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(1983)

Fuck, this is one of those flicks that was a play first, then a movie. You can almost always tell when they do this, because everyone in the movie talks too much and nobody ever seems to go anywhere. The most important people here are a brother who hates whitey, and a fag, and they're both being sent to Vietnam, so that means it's an important black film, an important gay film, and an important Vietnam film all at the same time. Obviously that makes it one of the most pretentious movies ever made, but you can't really understand how bad it is unless you use this mathematical formula that I just made up: 

G^P x B^P x V^P = X

Where G = gay, B = black, V = Vietnam, P = pretentious, and X of course is a number so big just trying to like comprehend it would make your head explode. Of course a ridiculously pretentious movie can still have tits and/or blood in it, but the only good part of this one is when these two cats get stabbed. You probably think you know who gets stabbed, but actually it's a couple of straight white guys (spoiler warning), so even though this flick is all impressed with itself and shit at least it isn't predictable. It still sucks though.