I got a streetball movie idea in the vein of a "everybody wants some" "dazed and confused"

dont know s*** about this.

damn man. streetball era was crazy

Slice of life drama elements?

yeah hangout film elements

totally meant to say "streetball movie IDEA" lol

We need more of those, they been missing. Especially when it come to black films today.

Yeah we don't have much black hangout films where we can just live with the characters, smh

It’s tragic honestly. I just feel like the types of black movies we got in the 90s and early 00s just wouldn’t get funded today. gotta shake things up bro

Which movies?

I'd argue they would since hollywood is looking to be more "progressive" and include more non-white voices

I'm assuming you mean movies like Juice?

Juice wouldn't need to be made by a big studio, a small indie company like A24 or Annapurna would gladly produce films like those.

Charm city kings is like a new age juice (not as good) and HBO funded that, even tho it got dropped from the app recently lol

What's the name of this show/ movie where Black characters move through time? Sorry for vague description. Saw folks mention it on tumblr a while back

like time travel?

S*** like ATL, Barbershop, The Wood, and Soul Food.

Still gotta see charm city but yea that’s one for sure

Lovecraft country?

I’ve been meaning to watch this

I think those can still get made today, more so from indie companies.

Can't really think of any similar films to soul food off the top of my head but Waves seems the closest? Being it's based around black family drama.

Barbershop 3 came out in 2016, fairly recently.

I can't think of any "young niggas hanging out" type movies like ATL and The wood besides Charm city king that I already mentioned.

I don't think the problem is "would these films get funded" it's more so not having enough black filmmakers in the game. Cus if Jordan Peele and Boots Riley are busy doing sci-fi surreal type films, and Barry Jenkins is doing heartbreaking type films, who do we really have that WANTS to create the hang out type films?

I still gotta pick up that criterion collection of that movie.

So true. I don’t doubt there are hundreds of scripts passed around the industry yearly that fit the type films we are talking about but the question becomes why are they getting passed on.

Double Toasted did a "bad movie" review of this. Clowns, smh.

I will say big studios will say Yes to trauma p*** before anything. That's why s*** like Till and Harriet will easily get made.

smh link?

I'll always go to bat for baby boy. A black man doing a character study on black men and what we need to do to improve in society

and John based it around some of his personal experience with having multiple BM's so it's not like he was just throwing around random s***