: My dad passed up watching Blue Velvet and The Color of Money in theaters to watch this movie instead. In his own words, "It was the biggest mistake of my movie-going life".
@@isaiahfreeman I can comment with his thoughts since he told them to me. To add onto it, he enjoyed both Blue Velvet and The Color of Money when they eventually came on cable/HBO.
This NEEDS to be an Adum and Pals. I hope Adum won't tell Scoot what this movie's about. Scoot will absolutely explode with joy once he realises where this story is going.
Hold on, can someone please let me know who Scoot is again and why he would like this movie? I have mostly watched the YMS solo reviews, and on the Adam and Pals I can't tell their voices apart, so can someone explain the joke because I can't find much on Scoot at all.
@@IsaiahINRI Holy crap I must have missed that! When did that start, or could you please try and let me know a video where it happens? Sorry if that's a lot to do.
I'm surprised they even bothered putting it on Blu Ray, like it's such a forgotten and not really marketable film, it couldn't possibly be worth the money spent on putting it on DVD let alone Blu Ray.
From wikipedia: "The film was seen by President Ronald and Nancy Reagan at Camp David. "The Reagans enjoyed the film and especially enjoyed seeing their son Ron," a White House spokesman said at the time"
The second most racist movie ever screened for a POTUS, the first one of course being when Woodrow Wilson chose "The Birth of a Nation" to be the first film ever screened at the White House. No. America has never been okay.
As a proud black man myself who knows programming, I will literally create a bot dedicated to getting you falsely copywrite struck, banned from youtube, and Minecrafted in real life if you refuse to do an Adum and Pals with Scott Hensen, and Gael. You've been warned.
This is my brother's favorite film. I just bought him the deluxe 4K steelbook for Christmas, with commentary by the Reverend Al Sharpton and over 2 hours of deleted scenes.
Before reading this comment I thought to myself, "There can't be anyone who honestly says that this is their favorite movie. What kind of person would even put this in their top 5 favorite films, let alone in the # 1 spot?" lol So, no offense, I'm curious because of my previous thoughts but, is your brother the kind of person who says, "You just can't say anything today without someone getting offended!" Or, "What are you gonna do, cancel me?!" Or, "I definitely would've fought for the south in the US Civil War." Of course I'm not asking if he says these examples word for word, I mean does he say things along those lines, at least? I really want to know who'd unironically say this is their favorite movie lmao.
I somehow found out about this movie before high school. I used to tell people about it when the topic of strange old films came about, and they still didn't believe me so they looked it up when they got home. I should have started a watch party for them.
Check out the Roger Ebert review - he completely overlooks the blackface - "This is a genuinely interesting idea, filled with dramatic possibilities..."
I first saw Soul Man on TV as a child and didn't really think anything about pretending to be a black guy being inappropriate; I simply couldn't understand how anyone would think that guy was actually black!
They may have said this "poorly aged," but I'd argue it was extremely out of date and out of touch when it was first conceived. Like, if you wanted to tell this story, prolly should've kept it to a novel.
It's great to see Adum 'discover' this when I've known about it my whole life. IT STARS JAMES EARL JONES FFS. My dad was the one who introduced me to this and he really likes this film ...
I love chat saying "this aged poorly" when this shit wasn't widely culturally acceptable in the 80s either! There is no universe where this would've aged well lmao
I’m tremendously old so I remember this being shown on UK TV before we all knew better. Don’t get me wrong, my generation are doing better at understanding why it’s wrong but it’s been an uphill struggle to explain it to people.
An Indian guy actually did this, because India is part of Asia, and big colleges stopped accepting as many Asians. So, he just pretended to be black, and it worked like a charm.
It was not about him being Asian though. And while it is kinda funny, the guy is not really credible and there is a huge chance he is making it all up.
@@horusreloaded6387 *Edit:* Thought this was replying to a different comment thread which had shared elements. My bad. *My actual response:* I think he's credible enough since the story has been verified. I have no doubt that it was exaggerated a bit, but I do think it actually happened. My understanding was always that he didnt get accepted as himself, so he presented himself as black and was accepted. The background as to why he wasnt accepted just lines up with how for the past few decades, major colleges have subtly put a cap on how many asian students they accept per year. I don't think he ever presented things in a way to imply that he wasn't accepted because he's Asian; just that he wasn't accepted when being honest about his ethnicity.
@@OpinionParade Oh I didn't know it was verified. I though his famous sibling was generally rolling their eyes at his book, but maybe for different reasons dunno. Apparently he is an activist against affirmative action, so the book sounds more politically motivated, so that part made me doubt it more. Ohh going through the book's website, this movie is mentioned: "Almost Black: The True Story of How I Got into Medical School by Pretending to Be Black combines the comic tone of 1986’s Soul Man," Btw, what was your original comment, I missed it?
@@horusreloaded6387 Oh, it was almost completely irrelevant. There's a different thread where a guy is saying he's not getting dates, and some people think it's due to the way Asian men sometimes have a hard time dating in the west. I thought you were replying to that and was razzin' ya a bit, because your comment had different implications in that context.
Soul Man actually has a pretty good anti racism message but the way it portrays that message is so tone deaf it’s insane. One of those “how did this get made” kinda moments
It's cool that we exported all our racist stereotypes to Japan and then there's like nobody over there decades later to tell them hey, that's bad. Otherwise they'd just be racist toward Koreans and Okinawans like the good old days.
I've seen this movie. Multiple times. I was working at a movie theater that was showing it. Yeah, the comedies of the 1980s did not have the best value system.
Soul Man didn’t “age horribly.” It was already hated when it came out and ruined the lead’s career. The filmmakers should’ve known to stop when they first put Howell in that makeup.
I'm of the generation that watched this growing up and didn't really think twice to be offended by it either way. It's primarily (imo) trying to be a comedy first and foremost, but it's an average one at best. It also attempts some half-hearted social commentaries, particularly pertaining to white stereotypes of people of color but the lesson learned in the end is fairly cringe and disingenuous. I still wouldn't say it's a bad movie or exploitive, it's biggest crime is being an average high concept film with a main character that's a fair bit too selfish and self-centered to be redeemable.
This is from director Steve Miner. This guy directed this and another problematic comedy movie called My Father the Hero. I believe it’s about a father trying to marry his daughter. Fuck dude. He also directed Friday The 13th parts 2 and 3, and Halloween H20. Those films are fun.
Apparently that was not the first but the second time Gerard Dippitydoo starred opposite an underage costar and played her dad/fake boyfriend because that version of My Father The Hero was a remake. Dude's...dude's looking a little sus
This was offensive in the 80's too, that's the main reason it flopped then he doesn't even look like a Black guy, he looks like Jim Carrey with a tan and a bad perm
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We NEED Adum and Pals of this
Scoot gonna end up getting the channel deleted lol
Sardonicast of this.
We also need a "Postal Movie" Adum and pals!!
I honestly can't believe this movie apparently has James Earl Jones and Leslie Nielsen in it...
I hope he does. So I won't have to watch it myself out of morbid curiosity
My soul left my body when he came out to his parents as black
Lol who’s that one lady who got torn apart by the internet for lying that she’s black? Reminds me of her
Wanda Sykes had a bit that’s literally that lol
@@Nobody-hc2bo Dolezal
@@mediaikonz she could have been such a good ally and activist, she was really invested in the community and was educated. but in the end she was just too fucking weird wanted to LARP
It's basically transracial before it had a name! 😂
Scoot wouldn't even give commentary, he would just be weeping tears of joy.
Scoot was actually the writer
Scoot went back in time to direct the film.
@@ovskii96 i think you mean he went *black* in time
No because the actor is an adult
The best birthday prrsent for Scoot ever?
Fun Fact: My dad passed up watching Blue Velvet and The Color of Money in theaters to watch this movie instead. In his own words, "It was the biggest mistake of my movie-going life".
Ok but 40 years later his child wouldn’t be commenting about his thoughts on TH-cam about blue velvet or the color of money
@@isaiahfreeman I can comment with his thoughts since he told them to me. To add onto it, he enjoyed both Blue Velvet and The Color of Money when they eventually came on cable/HBO.
This NEEDS to be an Adum and Pals.
I hope Adum won't tell Scoot what this movie's about. Scoot will absolutely explode with joy once he realises where this story is going.
Yes! He needs to keep it a secret!
I'd be surprised if he's never heard of it, although I'm surprised Adum hadn't heard of it so who knows
Hold on, can someone please let me know who Scoot is again and why he would like this movie? I have mostly watched the YMS solo reviews, and on the Adam and Pals I can't tell their voices apart, so can someone explain the joke because I can't find much on Scoot at all.
@@gregoryo4417 Scoot is very passionate about racial issues
@@IsaiahINRI Holy crap I must have missed that! When did that start, or could you please try and let me know a video where it happens? Sorry if that's a lot to do.
“Mom, Dad… I’m black” is a FANTASTIC joke. Wish it was in anything else.
I feel like I've heard Wayne Brady make this joke
Sounds like a Key & Peele sketch
@@Toogs you have
HI BLACK I'M DAD
@@Toogs It was a Scene From A Hat about I think banned Brady Bunch episodes.
As a closeted black man myself, I find this quite empowering.
I love, LOVE that the tagline for this film is "He didn't give up, he got down"
He moved down the privilege chain
Holy shit NOO LMAOOO
He got the Mothership Connection!
It’s like a parody of poorly aged movies but it’s real
"Mom, dad... I'm black" holy shit 😂😂
He didn't get up, he got down.
SOMEONE: I wish important lost media was found and preserved
MONKEY PAW: (SOUL MAN CAN BE FOUND ON BLU-RAY... IN JAPAN)
You would be surprised at the obscure shit you find in Japanese video stores. Especially rentals. It's like where every movie goes to die.
@@cawcawcaw9160 I wonder if anyone bought Soul Man from a bargain bin to help them study English
I'm surprised they even bothered putting it on Blu Ray, like it's such a forgotten and not really marketable film, it couldn't possibly be worth the money spent on putting it on DVD let alone Blu Ray.
@@ArchSchizo 😹😹😹
From wikipedia:
"The film was seen by President Ronald and Nancy Reagan at Camp David. "The Reagans enjoyed the film and especially enjoyed seeing their son Ron," a White House spokesman said at the time"
In case you needed more proof this movie is cursed
The second most racist movie ever screened for a POTUS, the first one of course being when Woodrow Wilson chose "The Birth of a Nation" to be the first film ever screened at the White House.
No. America has never been okay.
I was literally about to post a joke about how there's no way this would have a bluray, and then there was. Oh my god
Mah-Dry-Bread spotting out in the wild!
Trudeau biopic goes hard af
6:15 "What was the sequel? Him pretending to be an asian woman in a wheelchair?"
Ok, THAT is a movie I would see
James Earl Jones saying yes to everything he's offered 😭
i love how back then the thought of 10,000 dollars was comically unheard of
and now schools on average cost 3 times that amount and no one mentions it
Did you ever heard about inflation?
@@-Zakhiel- yeah it’s not real
@@jeffmoo9235 Suuuure...
Back then you could buy a nice house in the big city for under 100k. Now that same house cost upwards of 1 million.
@@-Zakhiel-collage prices have increased faster than inflation
this movie is begging to be an Adum & Pals video.
It was poorly aged? That’s an understatement! If they ever a Adam and pals on this, it will be gloriously uncomfortable in the best way possible
As a proud black man myself who knows programming, I will literally create a bot dedicated to getting you falsely copywrite struck, banned from youtube, and Minecrafted in real life if you refuse to do an Adum and Pals with Scott Hensen, and Gael. You've been warned.
This is my brother's favorite film. I just bought him the deluxe 4K steelbook for Christmas, with commentary by the Reverend Al Sharpton and over 2 hours of deleted scenes.
Before reading this comment I thought to myself, "There can't be anyone who honestly says that this is their favorite movie. What kind of person would even put this in their top 5 favorite films, let alone in the # 1 spot?" lol
So, no offense, I'm curious because of my previous thoughts but, is your brother the kind of person who says, "You just can't say anything today without someone getting offended!" Or,
"What are you gonna do, cancel me?!" Or,
"I definitely would've fought for the south in the US Civil War."
Of course I'm not asking if he says these examples word for word, I mean does he say things along those lines, at least?
I really want to know who'd unironically say this is their favorite movie lmao.
@@LilyoftheLake14 I think it may have been a joke love
The Bluray is just a DVD in blue face
"And...that's how my story ends. My sides imploded upon the impact of that joke. I guess I'll never finish Indigo Prophecy now."
I remember this movie from when I was a kid. I thought I'd hallucinated it.
This is perfect Adum and Pals material
“Mom, Dad, I’m black.” The best line ever written. 😂😂😂
I somehow found out about this movie before high school. I used to tell people about it when the topic of strange old films came about, and they still didn't believe me so they looked it up when they got home. I should have started a watch party for them.
Check out the Roger Ebert review - he completely overlooks the blackface - "This is a genuinely interesting idea, filled with dramatic possibilities..."
Blackface aside it's an interesting look into some weird race stuff doesn't make it any less bad but that might be the point?
If Adum does an Adum and Pals on this they NEED to include a black friend. Maybe Justin will be up for it.
I first saw Soul Man on TV as a child and didn't really think anything about pretending to be a black guy being inappropriate; I simply couldn't understand how anyone would think that guy was actually black!
Twitch isn't ready for what Scoot has to say.
This feels like a parody movie but its somehow real lol
Adam couldn’t buy a Blu-Ray because Scoot had just bought every copy and crashed the store’s site.
I thought that RLM made up this movie when they referenced it
Holy shit we ALMOST got Adum to say it, Scoot would be elated.
As a black man I actually enjoyed this movie.
To get Soul Man on Bluray you have to defeat the CEO of Racism in Japan
They may have said this "poorly aged," but I'd argue it was extremely out of date and out of touch when it was first conceived. Like, if you wanted to tell this story, prolly should've kept it to a novel.
Scoots not here to witness this: Press F to pay respect
It's great to see Adum 'discover' this when I've known about it my whole life. IT STARS JAMES EARL JONES FFS. My dad was the one who introduced me to this and he really likes this film ...
I love chat saying "this aged poorly" when this shit wasn't widely culturally acceptable in the 80s either! There is no universe where this would've aged well lmao
Holy shit I remember this movie and damn is it funny. Certified hood classic
I’m tremendously old so I remember this being shown on UK TV before we all knew better. Don’t get me wrong, my generation are doing better at understanding why it’s wrong but it’s been an uphill struggle to explain it to people.
Scoot watching this movie "OHHHHHHHHHHOHOHOHOHOHOOOOOOOOO"
This is why Scoot is the best
the woman who wrote this movie went on to create The Wonder Years.
yms has to review this.
An Indian guy actually did this, because India is part of Asia, and big colleges stopped accepting as many Asians.
So, he just pretended to be black, and it worked like a charm.
It was not about him being Asian though.
And while it is kinda funny, the guy is not really credible and there is a huge chance he is making it all up.
@@horusreloaded6387
*Edit:*
Thought this was replying to a different comment thread which had shared elements. My bad.
*My actual response:*
I think he's credible enough since the story has been verified.
I have no doubt that it was exaggerated a bit, but I do think it actually happened.
My understanding was always that he didnt get accepted as himself, so he presented himself as black and was accepted.
The background as to why he wasnt accepted just lines up with how for the past few decades, major colleges have subtly put a cap on how many asian students they accept per year.
I don't think he ever presented things in a way to imply that he wasn't accepted because he's Asian; just that he wasn't accepted when being honest about his ethnicity.
@@OpinionParade Oh I didn't know it was verified. I though his famous sibling was generally rolling their eyes at his book, but maybe for different reasons dunno.
Apparently he is an activist against affirmative action, so the book sounds more politically motivated, so that part made me doubt it more.
Ohh going through the book's website, this movie is mentioned:
"Almost Black: The True Story of How I Got into Medical School by Pretending to Be Black combines the comic tone of 1986’s Soul Man,"
Btw, what was your original comment, I missed it?
@@horusreloaded6387 Oh, it was almost completely irrelevant.
There's a different thread where a guy is saying he's not getting dates, and some people think it's due to the way Asian men sometimes have a hard time dating in the west.
I thought you were replying to that and was razzin' ya a bit, because your comment had different implications in that context.
@@OpinionParade ooooh my god I can imagine how bad it would look.
I like how without the full stop after Leslie Nielson's name it unintentionally implies he and James Earl Jones played the same character as one.
Soul Man Adum & Pals WHEN
The true successor to Tiptoes
I was 10 years old when i saw this movie for the first time....and I still love it today.
"yms cringes at" is my new favorite series
I learnt about this movie through a small TH-camr called Matt Amarr who reviewed this movie and I was shocked to my core at the black face reveal
Soul Man actually has a pretty good anti racism message but the way it portrays that message is so tone deaf it’s insane. One of those “how did this get made” kinda moments
This feels like a movie Scoot would like.
Of-course Japan is still selling it lmao
It's cool that we exported all our racist stereotypes to Japan and then there's like nobody over there decades later to tell them hey, that's bad. Otherwise they'd just be racist toward Koreans and Okinawans like the good old days.
@@jazzahol305 I have some bad news about the racism against Koreans thing
@@jazzahol305 I hear they're still pretty racist against other asian people.
Surprised Adum didn't talk about the trailer not being in 4k.
☠️☠️☠️
Watched this film after seeing the reaction. 10/10 would watch again and it had a nice moral to it.
I've seen this movie. Multiple times. I was working at a movie theater that was showing it. Yeah, the comedies of the 1980s did not have the best value system.
Soul Man didn’t “age horribly.” It was already hated when it came out and ruined the lead’s career.
The filmmakers should’ve known to stop when they first put Howell in that makeup.
I feel Scoot looming on the horizon…
Like most media from the 80's, I blame this and The Toy on crack
They used to play this movie on Comedy Central back when I was a kid.
What I wouldn't give to see an Adum & Pals video on this movie
I was waiting for the guy to say "Wassup, my [REDACTED]!"
We found Scoots new favourite movie
Soul Man sounds very much like a remake of The Jazz Singer
This was made to be an Adum and Pals episode
C Thomas Howell's most iconic role
I always wished he could've gotten a cameo in Tropic Thunder with Robert Downey Jr.
Scoot NEEDS to see this
I'm of the generation that watched this growing up and didn't really think twice to be offended by it either way. It's primarily (imo) trying to be a comedy first and foremost, but it's an average one at best. It also attempts some half-hearted social commentaries, particularly pertaining to white stereotypes of people of color but the lesson learned in the end is fairly cringe and disingenuous. I still wouldn't say it's a bad movie or exploitive, it's biggest crime is being an average high concept film with a main character that's a fair bit too selfish and self-centered to be redeemable.
First Velma, now a movie about Mindy Kahling's brother
Saying it aged poorly implies it wasn't years past it's expiration date when it came out.
80s was a weird time for comedies
Can’t believe this isn’t uploaded in 4k smh
How is nobody talking about how that’s Julia Louis Dreyfus 3:01
I can’t even imagine what an Adam and Pals would be like for this. Scoot would be in orbit.
This is from director Steve Miner. This guy directed this and another problematic comedy movie called My Father the Hero. I believe it’s about a father trying to marry his daughter. Fuck dude.
He also directed Friday The 13th parts 2 and 3, and Halloween H20. Those films are fun.
Apparently that was not the first but the second time Gerard Dippitydoo starred opposite an underage costar and played her dad/fake boyfriend because that version of My Father The Hero was a remake. Dude's...dude's looking a little sus
How can this "age poorly" when we have Rachel Dolezal?
BUT WAS THE TRAILER IN 4K????
C. Thomas Howell instakilled his career with this movie
Stunning and Brave of him to come out as Transracial
"I'm scared to watch this with Scoot" lolol
I really hope Scoot won't be informed about this movie beforehand
Ah, a new mega-tragedy in cinema; we'll never get Scoot watching this on an Adum & Pals 😭
Soul Man: The Justin Trudeau Story
Funny thing is that this movie was controversial even when it came out. Ronald Reagan said he liked it, though
I can't believe that this is directed by the same guy who did Friday the 13th Parts 2&3 and Halloween H20
i cant believe they didnt upload the Soul Man trailer in 4k
i feel like this would make a good adam and pals
3:00 Julia Louis Dreyfus (Elaine from seinfeld) , didnt even realize she was in this. lol
I could not tell if "from the producer of Risky Buisness" was meant as a pun or not.
We found it. Soul Badman
This was offensive in the 80's too, that's the main reason it flopped then
he doesn't even look like a Black guy, he looks like Jim Carrey with a tan and a bad perm
I thought he was a young Jim Carrey at first. They looked uncannily similar.
Adum making Scoot jokes for him.
Adum and Pals watch!
How did he not know about this one lmao, legendary movie for all the rightfully wrong reasons
seems like japanese people looove blackface lmao
The Blueray is all.....SOULED OUT.
I watched this as a kid!! I just completely forgot about it until it popped back up again recently