How bad is it? It's one of the tackiest blaxploitation films.
Should you see it? Only if you're a Rudy Ray Moore fan.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds."
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Avenging Disco Godfather (1977)
aka Disco Godfather
How bad is it? It's one of the tackiest blaxploitation films.
Should you see it? Only if you're a Rudy Ray Moore fan.
Rudy Ray Moore starred in a number of films where he played a sort of comic kung-fu pimp. The first one, "Dolemite," is spectacular in it's awfulness. To save his reputation - as a Redd Foxx party album copyist - he tried to pass that awfulness off as intentional. To this aim, he made a sequel, "The Human Tornado," which is merely okay, then this film, then "Petey Wheatstraw - The Devil's Brother-in-Law," which is a technically competent straight-up comedy. This film dives headlong into the excesses of the 1970's discotheque era, but manages only to be a pale imitation of "Dolemite."
How bad is it? It's one of the tackiest blaxploitation films.
Should you see it? Only if you're a Rudy Ray Moore fan.
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