i think the pimp of the year event which dan ackroyd is heading to as dr detroit to fight mom and her legions with james brown leading the serenade of "the doctor"!! is the first incarnation of the great event known as the playas ball
this movie needs to get out on dvd soon, it is great
Not even close.
Real life "Player's Ball" and "Pimp of the Year" contests have been held around the U.S. for decades before this movie. Check out the ultimate pimp movie called "The Mack." It stars Max Julien and Richard Pryor and it is basically a step by step pimp handbook.
"I fulfilled a lot of people's predictions about me. I've become a real scumbag."
Danny Vermin
The Pimp of the year contest, or the Players Ball, was so funny in Doctor Detroit, with Dan Aykroyd keep having to run back and forth wearing a tuxedo on one side of his suit for the College Alumni Dinner and funky clothes on the other side. He not only presents to the college students and faculty in one part of the hotel, but also to pimps and prostitutes at another part of the hotel. There's James Brown singing "Get Up Offa That Thing," and then the ultimate swordfight showdown with the tough-talking, old and homely crime czarina Mom (Kate Murtagh, who steals the show from all the pimps and prostitutes, but is up there with Aykroyd). That scene was a hoot!
shareI love this movie. I don't even know why.
But yeah, the climax rules. I love the shots of James Brown.
And then the good Doctor working the floor with Diavolo rules.
Get up off of that thing. OOOOOWWWW
This movie should run every day! Give our kids a chance to see it, with us of course as it's rated R.
The scene at "the ball" when "the doctor" dances to "Get Up Offa That Thing" reminds one of the scene in "Robots" when the robot does "the robot" to the same tune. Priceless.
If you are reading this, Dan Akroyd, please produce the planned sequel that never got made... Please, please, please?
Muvphreek, Pronounced Movie Freak
If you are reading this, Dan Akroyd, please produce the planned sequel that never got made... Please, please, please?
Amen.
Finally a cause we can get behind -- Dr. Detroit II: The Wrath of Mom.
I saw this movie as a kid late night doing homework, or more likely procrastinating, when it came on HBO.
I've loved it ever since.
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Wrath of Mom was a JOKE.
If the movie was actually made, it would kill the joke. I wouldn't want to see that happen, because it's a good and funny piece of history, and hilarious as a joke.
Besides, the eighties can't be replicated - anything that was a masterpiece in the eighties, totally sucks in the '90s, '00s, and the '10s.
Remakes suck anyway. The originals are so good, because they are ORIGINAL - they are free to express the finest selves of the makers, especially fortified by the wonderful eighties energy that no one has the access to anymore (without a time machine or living on another planet / base ship / plane of existence).
When you remake something, you "try-to-follow-a-FORMULA", which kills the spirit and the originality. You are not free to do whatever you want, because that would make it not-a-remake anymore.
This is why sequels usually can't even come close to the original; unless they have separate, original storyline, that works well with the first movie's one, or independently (without having to care about the first movie's storyline).
The only sequels that I am aware that are as good or better than the originals, are:
- Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan
- Superman II
- Star Trek V: The Empire Strikes Back
There might be more, but I can't remember them right now.
Please name three remakes that are as good as or better than the originals.
Superman? Robocop? Footloose? No, no and no.
Even Back to the Future sequels were not up to the par that the first movie set (and the completely stupid ending of the original movie made it impossible to create good sequels).
The Terminator (1984) is a standalone movie and a story that never needed a sequel (frankly, I don't see how a good sequel or even a prequel COULD be made - either it would have to describe something totally boring, outside the most juicy story part that was depicted in the movie, like 'everyday life in the future', or it would have to destroy and mess up the perfectly working 'predestination paradox' that the movie so skillfully utilizes).
Look at its sequels, and prepare to look at the remake (or whatever the stupidly named 'genisys' will be).. it's going to suck, or at least not reach the level of the original.
No movie should EVER be remade.
Make good, original movies instead of taking comic books and old movies and trying to remix them to fit the insanity of the modern politically-correct indoctrination system.
Eighties definitely gave a boost for those old movies.. without eighties, I don't see this kind of great, fun movies being possible.
Well, perhaps we will have a new 'eighties' some decade..
It is out on DVD, check with Netflix
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