What's your favorite Spike Lee Joint?
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Bamboozled, although it's not a particularly fun rewatch.
He Got Game is also great and not as much of a downer.
Jungle Fever of course
Why are all the most militant blacks light-skinned?
They're israeli, that's why.
overcompensating
Most blacks would call his shade "brown skin"
Mario Tennis
PURPLE GUY
summer of sam is really, really underrated
has a fricking amazing montage
Didn’t Chrissy write that?
Say what you will about Spike Lee but he's one of the best filmmakers at capturing New York.
I love this movie, but it is kind of embarrassing for Brody to be punk rocking to Teenage Wasteland, which isn't punk at all, while being dressed as a 90's idea of what a punk is.
But at the same time, the whole point of the character is that he's a bit of a poser.
Have yet to see one.
Imagine watching a leaked tape of a bound and gagged Spike Lee being smacked around until he is a whimpering b***h.
Pause.
He Got Game. Denzel should have done better in the final 1v1 though
Denzel's character was like 45 and had been living off prison food for 10 years while his kid was an 18-year old 5-star recruit and had been hooping nonstop throughout high school.
The fact that he scored as much as he did is already borderline absurd.
FRICK DA KNICKS
Da 5 bloods. The only questionable part about it was why they didn't use younger actors for the flash backs
Do the Right Thing is the only good film he ever made and I'm convinced he's like a shittier version of Ridley Scott where his first films are great and then everything else becomes safe commercial dispassion
Right elbow
25th Hour
Crooklyn is underrated
Bad 25
he only makes woke mediocrities.
He was making films for 25+ years before "woke" was even a thing.
yeah and it was still condescending liberal bullshit
You clearly haven't watched the movies.
Yes I have seen several of his films
It's the same self-pitying agitprop of the seventies but without the vim or cinematic creativity of his peers
Melvin Van Peebles was a hundred times the director Lee will ever be and Robert Altman made the quintessential specific black rage man in Kansas City with the great Harry Belafonte
Watch more films
I've seen Sweet Sweetback, but that's aside from the point. To call any of Spike's early films condescending liberal bullshit is outright wrong. Do the Right Thing, She's Gotta Have It, Bamboozled, and He Got Game are all films that look at problems with a wide lens. It's not until you get to Inside Man that your criticism holds any water, and even then it's still a pretty fun heist flick. Post-Oldboy Spike has been by and large trash but that's less than half his career. He clearly figured out what plays to the Academy and Blackkkklansman won him the award he deserved 30 years earlier despite being inferior to his earlier work.
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>To call any of Spike's early films condescending liberal bullshit is outright wrong
For Do the Right Thing sure, because it's creating a cornucopia of believable and identifiable characters who can and do exist out in the wild. But after that film his characters got extremely specific and began to transmogrify into the same sort of one-note caricature that like SNL makes, the main difference being that he's not as sterile in the presentation of the violence both in the tongue and the weapon compared to like daytime tv
Even things like Jungle Fever are laughably bad from a character and filmmaking standpoint even if the cinematographer had the most vision of any race movie in terms of lighting of skin tones.
He's a filmmaker who works with people who are better than him and his best films are the result of others rather than his own vision/writing
Clockers
Jungle Fever
best ending all time
Do The Right Thing is his best
Do The Right Thing is one of my favorite movies ever.
Why this homie lookin' like a gay train conductor?
His documentaries on Hurricane Katrina, When the Levees Broke and If Good Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise, are both kino
for me its gotta be the ending to jungle fever