Cooley High is such an underrated film

[Buckeye Fever]

I'm still shocked that this movie is free to watch on YouTube. I ain't complainin', though.

Every Black movie I watch from the 70s, I get kinda jealous because I wish I was a teenager during that era. From Car Wash, Which Way Is Up, to Cooley High. With my momma and uncles being from Chicago and about the same age as the characters in Cooley High, I envisioned that this is how they kicked it lol

I'm watching this shyt right now on some 70s movie binge shyt. Gonna watch Car Wash next, but the bad part about that is I'm gonna wanna watch The Wash which came out in the 2000s

Slim the GOAT. Peep the avi


But compared to today, the 70s seemed like a simpler time

 

[Ol’Otis]

The Wash

“I ain’t here homie”

 

[get these nets]

Brenda from Cooley High FINALLY resurfaces, for cast reunion

www.thecoli.com

 

[Buckeye Fever]

“I ain’t here homie”

Slim namin' everybody in the crib. Even was in the middle of namin Mr. Washington, the damn person they kidnapped, before he got cut off

 

[Ol’Otis]

I like when they in there dancin at the party

Damon got his ass whooped

 

[I love Latina women]

Movie is a masterpiece

and the music that plays through out the movie is just as iconic

 

[Buckeye Fever]

This part always gets me. When Pooter is crying, because Cochise is gone and Preach didn't show up, but when he sees Preach cross the street to have one last convo with Cochise. Pooter wiped his tears and had a smile on his face


@ 2:35

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

First time seeing this thread. I highly disagree with the title. Cooley High was a classic in the Black Community for decades.

OP not American

 

[Gritsngravy]

One of my favorite movies and I know somebody that went to Cooley high in real life

 

[Ol’Otis]

OP not American

 

[Benjamin Sisko]

How this dude 30 and still in high school?!

 

[InGodWeTrust]

Brenda looked like a Black Eva Mendes

That was her only role too I believe.

 

[Laidbackman]

I didn't know "Cooley High" was based on the year 1964. No wonder some of the greatness hits from the 60's were missing from the movie, like "Oh Baby Baby", "Ain't Too Proud To Beg", "Jimmy Mack", etc... I think the movie would have been even better if they moved it up 2 or 3 years. I mean songs like these three practically made the 60's.

 

[Eza]

I didn't know "Cooley High" was based on the year 1964. No wonder some of the greatness hits from the 60's were missing from the movie, like "Oh Baby Baby", "Ain't Too Proud To Beg", "Jimmy Mack", etc... I think the movie would have been even better if they moved it up 2 or 3 years. I mean songs like these three practically made the 60's.

Unless my memory is getting this mixed up with the Temptations, I could've swore that song was in the movie during the party scene when they was slow dancing.

 

[Laidbackman]

Unless my memory is getting this mixed up with the Temptations, I could've swore that song was in the movie during the party scene when they was slow dancing.

You're right, "Ooo Baby Baby" was in the movie, another reason everybody was in love with this film. When I just discovered "Cooley High" was based on 1964, I began to think this song wasn't included, since it wasn't released until 1965. So I began to only think the song was in the movie, the same way I always thought "Ain't Too Proud To Beg" was in the movie...which really wasn't.

It looks like a few other classics from 1965 were in the movie too.