The Best Decade for Black Films was the 90s!

I was a kid growing up in the 90s, and now as an adult I can see and appreciate how great that decade was for black films. Spike Lee made such a great impact on cinema and in the lives of black people with his films which had good actors, rich and honest story lines, and great directing. Other great films which are considered classics today, Love Jones, Waiting to Exhale, The Best Man, Boyz in the Hood, and Friday.  Love Jones was such an intimate film between two people who desired and needed love.  Boyz in the Hood portrayed life in the hood truthfully.  Boomerang is a great romantic comedy that I will never tire of watching.  Friday is the classic of all classics.  It is such a great film all around.  Oh, how I miss the 90s......

What happened?  We got lazy and went backwards.  We stopped caring about taking charge of our own stories.  When you are moving forward, you can not look back.  The black films that are out today don't have the same intrigue, complexity, and originality that the black films in the 90s had.  I am definitely wondering how that can be when it is so much easier and more economically feasible to get a movie made than it was during that time.  There are so many internet sites that show independent movies, especially those made on a low, low budget.    We need new creative blood to take over, artists who are hungry for quality, not money.  That's where the best work comes from, from those with passion about the craft.   Actors who care about the work and craft than being famous and who take their craft seriously.   Writers who write original, interesting, out-of-the box stories and who spend months working on perfecting the script.  Directors who have a great vision and who bring out the best in actors.  That's what it will take.

Will history repeat itself?  I hope so.

I am the dark mystique.