Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:21 pm
Spike is coming off a little Kanye West-ish.
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 3:38 am
I don't know about anyone else, but I'd stand in line to see "Motherfucking Driving Miss Daisy."
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 4:39 am
You know what I like about Spike Lee? He's not bitter.
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 5:41 am
Oh I'm sure he feels his life is a privliged one and appreciates what success and fame he can come by.
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 9:30 pm
This movie looks amazing judging from the trailer. Looking foward to it, regardless of what american critics have to say. But that's coz' I think She Hate Me is a great movie, for example.
Spike's comments however are becoming incresingly predictable and tired in their aim to stir up controversy. Never liked him as a public figure and what he has to say.
Always loved in as a filmmaker, so as long as he makes good pictures, no problemo.
Spike's comments however are becoming incresingly predictable and tired in their aim to stir up controversy. Never liked him as a public figure and what he has to say.
Always loved in as a filmmaker, so as long as he makes good pictures, no problemo.
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:58 pm
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:48 am
Spike: "You white reviewers just don't get it."
Wait until Armond finishes him off.
Wait until Armond finishes him off.
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 1:00 am
Isn't it more likely that Armond White will decide he likes Spike Lee now that he's finally made a masterpiece
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 1:12 am
with AW, you never know.
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 2:58 am
Here's what I'm hoping come Oscar time :
- 1. Milk gets a bunch of nominations, including one for Sean Penn. M@StA gets one for sound.
2. Spike - Hollywood honors a movie about gay people but not the African American soldiers who fought for the freedom gay people have.
3. Sean Penn - Spike should just shut his mouth. Also his criticism of Eastwood was as stupid as when Chris Rock didn't know who Jude Law was.
4. Chris Rock - It was a joke you dumb muthafucka!
5. Spike - Sean Penn is a racist.
6. Mickey Rourke shows up with his now fiance Evan Rachel Wood - Hey everybody, what's going on?
7. Entertainment Weekly puts out an issue about WTF couples and has a graph where Billy Bob Thornton and Angelina Jolie only rate a 4 but Mickey and ERW are a 9.
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 3:28 am
Your acronym spells "Masta." Fantastic.lacritfan wrote:Here's what I'm hoping come Oscar time :
- 1. Milk gets a bunch of nominations, including one for Sean Penn. M@StA gets one for sound.
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 3:48 am
Oh my God =D>Grand Illusion wrote:Your acronym spells "Masta." Fantastic.lacritfan wrote:Here's what I'm hoping come Oscar time :
- 1. Milk gets a bunch of nominations, including one for Sean Penn. M@StA gets one for sound.
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 5:40 am
Post of the year.
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 6:54 am
Man, if he didn't just make the case of why he shouldn't care if he wins an Oscar or not. I wonder if he realized that after saying it, that he made Do The Right Thing and people are still considering it a serious, important piece of filmmaking is far more valuable than some effing Oscar.He adds, "Nobody is watching motherfucking Driving Miss Daisy today. Do The Right Thing is being taught in classes at major universities and high schools all over the world. That's how you're supposed to test art. Does the work stand up?"
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 7:42 am
Seriously. What does Spike Lee not have now that an Oscar would give him? What would mainstream acceptance afford him that his "angry black artist" image has not?
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 8:57 pm
Wasn't someone asking about this?
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 9:13 pm
Even I didn't think he'd mention fucking Spielberg in the opening paragraph.
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 9:19 pm
And the title. And at least once in each of five out of nine paragraphs.
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 10:44 pm
This is just a new level of ArmondanceThat was a smokescreen for Lee’s ongoing Spielberg rivalry (as in his Malcolm X scene disparaging E.T.)
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 11:15 pm
The film Malcolm X has a scene disparaging E.T.? I've seen the former film a number of times and I haven't the foggiest idea what that can possibly mean.That was a smokescreen for Lee’s ongoing Spielberg rivalry (as in his Malcolm X scene disparaging E.T.)
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 11:20 pm
You must have forgotten to watch the film with a giant E.T. poster on the wall behind your TV.
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 11:26 pm
I had a chuckle at White putting an exclamation point after "WTF" in the middle of the sentence-- he just got one-upped by teenage girls
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 12:26 am
Much less the actual title and headlinetavernier wrote:Even I didn't think he'd mention fucking Spielberg in the opening paragraph.
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 12:50 am
I usually skip the titles of AW's reviews so I can get to the meat of his argument that much quicker.
Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 4:21 pm
Ebert gave it three stars, albeit begrudgingly:
In a sense, the scenes I complain about are evidence of Lee's stature as an artist. In a time of studios and many filmmakers who play it safe and right down the middle, Lee has a vision and sticks to it. The scenes I object to are not evidence of any special perception I have. They're the kind of scenes many studio chiefs from the dawn of film might have singled out, in the interest of making the film shorter and faster. But they're important to Lee, who must have defended them. And it's important to me that he did. When you see one of his films, you're seeing one of his films. And "Miracle at St. Anna" contains richness, anger, history, sentiment, fantasy, reality, violence and life. Maybe too much. Better than too little.