Spike Lee's acting


Really took me out of the film. He really drags down the fiom's great ensemble.

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He is a terrible actor, isn't he? Why he casts himself is beyond me.

He was pretty awful in "She's Gotta Have It", too.

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Rewatching Malcolm X recently, it struck me how bad Lee's performance was in the supposedly comic early scenes. It wouldn't be so bad if the film rushed through Malcolm's questionable past and got to his religious conversion quickly, but Lee spends an entire HOUR devoted to Malcolm's early years with a prominent role for Lee himself that is dropped entirely in the film's second half.

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yep! atrocious performance. this guy is clearly not an actor. i really wished throughout the film that someone would just punch him right in the face.

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I think he was fine

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His performance is my biggest problem with the movie.

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I'm glad he stop putting himself in his films, his acting is very stiff. He shouldn't have cast himself as the central character, a better actor could have gave Mookie emotional depth, instead of the one dimensional comic relief Spikes take on the character conveyed, that could have took this film to an entirely different level. Casting himself in such an important role is probably the only misstep of this film.

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They should have cast Denzel.

Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life!

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I didn’t think he was too bad in this, it was more distracting in Mo’ Better Blues, because that role was more layered than Mookie and required a real actor to pull it off, especially when you have Denzel and Snipes giving great performances and then Lee in a prominent role alongside them he stuck out like a sore thumb.

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It’s the same mistake that M Night S makes. They want to be another Hitchcock. However, Hitchcock had the sense to know he was too recognizable, and not a good actor, to be cast. These guys want to imitate his cameo appearances. They don’t have the sense to appear briefly in the background, like he did.

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