{"id":664238,"date":"2010-02-15T00:04:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T05:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/?p=6720"},"modified":"2010-02-15T00:04:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T05:04:58","slug":"dvd-recommendation-%e2%80%94-%e2%80%9cblack-dynamite%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/664238","title":{"rendered":"DVD recommendation \u2014 \u201cBlack Dynamite\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Had the chance to watch a pre-release DVD of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002BWP3W0?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=davidkirkpblo-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B002BWP3W0\">Black Dynamite<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none!important;margin:0!important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=davidkirkpblo-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002BWP3W0\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>&#8221; tonight. It is simply great.<\/p>\n<p>Kung fu treachery? Pool hall fight? Crooked politicians? The Mob? Kung fu action from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Nixon\" >the 37th President<\/a>? Count me in.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s touted as a cinematic satire of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blaxploitation\" >blaxploitation<\/a> flicks from the 70s, but it goes far beyond mere satire in production and entertainment value. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0925227\/\" >Michael Jai White<\/a> (creator\/co-writer\/titular\u00a0actor) is simply awesome as Black Dynamite, and period\u00a0details\u00a0are spot-on. The film was shot in 16mm color reversal and the film stock truly provides the look and feel of a 1970s movie.<\/p>\n<p>Hit this link to head to Amazon for the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002BWP3W0?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=davidkirkpblo-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B002BWP3W0\">Black Dynamite<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none!important;margin:0!important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=davidkirkpblo-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002BWP3W0\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>&#8221; DVD.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51Ggm-PAOfL._SS500_.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6720\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6720\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6720\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6720\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6720\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6720\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6720\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6720\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6720\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6720\/\" \/><\/a> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?w=780\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had the chance to watch a pre-release DVD of &#8220;Black Dynamite&#8221; tonight. It is simply great. Kung fu treachery? Pool hall fight? Crooked politicians? The Mob? Kung fu action from the 37th President? Count me in. It&#8217;s touted as a cinematic satire of blaxploitation flicks from the 70s, but it goes far beyond mere satire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2563,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2MNw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2563"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}