Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods (Official Thread)

[Methodical]

What a great movie

I was dying laughing at Delroy Lindo,he was an a$$hole but played the shyt out of that role.

 

[Bryan Danielson]

Damn man.... the way this move ended

 

[Methodical]

Chadwick was great in this role wish we get more screen of him but I understand.

 

[Khalil's_Black_Excellence]

Have you NEVER seen a Spike Lee movie


He does the “talking into the camera” bit in almost all of his films, including Do The Right Thing, He Got Game, Clockers, and Chiraq. He also utilized the technique in the She’s Gotta Have It series. Its a Spike Lee staple

shyt like this is what separates the real ones from the pretentious pretenders.

 

[FlyGuy]

I also thought the fact that the actors were their old selves in the flashbacks was dope

They grew old while Norm didn’t

 

[Cartier Murphy]

I just finished this and I really enjoyed it I was worried initially going into it, mostly a little daunted by the runtime and if my attention span could hold up for it. The historical footage used along with music befitting the era and theme of the film did a ton towards setting the vibe and feeling of where the film was gonna take us. The comradery of Da Bloods and their individual stories, particularly Delroy Lindo and Clark Peters’ struggles, was really where I thought this movie shined. Paul was a fascinating and flawed character and Delroy played him perfectly. I also thought Chadwick Boseman did great, and I loved the use of him in flashbacks as well as Da Bloods being in old age in them. It showed that they never truly left the jungle and the memories of that past still live in them. The cinematography was beautiful, the soundtrack fit perfectly, yeah I can’t think of enough good to say. If anything I’d remove the mine removal subplot, I get why it was there but it felt superfluous and not essential to the plot. Extremely strong 8.5/10 for this.

 

[BlackMajik]

Why did dude jump on a landmine when there was no one in the vicinity.

This part of the movie had me like wtf

 

[ThaRealness]

This part of the movie had me like wtf

Yeah. This movie sucked. I rarely hate this hard... but I love Spike, man. Dissapointing effort

 

[Originalman]

There was nothing wrong with the 4th wall break by Lindo. That was him clearly losing his mind. Thats why the camera pans away from him and sees Boseman the 2nd time he does it.

Its an 8.5 outta 10 for me. I do think we gotta acknowledge that Spike is a professor at NYU. So on one hand he's constantly sharpening his knowledge and skill on film. The downside is that professor/lecturer Spike creeps into his films every now and then.

I think it was more organic in films like Bamboozled when he was dropping knowledge in terms of dialogue. However, I get the feeling Spike is thinking longterm. He knows his films will analyzed long after he's gone so he wants them to educational as well as entertaining.

Man I have no issue with spikes films. I like to think and I enjoy getting knowledge from entertainment. Call me old fashion but I prefer knowledge in my films and entertainment instead of mindless violence, profanity and nudity which is what is in 99.9% of these dumb ass movies, tv shows and streaming shows.

So give me a spike lee movie any day of the week over most of this shyt out here.

 

[BlackMajik]

Spike has no understanding of subtlety

I really wish he would stop cutting to things that bring me out of the movie. Why are you showing a photo of Aretha Franklin after a character says her name? We know what Aretha looks like and even if we didn't you don't stop the movie to show us. The worst was when they mentioned the black Trump supporter and cut to him with that big ass arrow

Spike movies tend to have moments where the dialog is referencing current events in a ham fisted manner. Might as well have Keenan pop up

That BLM scene was cringey.

Another sloppy moment is Eddie slowly walking backwards. We know he's going to step on a mine. That's some bone headed film making to be that predictable.

David randomly finding the gold was handled poorly.

Delroy breaking the 4th wall

Movie was way too long. Could have cut this down to 2 hours.

Flaws aside the actors did a great job.

6.5/10

I gotta agree with this

Spike mos def still has his flat top

 

[Originalman]

They mentioned that the gold was meant to pay local native Vietnamese people for helping them fight the VCs.

So it was meant for Vietnamese people, its been sitting buried on Vietnamese land for 4 decades, and now the 5 Bloods are going to sneak in under false pretenses and pay a shady French guy to basically launder it for them.

Yeah I mentioned on my first post that a lot of the movie was historically correct. This is another fact. The US government was actually flying gold and money to the south Vietnamese during the war.

The US has also done the same with other proxy wars over the last 50 years.

 

[Originalman]

Then Jordan’s hanging in the Vietnam hoods

Yeah I like that part. Also liked how the young son was talking all hard then he is out there in the jungle scared as shyt...

Also some of them old Vietnam vets even talk like that. They some tough kats. I use to hang with my dad and his friends (who were vietnam vets). My dad friends who were some vietnam vets were some old school tough guys. Reminded me of the brothas in this movie.

Also my homeboy from college dad did 3 tours in nam. Man his dad did not play
.. Man I stayed at my homeboy house for a weekend and his pops had us cleaning up that house like we were in boot camp.. That brotha was one tough SOB too..

 

[Big Boss]

Good movie

 

[The Fire]

Delroy smoked it. Jonathon majors the youngin was really good as well

 

[The Fire]

How many of those characters were running from assassins?

The timing and execution is what I didn't like.

That’s the unpredictability of war which is the whole point. It’s supposed to be jarring
he was talking to himself/Norman and the monologue shots were to establish his state of mind. It was fine