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how many movies in here+macho crap


First of all I admire Spike Lee and I think 25th hour was an intense and FOCUSED story that had a really well thought cathartic way of dysplaying New York in a story about seeking redemption. Focused was definetly something She Hate Me was not.

Let me describe it to you in some Annoying Facts (AF'S).

AF #1.The exagerated lenght of the movie is a symptom of its main problem:there are actually 3 movies in here and if I had a video editing thingie it would be fun to:assemble the movie about corporate greed and whistleblowing\scapegoating and racial quotas in corporate america;assemble the romantic comedy about a macho that is too proud to ask his mother for help and then goes on to become a sexual object, finding the pleasures of parenthood in the end, and an unexpected protector of women's\gays rights;and the social mockumentary (that is so plat du jour) with the watergate sketch and Bush's 3 dollar bill impersonation. While these probably wouldn't make GREAT movies they would probably make a lot more sense and be more effective in their intentions...

AF #2.What is the Mob doing in this movie? Did John Turturro think his Brando stuff was that funny? Please post me a sugestion on how this would make sense in this or in another movie in a movie. Please.

AF #3.The dialog being pathetic at times isn't it really much more ridiculous when someone is having an emotional outburst and the director decides to put some jolly sax music giggling in the backround for almost the entire movie?
Honestly thank god I saw it subtitled (am not from an english speaking country) because at 30' I stuck popcorn in my ears.

AF #4 Ah finally the most annoying of them all,but on this one the public at the movies went with spike. WHY IS THAT IF IT WAS A WOMAN PROSTITUING HERSELF FOR MONEY IT WOULD BE SAD BUT WHEN IT IS A GUY that is A "MAN-HO" IT IS SUDDENLY FUNNY??? I thought it was outrageous but a useful demonstration of hypocrites everywhere :apparently abuse is fun except for the "weak" sex (the poor defenseless women). Oh but wait there's more: IMAGINE THAT YOU'RE NOT GAY (assuming that the majority of imdb's are not)and that in order to have a kid you have to have gay intercourse, wouldn't that be a denial of what you are and something really painful to do? Well in the mind of Spike apparently not because all it takes is a REAL man to show them the lights and even give em pleasure (????)- like someone said before does the director really believe a woman can really be gay??Is this all ofensive (annoying at least)???

I SURE THINK SO



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