Boomerang Appreciation

[HopeKillCure]

Watched Boomerang today, so many jokes


The Music:



The Sisters and Brothas

The Black Excellence


That scene with the panties

That clothing store scene

That pool table speech


What a story!.., Ending fake as hell though


Anyone alive think Love and Basketball better than Boomerang?

 

[HUSSLA'S P.]

Boomerang set the standard.

 

[kenreid0726eabos]

Boomerang from cartoon network Life is good

 

[old boy]

i watched boomerang about four months ago and it still holds up after all these years. still funny as fukk with a gang of quotables. john witherspoon's scene with whip that p*ssy damn near stole the show

love and basketball is a great story but its not fukkin with boomerang

 

[Sbp]

Boomerang by far. Everything is en point with that movie.

 

[DallasTxRep]

One of my favorite movies and the soundtrack is dope

 

[HopeKillCure]

i watched boomerang about four months ago and it still holds up after all these years. still funny as fukk with a gang of quotables. john witherspoon's scene with whip that p*ssy damn near stole the show

love and basketball is a great story but its not fukkin with boomerang

Pure comedy until the last 15-20 mins

So many qoutables. That shyte feels timeless.




"I know a gay man when I see one! My brother is gay! You! He is gay!"

 

[Carolina Slim]

I remember Tariq Nasheed saying on one of his early shows that the movie wasn't well received by the mainstream movie critics because it cast whites in a corny light. It was all about black excellence and upward mobility, and as I thought about it I was like "yo, he right" Every single white character was on some cornball steeze. I saw the movie as a youngsta, but back then I didn't really know why the movie resonated with me so much. Ironically I had a part time job at the time working at the World Financial Center, which was where a lot of the office scenes were filmed, so it kinda hit me even more.

Low key, Strictly Business was on the same steeze as well.

 

[old boy]

I remember Tariq Nasheed saying on one of his early shows that the movie wasn't well received by the mainstream movie critics because it cast whites in a corny light. It was all about black excellence and upward mobility, and as I thought about it I was like "yo, he right" Every single white character was on some cornball steeze.

yeah them whiteys were salty, here's an excerpt of a 1992 review:

The most intriguing aspect of "Boomerang" turns out to be not its story but its racial composition, for this film takes pains to create a reverse world from which white people are invisible except when comic relief is called for. Aside from an insipid waitress, a bumbling racist store clerk and four beefy young slaves (the credits coyly lists them as escorts) who are enthusiastically whipped by Strange as they pull her chariot through New York's World Financial Center (don't ask), the only pale American face prominently visible belongs to Capt. James Kirk of the Starship Enterprise, eulogized by Marcus as "the coolest white man on the planet."

 

[Heafcliffe]

Too many scenes/ quotables:

- Lady Eloise's butler laughing/ smirking at Marcus cuz he knew what was up....
- "It's a nipple cuz I'm drooling...."
- Pulled back the sheet and saw....

- "THE TWIZZARD!!!"
- The row machine scene when David A. Grier got mad at Martin and was rowing hard af
- Matching mushroom belt and jacket lining. "Gotta co-OR-dinate!"

Have plenty but these had a young breh

 

[southern.girl]

Low key, Strictly Business was on the same steeze as well.

1. Nothing beats Boomerang...including Love Jones.
2. I loved Strictly Business.
3. Back in the 90s, we had quite a few movies about being upwardly mobile/professional AA, without losing our identity. Livin’ Large & Dancing in September immediately come to mind. Great films, btw.

 

[southern.girl]

yeah them whiteys were salty, here's an excerpt of a 1992 review:

The most intriguing aspect of "Boomerang" turns out to be not its story but its racial composition, for this film takes pains to create a reverse world from which white people are invisible except when comic relief is called for. Aside from an insipid waitress, a bumbling racist store clerk and four beefy young slaves (the credits coyly lists them as escorts) who are enthusiastically whipped by Strange as they pull her chariot through New York's World Financial Center (don't ask), the only pale American face prominently visible belongs to Capt. James Kirk of the Starship Enterprise, eulogized by Marcus as "the coolest white man on the planet."

Harlem Nights & Coming to America was kinda in the same wavelength (i.e. highlighting black excellence at the forefront). Eddie was so dope back then.

 

[BaldingSoHard]

Very different movies. Love them both for different reasons.

 

[Wildhundreds]

Life can definitely beat it. His best work.

 

[Dad]

prime Hale Berry