Okay people we need to talk about Spike Lee's movies of the last 10 years...edit HIGHEST 2 LOWEST another miss???

[geechiedan]

Spike's worked steadily over the years but mostly as a documentarian more than a feature filmmaker. But when he has done movies its been mostly misses than hits...

2016 Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall (Documentary)
2015 Kevon Carter: We Gotta Do Better (Video short)
2015 Chi-Raq - $2,653,032
2015 NBA 2K16 (Video Game)
2015 Livin' Da Dream (Video Game)
2015 Spike Lee's Lil Joints (TV Mini-Series documentary) (1 episode)
- Ray Allen/AKA- Jesus Shuttlesworth (2015)
2014 Mo'ne Davis: I Throw Like a Girl (Documentary short)
2014 Jerrod Carmichael: Love at the Store (TV Special documentary)
2014 Katt Williams: Priceless: Afterlife (TV Special)
2014 Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (no B.O. info)
2014 Amex Unstaged Pharrell Williams Live at the Apollo (Video)
2013 Oldboy - $4,861,022
2012 Bad 25 (Documentary)
2012 Red Hook Summer $338,803
2011 Da Brick (TV Movie)
2010 If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise (TV Series documentary)
2009 Passing Strange
2009 Kobe Doin' Work (TV Movie documentary)
1998-2009 Great Performances (TV Series) (2 episodes)
- Passing Strange (2009)
- Pavarotti & Friends for the Children of Liberia (1998)
2008 Miracle at St. Anna - Worldwide: $9,323,833
2007 Lovers & Haters (Short)
2007 M.O.N.Y. (TV Movie)
2006 Shark
2006 When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (TV Mini-Series documentary)
2006 Inside Man - Worldwide $185,677,523

His only true hit and most profitable film in the last decade was Inside Man in 2006. Since then Miracle at St. Anna was middling in critic and audience reception, Passing Strange was overlooked, Red Hook Summer a disappointing flop, Oldboy given no studio push and came and went almost unnoticed, Da Sweet Blood of Jesus disregarded (the Kick-Starter campaign got more attention) and the latest Chi-raq flopping hard.

And it's the last film that sparks this discussion Chi-raq not only failed box office wise but drew a backlash from Lee's core audience, Black people. When you start losing your primary support base its time to reflect and look at where things ran off the rails. Spike's never been a huge office blockbuster type filmmaker and I don't think that's something he really cares about too much. Where Spike shined and his strongest suit was his outspokenness and ability to make a point with his films particularly in the socio-political realm. Do The Right Thing and Malcolm X, his two most important and popular films, illustrate this perfectly.

Even when he's just having fun with stories like Mo' Better Blues, He Got Game, 25th Hour and Inside Man, you know, just straight up matinee movie stuff, Spike was at the very least entertaining. But the last four of his films weren't just swings and misses, they really weren't that entertaining either, at least that's the general consensus. So lets talk about where how an important filmmaker could fall off so hard?

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[dHustla]

22 of these I ain't never heard of.... and I like Spike junts.

She Hate Me
25th Hour
Inside Man
GOD Willing and the Creek don't rise
When the levees broke

 

[World B Free]

Last 15 years Spike Lee has been a Professor at NYU, & now he's the Creative Director there........; Can't knock this man's Last Hustle in Brooklyn....

 

[CoTtOnMoUf]

You're probably the only poster that immediately 5 stars his own threads.

What's with that?

 

[tallblacknyc]

old boy was cool , so was inside man, and his katrina documentary..haven't seen anything else on that list

 

[Dr. Truth]

Chiraq is top 5 worst movies I've ever seen.

 

[ViCiouS]

You're probably the only poster that immediately 5 stars his own threads.

What's with that?

@geechiedan needs to earn em... stars are shit if you give em to ya self


this article is bullshit, a better article would be a breakdown of how the studios have pushed him and other film makers out and with their monopolies on distribution have sabotaged and blocked commercial work for the last decade

 

[tallblacknyc]

Chiraq is top 5 worst movies I've ever seen.

wowwwwwwwwww...if u saw the last 3 transformers, at least 1 of the paranormal activities, and at least 1 of the blair witch projects and still say that i'd kill myself as a director cause i have truly failed humanity

 

[World B Free]

@geechiedan needs to earn em... stars are shit if you give em to ya self


this article is bullshit, a better article would be a breakdown of how the studios have pushed him and other film makers out and with their monopolies on distribution have sabotaged and blocked commercial work for the last decade

Preach!!!....that's the real shit going on!

 

[ViCiouS]

old boy was cool , so was inside man, and his katrina documentary..haven't seen anything else on that list

Miracle @ StAnna is also very good

 

[Dr. Truth]

wowwwwwwwwww...if u saw the last 3 transformers, at least 1 of the paranormal activities, and at least 1 of the blair witch projects and still say that i'd kill myself as a director cause i have truly failed humanity

I walked out of Transformers 2 so that's 1. Shanghai Nights 2. Lady in the water 3. Leprechaun in the hood 4. Chiraq 5.

 

[tallblacknyc]

Miracle @ StAnna is also thorough

i heard everybody say that..i juss for whatever reason not got around to watch it..the few times i could've watched it the movie was already 15 or more mins in i hate watching movies i never seen b4 not from the start

 

[tallblacknyc]

I walked out of Transformers 2 so that's 1. Shanghai Nights 2. Lady in the water 3. Leprechaun in the hood 4. Chiraq 5.

lol come on man there's gotta be more movies that was worst than that, that u have seen in ur life(i haven't seen it yet)..how bout iron man 2 or 3..blair witch, the ring, i know what you did last summer 2

 

[ViCiouS]

i heard everybody say that..i juss for whatever reason not got around to watch it..the few times i could've watched it the movie was already 15 or more mins in i hate watching movies i never seen b4 not from the start

man... they suppressed that movie like they did Red Tails for the same reasons

 

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[Helico-pterFunk]

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[Dr. Truth]

lol come on man there's gotta be more movies that was worst than that, that u have seen in ur life(i haven't seen it yet)..how bout iron man 2 or 3..blair witch, the ring, i know what you did last summer 2

Man the Ring is one of my favorite movies. Cmon now Black!!!! Cmon Son!!!! I've never seen Blair Witch. Ironman was action packed I enjoyed it. I know what you did last summer 2 I didn't watch that .

 

[xfactor]

You're probably the only poster that immediately 5 stars his own threads.

What's with that?

Geechiedan is one of the worst posters in BGOL history and never deserves higher than 1 star for his threads.

 

[durham]

All Spikes documentaries are A+ efforts.

4 little Girls--if this does not hit your soul, your dead inside,

The new Mike Jackson Off the Wall was dope, Bad 25- excellent,

Creek Rise...was the best effort on Katrina PERIOD,

and even the Kobe Muse was good.


St anna, and inside man are his best movies in this period. 25th Hour was Excellent!!!

His total filmography is awesome, quite a few misses though-chirac was garbage. Major props for that freckled chick naked though

 

[tallblacknyc]

man... they suppressed that movie like they did Red Tails for the same reasons

truth be told i never seen redtails or never had plan to..i seen the og tuskegee airmen movie hbo made that shit looked better juss off the previews alone...when ur trailer sucks or dosen't grab me that usually means ur movie is garbage or not that great..redtails preview looked crazy half ass..truth be told i always looked at it as some type of experiment by lucas to make a half ass movie and try to put a guilt trip on the black consumer to pay to see it..i'm like this is the nig that made star fucking wars and this dude couldn't make a decent trailer with modern tech i see where this is goin..than when it didn't get the support people were hoping for they tried to blame the black consumer for not supporting it and threw that u see that's why hollywood don't make a lot of black films crap( u see experiment)..i kno a lot of people that saw it said it was a 1 and done or it was okkkk..no real oh man that shit was fire juss ehhh it was aite or from most that seen both redtails and the og hbo flick most said they prefer the og flick

this plane trailer was better... it had da music and it had dat oh shitttttttttttt something bout to get fucked up...

this nig lucas threw some cheesy as techno music to his

 

[ViCiouS]

truth be told i never seen redtails or never had plan to..i seen the og tuskegee airmen movie hbo made that shit looked better juss off the previews alone...when ur trailer sucks or dosen't grab me that usually means ur movie is garbage or not that great..redtails preview looked crazy half ass..truth be told i always looked at it as some type of experiment by lucas to make a half ass movie and try to put a guilt trip on the black consumer to pay to see it..i'm like this is the nig that made star fucking wars and this dude couldn't make a decent trailer with modern tech i see where this is goin..than when it didn't get the support people were hoping for they tried to blame the black consumer for not supporting it and threw that u see that's why hollywood don't make a lot of black films crap( u see experiment)..i kno a lot of people that saw it said it was a 1 and done or it was okkkk..no real oh man that shit was fire juss ehhh it was aite or from most that seen both redtails and the og hbo flick most said they prefer the og flick

this plane trailer was better... it had da music and it had dat oh shitttttttttttt something bout to get fucked up...

this nig lucas threw some cheesy as techno music to his

Red Tails was supposed to be a John Wayne flik for black people...
his heart was in the right place... its a no white savior film / with black men saving white people
in WW2 and doing a better job of it too -so Fox shitted on the movie release
Miracle @St Anna is a better flick but all the heros and the key savior role were brown faces... saving innocent white villagers caught up in WW2
Hollywood has a only white heroes allowed rule especially concerning the "good war" of WW2

 

[tallblacknyc]

Man the Ring is one of my favorite movies. Cmon now Black!!!! Cmon Son!!!! I've never seen Blair Witch. Ironman was action packed I enjoyed it. I know what you did last summer 2 I didn't watch that .

oh god u liked the ring..a horse dying, a man kills himself in the bath tub, 2 people get the pale face zombie look... man i hated that movie..i was like this is what's considered scary..it wasn't as overhyped as blair witch project but it was up there..after seeing both those failures i damn near threw in the towel for the modern day so called horror genre

 

[Dr. Truth]

oh god u liked the ring..a horse dying, a man kills himself in the bath tub, 2 people get the pale face zombie look... man i hated that movie..i was like this is what's considered scary..it wasn't as overhyped as blair witch project but it was up there..after seeing both those failures i damn near threw in the towel for the modern day so called horror genre

The ring is the scariest movie of all time. I couldn't sleep for a week because of that shit.

 

[tallblacknyc]

Red Tails was supposed to be a John Wayne flik for black people...
his heart was in the right place... its a no white savior film / with black men saving white people
in WW2 and doing a better job of it too -so Fox shitted on the movie release
Miracle @St Anna is a better flick but all the heros and the key savior role were brown faces... saving innocent white villagers caught up in WW2
Hollywood has a only white heroes allowed rule especially concerning the "good war" of WW2

idk man hollywood put more energy into making great trailers than actual good movies now a day and when u even fail at making a great trailer that says a lot to me..that was his charity project like here u go nigs don't say i never did nothing for ya..he put sardines in a dog bowl and try to call it a 5 star meal

 

[tallblacknyc]

The ring is the scariest movie of all time. I couldn't sleep for a week because of that shit.

wowwwwwwwwwwwwww..smh...hell fucking noooo... mr ed jumps off a boat... lil molested kid watching tv with fuzz... some corny wet bitch crawls out the tv..my god that movie sucked

 

[Dr. Truth]

wowwwwwwwwwwwwww..smh...hell fucking noooo

Name a movie scarier. I talked to my boy after he saw it. That nigga got a hotel in mid town after the screening because he needed to be around more people.

 

[tallblacknyc]

Name a movie scarier. I talked to my boy after he saw it. That nigga got a hotel in mid town after the screening because he needed to be around more people.

shit watch cujo at like the age of 4 at like 2am in the morning in somebody else crib..than go outside and the first thing u see is a group of puerto rican dudes dog fighting in bk..yeah tell me u wouldn't be scared shitless..that's my first cujo watching experience..rabies is real and so are killer dogs

 

[Dr. Truth]

shit watch cujo at like the age of 4 at like 2am in the morning in somebody else crib..than go outside and the first thing u see is a group of puerto rican dudes dog fighting in bk..yeah tell me u wouldn't be scared shitless..that's my first cujo watching experience

That's a dog though. I'd shoot a dog in the face. You can't shoot that bitch coming out the TV.

 

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[tallblacknyc]

That's a dog though. I'd shoot a dog in the face. You can't shoot that bitch coming out the TV.

at the age of 4 a glock is the size of a fucking uzi to u...i said dog fighting which meant it was a shitload of dogs out there

 

[tallblacknyc]

4 yr old version of tallblack: fuck that dog, fuck that movie, fuck puerto rican dogfighters, fuck brooklyn in the am hours

u see how that cac kid is holding on to his mom for dear life in that gif..that was me in bk with my moms screaming like a bitch when i saw all them fucking dogs screaming take me home

 

[Helico-pterFunk]

 

[Dr. Truth]

at the age of 4 a glock is the size of a fucking uzi to u...i said dog fighting which meant it was a shitload of dogs out there

Why you watching Kujo at 4? That's child abuse.

 

[geechiedan]

You're probably the only poster that immediately 5 stars his own threads.

What's with that?

cuz I like me and the shit I do ..don't hate me for having self esteem..

@geechiedan needs to earn em... stars are shit if you give em to ya self


this article is bullshit, a better article would be a breakdown of how the studios have pushed him and other film makers out and with their monopolies on distribution have sabotaged and blocked commercial work for the last decade

the star thing is something you need to address HNIC about if it bothers you so much..
as far as spikes output..that man has done well over 30 movies..most of which haven't made that much of profit..and he still can make movies..its just that they aren't connecting like that used to..either he lost a step or the public lost interest..one or the other..