Quote from: CBStew on February 25, 2019, 02:03:24 PMQuote from: Tonker on February 25, 2019, 08:37:47 AM
Shows what I know, huh?
Yeah. Me too. Apparently the movie didn't come up to Spike Lee's standards.
Why would it? It was Viggo for best lead actor, Mahershala Ali for best supporting. That should tell you who the film is actually aimed at. At least BlacKkKlansman centers a black man in the story instead of having a cartoon stereotype of a white guy literally driving the whole movie. Oh and there’s also the whole part about Don Shirley’s family saying they weren’t even consulted and the supposed true story depicted in the film is full of shit. The guy who wrote it said he wasn’t even aware Shirley’s family existed, which is fucking embarrassing and should immediately render the movie’s factual content as suspect. The movie was aimed squarely at Academy voters who want to make a nice feelgood statement on race without concerning themselves with the uglier details.
What a surprise, that the son of the white guy made his racist but well meaning dad the hero when he wrote the screenplay. When he wasn’t busy thirst-tweeting our big dumb president in support of his latest racist rant, that is. If I were Spike Lee I’d probably be pissed off that “White People Solve Racism, Again” beat “An Actual Story About Black Lives” for anything and, just to add further insult, is being hailed by (white) critics as a stirring portrait of race, too. Maybe we’re not the best ones to judge Lee’s reaction!
Please tell me you didn’t love Crash...