I used to think I wasn't but I just watched The 25th Hour, and I loved it

...that got me thinkin, I also really liked School Daze and kinda liked Girl 6

so maybe I am a Spike Lee fan?

Is anybody else?
Whats your favorite movie by him?
What was his worst?

...I went to see Clockers with my mom, as a kid and I remember it being so awful that we walked out of the theater and snuck in another one

I LOVE most of Spike Lee's movies....'yes' even Clockers. A favorite would be pretty hard but it's a tie between Crooklyn and Do The Right Thang!



School Daze to Crooklyn edit
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I'm not a big fan of Spike Lee,but I did njoy:
Jungle Fever
Malcolm X
Girl 6(the music made me like the movie)
I can't sit thru any of his other jointz.

Before I answer tell me something

Are you Spike Lee?

sexxydancer said:

i got my copy in the mail today

gotta to love ebay

thekidsgirl said:

'25th Hour' is the most 'a-typical Spike Lee Movie' he ever made. This time race was not the issue, it was not preachy and, thank God, he didn't perform himself in it! I think it is the one I liked best!

Also liked 'Inside Man'!

girl 6 is no more than a long Prince video...


I like Crooklyn, Malcolm X and Inside Man.

I just have so many issues with Spike and his female characters.

Rhondab said:

I dug
Mo Betta Blues (except for the rush ending -- in the old days, you could tell where Spike was about to run out of production budget)
Malcolm X
School Daze
Inside Man
Bamboozled
25th Hour
Girl 6 (sorta)

Still ambivalent about Summer of Sam, Crooklyn and She's Gotta Have It.

Really don't like Clockers at all.

I've yet to see the Katrina movie or 4 Little Girls.


And, my gosh, I'm grateful to Spike for indeliberately hipping me to Terence Blanchard. His score work for Spike's films is amazing. Jazzheads should track down the 'X' score.




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She's Gotta Have It is one of my faves...
and I thought he did a great job with Malcom X...

ThreadBare said:

"Bamboozled" jacked me up and hurt my feelings ...


and quite honestly, for some reason I'm scared to see "Summer of Sam"

ThreadBare said:

omgosh....no spaghetti for you.

Rhondab said:

spaghetti...

is that a metaphor too???

Crooklyn is my movie

roodboi said:

nope

ThreadBare said:

I'm a fan of some of his flicks(School Daze, Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, Get On the Bus). Spike's characters are on point. He's great at showing the true sides of people. But sometimes he's so obsessed with hitting you over the head with his viewpoints, that he loses focus of the story.

Lately, Spike's ticked me off with his support of Isiah Thomas.

I'm a fan of it all. Doesn't mean I love it all: He's had some weaker moments (Girl 6), and he almost certainly was on crack in others (She Hate Me). But his stuff is always visually arresting and has solid enough dialogue; interesting character development; nicely unfolding, if occasionally unlikely, plots; and a great use of humor in otherwise non-comedic environments. And I actually miss seeing Spike in his own stuff! He's so fun onscreen!

His best? I'd have to think on that, but minus too preachy a take on the politics around 9/11, 25th Hour was exceptionally well executed, I thought.

Crooklyn, Malcolm X,do the right thing and especially school daze are my favorites.

Spike has a lot of talent. I dig his work.
He should utilize Prince more.....

Graycap23 said:

But, how??? He more or less did it all in Girl 6!

abierman said:

I'd love 4 Prince 2 score all of his movies.

His movies are hit and miss for me.

uPtoWnNY said:

Yeah, that is the main problem I have with his work. For me, that was especially true in When the Levees Broke. It was just waaayyy too long
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I used to be a huge Spike Lee fan, but he started to lose me after He Got Game. Didn't like 25th Hour, refuse to see She Hate Me. Love love love Do the Right Thing and Malcolm X (even used the latter for a undergrad paper). Liked Summer of Sam until the talking dog, which seems too cartoony to me.

I have been working my way through old seasons of In Living Color and in the second season Tommy Davidson did a hilarious skit of Spike running a store where they sold all sorts of stuff: Spike (pronounced to rhyme with Nike) sneakers, Mo' Better Butter, etc. It was hilarious. I just looked for it on YouTube but couldn't find it.

DevotedPuppy said:

That store that used 2 be on Melrose Ave in L.A. was like that 4 real.

Yes, I love Spike Lee movies. His last couple have been somewhat disappointing, but I've enjoyed the majority of them over the years.

Graycap23 said:

Damn, now I can't stop thinking about that skit. Kim Wayans played his sister Joie and he was like, "You're in Brooklyn now, it's Joy, not Jw'ah. It's Janice, not JA-niece, etc." And "cameos" from movie characters including Rosie Perez (who was the Fly Girls' choreographer at the time) who came in and was all "Mookie when you gonna take care of your kid?" It was so dead on. I wish it was on Youtube....

DevotedPuppy said:

U should have seen it in person. NOW that was funny.

ThreadBare said:

Oh fuck! I thought I was the ONLY one who caught that "rushed-ass ending" and I HATED that shit! Horrible!

Graycap23 said:

Yep, I used to raid that spot back in 92/93.