Saw Black Dynamite, a hilarious throwback to 70s-era blaxploitation films. This film perfectly captures the self-serious cheesiness of those films, the scowling protagonist is some impossibly cool and badass dude, the women are all sexy bombshells, the secondary characters are all pimps. The whole thing seems to be filmed through a smoked glass filter. It's hilariously on-the-nose.
They break the fourth wall a few times, just to let us know that they're in on the joke, but it's otherwise played straight enough that someone might mistake it for just a particularly crazy blaxploitation film. The ending get sufficiently nuts to fix that however.
I enjoyed it. It's a funny, crazy film that is maybe celebrating something embarrassing (blaxploitation) but is also maybe owning and recontextualizing that thing. It's interesting as a cultural artifact and also pretty funny. Which is nice.
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