Wednesday, September 19, 2007

The best movies you've never seen.

Stickin with the script, I dug up this old classic.--Class Act, starring Kid n Play. This was a cinematic masterpiece. I could put it up there with Casablanca, Citizen Cane, TMNT: Secret of the Ooze and Crossroads (with Ralph Maccio). First of all, whatever happened to these guys?? Their future was so bright and beautiful (they were like the first Damon/Affleck team). But it seems if after 1994, they disappeared...Maybe that's something to explore in the future. But the movie goes like this::

Genius high school student Duncan Pinderhughes (Chris "Kid" Reid) is getting ready for graduation, but is somewhat disheartened to find out that, despite his perfect SAT and 4.0 GPA, Harvard will not admit him unless he passes Phys Ed. Ex-convict Michael "Blade" Brown (Christopher "Play" Martin) is released from jail, and told by his parole officer that the condition of his release is satisfactory graduation from high school. A mishap results in their pictures being swapped on their permanent records. In effect, Blade is surprised to find out that he is being placed in "gifted/brainy" classes, while Duncan is shocked to be placed in minimal classes with substandard conditions and miscreants for classmates.
Blade realizes this, and sees Duncan as his ticket permanently out of jail, since Duncan could pass his classes with ease. He transforms Duncan into a version of himself with dreadlocks, and does his best to teach Duncan how to act and talk like a mac daddy gangsta. Having no grasp of inner city culture, Duncan's parents begin to worry about their son's new "friend"; his father especially, beginning to suspect Duncan is gay
Blade manages to smooth-talk his way through his advanced classes, even successfully executing a dissertation on sexual intercourse (one of his favorite subjects). Duncan ends up running into a high school thug named Wedge, and gets in trouble, but also ends up discovering an uncanny ability to kick field goals, and joins the school's football team. Both Blade and Duncan end up with girlfriends that the other would have, with Blade smooth-talking the intelligent but excitement-seeking Ellen(played by Karyn Parsons aka Hilary Banks from the Fresh Prince), and Duncan being pursued by the wild and thugged out Damita(played by Alysia Rogers.)
Blade ends up getting in trouble with a drug lord that he worked with before his incarceration, and the movie climaxes in a chase involving Blade, Duncan, their girlfriends and one of Blade's buddies. When the girlfriends realize that their men are swapped, both end up dumped. Still, Duncan manages to knock out Wedge, while Blade handles the drug lord, but all end up in jail.
After the mixup is fixed up, Blade, Duncan and company are all set free. In an anti-climax, Duncan and Blade both enter a Brain Bowl in an effort to get Blade back with Ellen. They succeed when Blade answers a tiebreaker question to win the competition, recalling a choice
tidbit Ellen once told him. Afterward, both couples end up together. In a final scene, Duncan's dad finds out the hard way that Duncan is definitely not gay by catching him and Damita having sex in Duncan's bedroom.
Walking in each other's shoes dramatically changed the lives of both Duncan and Blade. In the epilogue, the audience learns that Blade graduated from high school and attended college (wearing preppy attire), while Duncan attended Stanford on a football scholarship.
Why can't these guys make another record/movie like House Party 4?? They were awesome hip hop heads who should have teamed up with the Fatboys and made a movie...I guess I'll just keep dreaming.

Besides school, not much has been going on. I had an adventure last weekend that caused me to search for a Redbull for nearly 3 hours....
Someone who's opinion I value told me this, and it made sense. "When you blog, you talk about good stuff Jon. Most people talk about crap no one cares about. They abuse the point of the blog. Just like GURU said "Just because I want to it don't mean I will". Do you think Edison was calling people up right after he invented the telephone, saying "Yo bro, I got so wasted last night and ate a ton of Ramen, then this chick told me a joke"? Hell no. Use it for a purpose, not for some piddly junk that doesn't matter. If-you-had-to-be-there, don't talk about it. Because everyone who wasn't there, is not going to read your crap. Has my cousin seen That Cube Movie? No, but she died laughing at your post. People need to realize that NO ONE cares about your myspace feelings and the lame stories you talk about. Just keep doing what you do, and people will read your nutty tirades".
I felt good after hearing that from him...

For some reason this comic reminds me of me......

So with all of that said, I'm working on a semi-short story for here involving the future, a duck, Bruce Springstien, the 1996 Seattle Supersonics and the Dahl. Its hopefully going to be a good one.

So happy Wednesday people. (Humpday is lame, don't call the sacred Wednesday that).

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