Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods (Official Thread)
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It wasn't supposed to be a twist... I think it was the intent of having the feeling it was to happen. I had that sense of it going to happen all the way from Paul's son saying he was going to step away to take a piss.
valet
The official Chaplain of the Coli
But is that good writing when it's that obvious? If it's comedic, I can see it but it wasnt.
KalKal
Superstar
Everything isn't supposed to be a twist. The way it was filmed, which was a director's choice and NOT a writing choice (which need to be clarified because people use "bad writing" at the wrong times) was filmed to signal that was going to happen. Like I said, I was prepared for it to happen long before it finally did. It was foreshadowed for most of that part of the movie when they ventured into the jungle.
KalKal
Superstar
Re the "telegraphed" deaths.
I like one bit of "false" foreshadowing they do in this:
I like one bit of "false" foreshadowing they do in this:
Early on, they talk about how Paul loves "Rambo" movies, and they all have a laugh about how the 1980s Rambo and "Walker Texas Ranger" movies (i.e. "Missing in Action") have this whole mythology about Americans sneaking into the Vietnamese jungles to liberate dozens of American prisoners that are somehow still in POW camps 20 years later for some reason. Which really seems silly if you look back on that whole idea from the year 2020.
Then, when Paul splits from the group and goes off alone he starts talking about how he's going to die on his own terms, and not from cancer. The MAGA hat on his head actually looks a little like a Rambo bandana, and it looked to me like they were setting up for him to start re-enacting First Blood+Rambo 4 and make his last stand on a killing spree like a forest ninja. Instead, the jungle itself attacks him (in the form of a snake), Norman's ghost forgives him, then he gets executed by the Vietnamese.
Then, when Paul splits from the group and goes off alone he starts talking about how he's going to die on his own terms, and not from cancer. The MAGA hat on his head actually looks a little like a Rambo bandana, and it looked to me like they were setting up for him to start re-enacting First Blood+Rambo 4 and make his last stand on a killing spree like a forest ninja. Instead, the jungle itself attacks him (in the form of a snake), Norman's ghost forgives him, then he gets executed by the Vietnamese.
Art Barr
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Devil Plisken…CMS
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Best Spike movie since Inside Man
Devil Plisken…CMS
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Blackklansmen was trash
Adam Driver can’t act
Denzel’s so cant act
Adam Driver can’t act
Denzel’s so cant act
daemonova
hit it, & I didn't go Erykah Badu crazy, #yallmad
You responded to my original point. I was talking about miracle at St. Anna. You need to know what you are talking about before you respond.
Now go write a poem.
I thought this was as good as people pretended Blackklansmen was
Dr. Narcisse
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