Best/Worst IR Movies

Interracial Movies

:? I generally don't like them, because Hollywood tends to portray them very unrealistically in my view.Some posters metioned Jungle Fever
directed by Spike Lee.While I think Spike Lee is a brilliant director with some of the most innovative screen techniques ever in film making, I think he misses the mark in this portrayal.I just think there is a bit too much of his own feelings toward the subject seeping in.
To my mind, Hollywood bends over too far backwards trying to gain audience empathy when they make interracial couples underdogs or victims.And then Hollywood also picks and chooses the men and women that they will allow to be seen onscreen interracially.I know there are certain actors who will not act onscreen in an interracial romance, but on the whole there is too much marginalization of interracial couples for me on screen.
I'd love to see a film where a black man and white woman faced everyday problems that had nothing to do with race, because in the real world being an interracial couple has nothing to do with your mortgage being due.
Thanks.

 

Worst IR movie of all time is still "Pelican Brief" because in the book they hooked up, but on screen they kind of teased that and backed off. Any movie that claims to be adaptations of a book, but can't get the main story right is bad in my opinion.

 

Try "Slow Burn" with Ray Liotta, Mekhi Phifer, LL Cool J and Jolene Blalock. Lot of cool insights into race, and some hot love scenes with Phifer and Blalock.

 

Boiler Room is real good and is indeed underrated on so many levels..
I will have to check out Slow Burn when I get a chance...

 

The bodyguard, with kevin Costner /whitney houston is still the best in my book

 

I have not seen Irish Jam. But I believe you Veema since I doubt Eddie Griffin would had found a good look Irish woman.

 

Hope there are some IR flicks this season.

 

I agree about some of the movies being decent, portaying IR wrongly or alluding to the idea of it.

I being a Jewish woman who's an old Hip Hop head, I liked the movie, "Brooklyn Babylon". It wasn't the best, but it was cool.

 

IB,did you see the movie Marci X? I know it is a comedy but it is a good one in my opinion.

 

Freeway 1 and 2 have IR in it

 

Really?

If I remember correctly, I only saw a few minutes of it. I don't know why I didn't see the whole thing.

 

Thanks for bringing these up.

I never saw 2, but I liked 1 with Reese and Bokeems relationship.

 

IB,you should had seen Part II of Freeway because of the ending.

 

IR movies

Save the Last Dance was a very good movie. It was realistic and fun. The characters dealt with real problems.

Jungle Fever was not a good movie. It basically reiterated a lot of stereotypes and emphasized Spike Lee's attitudes towards interracial relationships.

I would really like to see Hollywood make a movie in which interracial relationships are treated no differently than any other kind of relationships.

Why is it that no one bats an eye when a white man is in an interracial relationship, esp with an Asian woman or a black woman, but there is all this controversy about black men and non-black women?

 

TFP,don't expect Spike Lee to treat IR positively in his movies:Jungle Fever,Malcolm X,He Got Game,and The Miracle of Santa Anna has the relationships end tragically or otherwise. Very rarely if Hollywood would have a movie with a Black Man and White woman to have a positive ending. I thought Save The Last Dance would spawn more good flicks but it didn't. I would not hold my breath on it. As long as WM has the money to fund the IR flicks of their liking:WM with women of all colors,there would be no good flicks of BM/WW relationships. Hancock is one of the worst in my opinion.

 

*smh* at making out with a man's wife at his brother's funeral/cheating on your husband while he has to deal with his brother dying. I remember that movie, I think I saw it on tv.

O was a great movie, Love Field sounds interesting.

 

Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967)
Ok, so it doesnt have love scenes or other intimacy but still.

Might feel dated to some extent (Im not talking about dress etc), but is also partly still relevant. I think it was ahead of its time although the 60 was probably the most socially consious decated in the 20th century.

That Sidney Poitier is in it and Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn just makes the movie.

 

The Nephew and Love Actually have positive portrayals of BM/WW relationships.

 

You probably stopped watching it after a few minutes because it's one of the worst films ever made.

 

I love Love Actually Loki...!!!! Brilliant movie...!!!