‘Super Fly’ Remake

[Himmel]

Sony has closed a deal for the rights to the classic blaxploitation pic “Superfly,” with “Watchmen” scribe Alex Tse penning the script.

The film is inspired by the 1972 classic, which starred Ron O’Neal as Priest, a cocaine dealer looking to score one more super deal and retire. The movie was directed by Gordon Parks Jr., the son of Gordon Parks, who directed another blaxploitation classic “Shaft” — one of the staples in the early years of the genre that took the ’70s by storm.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1lB3tfJ68NQ

Source: Variety

[Batmon77]

No

[FilmKoala]

Eh, why not?

[CelluloidPal]

I don't know how my family will feel about this. They grew up when these films were popular and have fond memories of them. (I can still hear my dad talking about Disco Godfather and Cooley High.)
BTW, Isn't Sony coming out with a blaxplotation flick this January?

[CelluloidPal]

Here's the trailer if no one's seen it yet.

SUPERFLY - Official Trailer (HD) - YouTube

[imsounoriginal]

They've been going all-out marketing this in the last 2-3 weeks but I honestly can't tell if there's any excitement for it. Haven't heard anyone talking about it.

[Creed]

I smell a flop incoming. It doesn't look good.

[SororityRow]

Going to bomb harder than that Tupac movie from last year.

[darkness2918]

This doesn't really look good at all.

[Socko]

I prefer the older trailer
The voice over in the trailer is priceless and the Curtis Mayfield soundtrack is fantastic.

Super Fly (1972) Official Trailer - Ron O'Neal, Sheila Frazier Movie HD - YouTube

[ditcin]

… and then they wonder why they aren't nominated for Oscars?

[Batmon77]

Who is “they”?

[Worship.my.wreck]

Considering I haven’t even heard about this until the other day, I’m not expecting much.

[robgmun]

Originally Posted by Socko

I prefer the older trailer
The voice over in the trailer is priceless and the Curtis Mayfield soundtrack is fantastic.

Makes me want to watch Black Dynamite again

[MegatronG1]

Shame, with today's times, I was really hoping they would have cast a white guy, namely:

[CelluloidPal]

Just came from an earlier showing and the movie's actually pretty decent.

What this is a modern "blaxploitation" B-movie and thru and thru. It's high gloss, stylized and totally over the top with many of its visuals at times, some got a few chuckles from me. Let's face it looks too much like a music video. It has the usual cartoonish rival gang (Here they call themselves Snow Patrol for the fact they emerge themselves in total white from their fur coats to their cars, their laughably large mansion, right down to their weapons) with the hot headed sidekick that either screws stuff up or spark the conflict but it also has moments of legit cleverness and humor thanks to a surprisingly solid script by Alex Tze.

The movie isn't perfect but entertaining if you know what kind of movie it is and take it for the movie it is.

3.5 of 5

[format916]

Just got back and I enjoyed this quite a bit. If you love the original or blaxploitation, this is a must see.

[Bluballs31]

I drove to the theater today expecting to see Incredibles, Tag or Hereditary with my moviepass. Incredibles wasnt showing up as anything but a premium showing, Tag was sold out and they suddenly canceled Hereditary.

I had already driven to the theater, so figured I might as well see something while there. Superfly was the only thing starting soon, so I took a shot. Maybe, its because I had low expectations but I ended up enjoying it. I thought the trailer looked terrible but I liked the movie.

Nothing spectacular or award winning but just an enjoyable flick to get my mind away for two hours from the family and girlfriend

[Holmes]

An alternately entertaining, ludicrous, and tedious modern-day update of "a man of odd circumstance, a victim of ghetto demands." The positive: there are a few truly exceptional actors in the cast, notably Jason Mitchell (as protagonist Priest's chief assistant) and Michael Kenneth Williams (as his mentor and cocaine supplier), and they lend charisma and gravitas to the proceedings. The film would benefit from more scenes with Williams. Hip-hop superstar Future, who also serves as a producer alongside Joel Silver, provides an appropriately aggressive and hypnotic wall-to-wall assortment of R&B, trap, and, briefly, retro soul.

The not-so-positive: the film feels quite long at roughly two hours. It verges on being dull at times, which is particularly problematic for a film promising propulsive swagger. The issue may stem from a surplus of conflicts: Priest versus a rival Atlanta gang, Priest versus a Mexican cartel, Priest versus corrupt police. They never coalesce into a single storm of tension, but rather compete for dominance in the plot, and each is tidily resolved in a row at the end. In the lead role, baby-faced Trevor Jackson cuts a striking figure on a physical level, clad as he is in leather with gravity-defying hair, but he is otherwise a rather sleepy and bland screen presence. He certainly never registers as hardened or tormented, so the character's obligatory longing to leave drugs and violence behind feels deeply inauthentic. I also expected more visual flair from Director X, a music-video mainstay who has crafted promotional clips for, among others, Drake, Jay-Z, and Kendrick Lamar. Other than an introductory tracking shot through a nightclub and a few Michael Mann-esque images of cars racing through the city at night, the film is a rather flat visual experience.

And then there are the notes of absurdity and eccentricity which pop up throughout despite the film's general tendency toward the humorless. A few of these are inspired: a climactic car chase pointedly ends with the destruction of a Confederate monument, and OutKast's Big Boi is amusing in the supporting role of a lecherous, unscrupulous mayor. Others are painful: I could never not roll my eyes at the aforementioned rival gang. The least menacing criminal element in recent memory, they earnestly call themselves the "Snow Patrol" (if I lay here...if I just lay here...), and indeed everything they own is white, from cars to clothes to machine guns. And then there is the sex scene, a leering and lengthy ménage à trois in the shower which is perhaps modestly titillating in a 13-years-old-and-watching-Cinemax-at-1am sense, but also feels bizarrely and indulgently shoehorned in.

C+

[CelluloidPal]

Did anyone who saw this think that Big Boi's mayor character resembled former Detroit mayor Kwame Fitzpatrick because he looked a lot like him.