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Summary: Superfly is the Bomb X 2!
Review: Superfly, starring Ron O'Neal, Carl Lee, and Sheila Frazier is one of the greatest films ever made in the 70's Black film genre. It is a ghetto drama set to the music of the late great Curtis Mayfield - an excellent soundtrack that brilliantly narrates the film and compells you to contemplate the ins & outs of innercity blues; the challenges Vs. Options or lack thereof. This movie is hitting from beginning to end and though often dismissed as blaxploitation, it's strong messages of changing ones predicament, allows it to escape this criticism. Ron O'Neal portrays a drug dealer by the name of Priest with the baddest vines, cars, and plenty of women. He decides that there is more to life than this. With the help of his main squeeze Georgie,he stages one last score to get out of the game despite strong opposition from his partner and other shady individuals that rely on his thriving drug business. Will he make it out? Buy the film and see for yourself! I own a copy on VHS but I'm hoping and praying that Warner Bros. will stop sleeping on this gem and release it on DVD!
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Summary: Super movie
Review: Talk about before it's time, Superfly was the bomb! May the legend of Curtis live forever..
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Summary: R.I.P to Ron O'Neal& this film is tight
Review: the film&the Soundtrack are timeless.Curtis Mayfield matches the Films Intensity.this Film has alot of action&Breaks things down.the Commentary here is Top Notch&Right On. this is a Classic Flim&Much Props to shelia Frazier.Props to the Whole Cast.
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Summary: hystorical and SUPER BAD ... OUT!
Review: The ONE that started it ALL,
1972 WAS THE YEAR BLACK FILMS CAME OF AGE,
Super Fly had to be the most talk about flick,
of the TIME along with the most popular,
sound track in HIP-HOP URBIN MUSIC
OF ITS TIME,BY THE POETIC GENIUS OF (CURTIS MAYFEILD.)
Not evan the grate (JIMI HENDRIX) him self, could have dreamed, of such,
electrfying alchemy, coming from the dynamic should,
have won an OSCER, The grate (RON O`NEIL & SHEILA FRAZIER,)
and let us not forget all praizas to the real SUPERFLY,
The LEGENDARY DIRECTOR (GODON PARKS,JR).
All i can say is this film, gritty an all ...,
Recognize!
4- REALLLLLLLLLLLLLL.
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Summary: Supeprfly is da bomb!!!!
Review: This is a pretty good movie I enjoy watching it really does has the Vintage 70's look Curtis Mayfield makes a cameo appearance .
Sheila Frazier is a superb actress and she still delivers in this film I would recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys watching blaxploitation films I would also recommend the soundtrack also because it is all of that and some it is awesome Curtis Mayfield composed and prodced the songs on the soundtrack there is a scene in the movie where Preist and his woman Sheila Fraizer are taking a bath together just talking and begins to start snorting some of his cocaine and she slaps him and then she apologizes to him and kisses him and then this song called"Give Me Your Love" comes on that is my favorite song on
the soundtrack. But my favorite part of this movie is at the end when he and Sheila gets away with all of that money and then when Preist tell those thugs off and then they let him go...But Freddy was kind of a wimpy guy to be in the dope game
but the guy who played Freddy did a good job and Julius W. Harris played a part in this movie also who was a very good actor back in the day !!!!!
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Summary: terrible movie brillant soundtrack
Review: this is a terrible movie period like it was shot by a college student instead of a movie studio,the only postive thing about this tripe of a movie is o'neal's charisma that keeps this movie afloat and the great curtis mayfield and his band playing in a club.(who also said this movie was like a cocaine commerical) but it's greatest damage is it's implications of two generations of young black men in the ghetto who saw this movie (along with the godfather) and after thought they could be like priest and the corleone family that illegal activity could be the easy way out of dealing with "the man" (read "makes me want to holler" by nathan mcall). and rappers like snoop dogg the entire west coast rap scene, scarface, and other black men have used this movie's ethos like a dog to a steak it's not only sad but tragic. buy the soundtrack because mayfield is a genius, but aviod this movie we as a race do not need crap like this corrupting a third generation.
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Summary: A Classic....
Review: This is one of those movies that I absolutely do not lend to my friends because its simply that good. I've had this movie on VHS for the longest time but I do plan to get this on DVD. This is simply one of the best movies that I have ever watched!!
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Summary: Finally...this video comes out on DVD!
Review: This is probably one of the best films of it's genre and the music is to die for. Great story telling and intelligent casting. The last release of this film (Good Times video) was one of the worst re-releases I have ever seen in my life. It appeared that they had redone the telecine (or obtained an updated element) but recorded the VHS tapes in EP mode. Recently, I e-mailed Good Times video to voice my displeasure but got no response back. Clearly, this film deserves a whole lot better...let's just keep our fingers crossed they got it right this time!
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Summary: superfly rules
Review: this is probably the best of the black explotation films.ron o'neal is great in the lead part.it's a can't miss for any fan of this genre.a movie you can watch time and time again.and the soundtrack does it get any better than curtis.no way like i said superfly rules.
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Summary: Pusherman still Mellow Y'all
Review: This is the ultimate "Cool Outlaw" movie. Ron O'Neals' portrayal of the Man with the Superfly..." probably sent more brothers into fashion stores, drug use and abuse,into pondering the way of the real world then any film since. Is it smooth "artisticaly" as a film? Nope. Hell it feels like a gotdamn documentary. Is Priest a bad role model,in both meanings of the word, yes. He is just tooo cool. Carl Lee as Eddie his soon to be corrupted main dawg, is equally good, up until the time they were coopted by the swines, you know he had Priests' back. This is a macho Dickens tale. At the time it came out we debated whether Priest should have told Eddie what he had on the police commissioner, whether or not Eddie would've chortled evily and said," Not only are we in, baby but we rule this ...' town!" drawing Priest further into the darkness. Curtis Mayfield was cheated out of an Oscar for his musical score which is far more superior than Isaac Hayes' lighter music for Shaft. For mood and flavor this film goes beyond its blaxploitation limitations and is a grim journey into the otherside of America's love with outlaws and the consequences for doing so.
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