Best/Worst IR Movies

What are some of the best IR movies you have seen? Also name the worst ones you have seen. The film doesn't necessarily have to be mainly about IR love, it could be ANY film that just happened to have an IR relationship. Here's my list (it is mainly films with a black guy and white woman, except Guess Who, your list does not have to be the same):

BEST:
1. "One Night Stand" (Wesley Snipes and Nastassa Kinski)
2. "O" (Julia Stiles and Mekhi Phifer)
3. "Love Field" (Dennis Haysbert and Michelle Pfeiffer)
4. "Jungle Fever" (Wesley Snipes and some Italian chick)
5. "Malcom X" (Denzel and some white chick)

WORST:
1. In The Mix (Usher and Emanuelle Chriqui)
2. Save The Last Dance (Julia Stiles and Sean Patrick Thomas)
3. Guess Who? (Ashton Kutcher and some black chick)

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I picked One Night Stand as my favorite for many reasons. If you haven't seen it, it stars Wesley Snipes, Nastassa Kinski, some chinese chick (i forgot her name), and Robert Downey Jr. Snipes plays a Los Angeles guy who is married to the chinese chick and on a business trip to NY he goes to visit a gay friend (Downey Jr.) and misses his flight. He ends up sleeping with a blonde woman (Kinski) he meets as an affair behind his wife's back.

A year later or so, he is back home in LA and while visiting Downey Jr. (he is dying in the hospital of AIDS or something) he meets Downey Jr.'s older brother, who is married to the blonde Snipes fucked a year ago. It becomes very awkward as the two couples hang out and it becomes clear that Snipes is more attracted to Kinski and they have more in common. Snipes' chinese wife also has alot in common with Kinksi's husband. As the film goes forward, Snipes clearly has problems with his chinese wife and behind the scenes sneaks off whenever he can to flirt with and kiss Kinski. They love each other but must keep it secret.

Well it ends with Snipes and Kinksi sneaking away to make out at Downey's funeral, and they go into a room and catch Snipes' chinese wife in bed with Kinski's husband. At the end Snipes ends up with Kinski and the chinese woman marries the white guy. I just thought the acting was very good and Snipes and Kinski's love was very passionate and believable, you all need to see it if you think Snipes is just a kung fu film star. See Waiting to Exhale too, he acts good in that as well.

Love Field is also a GREAT film. Pfeiffer is a woman married to an abusive white man and she is driving cross country to JFK's funeral and she ends up picking up a black man (Dennis Haysbert) and his daughter to give them a ride. They fall in love and run from the police. Films that show IR love that take place back in the 1950's and 1960's (this one takes place in 1963 and came out in theaters in 1995) always get to me because I see how racist things were back then and it makes me wonder what it would have been like if I was around back then knowing how IR dating was soooo NOT accepted ANYWHERE.

O was also good as a teen hip hop MTV style version of Othello. Jungle Fever and Malcom X had good scenes and Spike Lee touches on key issues involving race in these films. I put In the Mix and Save the Last Dane and Guess Who on my worst list because they were corny and did not take the issue serious enough, but instead used it as a stupid way to market a cliche cheesy romance plot. I especially hate Guess Who since it totally disrespects everything that was great in Sidney Poitier's Guess Whose Coming To Dinner.

So what are your choices?

 

I usually don't watch a lot of these films, because they make interracial relationships out to be a hassle, more so than they are in real life. They usually never end well.

My vote for worst would be Save The Last Dance.

 

Fave IR Movies

My Faves are:
One Night Stand
White Lie
Hurricane Smith
Othello starring Laurence Fishburoune
Los Locos
The Affair
Valentine's Day aka The Protector
In My Country
How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired
Save The Last Dance

 

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As 4 me, i just like these cool teen movies like Save the Last Dance, "O", Honey. I really engoy music and pretty young actors (esp guys)
:wink:

And i find very stupid and boring Jungle Fever and Guess who's coming 4 dinner.

 

I kind of agree with Anastasia and Soulthinker on the movie "Save the Last Dance." I don't think it's one of the best IR movies, it's corny and unrealistic, but it's not as bad as these movies:

MONSTER'S BALL - Haile Berry's babydaddy gets executed in prison and she ends up falling in love with a guard that oversaw the execution. And to make matters even worse, he was a racist who didn't even like blacks until he started screwing Haile Berry.

ANGEL HEART - Where Mickey Rourke fucks and murders Lisa Bonet at the same time.

SOUL MAN - Where a white guy poses as a black student so he can get a minority college scholarship. I believe he also starts dating a bw who thinks he's a bm.

MAID IN MANHATTAN - Very stereotypical movie starring J-Lo.

Here are some of my favorite IR movies:


JUNGLE FEVER - Tragic but realistic, especially about the attitudes many people still have today on IR dating involving black men.


NAPOLEON DYNAMITE - One of my favorite movies of all time. The IR relationship involved a wm and a bw.


TRAINING DAY - My favorite Denzel Washington movie. The criminals were realistic and the IR relationship involved Denzel and a Latina.


OTHELLO - Laurence Fishburne was great in this movie and I marvel at how easy all the actors could handle the Shakespearean dialogue.


BOILER ROOM - A very underrated movie. And the relationship between the Giovanni Ribisi and Nia Long was tastefully done.

That's all I got for now.

Peace.
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She walks these hills with a long, black veil...."

 

Haha, I LOVE Napoleon Dynamite, great movie! :lol: That relationship was kinda sweet...also, it has to be one of the only ever met-on-the-internet relationships shown in Hollywood!

 

There is a movie called "Black and White" made in 1992 by Boris Frumin. It is about a Russian woman in a relationship with a Black man in New York. I saw the Facets video site. Check it out.

 

I liked Dirty, Pretty, Things and Jungle Fever.

 

man, can't bear to watch a I/R movie...

the only one i could watch for the entire two hours is "out of time" with denzel washington, that was because it really wasn't a I/R movie, dirty little pretty things (with audrey tatou) also a good movie, barely considered an I/R (and a nigerian man with a turkish woman is not too believable either)

with most I/R in movies, the relationships are too superficial, and just too many stereotypes to be taken seriously.

 

I feel the same way.

 

I did not like Dirty Pretty Things because the African male did not show affection to the Turkish female. It is one of the worst IR movies and sadly it was made in the UK.

 

If there aint at least a screen kiss then it's a bad IR movie. Minimum-
screen kiss. Not a hug, not a deep stare, handshake, pound,wave but
a screen kiss (preferably a bedroom scene.) Anything less than a screen
kiss is a cop out and defeats the purpose of the film exploring any
romantic chemistry to begin with.

 

Shaft movies like Drop Zone,Murder on 1600,Man On Fire,Pelican Brief,and The Last Kiss Goodbye are best examples of brothers not getting any lovin on screen.

 

But soul thinker, those films you just mentioned were not ABOUT IR love. They were not IR films per say. Just films that happened to have a black male character who must work with, work for, protect, help, or be close to a female white character. If Denzel was white in Man on Fire, or if Wesley was white in Murder at 1600, would you have said, this is a bad love story because the guy doesn't bang the girl?

Murder at 1600 is a political thriller and it just so happened that Diane Lane plays an agent who is helping Snipes. No where in their scenes did I sense any hint of attraction or love or tension. They were not meant to be lovers. Denzel in Pelican Brief with Julia Roberts and in man on Fire with Radha Mitchell was just a man doing his job. Radha was married to Marc Anthony's character so I did not expect her to screw Denzel behind her husband's back. Sounds like everytime you see a film where a black male says more than a few words to a white woman, you expect them to fuck. JUST TREAT PEOPLE LIKE PEOPLE. We don't fuck every beautiful white woman we encounter (although we all wish we did). This isn't Cinemax! LOL

Movies must reflect real life, and these films do so. Mainly they pick white women to play these parts because black women are falling more and more out of popularity in both Hollywood films as well as American Culture in general (look at all the rich and famous black athletes and actors and celebrities dating and marrying white and latina women). Look at the casting directors who wanted someone white or hispanic to play opposite Will Smith in Hitch (Cameron Diaz was first choice, eventually Will felt Eva Mendes would be more accepted by society).

 

Just a bit of a correction. The studio thought society wouldn't accept
cameron diaz as will's love interest. Which basically is code talk for the studio saying "we won't accept because were racist"

 

Will Smith actually complained about in some interview for his
movie when some reporter got word that cameron diaz was supposed
to do the role. Thats when he went on his album and said something about hollywood being racist. I think he finally picked up on whats going on. Maybe now denzel would.

 

Re: Fave IR Movies

thats a movie - quick i need to watch it!

 

Re: Fave IR Movies

Not really, its an racial comedy that just offends every racial group.

 

Last night, I watched an IR movie that's bad enough to be placed on the list among the worst IR movies (although not THE worst). And that movie is Marci X, a flick about a spoiled Jewish woman falling in love with a stereotypical "gangsta" rapper. This movie, done in the year 2003, was so bad that it made me wonder what possessed the sexy ass Lisa Kudrow to do it. Damon Wayans played the role of the rapper known as Dr. Snatchcatcher, but he's done so many bad movies that I'm not really surprised that he's in it. Even though the movie was made about three years ago, the music and gear seemed outdated (you would have thought this movies had been made during the early 90s), there were mistakes made about certain street slang, the characters were over-the-top caricatures and even though Lisa and Damon's characters had sex during the movie, it wasn't shown onscreen. I wonder why....hmmmmm.

Peace.
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"It's good to touch the green, green grass of home...."

 

I saw that too and it was hideous. I'd almost banished it from my memory until you brought it up again! Just how many cliches and stereotypes were there in this film?! It was shite.