- Feel like I need some Hot Cheetos.
I like my blackness with a little bit of Hot Cheeto.
(cheerful music)
- Hi, I'm Driadonna, and today I'm watching "Poetic Justice"
for the first time.
- Hi everyone, I'm Chantal and the movie
that I will be watching for the first time is "Belly".
- I'm Dometi Pongo, and I am watching "Coming to America".
- Hi I'm Taryn, and I will be watching "A Thin Line
Between Love and Hate".
- Hi my name is Jameer, and I will be reacting
to "Waiting to Exhale."
- Hello, my name is Julius, and I will be seeing
"The Best Man" today.
I've never seen "The Best Man"
because I know it's going to suck.
- When this came out and I was a shorty,
we were not checking for "Coming to America" man.
I'm a first generation West African Ghanaian,
and I ain't never heard of Zamunda.
- I have not seen this film for a few reasons.
One, I was a child.
- I just always remember seeing the car scene
and Angela Basset burning that gentleman's BMW.
And I was like, "Maybe this is not a movie for me."
- I haven't seen this film because, honestly,
there hasn't been a reason for me to do it.
I mean, I've seen "Baby Boy."
I feel like it has the same premise.
- I've never seen "Poetic Justice" because I grew up,
I would say, a little bougie.
- I couldn't interrupt elementary school and be like,
"Hey teach, I can't make PE 'cause I'm going
to go see "Belly."
- Yeah, I mean, it looks overrated, to me.,
Wow, this got Taye Diggs.
This got the black actors...
The black Avenger actors.
- It's already starting bogus.
Like, I hate that miscellaneous African music they play.
Like it all, like random drums, and it's like,
♪ The lions and the lion sleeps tonight ♪
Whatever the hell that song is.
- Before we start, where'd this title come from?
Hype?
I just wanna know...
Why.
- This is literally the cliche 90s black film
because it started as, "Oh, I bet you're wondering how I got
"in this position.
"Well, it all started last week when my mama--"
Okay, all right.
- Oh Loretta Devine got that du-rag on.
She not doing anywhere for New Year's Eve.
(vocalizing)
- Oh his accent is terrible.
"It is my twenty fir--"
Oh no, no, no, no, no.
My goodness, this is not an accent.
- So, Tupac just popped out the mail truck.
For a mailman, he's very mean.
I thought mailmen were supposed to be friendly.
He got a potty mouth, he crotchety.
- He's putting Vaseline on the drugs, okay.
Because everything has to be moisturized, even your drugs.
Even your drugs have to be moisturized.
Okay.
- Yeah, James Earl Jones got good African uncle vibes.
For real.
"I am talking to my son."
Yeah that's, I got an uncle like that right now
who think he this.
He drive a taxi though.
He ain't rich, he just talk like that.
- Oh, he had sex quick.
He is finished.
He's out.
This is, this so like...
It's like looking at a mirror.
- Okay, this my first problem.
Why a person who ain't never made you happy
gonna ask why you not smiling?
He walked in the door coming for Janet.
"You ain't got no man because you don't smile."
They been doing this for 20 years, oh my God.
- Hold on.
Just 'cause the CD skips don't mean the sex is over.
Like, you can work through it.
'Cause I done did some things to Kirk Franklin.
Just hit that forward button.
You'll be all right.
- Darnell need therapy.
Darnell is Marin Lawrence's character.
Also, I don't trust many Darnells.
- Let's see if Arsenio Hall's accent is a little better
than his, let's see.
- Now let's see if you can defend yourself you sweat
from a baboon's balls.
- Nah, his accent terrible too.
- Why Tupac jump on him like this?
He just jumped up and down like a little rabbit.
I thought Tupac was supposed to be a gangster.
This is not scary.
- A fireperson comes to the door,
knocks on the door saying,
"Hey, you know your car's on fire?"
- Yep!
And I burned the (beep) myself, fireman.
This like a "Love & Hip Hop" episode,
except longer and directed by Forest Whitaker.
- Nas says, "T, let's go to Africa."
'Cause that's where you go immediately
when life just gets to you.
Mind you, there's never a country mentioned.
Not Ghana, not Morocco, not Somalia.
Nowhere, just Africa.
- So in a parallel universe, this is Ricky
from "Boyz N The Hood", who survived the shot
that went on to the league.
I know, crazy?
- Bobby Brown probably ad-libbed every single line
in this film.
It's only, it's not even 10 minutes into this,
and I can tell he didn't learn a damn line.
- Wait a minute, that's sister Angelou?
Hold on now.
- I just want to know if Maya saw the rest of this movie.
Did she bless this mess?
Because I just don't know if she had seen everything
that stuff was going on.
Would she have approved?
- And he dedicated the book to them.
Scandal!
(imitates cameras clicking)
- He talking to the club owner, Smitty.
Talking 'bout some, "Oh yeah, I think,
"I think she's the one, I can settle down."
Just yesterday, you was talking about your too young.
So what is it?
Is it Oochie Wally or is it One Mic?
- This goes to show you that men can wear anything
to bed or when they're about to have sex.
Like, she has on beautiful lingerie, her hair is done.
Him, T-shirt, plaid underwear.
By this outfit, I can tell that his toenails are not cut.
So...
- Is this a movie that people actually enjoy?
You know what I mean?
Is this like, "Oh, I'm chilling on a Saturday,
"nothing's happening, let's watch "Poetic Justice.""
- Oh!
Oh!
Oh, oh!
Okay, okay, okay, yeah!
(screaming)
- All right, now this is authentic African right here.
She's sitting on the swing, he comes up with the coat,
with the champagne.
African's smooth, I'm trying to tell you.
- At this moment in time,
I'm still confused.
Hype.
(upbeat music)
- I thought it was the blueprint
for a show like "Girlfriends" and "Insecure"
because they had women who were liberated.
Whether it was mentally, emotionally, or sexually,
they were liberated in some way, shape, or form.
They weren't making the right decisions at all.
They were making piss-poor decisions.
But we saw women not being guided, more so by men
and more so like just up on their on.
- I think Lynn Whitfield, she acted her off.
We see why she does the things that she does today.
We see why she has cemented her place in Hollywood.
Regina King, of course, icon.
Give her all the things as well.
Martin, hey.
Hopefully, I don't have to see it again.
- I definitely learned a lesson.
It's not about what happened in the past.
It's what's happening now.
And what can happen in the future.
So, "The Best Man" was really good.
I am, I'm impressed.
I am impressed.
- The film was gorgeous.
It was stunning.
However, the plot kind of confused me a bit.
Not gonna like to you, but I thought the film was beautiful.
It was cool.
I still, at the end of this film,
don't know why it's called "Belly".
But maybe one of you can answer it for me.
Let me know.
- I'm sorry John Singleton, nothing personal.
I just really feel like I want my two hours back.
And my $3.99 'cause that's how much it cost to rent it,
you feel me?
(sighs)
- I give it a solid C+.
- [Producer] Would you watch it again?
- Would I watch it again?
Only if Buzzfeed asked me to.