Okay, but those Directors are some of the greatest of all time. Are you saying his work is anywhere in that stratosphere? lol
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He has more nominations/wins than Francis Ford Coppola and more wins than David Lean. So if you are using that then they are in the same rarified air. 3 Oscar wins if you include his lifetime achievement. To denounce him as not a major director is very silly.
I suspect this is Democrat propaganda playing the "race" card again because race and abortion are all they can rely on to maintain their power.
Yeah, I don't include participation trophies like lifetime achievement Oscars. What film has he ever directed that actually made a bunch of money at the box office? No one goes to his movies, they're crap. School Daze, Summer of Sam. Awful.
Yes and they were excellent books. add a few stage directions and they write themselves.
If Box Office is the end all be all than Michael Bay and Marvel directors are at the top. You keep changing the goal post and to mention his movies and leave out Do The Right Thing, Malcolm X, Black Klansman, 25th Hour, and Inside Man is very disingenuous. I don't care for the work of Brian De Palma but I would never say he isn't a major director.
It's a lot more than that. You clearly don't work in the industry.
But Spike Lee has had 3 films on AFI's top 100 list while neither of those films are listed. And by your own marker of box office. 9 Spike Lee films have out grossed police academy? Not sure what you are judging this besides skin color at this point.
I was being cynical. Quit being so defensive. Spike Lee is a hack. You promote him as though he's Clint Eastwood or Stephen Spielberg.
Spike Lee is an unrepentant racist and most of his films reflect that.
Do The Right Thing.
Italian guy doesn't want to put pictures of famous black people up in HIS pizzeria. So they harass him and burn his store down. Spike truly believes that Sal is the bad guy. The disconnect from reality is unreal.
You're seriously comparing him to COPPOLA?
C'mon, man.
Do The Right Thing.
Italian guy doesn't want to put pictures of famous black people up in HIS pizzeria. So they harass him and burn his store down. Spike truly believes that Sal is the bad guy. The disconnect from reality is unreal.
You're seriously comparing him to COPPOLA?
C'mon, man.
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I guess all the Colon Krap lovers gave up defending the POS garbage quarterback he truly was and still is
So easily distracted in shiny objects and diversions. Oh look, a squirrel! And in other breaking news, reality star Kim Kardashian is worth a billion dollars too. Sad what "entertainment" has become.
Yeah, I heard someone say the UF QB reminded them of Kap. I said: why, does he kneel during the NA?
The most recent AFI list has Eastwood's Unforgiven at number 68, and Lee's Do The Right Thing at number 96. You want to try that again?
www.afi.com
AFI’S 100 YEARS…100 MOVIES — 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies – 10th Anniversary Edition is an updated edition to AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies, a list of the top 100 greatest American films of all time. Honoring the 10th anniversary of this award-winning series, a jury of 1,500 film artists, critics and historians determined...
The hundred year list is not the most recent. But the original. Nice try though.The most recent AFI list has Eastwood's Unforgiven at number 68, and Lee's Do The Right Thing at number 96. You want to try that again?
AFI’S 100 YEARS…100 MOVIES — 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies – 10th Anniversary Edition is an updated edition to AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies, a list of the top 100 greatest American films of all time. Honoring the 10th anniversary of this award-winning series, a jury of 1,500 film artists, critics and historians determined...
Like a fat catfish laying on the bottom waiting for something to choke down.So easily distracted in shiny objects and diversions. Oh look, a squirrel! And in other breaking news, reality star Kim Kardashian is worth a billion dollars too. Sad what "entertainment" has become.
Ok, link me to the 2021 list, because this is the list that came up on my searches.
Is that anything like, best soccer mom 12 and under?
Horseshit. Nominations don't count. Coppola has 11 academy awards, 12 if you count best musical score for Apocalypse Now, which I don't because he didn't write the score.
Spike Lee has 2, 3 if you count his honorary academy award, which I don't because it's a participation trophy.
Produce this list. I just looked at 100 most inspiring films, 100 years tenth anniversary and top ten of ten. Do the right thing is number 96 on the 100 years tenth anniversary list and nowhere to be found on the other two.
That guy fell into such a slumber watching a Spike Lee film that he never woke up.
This will be the scene in @RayGravesGhost basement when he meets his maker. Someone wondering why he wasn't signing for his shipment of love dolls will stumble across his skeletal remains.
Too well done to be a spike Lee production.
Where is the @RayGravesGhost "little dickey"? Ran for the hills, the heat in this kitchen is scalding.
i was in NY the summer they started and would frequently run into the VJs at night at the clubs. They were a cool and thankful bunch, except for arrogant pixie Martha Quinn, who had a laughably inflated opinion of herself ...😂
I remember when I graduated from college, rented my first digs, my cable company had MTV in the lineup. Unless it was the weekend and sports were on, my channel selector stayed on MTV. My how the mighty have fallen.
Not sure if it a chicken or egg thing, did MTV leave the music genre or did good music just cease to exist? I think it's a legitimate question.
