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Here's 13 Blaxploitation films to watch after you've checked out Juel Taylor's Netflix film "They Cloned Tyrone."

"Pootie Tang" is not bad so much as inexplicable. You watch in puzzlement: How did this train wreck happen? How was this movie assembled out of such ill-fitting pieces? Who thought it was funny? Who thought it was finished? For that matter, was it finished? Take away the endless opening titles and end credits, and its about 70 minutes long. The press notes say it comes "from the comedy laboratory of HBOs Emmy Award-winning `Chris Rock Show. " Its like one of those lab experiments where the room...