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jono;5294663 said:Black Hollywood has taken that turn again. Before Spike it was only Blaxploitation flicks about pimps and drug dealers 'n shit. Then Spike crushed the buildings making movies about racial and social issues and White Hollywood through a wet towel on that nigga career.
If a nigga aint making a gangster flick, a pro-feminine black woman as victim movie, another one of those racing joints or a coon flick Hollywood aint trying to support it. Spike been getting played because he can't get funding to get his movies made. Shit rich Blacks bankrolled the making of Malcolm X because nobody would support it.
That's what happens when keepin' it real goes wrong.
rage;5295477 said:LMAO @ the Hollywood "blackball"....niggas love throwing that particular excuse for niggas who just dont cut it anymore. Inside Man was Spike's last successful movie....6 YEARS AGO. So let me get this straight nigga made Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, and Bamboozled, but got blackballed after Inside Man?? Riiiight....if Spike makes a movie worth watching people will go see it.
Swiffness!;5295631 said:Spike hasn't done a truly great non-documentary film since 25th Hour. That was 10 fucking years ago.
Django, by all accounts, is the most brutal depiction of slavery we've seen on the big screen this side of the Tecora sequence from Amistad. Where the fuck is YOUR movie about slavery, Spike? Hanh? Hello? Oh right, you're busy doing one of those wack-ass Hollywood remakes of a classic foreign film that recasts everybody w/ white actors. Shut the fuck up and worry about making classic movies again, my nigga. Seriously.
You know what were the last 3 movies he wrote a screenplay for? Red Hook Summer, She Hate Me, Bamboozled. Spike wrote the scripts for ALL his 80s/90s classics except Get On The Bus. He used to be a better Auteur than Tarantino. Now he can't seem to juggle being both a writer & director any more than M Night can.
What the fuck happened to this dude?
TheIraq;5294477 said:After Bambozzled which came out in 2000, the only Spike Lee movie I've heard of is Miracle at St Anna..... Does he have anything out between Bambozzled and Miracle at St Anna?
jono;5294663 said:Black Hollywood has taken that turn again. Before Spike it was only Blaxploitation flicks about pimps and drug dealers 'n shit. Then Spike crushed the buildings making movies about racial and social issues and White Hollywood through a wet towel on that nigga career.
If a nigga aint making a gangster flick, a pro-feminine black woman as victim movie, another one of those racing joints or a coon flick Hollywood aint trying to support it. Spike been getting played because he can't get funding to get his movies made. Shit rich Blacks bankrolled the making of Malcolm X because nobody would support it.
That's what happens when keepin' it real goes wrong.
lamontbdc;5295842 said:I agree with your points but at the sametime we can't just sit here and blame Hollywood without not blaming ourselves. Black in large won't go out and see positive/educational movies. When you say Hollywood won't support it you have to add in that black ppl won't support it either.
loch121;5295873 said:On the low bamboozled is one of the most important films ever made
Ounceman;5296230 said:Its hard to write spike lee off given his past history. Not only did he create do the right thing which is one of my all time favorites. But he is also a pivotal and instrumental figure in the history of the new independent film movement. Deserving to be mentioned alongside jarmusch, soderbergh, raimi, and the coens.
With that being said he has also directed a few questionable films that made u wonder how a director of his stature would ever release such worthless shit (girl 6, she hate me, st Anna, summer of Sam wasn't all that). But criticisms aside he's directed more memorable films than he has forgettable ones. But the last film I can say I really liked from him was the Italian job. Which was a remake that was better than the original. And it also leads me next point.
his upcoming project of the oldboy remake. In normal circumstances I would say that I'm tired of America butchering foreign films that were either classic or good enough on their own to not warrant another remake. oldboy being one of them. I mean I've seen it happen time and time again like with vanilla sky, dinner for schmucks, quarantine, pulse, and shutter just to name a few. But every once in a while some directors will do the original justice like with the departed. Even django but that was more of an homage to the original than an all out remake. And like I said earlier spike did good with the Italian job so I will withhold any criticism until I see it first.