How I miss that funky jive culture

[MerryWanna]

I just wish I could walk through San Francisco one day and see just one black dude wearing an afro...and/or a eye-blindingly psychedelic purple paisley shiny shirt.

While the WOODEN furniture and panelling decor of the early-mid 1970s was an eyesore, if I could find a decor store with that daisy wallpaper from The Harlem Dude's whitebread girlfriend's bedroom wall, I would have it on at least one of my walls in a New York minute. Same thing goes for her bedspread, and the plastic egg/mirror wall display in Mr. suave detective/bodyguard/sex object's office.

Those were the days when the idea of there being a black President seemed like a Martin Luther King pipe dream.  What happened to black culture? Was it rap and crack that changed everything? The antiheros like Superfly (who all the stars of blaxploitation were basically cribbing off of) aren't laid back any more.  They have to brag about how great they are, how violent they can be, what great lovers they are, etc. And then the "gangsta" culture spread to white imitators, which just watered it down even further. 

I dunno, this all really has no meaning I suppose...it's all just my quintessential, irrepressible psychedelia fetish taking yet another form, but even this godawful movie, which had to have the worst acting I've seen in a Rifftrax film since...god, it's even worse acting than that found in Curse of Bigfoot...still charmed me in a silly way I won't soon forget.  And I love it when I can enjoy a bad movie exactly for being a bad movie and at the same time enjoy watching RiffTrax puree' it into comedic soul food. 

I also loved Cinematic Titanic's job on East Meets Watts for the same reasons...and that one had scenes of San Francisco in it for extra value.  As much as I hate Florida, the hotel room's dizzying floor print and Juicy Fruit wallpaper had me enjoying a place I've never been to, but have heard enough about to be glad of that fact. 
In short (which I guess this wasn't) great job, dudes.  More, more!

[losingmydignity]

I'm in absolute agreement with everything you wrote. (Except I'm not sure I would buy that wallpaper...well....maybe for the bathroom?)

Afros have come back a little of late, though not as big as the ones featured in the film. At least they sorta were when last I was in NYC. I think they're great on the right person.

Gangsta culture and hip hop are now the mainstream. Boring. But this also happened to a lot of movements/music before. Hope a new generation does something cool and creative soon.

I really wondered if the offices, hotel rooms, etc. weren't sets. It's hard for me to believe they're real places. I'm thinking they "borrowed" some sets used for exactly the kind of film The Guy from Harlem kept threatening to turn into but never did (thank god). Not just because they're so garish but they look like sets. I'm real curious about this.

Love the film and loved the riff. They really hit on something special here.