Movies with good black/female characters that aren’t woke bullshit

Dolomite is pretty fun, along with pretty much all of Rudy Ray Moore's blaxploitation movies.
Blade, obviously.
Honestly for black characters there are plenty for the past. There are a good number of badass female characters too.

The problem is purely the wokeism shite. It's concerning that "woke" folks can't see the difference in why there was pushback between Ghostbusters 2016 (where girl power was pushed so heavily and the director couldn't stop himself from sperging out about male fans constantly on twitter) and Ghostbusters: Afterlife (where the main character was now a girl and the secondary was a fat Asian kid. No pushback at all.)

Similar to how they don't notice that Reva gets pushback (terribly written and poorly acted) gets so much pushback compared to the entire cast of Rogue One who are one white chick and 4 POC dudes (because they're not shit characters).

I thought Phoenix in Top Gun Maverick was fine as a strong ethnic woman. Jennifer Connellys character was also totally fine as a strong willed independent woman.
The Core from 2003 had Hillary Swank play the youngest ever NASA pilot and she was good. She fucked up, you saw her training, etc. She wasn't just amazing instantly.
 
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Devil With a Blue Dress (1995) with Denzel Washington as a black private eye in 1948 Los Angeles who gets caught up with politicians and mobsters while hunting down a mysterious femme fatale. Kickass film noir that doesn't sugar coat the racism inherent in 1940s LA, but also doesn't marinate in muh victimhood, just shows a gigachad Denzel looking hella cool and owning the shit out of the role, and Don Cheadle nearly walking off with the goddam movie as his trigger-happy sidekick. Criterion is going to put out an edition shortly and I'm gonna buy the shit out of it. If you like film noir or period pieces, or both, you'll dig it, it's awesome.
 
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As for live action films, Leon is a fantastic action movie about a little girl taken in by a hitman which I highly recommend.

For animated, I really liked the girl who lept though time. It is about a high-school girl who gets time travel powers and abuses it.
 
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Surprised no one has mentioned Kill Bill yet.
I like Jennifer's Body, not just because Megan Fox is in it, but because its a decent laugh and is nice and violent (also female director).
For more horror try Suspiria (80s version), The Witch, or Black Swan. Also, a movie I recently watched; Perfect Blue, an anime about Japanese idol culture with a horror element to it.

Women and gore go very well together, needs to be done more, Hollywood.
 
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Silence of the Lambs has Clarice, one of my favorite female leads. Strong but still vulnerable. It also deals with sexism in a way that’s not “all men are the devil!” obnoxious.

Already been said but the original Night of the Living Dead had a black lead who was arguably the hero of the story, kinda rare for a late 60s flick. He was pretty cool.

Also love Kinkaid from NOES 3 Dream Warriors. That movie has a young Lawrence Fishburne in it which is always a plus. Hell, Heather Langenkamp as Nancy is still my favorite final girl in any horror movie because of how resourceful and smart she is
 
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I liked Lily in Star Trek First Contact.

Also the Wayans Brothers in Blankman.
 
Dirty Harry Series(OG Dirty Harry features a mexican as Harry's partner, Felton Perry in Magnum Force and eventually Tyne Daly in The Enforcer), also based Eastwood movies like Gran Torino and Mule.
 
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Oats12345 said:
Don Cheadle movies weren't woke until the guy decided to hop on to the woke trian.
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He even produced this movie https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1540133/?ref_=ttqt_qt_tt with such choice quotes as

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: [interrupting the briefing] I thought only black lads were drug dealers?
FBI agent Wendell Everett: I'm sorry, what?
Sergeant Gerry Boyle: I thought only black lads were drug dealers? And Mexicans. What do they call them. They have a word for them.
FBI agent Wendell Everett: Yeah, there's a word for you too, sir. But I'm not gonna go into that right now. Anyway, as I was saying, these men are highly dangerous...
Sergeant Gerry Boyle: [blurting out] Mules. Drug mules.
Gerry Stanton: That's enough of your guff now, Boyle. Apologize to the man.
Sergeant Gerry Boyle: Huh? Apologize for what?
FBI agent Wendell Everett: For your racist slurs, for one thing.
Sergeant Gerry Boyle: I'm Irish, racism is part of my culture.
 
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I think that honestly, female/non-white characters only really became a big “thing” when busybodies decided they were. Go back to the 70s, 80s and 90s and there were lots of non-token characters.

My contribution: Blazing Saddles, a film literally about racism, that makes fun of racism, that portrays racists as dumb and has a black protagonist who outsmarts everyone and ends up beloved by all. It shits all over woke, point-scoring modern nonsense by being, first and foremost, a funny movie. It helps that it was co-written by Richard Pryor.

Also: Robocop. Specifically, Lewis. When we first meet Murphy, he’s an overconfident, macho cop (compensating for a failing marriage, trying to impress his son). He acts kind of condescending towards Lewis. As a result of his overconfidence and lack of caution, he gets killed and becomes the toughest man alive, but loses his humanity. Lewis is key to helping him find it.

Which reminds me, Anderson in Dredd. She has a unique ability that makes her special, but also means she’s under-qualified. Her actions reflect that, but she grows and truly earns Dredd’s respect. That film also gave us the genuinely creepy Ma-Ma, a hugely underrated villain IMO.
 
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dilettante said:
Surprised no one has mentioned Kill Bill yet.
I like Jennifer's Body, not just because Megan Fox is in it, but because its a decent laugh and is nice and violent (also female director).
For more horror try Suspiria (80s version), The Witch, or Black Swan. Also, a movie I recently watched; Perfect Blue, an anime about Japanese idol culture with a horror element to it.

Women and gore go very well together, needs to be done more, Hollywood.
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Suspiria was in the 70's you plebian.
 
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Nigga since when did black and woman actors make a movie woke?
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Since conservatives discovered the internet.

Anyway, since someone brought up Heavy Traffic, my least favorite Ralph Bakshi, I'll cite my most favorite Ralph Bakshi

 
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