The Official Spike Lee "BlacKkKlansman’" Thread

[Po pimp]

To my surprise there were so MANY WHITE PEOPLE in the theater, laughing their ass off, but got death quiet during the final scenes.... but I digress.....

It was the opposite for me. Granted I didn’t see it in a full theater, but the white folks seemed scared and acted like they didn’t wanna laugh at certain parts, but I was cracking up when he (over the phone) and his partner (in person) were pretending to be racists.

 

[Yaddam Yussein]

LOVED IT :Yasmellme:

Everyone involved did a great job.

 

[Squirrel from Meteor Man]

Curtis Sc00n is on twitter shytting all over this movie. Its interesting how he thinks Spike is washed up, but he made sure to see the movie day 1. Ive never heard that man say anything positive about any Black artist.

Curtis sc00n hates on any black man able to get anything on a big screen because he’s been unable to do so, and will continue to be unable to do so. He’s only good for twitter rants and filing lawsuits. Guys like him and Boots Riley going out of their way to hate on a movie show exactly what Ron Stallworth was talking about.

I thought it was a great movie. John David Washington really is coming into his own. Once again Spike needed a Washington to pull him out the fire like 50 said

Spike is great when you keep him in a box and don’t give him the freedom to veer off into anything weird or perverted. When he’s given source material, there’s not much better than him behind the camera.

When he’s writing the stuff and has full creative control (not talking about Do The Right Thing era but more like Chiraq, Red Hook Summer, Da Sweet Blood of Jesus) that’s when he’s pretty much terrible.

I’m glad Spike got this W. No dry spots in the movie, didn’t feel like 2 hours at all

 

[MrRDU]

I saw it last night & thought it was really good. The acting was crazy on point. All the laughs & giggles went out the door after the last scene. shyt was like a funeral walking out of the theatre

 

[Robbie3000]

After seeing it, I knew this board would catch a few things that had me scratching my head. The Italian guy in particular, who stuck out pretty bad, NY accent and all. I read a piece years ago, knocking Spike for this in his films. Starting with Do The Right Thing, to Jungle Fever, to He Got Game - Spike puts Italian characters in a light. This one kind of cemented that for me.

Other than that, this was a classic piece of film making. The kind we know Spike can do, but for some reason chooses to deviate from. The ending left the entire audience quiet.

Maybe his experience is Italian Americans are just urban hillbillies.

Chris Rock said when he was bused to white schools, the Italian and Irish kids were the worst. The only kids that treated him well were Jewish kids.

 

[Originalman]

Spike probably grew up with a lot racist Italians

Don't care and am glad when I talians a$$holes like tarantino and Martin Scorsese put blackfolks in a bad light in most their movies.

Whats good for the goose is good for the gander.

 

[Originalman]

This may be true but spike isn't looking thru the lense of ithe kkk for the most part..

Do The Riight Thing was heavily influenced by the 1980s Howard Beach incident where an Italiian mob beat a group of black men and murdered one of them. Spike hasnt forgotten any of that so it's not surprising to me that he included a "ethnic" looking new york italian in with the kkk....

Yep its a head nod like the asian in get out.

 

[MartyMcFly]

Seeing this in two hours

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Spoiler

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

 

[PoorAndDangerous]

The ending was powerful

 

[B!tchuoffendingme]

Spike probably deserves it cause he's done it to other directors, but Boots Riley looks like he's trying to draw attention to himself and HIS movie by shytting on Spike. And he actually did a whole roll-out for his critique too, beyond corny.

 

[BXKingPin82]

might ffinally see this Tuesday.
was going ALL OUT with the school shoppin for Lil Kingpin!


mad kicks!!!


even got this little fukk some black and white suede wally Clarks.

father of the year.

 

[blankstairz]

Curtis sc00n hates on any black man able to get anything on a big screen because he’s been unable to do so, and will continue to be unable to do so. He’s only good for twitter rants and filing lawsuits. Guys like him and Boots Riley going out of their way to hate on a movie show exactly what Ron Stallworth was talking about.

I thought it was a great movie. John David Washington really is coming into his own. Once again Spike needed a Washington to pull him out the fire like 50 said

Spike is great when you keep him in a box and don’t give him the freedom to veer off into anything weird or perverted. When he’s given source material, there’s not much better than him behind the camera.

When he’s writing the stuff and has full creative control (not talking about Do The Right Thing era but more like Chiraq, Red Hook Summer, Da Sweet Blood of Jesus) that’s when he’s pretty much terrible.

I’m glad Spike got this W. No dry spots in the movie, didn’t feel like 2 hours at all

Didn't see Chiraq or Sweet Blood of Jesus, but I thought Red Hook Summer was aight.


I get what you are saying. That is why his documentaries are so strong (4 little girls, When the levees broke).

As opposed to something like She Hate Me (which I thought was aight, but definitely a little too out there for most people ). I f*cks with Spike's weird sh*t like She Hate Me and Girl 6.

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

Why did they change the story line from the original?

How u got a white dude with a totally different voice supposed to pass as the black dude who white voice is nothing like his