This is the thread where we talk about the upcoming movie "Soul Plane"

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This should supply enough material for at least a month's worth of "Boondocks" strips

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 12 April 2004 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Does this star two Wayans brothers as two-uptight Hilton-esque rich girls?

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

No Huck, that movie is called White Girls.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Creatively enough.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

White Chicks

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw this trailer right after the one for White Chicks, and the whole audience was dead silent (well, I laughed at the end of the White Chicks trailer when it cut off EXACTLY before Lil' Jon says "balls").

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I was making with the haha.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

DL Hughley, ugh.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Is Stepin Fetchit in this one?

― dean! (deangulberry), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

you mean, Tom Arnold?

― Kingfish Balzac (Kingfish), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

FREDDIE PRINZE JR

― dean! (deangulberry), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

From the AP review: ...a broad comedy that seems solely interested in perpetuating new stereotypes.

What's a "new" stereotype?

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Rwandans be wastin' q-tips.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't believe shit like this gets the green light. "Hey we got this great movie starring Snoop Dogg and he is a pilot/pimp who flies around in a plane that plays rap music."

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

airborne pimpin' ain't easy

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Friday, 28 May 2004 02:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Someone was just looking for an excuse to make a full-length movie based solely on the tenuous connection between TWA and NWA.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 28 May 2004 02:31 (twenty-two years ago)

wait, Northwest Airlines plays a role?

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Friday, 28 May 2004 02:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I mean, what's next, a new heartwarming comedy about sci fi nerds who love themselves some undie hiphop and coffee, called Starbuck$$$, starring RJD2 and C-Freekio?

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 28 May 2004 02:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Hahah, I keep forgetting about NWA the airline.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 28 May 2004 02:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Not everyone will be thrilled by the movie, which is one long dirty (and occasionally very funny) joke. "Soul Plane" gleefully flaunts every black pop culture stereotype that Spike Lee savaged in "Bamboozled." For long stretches, it really is a flying minstrel show of studs, sluts and lustful stoned-out layabouts, ogling one another and making lewd remarks. In a typical joke, a blind man lasciviously fingers a baked potato and goes into paroxysms of ecstasy.

HELP

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 28 May 2004 02:47 (twenty-two years ago)

This sounds wonderful.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 28 May 2004 02:49 (twenty-two years ago)

lustful stoned-out layabouts

i now have a name for my mega hip-hip collaborative project

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Friday, 28 May 2004 03:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I wanna see this,
the ads seem kinda funny.
I'm not yet too cool.

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Friday, 28 May 2004 03:48 (twenty-two years ago)

it has meth and red = it will be great!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 28 May 2004 04:19 (twenty-two years ago)

It may be terrible, but....
Snoop has a wonderful screen presence. He'll be fun to watch.
The two baggage screeners rapping "we're gonna party...like it's yo' birthday...." look reaaly funny.

The stereotype problem. Hmmm. It's real. But that's a big discussion that's probably been done here before. Depends on who says what and why. Or does it?

We're gonna argue...like it's your birthday...

Well, you might. I'm not arguing, I'm going to see it instead.

― Skottie, Friday, 28 May 2004 05:32 (twenty-two years ago)

a blind man lasciviously fingers a baked potato and goes into paroxysms of ecstasy.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 28 May 2004 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

with sour cream and chives?

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 28 May 2004 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I think chives might give him a bit of concern.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 28 May 2004 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

what is he supposed to think he's "fingering"? I mean, a blind guy could smell the difference between a baked potato and sweet potato pie, if you catch my drift.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 28 May 2004 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm still not sure if I'm more offended by a movie that points out how absurd it would be if black people ran a large business (hell, what if they worked in the airline industry!) or by Jonathan Demme updating the Manchurian Candidate with an Arabs=Commies spin.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 28 May 2004 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

At least Soul Plane is rated R. I'd be more offended if this was one of those films designed to throw broad stereotypes at children who don't yet know which types of clowning to associate with certain races like North.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 28 May 2004 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

"how absurd it would be if black people ran a large business "

Could that be your own interpretation rather than the intent?

― dreamweaver (calstars), Friday, 28 May 2004 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Why just fly when you can soar with soul? After a humiliating experience on an airplane, Nashawn Wade sues the airline and is awarded a huge settlement. Determined to make good with the money, Nashawn creates the full service airline of his dreams, complete with sexy stewardesses, funky music, a hot onboard dance clud, and a bathroom attendant. Departing from all-new Terminal X in Los Angeles, Soul Plane gives "fly" a whole new meaning taking it's passengers on a maiden voyage full of comedy.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 28 May 2004 15:16 (twenty-two years ago)

The movie, directed by Jessy Terrero from a screenplay by Bo Zenga and Chuck Wilson, depicts the raucous cross-country journey of flight No. 069 on NWA Airlines. The company was founded by Nashawn (Kevin Hart), an unemployed, self-described entrepreneur and his cousin Muggsy (Method Man) with $100 million that Nashawn won in a lawsuit against a carrier that lost his beloved pooch. NWA bills itself as the first full-service airline catering to the "urban traveler."

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 28 May 2004 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

urban traveler = people on the bus = go up and down

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 28 May 2004 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Chuck Wilson, co-writer of Soul Plane, was also the co-producer of Afrocentricity which Imdb describes as "A Ground breaking collection of visionary short films by African American directors, including the hilarious short that started the catch phrase 'Whazzup?!'"

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 28 May 2004 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

So it's "World's Greatest Beer Commercials, Vol III"?

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 28 May 2004 15:29 (twenty-two years ago)

i want to know what bill cosby has to say about all of this..

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Friday, 28 May 2004 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

bluuublluuu bluubb bluub jello pudding pops.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Friday, 28 May 2004 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Bill cosby on horse latin: "They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English. I can't even talk the way these
people talk: 'Why you ain't?' 'Where you is?' . . . And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk.
And then I heard the father talk. . . . Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these
knuckleheads. . . . You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth!"

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 28 May 2004 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

with the hippin' and the hoppin' and the bippin' and the boppin'

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 28 May 2004 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been waiting for this thread. Mostly b/c I found myself laughing at the preview. More than once. (and loving that it's often juxtaposed with "The Day After Tomorrow", which is barf-rich). I'm not going to spend precious cash on a theatre viewing, but when it comes out on dvd, well: some kind of party opportunity. I wonder if it'll be anything like "D.C. Cab". Like, "D.C. Cab" in the air. Ah, "D.C. Cab"...

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 28 May 2004 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought the trailer was funny too, rrobyn. Then I saw the film. Now the trailer isn't funny anymore. Neither was the film. Garbage. Not funny. Boring. Waste of talent.

― Skottie, Friday, 28 May 2004 23:51 (twenty-two years ago)

my brother and I
are going this Sunday night
we're all like 'oh yeah'

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Saturday, 29 May 2004 01:06 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...

Finally saw this. it was funny.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 23 October 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

how was the John Witherspoon baked potato scene? I'm dying to see that.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 23 October 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

alright -- played obv. for very crude laughs, but managed to pull of that shock-humor thing pretty well.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 24 October 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

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