Bad Boys and Leathal Weapon, where disaster movies?
While they were definitely disastrous and/or horrible, I’m not sure that the Bad Boys and Leathal Weapon series qualify as disaster or horror films.
The black character survived in 13 Ghosts (a film that was both horror and horrrible), however.
but then, every one of the good guys, except the sad-sack psychic with a death wish, survives
While there are a lot of movies where the OP’s premise holds, I think most of them are from before 10-15 years ago. More recent films don’t seem quite so insistent on separating the blond and the dead.
Most of those movies on the cornball cite that monstro gave us were disaster movies?
That was Ice Cube.
I think Busta Rhymes survived the latest installment of the Halloween series, but I’m having a hard time remembering. That movie was so bad I’ve spent a lot of time trying to block it out.
I believe it was Ice Cube, that was in Anaconda.
According to http://www.feoamante.com/Movies/racial.html
I think he’s stretching here. Morgan Freeman made a pretty good bad guy in that otherwise horrible movie. The bad guy dies. Putting a white guy in there just to buck the cliche would have been stupid.
DiSASTER movies, DISASTER, Several of the movies mentioned here (and not just in the post I quoted here), are NOT disaster movies.
But some of the posters are right, i’d forgotten about Day After.
Yes, a very mild rant, which is why I WARNED people. It’s just one of those little things that bug me. Sheesh, don’t have a heart attack over it.
Yes, but we all wanted her to die.
That movie goes into the category of “the cowardly negro” cliche. But I better hush before someone tells me that that one doesn’t exist either.
Thanks monstro for the link. My rant isn’t that “ALL” black people die though.
Sorry, guess I didn’t make it clear enough. And I shouldn’t have said always. My rant is about “THAT” black guy dying. The character who is black, and who also happens to be probably the nicest person in the movie.
And what about the red shirt?? I must have missed that movie.
Which movies bother you in particular? Maybe it will help people understand.
Exactly, lighten up…And no, not serious hence the 'mild" warning, clearly placed in the subject heading. It was a mild complaint, about a trend, and frankly a HELL of a lot better than the endless threads whining about candidates and dead presidents.
LL Cool J’s character even mentions this movie cliché by saying something like, “Brothers never make it out of situations like this.”
You’d think since a black person runs the most popular and most respected media corporation in the world, all the movies would have the black people doing the good stuff. Ah, well. At least a black person runs the most popular and most respected media company in the world.
I’m talking about Richard Parsons of TimeWarner, if you didn’t know Seriously, from HBO to TCM to Cartoon Network to NewLine and FineLine, I can live on TimeWarner alone.
It was Ensign Rickey.
I like the way that subplot ended:
William Shatner gets run over in a car driven by Meg later in the episode. After he dies, Ensign Rickey says “Wow, I totally didn’t see that comming”
Well, just watched “The Core” (yes, it was truly horrible, I’m unemployed and bored okay??? :D), and the black scientist dies in that one. AND he’s one of the nicest guys. Now granted, the movie was really, REALLY bad, but it was almost worth watching due to the hilarious “suicidal pigeons” scene.
Also recently watched a monster movie in which the absolute NICEST character (and damn it I canNOT remember the name of the darn thing) is the first to get eaten by the monster.
To those naming movies I’ve never seen, and movies that aren’t disaster or monster movies, that contain surviving male black main characters, I stand corrected, it’s NOT all, I shouldn’t have exaggerated (grovel, grovel, y’all feel better now??). But there are a lot of them.
That happens in Cube;
The white ‘nerd’ girl who solves all the absurd math equations to help them get out dies near the end, suddenly and unexpectedly, killing any love 75% of the audience could have had for the movie. It was the last straw for me. Killing the only character that most of the audience empathizes with is bad. juju.
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Heh, welcome to the Glib Comment Taken Way Too Seriously club. Seriously, maybe it’s the weather.
Armageddon is a disaster/action movie, right? It was on tv tonight and I saw that Michael Clark Duncan’s character Bear survives.
There is a secret code hidden in all Arnold Schwarzenegger movies, in the end credits. Now to catch it, you have to really pay attention. The sentence, which, if more movie goers knew about it, would cause mass boycotts. Well, maybe not boycotts, but I don’t think DVD sales would do as well. The sentence, by the way, isn’t even scrambled! It’s there in plain view.
Look, I’ll give you an example. Let’s take, say, End of Days (I took this from the cast list over at imdb.com):
Arnold Schwarzenegger … Jericho Cane
Gabriel Byrne … The Man/Satan
Robin Tunney … Christine York
Kevin Pollak … Chicago
CCH Pounder … Detective Margie Francis
Derrick O’Connor … Thomas Aquinas
David Weisenberg … OB/GYN
Rainer Judd … Christine’s Mother
Miriam Margolyes … Mabel
Udo Kier … Head Priest
Victor Varnado … Albino
Michael O’Hagan … Cardinal
Mark Margolis … Pope
Jack Shearer … Kellogg
Rod Steiger … Father Kovak
Eve Sigall … Old Woman
Luciano Miele … Pope’s Advisor
Robert Lesser … Carson
Lloyd Garroway … Utility Worker #1
Gary Anthony Williams … Utility Worker #2
John Nielsen … Lead
Ioannis Bogris … Skateboarder
Elliot Goldwag … Thomas’ Doctor
<snip>
I stopped after the first time the code was spelled. It usually appears several times, although not always in a complete sentence. You don’t even want to know what stuff is hidden in the end credits if you unscramble the letters!