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#1 Feb 02 2012 at 1:02 PM Rating: Good
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I heard someone the other day refer to The Fast and the Furious movies as "Carsploitation films" and I was momentarily struck blind by the sheer stupidity of the term. Went to lolwiki and came across this compendium of Exploitation film genres.

Well, congratulations, I think they killed the term. Apparently every movie that was every made and ever will be fits nicely into some sub-genre of the Exploitation film. Seriously...Spaghetti Westerns? Martial Arts films?? Canuxploitation??? They even have an entry for "Category III" films, which is just a rating that means ages 18+. Make a movie in China that's only for adults? Well, you must be exploiting something.

Good lord. I suppose that Inception is a dreamsploitation film and Citizen Kane was a clear case of sledsploitation, then.




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PS: My favorite is "Nunsploitation", methinks.
#2 Feb 02 2012 at 1:04 PM Rating: Good
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#3 Feb 02 2012 at 1:47 PM Rating: Excellent
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Actually I think I get it. The definition on Wiki basically just says that an exploitation movie takes an often inane or commercial subject matter and beats it to death on screen. Perhaps you were led to believe that an "exploitation film" specifically meant movies like Shaft, where they were selling a repressed culture to a derisive mass market?
#4 Feb 02 2012 at 2:04 PM Rating: Good
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AshOnMyTomatoes wrote:
Actually I think I get it. The definition on Wiki basically just says that an exploitation movie takes an often inane or commercial subject matter and beats it to death on screen. Perhaps you were led to believe that an "exploitation film" specifically meant movies like Shaft, where they were selling a repressed culture to a derisive mass market?


I'm not so sure. I mean, they cite Munich as a "Jewsploitation Film". But Munich is neither inane or commercial. It's just about Jews.

Most of them aren't really commercial, I'd say (though I'm admittedly not really sure what that means here). Most are inane, and all have a theme. But if the definition of an Exploitation Film is "A bad movie about a thing", then it's not a very useful definition.

There's a level of irony there with some of them, like in Tarantino's stuff, but I don't know if that's really part of the traditional meaning's definition. I don't know much about the genre, but I don't think many Blacksploitation films (and that's really the original usage of term exploitation film, right?) were ironic.

Black Dynamite was pretty sweet, though.

Edited, Feb 2nd 2012 3:04pm by Eske
#5 Feb 02 2012 at 2:36 PM Rating: Good
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Women in prison films.... giggity!
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#6 Feb 02 2012 at 2:58 PM Rating: Good
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Somebody here is a hobbyist exploitation film director, I see. Smiley: lol
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