Posted on 01/20/2016 9:16:47 AM PST by rktman
The reason Spike Lee is beating the drum for this is that his latest $15m film is a box office disaster. In the theaters for 7 weeks, it has made only $2.6m, even though the critics loved it, with 81% at Rotten Tomatoes, the public does not, giving it a 56% rating. It is called “Chi-Raq”, and has nothing to do with the former French president.
(non-critic review)
“Racist Spike Lee still making movies even after doxxing an elderly couple out of their home. What a shame. This movie can ONLY be for racist blacks and white simps...
“The entire movie is about blaming whitie for black on black crime. EPIC FAIL IMO! Not once do they blame the actual murderers, not once do they blame the gangsters, not once do they blame illegal guns, but they spend plenty of time blaming whites. Ironically all the murderers are the heroes and the whites are the enemy. You don’t need to see the movie to predict this.”
I haven't watched the Oscars in more than forty years. I stopped after realizing how political most of the awards were.
This is basically a tempest in a teapot. Whether some picture or some actor wins an award for acting or making a movie is so small on the scale of world events it barely deserves noticing. Only tiny minds get upset about who wins an entertainment award.
And people wonder why Trump keeps on Winning:-) Don’t expect an apology from him for saying that either!-)
I can’t recall the last time I watched the Oscars.
The best movie I have seen in a long, long time was American Sniper. There was no better picture than that movie that year.
I still recall how I felt when the credits rolled. I could not move or speak. I was just stunned.
I think the only times I have even concurred with Oscar awards was for Braveheart and The Silence of the Lambs.
Those are among the best movies ever made, with Lambs being perhaps the most perfectly filmed and paced movies I have ever seen, with earth shattering performances by Hopkins and Foster. It’s untouchable, and it had best never be remade.
Many movie and other entertainment awards are given for political reasons. That plus the fact that I rarely watch modern movies are two huge reasons why I don't give a dog about the Oscars.
FWIW The last really good modern movie I saw was "Slumdog Millionaire."
Then just keep a black guy, any black guy off the streets, and give him an award.
“And the award for best black guy for being black goes to...”
And BET... Why can they say “Black” when the rest of the world trips over themselves to say “African-American?”
And another thing. I laughed my butt off when some stupid American reporter referred to African criminals in Europe as “African Americans” even though the were black African criminals.
Yup. Said this last week on the oscar boycott threads.
Meh, the all look alike to the urinalists.
Spike Lee was being interviewed, and stated he was going to boycott the Oscars, and attend a Miami Heat NBA game instead.
Too bad no one asked him why the Heat doesn't have a starting white player. I guess that would be racist..../s
I have to agree, Silence of the Lambs was a really good movie, I’m pretty sure I’ve almost worn out my VHS copy...the VCR broke a while back so I’m missing a lot of my favorites, including Hunt for Red October - another great one - Enemy of the State, all 3 Matrix movies, finally got them on DVD...
Anyway I digress...Trump pegs it again...I noticed long ago aside from BET, nobody has whined about not having any whites in all black shows on networks other than BET, but put together an all white show and they scream.
That’s what I like about Trump. He didn’t just rock the boat, he flipped it over and threw away the paddles.
Someone started a black rodeo a while back, can you imagine what would happen if someone organized a white rodeo?
I used a laundromat in Louisiana (town was 70% black) where they kept a TV going. We’re sitting there watching our clothes dry one night everybody getting along, and some black guy walks over and switches the TV to BET in the middle of a show. Some lady said “Hey we were watching that”...He started cussing her...instead of saying sorry and changing it back. I called the manager one night when a half dozen black kids were sitting there charging their cell phones, when she showed up to run them off she had to call the cops, they tried to start a fight. They hadn’t spent a penny there, not even in the candy machines, were loud and obnoxious, bothering everyone, I stepped in and told one jerk punk if he hit her I would make sure he crawled out the door...
The local police referred to the very large all black neighborhood on the south side of town as a war zone, shootings and stabbings literally every night, police were not allowed to go there alone, and had to wear bullet proof vests, they would talk to a guy with blood all over his pants and he had no idea who did the stabbing...didn’t see a thing...but they would scream about an all white neighborhood and demand they have the right to rent there...
And that’s just the beginning...I had problems with them several times, only narrowly avoided fights a couple of times. And oddly enough, the black cops who have pulled me over in the past 30 years have almost all been the nicest guys...one was a bit gruff, but not a thing racial about it, I think he was just having a rough night.
Who says only whites are racist?
Speaking of black cops, in the same area, very small town 5 miles away, I had a funny encounter. Went to my uncle’s house to give him a price list on lumber for a job we were starting. I knew the street had a 4 way stop sign, I stopped by habit, and noticed something was wrong...no stop sign in my direction...hmmm, that’s odd, kids playing a prank?
So on the way back I looked again, no stop sign on my street, signs in both directions on the cross street so I rolled through, and nodded at the cop stopped at the cross street. He pulled me over...the one on that corner, he told me., What stop sign, I asked again. By now he’s getting irritated. that corner is a 4 way stop, has been for years. i know, I told him, I’ve stopped there many times. (I’m getting out of my Jeep at this point) OK, so look over there and SHOW ME the stop sign...
He finally looked and got the oddest look on his face...what the hell happened to the stop sign? I told him that’s what I wanted to know, s he called the police chief. I didn’t tell him I was the guy who had recently remodeled the police station, I didn’t want him to think I was trying to get a favor...the police chief called back and told him the DOT had just decided to remove the signs in one direction, no 4 way was needed, and he forgot to tell the officer...
We ended up laughing about it, talked for a couple of minutes, and when I left (with no ticket) I told him don’t be pulling other people over fr running non existent stop signs...he just grinned...
I know I was taking my chances, but that could have been a serious confrontation, but he handled it really well, and I got a re4ally good laugh when I told the police chief about it later...Oh and he really liked his new office...
Ummmm...I could understand you running a stop sign when I’m not there but when I’m sitting there watching you??? I asked him what stop sign.
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