Blaxploitation is back, baby! But honestly, did it ever really go away? Well, maybe not, but there was an absolute explosion of blaxploitation films back in the 1970s. Some notable movies in that time period would be flicks like Super Fly (Not to be confused with the one in the animated feature Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem), Trouble Man, and the one that may have started it all, Melvin Van Peebles’ own Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song.
But, here’s the thing. While blaxploitation may not have gone away completely, there seems to be a resurgence of it over the past few years or so. So much so that it got us thinking about some of the awesome more modern flicks that may have callbacks to blaxploitation movies of the ‘70s. Now, some of these movies are more modern than others, but all of them feel like they may have gotten some inspiration or other from the blaxploitation movies of the ‘70s.
