Coffy
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Coffy is a nurse whose younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin. Coffy sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her path.
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If you see only one blaxploitation flick in your life, this has to be it. If you love Pam Grier and wanna see her give one of her best performances (or maybe you wanna see more of her "assets") this is for you.
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"You want me to crawl, white motherfucker?" This movie contains this line. I can't see what more motivation you'd need to see it if you haven't already.
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Some pure Pam Grier, Jack Hill brilliance. Characters you care about, a proper involved plot, some awesome exploitation & action and only 90mins long! Tarantino really learnt nothing did he!!
Not only that it is well shot, with great music, fine performances and some funky ass clothes. Grier is my first lady of film!
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pretty close to an actual filmed nightmare
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Half a star off for the weak ending where she almost falls for the bad guy.
Full star added on for the part where she drives a car through a house.
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My favorite of the Pam Grier blaxploitation outings. She is ruthless and strong, if a bit objectified even as she takes a stand against a patriarchal misogynistic underworld. I just wish the dark, brooding tone of the opening kills was maintained throughout.
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This film made me really feel a bit of nostalgia for my younger days back in the seventies. I had a friend who lived next door to a slowly dying drive-in movie theater. On summer nights, we'd crawl through a hole in the dilapidated wooden fencing in his back yard and after spreading out blankets and lawn chairs, would sit back and watch the best and worst of B movie fare for free. I never saw this film in that situation, but I can assure you, it would have been one of our favorites. It really should be called Tits-a-Poppin', because AIP must have had it in their contract with the director that there can't be a ten minute gap…
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This is a cheesy yet real entertaining blaxploitation film filled with a lot of what this audience would want, which is plentiful nudity, violence, bad things happening to African-Americans, loud fashions, and a general over the top nature.
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Some pure Pam Grier, Jack Hill brilliance. Characters you care about, a proper involved plot, some awesome exploitation & action and only 90mins long! Tarantino really learnt nothing did he!!
Not only that it is well shot, with great music, fine performances and some funky ass clothes. Grier is my first lady of film! -
Following HEAVEN'S GATE and RETURN OF THE KING, each more concerned with the minutia of their worlds than the minutes in ours, Jack Hill's COFFY felt like getting a blast of adrenaline while taking speed. Pam Grier is appropriately introduced as the type of woman worth leaving a party of white girls for, and she immediately starts blasting her way to avenge her 11 year old drug addict sister, or something. While the film feels like a cohesive whole, each sequence seems oddly separated from the rest. At one point the camera is positioned behind a fish tank as a nude Pam Grier walks across screen to giver her dirty politician lover a champagne spill blowjob, a few minutes later…
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Pam Grier is Badass!
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An edgy pic that saw Pam Grier on her way to becoming the queen of blaxploitation cinema. Whilst it's not the best acted film you'll ever see, it moves along at a decent pace and in having a female lead in an action/exploitation film it was ahead of its time. The Roy Ayers score is a corker, too.