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  Bamboozled 2000

  ★★½ Rewatched by Myles Madden 28 Jun 2022

  Felt like a feature-length MadTV sketch. Draaagged in more than a few spots, but really gives insight on how a lot of black creators will create wildly regressive and demeaning black content for the sake of satire or being subversive. To this day, so many black people repackage the same racist tropes and rhetoric that have been weaponized against black people since truly the DAWN of the American entertainment industry, and are then validated when praised by white institutions. Ironically,…

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  Bamboozled 2000

  Watched by Myles Madden 28 Jun 2022

  My dad walked in to see my sister and I watching it out of context and made us turn it off.

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  Encounter 2021

  ★★½ Watched by Myles Madden 25 Apr 2021 2

  I got paid $50 to see this, so I won’t say anything 🤐
  *Update: I never got paid. This movie isn’t good.

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  Dope 2015

  ★★★½ Watched by Myles Madden 23 Jun 2022 2

  Loved this at 14. After a rewatch, I realized this was very much a product of its time. Pretty cheesy and reeks of “new black” but still a rare (if not only) example of black nerds starring in popular film. Still turns into a cliché story about selling drugs, but this film really spoke to who I was in 2015 and held a special place in my heart.