OT: Spike Lee rips "Django"

[StutterStep]

^That interview is a major reason QT and those of his mindset need to stop. People often find the easiest entry point into another culture and use that as the only lens to view that culture.

So, after all his years on Earth/America, QT's only care/knowledge about Black people is Blaxploitation flicks and Slavery? He really needs to go sit down somewhere, because we're definitely not who he thinks we are.

[MigrainePatrol]

^That interview is a major reason QT and those of his mindset need to stop. People often find the easiest entry point into another culture and use that as the only lens to view that culture.

So, after all his years on Earth/America, QT's only care/knowledge about Black people is Blaxploitation flicks and Slavery? He really needs to go sit down somewhere, because we're definitely not who he thinks we are.

Most often than not blaxploitation and slavery are a humiliation and embarassment. Every time I see somebody try to do the Snoop pimp talk or break a move with a basketball infront of black people or who they perceive to be rather than treat them at a neutral standpoint as they do their white, hispanic, and asian colleagues it makes me cringe.. The perpetrator seems to think it's diversifying themselves but what's even worse is if the victim actually thinks it's okay. I'm an observer and as much as I would like to chill, I see everything at it is. I mean everything...

[duetta]

MIcheal Eric Dyson likes the film, as does Dr. James Peterson (Dyson is sitting in for Ed Schutz on MSNBC tonight).

[Greenie]

Someone should call out Tyler Perry for perpetuating black stereotypes.

I'm going to see Django at 1:50 today.

Spike already did.......

[MigrainePatrol]

My point was there's alot of really bad people out there and if you judge on an individual basis it's makes it that much more clear.

[StutterStep]

MIcheal Eric Dyson likes the film, as does Dr. James Peterson (Dyson is sitting in for Ed Schutz on MSNBC tonight).

I don't think Spike or anyone here debating his position has stated the movie would be bad, etc...The context is that Spike feels the genre and context being used is insulting to himself.

I wouldn't say that it's insulting to me. I'm more of the mindset that the viewing public is quick to support "one of their own" while ignoring other films of the same subject matter done by Black fillmmakers. Because of that I'm less likely to go see that QT film.

[duetta]

I don't think Spike or anyone here debating his position has stated the movie would be bad, etc...The context is that Spike feels the genre and context being used is insulting to himself.

I wouldn't say that it's insulting to me. I'm more of the mindset that the viewing public is quick to support "one of their own" while ignoring other films of the same subject matter done by Black fillmmakers. Because of that I'm less likely to go see that QT film.

I'm actually not taking sides here - since the few movies of Tarentino I've seen (Kill Bill, Inglorious Bastards) have not done much for me. I'm just posting what I've come across.

[RHODEY]

Please... Tarantino has always been uncensored in all his movies, he's pretty much earned the right to say what ever curse word he wants. Pulp Fiction is one of my favorite movies and the "Dead **** Storage" part he did in Pulp Fiction was hilarious.

Tariq talked about dudes who get off on racial slurs...

Tariq Nasheed's Review Of "Django Unchained"


http://archive.org/download/MackLessons ... ons368.mp3

[StutterStep]

I'm actually not taking sides here - since the few movies of Tarentino I've seen (Kill Bill, Inglorious Bastards) have not done much for me. I'm just posting what I've come across.

Oh, I know.

[Rasho Brezec]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeTa8IazIH0[/youtube]

Spike Lee probably broke his TV here.

[Fat Kat]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeTa8IazIH0[/youtube]

Spike Lee probably broke his TV here.

Chuck is an Alabama Uncle Tom in every facet if his life. I'm sure Spike nor anyone else is surprised by anything that comes out of his illiterate pie hole.

[Fat Kat]

Now Tarantino is the recipient of the other raised eyebrow.
The fearless — some might say reckless — director says that Alex Haley’s “Roots” is “inauthentic.”
Yes, clutch your pearls and grab the smelling salts. “Roots,” that Black cultural touchstone that makes White Americans glance at their Black comrades with trepidation after BET plays it on repeat over the holidays, has been deemed “inauthentic” by white as the driven snow Tarantino.

“When you look at Roots, nothing about it rings true in the storytelling, and none of the performances ring true for me either,” said Tarantino. “I didn’t see it when it first came on, but when I did I couldn’t get over how oversimplified they made everything about that time. It didn’t move me because it claimed to be something it wasn’t.”

http://t.newsone.com/newsone/#!/entry/q ... 70c7df92/3

[MassDaIllest]

Spike Lee is a racist. He criticized Clint Eastwood, for not having enough black actors in his movies.

How does that make him racist? If Spielberg criticized Spike for not having enough White actors in his films, does that make Spielberg Racist?

Man, please be Quiet.

[MassDaIllest]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeTa8IazIH0[/youtube]

Spike Lee probably broke his TV here.

Chuck is an Alabama Uncle Tom in every facet if his life. I'm sure Spike nor anyone else is surprised by anything that comes out of his illiterate pie hole.

Word.

[OminousEther]

Loved Django Unchained. Spike Lee can kick rocks

[yaboynyp]

Someone should call out Tyler Perry for perpetuating black stereotypes./quote]

Has it really happened??? by anyone credible...?

by credible i mean anyone who has a foothold in black-america.

I've been thinking it for years. It's so transparent and degrading I can't believe there isn't a movement behind getting Tyler Perry shutdown.

He loves to harp on black-americans being under-educated/being content with it, being abusive as parents, and disobedient as children. all these points are prevalent and expounded upon in every tyler perry production. Maybe i should have created a separate thread because i'm not talking about spike or django at all.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/toure-trashes-tyler-perry’s-movies-‘cinematic-malt-liquor-for-the-masses’/

http://www.thenation.com/article/tyler- ... er-problem

http://madamenoire.com/110535/hating-ty ... ligentsia/

[blueNorange]

ashy larry has something to say

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/2 ... 77190.html

"You don't like nobody's movies!" Rawlings said.

He joked, "I don't know if people know who you are. No disrespect, Spike, but I asked a guy if he knew Spike Lee, and he said, "That's the little guy who plays for the New York Knicks."

[Marty McFly]

it was an okay film.

[Rasho Brezec]

ashy larry has something to say

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/2 ... 77190.html

"You don't like nobody's movies!" Rawlings said.

He joked, "I don't know if people know who you are. No disrespect, Spike, but I asked a guy if he knew Spike Lee, and he said, "That's the little guy who plays for the New York Knicks."

That was hilarious.

[SaveUsKP6]

Just got back from the theatre. Django was better than any Spike Lee movie, hands down.