{"id":37822,"date":"2024-11-30T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37822"},"modified":"2024-11-29T16:21:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T21:21:28","slug":"black-dynamite-2009-starring-michael-jai-white-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37822","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Black Dynamite&#8221; (2009) starring Michael Jai White \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z113024zview_blackdynamite.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"762\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Black Dynamite <\/i>(2009)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: \u00a0<strong>Scott Sanders<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Michael Jai White, Scott Sanders, Byron Minns, <\/strong>story by<strong> Michael Jai White, Byron Minns<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Michael Jai White, Arsenio Hall, Tommy Davidson, Phyllis Applegate, Obba Babatund\u00e9, William Bassett <\/strong>and <strong>Mykelti Williamson<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0 <em>He&#8217;s super bad, he&#8217;s outta sight. He&#8217;s Black Dynamite.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Black Dynamite (White) is a Viet Nam vet, fung fu expert, ex-CIA, love machine.\u00a0 He&#8217;s a mean muther &#8212;\u00a0 I&#8217;m just talking about Black Dynamite.\u00a0 When Black Dynamite&#8217;s brother is killed, evidence leads to an organization that is providing heroin to black orphanages, and poisoning malt liquor headed for the ghetto.\u00a0 The CIA reinstate Black Dynamite so he can make those muthers pay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Black Dynamite<\/em> is a love letter to the low-budget blaxploitation movies of the early 1970s.\u00a0 It definitely captured the look, sound and feel of those films.\u00a0 We get split screen, slow-motion, boom mic errors, jump cuts, bad dialogue and music that take us back to those wonderful days of one cool cat willing and able to take down the man in between loving the ladies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kudos to Michael Jai White for not only playing the lead, but coming up with the idea and hitting the right mix of homage and parody.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong><i>Black Dynamite <\/i>(2009)<\/strong> <\/em>rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z113024zview_blackdynamite2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"354\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Dynamite (2009) Director: \u00a0Scott Sanders Screenplay: Michael Jai White, Scott Sanders, Byron Minns, story by Michael Jai White, Byron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,63,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-humor","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37823,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37822\/revisions\/37823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}