Dolemite (1975)
This classic starring Rudy Ray Moore is one of the first blacksploitation movies I ever saw and one of the reasons I fell in love with this wacky genre. How can you not like a movie about a pimp with a beer belly who uses kung fu (sort of) to chop up the bad guys, takes all the ladies, raps, swears a lot and is a true bad ass. Oh and he also has a small army of women who also do kung fu, or at least something similar. The plot doesn't matter, the idea in this one is Rudy Ray Moore and his character, Dolemite. And we follow him through this campy fun ride. Sure the movie is done badly with tons of mistakes, but they don't matter it's still great fun. The man himself said it best "I'm gonna let 'em know that Dolemite is my name, and fuckin' up motherfuckers is my game!", that sums it up nicely. It's not as good as the absolutely brilliant sequel The Human Tornado (1976) where all the pieces fell together, but more about that movie later. Unfortunately this one has some scenes that drag it on a bit too much, guess they needed to fill the feature length or something, but luckily they are few and far between. All in all well worth watching.
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