This Aged Great! Episode 3: Soul Man
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The “I felt 400 years of oppression in every thrust” made me spit out my tea 😂
"The past was doing it's best..." Can't stop laughing at that.
My favorite is when she invites him to the meeting of future Black leaders, and he arrives in full militant attire.
You omitted the best line, when Jones suggests he now understands what it's like to be black in American and the white kid says, "no I didn't, because if I didn't like it, I could just stop."
@@peacecitizen1 Todd Bridges had one of my favorite lines from Little House on the Prairie.
He asked Charles, "Would you rather be black and live to be 100, or would you rather be white and live to be 50?"
@@mr.pavone9719 I remember that line. Always stuck with me.
Rae Dawn Chong is the daughter of Tommy Chong of Cheech & Chong. She also was married to Soul Man star C. Thomas Howell for ONE YEAR from 1989-1990.
And she was awesome in Commando
She was in uhhh what’s the movie, early Abel Ferrara film I watched recently with Tom berenger. Keep seeing her pop up recently
@@DiamorphineDeathplatoon or sniper
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@@louciphre2803 nailed it; suprised to see her as i solely associate her with commando and that character
I am really enjoying this series. A bunch of movies I haven't seen since the 80 when I was young and impressionable.
Great Sean Connery impression of Sean Connerys impression of James Earl Jones.
Now, you need to watch "It's Pat" 😂😂😂.
im happy to see 30 years later....C Thomas Howell and RDC are still happily defending this great movie
No black people were harmed during the making of this movie.
Porky's, now Soul Man!?? Keep the hits coming guys!!
This is the thing to do now. One guy describes a movie, and the other guy laughs
yo to be honest this is the most amazing series ive ever seen. yall are hilarious.
A movie that wants to do the right thing in every decision except the main one.
The fact that this is an actual movie is funny asf😂😂😂😂
I saw this in the theater as a kid and I loved it!
I wonder if Jan's time spent on the reservation with her old boyfriend inspired her to create her bonfire scented candles.
Sounds like the book called “Black Like Me” 😂😂😂
Tommy Chong's daughter
Rae Dawn was also in Commando
I love this series!!! You guys are hilarious!
I don’t know what you guys look like and don’t want to. Please keep this auditory format, og podcast style. Love this pod!
Thank you!
Jawanna Mann 2002 should be next!!! Then do Hiding Out 1987!!!
Great upload, guys! Subbed. 😅 Rae Dawn Chong was gorgeous. ♥
I was telling my g/f about this film just the other month, she'd never heard of it and she couldn't believe it was real.
If you like Rae Dawn Chong, I have 3 words for you: Quest For Fire. #YerWelcome
Greatest sex scene of all time.
This movie was a regular rental for us. It was freaking hilarious! And from my perspective, a black dude (teen at the time) from just outside of Boston, for me I loved how it showed how racism still exists up there. JEJ was great! Whenever I hear someone say Mr Watson, I say it in JEJ voice lol.
You also can't critique this movie without understanding the culture at this time. I mean my man Eddie Murphy did this on SNL. It's racist AF but it also attempted to put a mirror in front of wppl.
I'm binging this channel, it's hilarious, great job !
Same.
Thank you!
I remember seeing this movie when I was a kid. Not in theaters, but it was fresh on HBO. And I remember even at the time thinking "This movie is f---ed up."
Soul Man is hilarious! Ray Dawn Chong was a smoke show. Tommy Chong's (of Cheech & Chong) daughter.
I'm still waiting for this movie to be thrust into the zeitgeist I'm so sure, that for years now, C. Thomas Howell spontaneously breaks into a sweat
Outstanding take. Keep going
Suggestion: Just One of the Guys. Was running frequently on HBO around the same time Soul Man was.
I grew up watching this as a kid in the 80's. This was on HBO all the time.
I love an unexpected Churchill reference.
One of the more disgusting things in this movie is when the main character says how much his complete Harvard education will cost and it's not even the cost of a single modern semester of any college today.......
Spent most of my adult life and career in higher ed, and you're right.
And it’s an IVY LEAGUE school, as well… that would have cost a lot back then and how it’s nothing compared to just regular college tuition…
Yeah that part really messed me up.
Remember, it's from the 80s, when a coffee cost a quater. You always have to adjust for inflation and greed. Another Reagan legacy.
Say ya dont understand 40 years of inflation without saying ya dont understand 40 years of inflation.
What about the dinner table scene with Leslie Nelson picturing him treating his daughter badly and eating watermelon? Even more outrageous now
“ get me more watermelon and my hypodermic needle “
I wonder why they havent rebooted this yet? 😂
They basically did, with a race and sex swap, it's called "White Chicks."
They kinda did in a way with that one transphobic comedy show about basketball
The kinda did but reversed the roles, there was that horrible "White Chicks" movie with the Wayne's brothers.
I am BEGGING you guys to tackle Honeysuckle Rose, the Willie Nelson movie; PLEASE!
Love this series, Ben, can't waIt for further instalments
I think it was less that the black actors had no problem with the movie, and more that this was just Hollywood in the 80s and whaddya gonna do.
If ever there was a movie that should be rebooted and updated for modern audiences, it's this one.
They did. It's called "White Chicks".
I saw it when it came out the dinner table scene is hilarious
The whole idea that there weren't actually any eligible people to take up the scholarship actually makes things far worse.
That would imply that the university deliberately set up the criteria in such a way that the scholarship would never actually be claimed, so you have a white guy in blackface getting his education subsidised by an institution that only set it up for the sake of good PR and never legitimately wanted to do anything to help address the issue.
If the only way to claim that scholarship is through fraud it's an indictment on the institution as well.
theme song kicks ass btw
If you take requests, there's an obscure 80s conedy titled HAMBURGER: THE MOTION PICTURE, and boy has that aged like milk! It's full of racial stereotypes, uncomfortable gay jokes and the ending is one long fat joke. So basically, it's the ultimate 80s comedy.😎
Bears coach Dick Butkis starred in that movie, I believe.
Love this movie, sorry
Brilliant!!
The plot (plot lol) of this motion picture classic is wild.
Y'all should read "Black Like Me" from 1961 by John Howard Griffin.
It's the story of a white guy who puts on blackface and travels through the Jim Crow south.
i loved this movie as a kid
Its so funny that this move exists 😅😅😅
lot of good stuff in this movie... so many years sense I've seen it.
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@@oliverklosov5153 man this is bullshit. I totally knew I was having an issue w/ knowing what spelling to use and I asked google and GD Google somehow made me think 'sense' was correct. fml
I was born in 1970 and the country I live in is 70% black people. The schools I went to were 95% black people. I went to this movie in the theater. And literally did not hear one peep from a Black person Complaining about this movie being racist. We were pretty much over the racism, Then mid-seventies to early 80s.
Now they're ramping it all up again to conquer and divide. Anyway.
i watched this so much as a kid
Soul Man if I recall was 1 of the highest box office comedy films of 1986 🍿. It made $.
Yeah this movie was hilarious!
It gets looked back on now as blaxploitation due to the jokes and the blackface but it really wasn't. It sounds funny to say out loud as it's still a ridiculous movie but they went for trying to play it seriously by blending a little messaging with a love story. It was actually a pretty woke movie in its time.
The funny thing is that the movie does get a little preachy and does have some lefty nonsense in it but it's the left today that are so triggered by this movie. They really do eat their own.
@@BishopWalters12 I only recently learned it was written by the woman who created The Wonder Years. Rae Dawn Chong has some excellent quotes defending the movie and points out that it actually makes white people look pretty bad. It's essentially a white guilt film, you would think modern progressives would enjoy that.
I have a gripe with the premise for him needing college money. They could have had it be a successful father who wanted his kid to learn the hard way instead of daddy taking care of everything, but instead they went with some goofy story about the dad's high priced psychiatrist convinced him to do it out of pure selfishness.
@@D-Fens_1632 I agree with you, I hate most white guilt movies, but I let it go with this movie because it's so over the top and several scenes really do make me laugh. I also agree that the big flaw with this movie is the set-up of the rich dad listening to shrink and not wanting to help his son. It really didn't make sense. Mark is your typical annoying rich kid but it's not like he's living home and doing nothing. That was some bad writing.
I would not say this aged badly. It used comedy as a tool to give white people a little taste of how complex it is to navigate the whole race relations and equality argument as well as experiencing some true to life elements of discrimination when faced with living life as a person of color. As someone old enough to have living memory of life pretty shortly after the civil rights act I can say we have come a long way. As someone who also spent some time as a teen living in Apartheid era South Africa I can say we have come a very long way.
What was South Africa before the Europeans settled there?
nah as a black person whose grandmother actually advocated heavily for Civil Rights and even helped black people in her community vote and was involved in politics in her local community and was born and grew up in the Jim Crow South and as someone who has parents old enough to remember apartheid and white flight and busing, it did age badly and there are better films that use comedy to discuss race
@@elykalontar3847You mean colonized?
@@elykalontar3847 As another commented, South Africa was invaded by Europeans, mostly British, Dutch, and German but others as well. Just because Europeans were more technologically developed does not mean the native Africans were unhappy before Europeans came. Sadly the discovery of Gold and Diamonds pretty much doomed them to over a century of servitude to their white European overlords with Britain conquering the non-British settlers in the Boer Wars and taking full control in 1902. I remember hearing of a British Airways captain saying "Welcome to Johannesburg, set your watch ahead 2 hours and your mind back 50 years" upon landing. Keep in mind that back 50 years would have been referring to 1925 Britain and I would call his remark an understatement of Apartheid's reality.
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It was bad when it came out. It has aged poorly, but it was a total joke, when it came out.
I was a kid, and it was a joke to us. Black kids thought it was hilarious, but it was like So Bad It’s Funny, when you’re a 10 year old.
It was always terrible, and a stupid, and it was taken out of theaters, to be found by future generations at the video store.
I was 14 when this movie came out and the writer nailed it. I wasn't offended in the slightest.
Btw, just like the character.. I'm not good at basketball.
Also, I have been with girls like the landlord's daughter too.
I'm also suspicious of liberals like that as well.
I still enjoyed the film and if anyone white or black was offended, they missed the point.
The Kids in the Hall did a pretty funny skit on the rebellious liberal daughter thing. (Tony comes to Dinner)
Unfortunately, like most of their performances, they insisted on playing ALL the parts themselves. So Scott Thompson is in blackface, but he kills it.
So for me the funniest part about this movie which I loved, is that I used the picture of C. Thomas Howell when he was black as my work profile picture and it stayed up on our bank corporate website for at least 3 days before my boss noticed and had me change it although she approved it in the first place not knowing what I uploaded. lol! Always thought it was great if anyone seen it in those 3 days and didn't realize it was a reference to this movie.
This film was big, they should reboot it❤
If you like Rae Dawn Chong, watch "Commando." Doesn't really fit the theme of your series, but she's in it. And hot.
"What happened to Sully?" "I let him go." Classic!
Great film
The biggest mistake when taking in a movie from this era is thinking everyone is serious. This movie is borderline farce and was made to bring light to a lot of issues. "Walk a mile in my shoes" is the moral. Whites couldn't possibly know how blacks used to be treated unless they became black themselves, which is impossible, but in the movies you can do the impossible. That is what movies are for. I was only 11ish at the time so I wasn't aware of how things were, but I also wasn't set to default racism at birth either as from preschool onward it was nothing but mixed classes. My generation was completely oblivious to racism as all races grew up together from birth. It was great in the 90s when everyone loved each other and stacked black women would actually chase white guys like me. 20ish year old Irish boys were on every black girls menu it seemed and I had fun with it. Then sometime in the 2010s this wasn't good enough anymore so someone had to resurrect the hate and create drama that set events in motion leading to today because it is so much easier going through life as a victim vs putting forth even a shred of effort.
He's lucky that Anakin didn't F him up lol.
It's not real, dude. The line was put in there SPECIFICALLY to wind you up
@@christophercleary6780 What are you talking about?
LOVE THIS MOVIE :-)
Thanks for the Classic Flick Boyz, Cheers 🍺🍻🍺🍻🍺... This dude looks trippy. Like a Those things On Garbage Pal Kids The Movie... ps: Gotta do Adventures in Babysitting, or Weekend at Bernie's... Thanks For Da Laughs😂😂😂
😂I 🔥🔥🔥😂👍🏾‼️ I been black a long time, great breakdown brother 💯💯💯💯💯💯🌌🛸🤟🏽🫡
I always liked this movie
I know your take on the Warriors would probably be legendary 😂 keep the 80s movies coming and do some shows too like Dukes of Hazard, there’s some good episodes of MASH too to do
5:32 That’s real. Been there...many times 😄
6:52 And what? You’ve never met drunk Celtics fans? They are the worst
C Thomas Howell looks more East Indian than black.
LMAO at 0:24 to 0:36. This movie pretty much derailed C Thomas' movie career.
How about a review on the 1980's classic Iron Eagle?
Very substantial
Tommy Chong’s daughter, btw.
Dang, how could you not mention the dinner table scene?
Burnside Kyoto
🎵🎶🎵the past was doin it wrong
Come on Ben, dont let these stupid channels make money when you got a good thing
Channel: The past was doing it's best
Start cranking out the videos
Im going to sub and notification in the hopes you will make more content
Im 48 and grew up with all these movies
Love watching with new perspective
The best movie ever? Lol. I haven't seen it but that seems like a stretch. 😸
I think the dinner table scene is what gave this movie a bad wrap.
The girl in the movie is in the anthology horror film Tales From The Darkside and you should really check that out because it's one of the saddest horror stories I've seen.
I need to watch that!
I thought they made him black so he got free college.
Ponyboi becomes black 😂
Geez, I had no idea there was a comedy 80’s movie that used medical race appropriation. I wonder if the script was inspired by Black Like Me?
Actually paid to see this in the theater. Ugh
These are amazing vid's. I think it's great you have a complete idiot for a friend who has never seen any of these movies. Great channel!
Wait real quick...did the black woman he was involved with forgive him? Thank him for turning over the scholarship? Keep going out with him? Break up with him and say goodbye but in a nice way with a smile maybe?? Ahhh i need to know please ?!?! 🤔😇🤗
They end up together! Lucky guy.
If you're hot for Rae Dawn Chong, check out the movie Quest for Fire. You should do an episode on it.
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missed the greatest scene the dinner scene also bonus great bbal scene
My x was like that
I know no one will believe this but I saw this movie in the theater - I was 12 - with one of my favorite teachers Ms.D who is Black. My dad had a small catering business which Ms. D worked for occasionally over the summer. One afternoon there wasn’t much for us to do so my dad asked her to take me to a movie…she let me choose…Im pretty sure I thought it was going to be about music and I - like everyone back then - had a crush on Rae Dawn Chong. Ms.D somehow made it through that movie and never let on if she was upset, at least not to me. I didn’t realize until many years later how crazy this was….I’m SO SORRY MS.D!!! I was just a dumb kid
Hilarious
Saw this on VHS...I LOVE Rae Dawn Chong...but I HATE this movie and have not seen it since that viewing in 86 or 87. I guess this movie was trying to say something, but it did a bad job at it. Mind you I was 12 when this came out.
Ray Dawn Chong is Tommy Chong's daughter...
i rembder i was in santa cruz and this preview came on the whole crowd was pissed yelling shit at the screen same with better off dead on that joke throwing away good whit folk
White savior movie
hillarious...you missed the whole point of the movie....he said: "I dont know what its like to be black....because if i didnt like it...i could always get out".
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