Shaft

Yeah.

You know, um, I saw the movie Shaft, not with Roundtree, but the Samuel Jackson remake.

Yeah.

And I, I'm a fan of the original-

But it didn't, it didn't hit, it didn't scratch the itch.

I liked the movie.

It just didn't scratch the Shaft itch, and that's the, that's, that's what I'm...

Sometimes we just can't recreate the magic-

I'm not saying I wanted that.

Did you see Shaft? Did you see Shaft with Samuel Jackson?

Uh, yeah, yeah.

You remember that he threw, he took that badge and he threw it and it stuck it into the wood.

It

hit me.

It just overwhelmed me that that just felt like John Shaft.

Yeah.

So [laughs]...

So John Singleton, Josh, like we've talked about, Poetic Justice, Higher Learning, Shaft, Baby Boy, Rosewood, and he, uh, co-created Snowfall, the very popular show on, uh, FX.

Sadly died pretty young, man, in his 50s, right?

Yeah, he was only 51, died in 2019.

And it did seem like, you know, he kind of bounced back and forth between those movies that we were talking about, like Poetic Justice and Baby Boy, that had the more personal kind of vision like this movie did, and then doing these franchise things.

You know, you mentioned Shaft, and I mean, he made the second Fast and the Furious movie.

Um, may- the last movie he made was some kidnapping thriller starring Taylor Lautner.

I mean, he struggled.

All right, so Angelina Jolie got Tomb Raider, Wanted, and Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

Sam Jackson got Shaft, Kingsman, and Snakes on the Plane.

On this motherfucking

plane.

Definitely, uh, check that one out.

Richard Price also wrote the first Samuel L. Jackson Shaft movie, which I think was screwed over in editing or in post-production.

Something happened there.

He wrote Ransom with Mel Gibson.

That's a very good movie.

I enjoy that Shaft movie, by the way.

Despite whatever flaws people might think it has, I just thought it was very entertaining.

I, and I like the dialogue, the colorful dialogue.

So many good movies came out in the year 2000.

Actually, I can't really think of any other good ones other than Shaft 2000, another one of my favorite movies of all time.

I love Shaft 2000.

It's his duty to please that booty.

Of

And there was also in that movie with Busta Rhyme, and that was actually another Samuel Jackson, but it was the woman that killed the dude.

Higher Learning? Nah, Shaft.

It was Shaft.

Remember, in Shaft.

I know Shaft, but I just can't remember what all took place in the movie.

Was it Shaft? No, was it Shaft? I can't- Bad

mother, shut your mouth.

You talking about that?

Which one's better? Samuel L.

Jackson's Shaft or Bad Boys? The first Samuel L.

Jackson version of Shaft with Jeffrey Wright as Peoples.

Oh, from 2000? Yeah, the one with

Peebles Hernandez.