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a funny nickname I heard for Zero Dark Thirty was Jingo Unchained
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Mike Nelson here.
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what's the deal with spike lee doing all those ads for the navy.
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what's the deal with spike lee? it's like, you're black, but you have the name of an anime bounty hunter! who are these people??
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tpaine.........

https://twitter.com/SeinfeldToday
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Modern Seinfeld ‏@SeinfeldToday

George can't handle a casual relationship with his tattooed/bisexual gf (Pauley Perrette). A photo of a confused Kramer becomes a meme.
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Modern Seinfeld ‏@SeinfeldToday

George breaks up w/ his gf (Gretchen Mol) because she's ruining his Netflix suggestions w/ her shows. Newman claims to be part of Anonymous.
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lmao

Modern Seinfeld ‏@SeinfeldToday

Kramer becomes an Internet famous photo bomber, so Jerry checks his photos and finds Kramer in the background of every single one of them.
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the birth of black baby jesus
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getfiscal posted:

what's the deal with spike lee doing all those ads for the navy.


The man who did the definitive film version of Malcom X's life also did promotional ads for the American military, wow.

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Oh wow, a film that presents an expose on what should have happened to the South's cultural and social elites. It's almost as if they should've been executed without trial or excuse, the very infamy of their social status being the unconditional warrant of their demise. No matter. We can have a film serve as an improvement on the condition of race relations in America. Yea yea, the north might have benefited from the institution of slavery, but the people who enforced it are the real culprits- albeit, retroactively. And the vitality of the North in the post-Civil War era demonstrates a resolve towards something better. I agree, we have a long way to go. But the idea that such a film like Django (an, albeit, pornographic depiction of samurai justice) is something which is worthy of Hollywood production should be one of many indices of cultural improvement in the American understanding of race relations.
When I sat in the theater and saw people cheering the destruction of illegitimate masters, I saw it retroactively as an inscription of the improvement on our race relations in this country. That, despite the fact that the ongoing war against the minority poor in our country goes on unabated; we can heal the wounds of our egregious socio-ethical impasses. Living in New York has given me a new perspective. That life does go on. That things, though however slowly, can change. That God in his mysterious ways does show that there are lifting visions of the meek.
Films like Von Trier's Manderlay, in juxtaposition to Django Unchained, are found wanting. They demonstrate a sort of retrograde vision of race relations. That minority conformity within the American mainstream comes with a sort of condolence of state violence, that integration itself (having met fierce resistance within racially included groups) had a sort of compromise for black socio-cultural admittance to the mainstream. No matter. I have an opinion, and, Allah willing, it is the correct interpretation.

As-salamu alaykum,
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spike lee is a bad director
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gyrofry posted:

spike lee is a bad director



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Sounds like more violent Hollywood trash, i'll give it a miss
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Nippon
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gyrofry posted:

spike lee is a bad director



reminder that spike lee opened a film like this

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Also the slave owners are actually allegories for the Weinstein brothers
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Warner brothers actually. And foxx is supposed to be prince Rogers nelson and foxxs wife is his recording career. Ero-tic ci-tay *dances super angular to a funky prince single*
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inglourious basterds > season 4 of the wire > season 2 of the wire > pulp fiction > jackie brown > django > reservoir dogs > kill bill
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Kurdt
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samuel jackson turned in a fine performance as uncle ruckus
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christoph waltz is a great actor
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Kurdt
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jamie foxx isn't
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gyrofry posted:

jamie foxx isn't



i disagree but you must admit he played the archetype well. he only had to be as good as clint eastwood or franco nero and that worked imo

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Guyovich posted:

gyrofry posted:

jamie foxx isn't

i disagree but you must admit he played the archetype well. he only had to be as good as clint eastwood or franco nero and that worked imo

well the strong silent type thing works better when the character isn't essentially a sidekick to more emotive performers

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i can't really watch theatrical violence and suffering but i appreciated this review, thx
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I can't help but feel like Django and Inglorious Basterds and any of these exploitation style movies made today are the cheapest and easiest type of film for pop-culture junkies to produce and even though I enjoy these movies I end up disappointed because it seems like such cheap shit. I understand that this the last few years of movies are probably closer to what Tarantino has wanted to make his whole career or really enjoys, but this really shouldn't be getting mainstream praise or attention because to me it's just this vulgar (but entertaining) hyperbole on race relations that could've been accomplished in 30 minutes. It's cool and all, but these kind of movies being widely distributed and well-loved by people of my generation is pretty depressing because I hear more people talk about this film than anything of actual value. I don't intend this post as a response to disclipline's post (which I agree with to some extent) but more just a comment on the cultural fixation with with these violent fantasies rooted in shameful historical circumstances.
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I agree with Sherm. Compare Django to a Scott Sanders movie and it's clear that one is bullshit white person guilt and the other is informed by knowledge of the black experience and of modern black radicalism. It's really nothing for a white person to decide to make a movie about a black dude killing evil caricatures of slave owners.
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Kill bill is about a woman getting revenge against a man. Inglorous Bastard is about jews getting revenge on nazis. DJ Unchained is about a black man getting revenge on white people... There was a cool thing they did when Superman was on the radio in the 50s, some guy had the idea to do an episode where Superman takes on the Ku Klux Klan, and the episode humiliated the Klan and seriously hurt their membership...

Tarantino's audience is above all male, so maybe there it's good that he makes movies that they go BANANAs for, that cast the white man unequivocably as a the douche bag. After all, the social function of these "Controversial!" movies, shows, is not all that educational or thought-provoking, it's an affirmation of morality. That's all a revenge fantasy is, the protagonist's journey to condemn evil. Its like jerry springer
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EmanuelaOrlandi posted:

I agree with Sherm. Compare Django to a Scott Sanders movie and it's clear that one is bullshit white person guilt and the other is informed by knowledge of the black experience and of modern black radicalism. It's really nothing for a white person to decide to make a movie about a black dude killing evil caricatures of slave owners.



lol "evil caricatures". if y'all can't see the value of a movie about revolutionary violence against all white people by slaves than why don't you look at the shitty movie Lincoln that is out right now.

if movies about slave revolts were so easy, why has there only ever been one mainstream movie about John Brown, which was pro-slavery? How about all those hollywood movies about Nat Turner? this forum has some of the worst opinions about movies i've ever seen, at least for a forum which is supposed to be socialist, anti-racist, and philosophical.

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quentin tarantino finally reached the apotheosis of his wiggerdom by making a shitty remake of boss nigger, which was likely why he got into film in the first place. good for him
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so your the motherfucker always crossing out sri lanka and writing in ceylon on maps and globes around the country. what a weird little johnny appleseed thing
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