{"id":8032,"date":"2018-06-30T22:28:54","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T22:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homeschoolmommoviemavin.com\/?p=8032"},"modified":"2018-07-02T14:54:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T14:54:38","slug":"superfly-morally-toxic-and-offensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homeschoolmommoviemavin.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/30\/superfly-morally-toxic-and-offensive\/","title":{"rendered":"SUPERFLY – MORALLY TOXIC AND OFFENSIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t \"\"<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tSHORT TAKE:\n<\/p>\n

\n\tRemake of a bad 1972 movie of the same name which lionizes a drug dealer.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tWHO SHOULD SEE IT:\n<\/p>\n

\n\tNO ONE!\n<\/p>\n

\n\tLONG TAKE:\n<\/p>\n

\n\tCoined by the French critic Nino Frank in 1946, the dictionary defines a "FILM NOIR" (literally French for "film dark") as: a style or genre of cinematographic film marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, and menace. This title applies to such movies as: \"\"<\/a>The Third Man, <\/em>\"\"<\/a>Chinatown, <\/em>\"\"<\/a>Scarface, <\/em>\"\"<\/a>The Postman Always Rings Twice, <\/em>\"\"<\/a>Sin City, <\/em>\"\"<\/a>Bladerunner, <\/em>\"\"<\/a>The Big Sleep, <\/em>\"\"<\/a>White Heat<\/em>, and \"\"<\/a>Strangers on a Train<\/em>. In all of these movies, superior by several factors of ten, there is a cautionary tale in which we expect the protagonist of questionable motive and character to get his comeuppance through repentance, death, prison or some combination.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tNot so with Superfly<\/em>. \"\"<\/a>It is a bewilderment to me why someone thought remaking a particularly bad movie from the 1970's was a good idea. But they did. \"\"<\/a>This year's Superfly <\/em>is an exact replica of the movie from 1972. The original Super Fly<\/em>'s iconic, though dated, funky, Motown music by Curtis Mayfield was the only thing that could even marginally recommend it and is a certainly better soundtrack than the excessively profane, garish, unnecessarily loud, repetitive technopop nonsense that prevades the 2018 version. Although admittedly, the 2018 version has much higher quality production values and slightly better acting, the story, and a goofy choice for the lead character's hair, remains precisely the same.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tSPOILERS\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe story, written by Alex Tse and directed by Julien Christian Lutz who, understandably, goes by the pseudonym Director X (I would not want my real name on this piece of trash either), revolves about a young man who goes by the name of \"\"<\/a>Youngblood (so dubbed because he was the youngest of his gang when he was a kid) Priest (because he wears a cocaine spoon in the shape of a cross), also inexplicably known as Superfly (Trevor Jackson). \"\"<\/a>Superfly sports a hairdo, of which he is inordinately proud, \"\"<\/a>which bears a comedic and distracting resemblence to the skull piece worn by Alan Rickman's Alexander Dane in Galaxy Quest<\/em>.  Superfly is also the leader of one of several cocaine dealer gangs in Atlanta. \"\"<\/a>He plans on one final score to fund his retirement. All the gangs co-exist in relative peace until one day Juju (Kaalan Walker), a member of the \"\"<\/a>Snow Patrol (laughably outfitted in \"\"<\/a>white EVERYTHING), inexplicably becomes jealous of Youngblood's money and women, despite the fact Juju's own boss assures him that he has all the money and women he could possibly ever desire.\n<\/p>\n

\n\t\"\"<\/a>When leaving a strip club one night Juju picks a fight then takes a pot shot at Priest, misses and hits a bystander. This starts a chain of events which will ultimately lead, after a labrynthian trail of carnage and graphic sexuality, to Youngblood getting everything he wants. During the course of the movie his best friend, \"\"<\/a>Eddie (Jason Mitchell) gets \"\"<\/a>Freddie (Jacob Ming-Trent), Youngblood's enforcer killed, and the Snow Patrol wiped out. Youngblood ingratiates himself with the corrupt Mayor of Atlanta by plying him with cocaine and \"\"<\/a>his own girlfriend. Youngblood also betrays \"\"<\/a>Scatter (Michael Kenneth Williams), Youngblood's mentor and supplier, by cutting a deal with Scatter's supplier, \"\"<\/a>a Mexican cartel drug lord, (Esai Morales), eventually getting Scatter killed.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tYoungblood gets all the parties with whom he has done deals to turn on each other, LOTS of people get killed, after which Youngblood buys a yacht and sets sail in luxury with his surviving girlfriend. Not that any of the "victims" in this travesty have clean hands, but instead of a protagonist, Youngblood is more of a very clever King Rat standing on a pile of corpses, including, but never ever mentioned, his cocaine snorting customers.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIn short, we have a drug dealer and thug who has made millions by destroying the lives of untold thousands of other people, who gets away with a lifetime supply of sex and money.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a previous blog I exposed \"\"<\/a> Ocean's 8<\/a>,<\/em> in which we are supposed to side with a group of career criminals who steal, destroy and sell priceless historic jewelry from a donation-funded museum, in order to fund their own private vanity projects.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tBoth Superfly<\/em> and Ocean's 8<\/em> ask the audience to applaud the "cleverness" of egotistic, sociopathic criminals, who harm the innocent and whose only "virtue" is that we see the proceedings from their point of view. The appalling parade of immoral, ruthless, selfish activites we are expected to cheer on in both cinematic obscenities is nauseating and offensive. If you are curious about the plot just read the wikipedia.org version of Super Fly from 1972 <\/a>and you will get a pretty detailed idea of what the 2018 movie is about. Don't bother to watch any of them.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tCast and crew of all three movies should be ashamed of themselves. Keep your children away from these toxic movies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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