Spike Lee's Chi-raq

Oldboy was terrible. Hope he made some good cash doing it though.

― scott seward, Thursday, December 3, 2015 9:58 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lee might have gotten a decent salary, but that movie made... no money at all. so nobody is getting points.

summer of sam is a brilliant terrible movie. i mean parts of it are such garbage and parts of it are such magic and they build to a whole that is giddy and electrifying and exasperating and nonsense.

Sounds like Lee in a nutshell. Even Malcolm X fits this description.

I liked the baba o'reily montage.

https://twitter.com/chancetherapper/status/672855914727260161
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https://twitter.com/chancetherapper/status/672867640742948864

http://www.thestranger.com/film/feature/2015/12/02/23212222/fuck-you-spike-lee

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CVaemKOUEAA445E.jpg:large

As I walked out of Chi-Raq and was asked for my first impression, I started with my usual response, "It was... interesting." But then I stopped and added, "And it was bad." Then I nodded my head a little more confidently, "Yes, it was very bad."

haha this is very relatable in terms of bad movies in general

it's exploitative and problematic

The "um, it's based on Lysistrata you morons"-splaining leveled at any criticism is getting sort of icky.

can't believe spike lee, via the release of this movie, literally is suggesting that women abstaining from sex will solve chicago's violence problems

3. When Spike Lee does do satire, he defines satire right at the front of the movie, so everybody knows it's satire.

sometimes i kinda wish tarantino and spike would make a movie together and get every cartoony stereotypical archetype out of their system. just an explosion of screaming baptist preachers and nazis and pimps.

make it happen, Samuel Jackson

(all roles played by Samuel Jackson, obviously)

that Stranger article is p. weird imo

man this is getting a theatrical release? i thought i was gonna be able to steam it today

i would love to catch this in a theater but i'd be shocked if it happens

If anything I sort of think Spike played his vampire card a movie early. I bet this subject would have made a good horror movie metaphor.

Just saw this in the theater. Crowd really into it.

very good reviews so far, i'll wait for amazon

Box office returns; I'll watch the trailer.

http://m.chicagoreader.com/chicago/spike-lee-chi-raq-rahm-emanuel-will-burns/Content?oid=20202638

has chance the rapper actually SEEN the film, before he makes sweeping statements about it. it does seem really over protective to be like 'oh if youre not FROM here, you have no right to make a film/talk about this'. the film might be exploitative and ignorant about the dynamics of the city, idk, but if every film in a particular setting had to be made by people from that place, not sure how many films there would be.

I'm assuming he did see it ? As he waited until after it was out to tweet about it

I'm not getting the impression that black people in Chicago have a problem with Spike not being a Chicago native. Rather that he, habitual maker of movies that approach black urban life with pathos nuance chose to make this movie.

Of course Spike Lee can do whatever he wants but if the satire isn't smart then it's farce, and if that was his intent from the jump then calling it Chi-raq was lazy and dumb.

Isn't Chiraq the name of a character in the film?

Stage name of the rapper played by Cannon.

Most detailed description I've come across; wouldn't mind seeing it, without great expectations:
http://www.npr.org/2015/12/04/458442385/spike-lee-pits-sex-against-guns-in-a-powerful-message-movie

It's a shambles and it doesn't all work but I'm a fan. Slow Jam dance might be one of my favourite musical moments in recent years (not a lot to choose from, granted).

http://www.chicagomag.com/arts-culture/December-2015/Chi-Raq-is-a-Wasted-Opportunity/

i was at a film critic bar gathering in NYC last night where a couple guys were raving about it

(one was also raving about Hateful Eight so the hell with him)

fuck people who like stuff

the jerks!

you got it

christ fuck ilx

"Christfuck ILX" = the collaborative ILX black metal album that needs recording

ooooooof this sucked

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/07/magazine/chi-raq-and-the-myth-of-chicago-gang-wars.html?mwrsm=Facebook

i still haven't seen it but fuck this movie

chris x...

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21305-chi-raq-ost/

i mean kris x...

as in kris ex...

i really need more coffee...

I might rent this, very low expectations. It seems like Spike wanted to make a specific polemic, and Chicago was just a convenient setting.

He should have just set it in Big Made-up City, USA.

But then he wouldn't have that title.

Good point. He should call all his movies Chi-raq and set them all in Chicago.

remember when john sayles made a big made-up city movie about the crumbling of the american dream? i do!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doa7vS0alxc

xp Well except for the ones in New York. Those he should call East of Chi-raq.

Should have called it "Crooklyn."

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