What's up with the rating?
I thought it was a great. I mean it was a little long, but it was really good and funny.
shareI agree. I saw it and enjoyed the film. Richarf roeper gave it 3 and a half stars.
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MovieChat Forums > Chi-Raq (2016) Discussion > What's up with the rating?
People who hate Spike Lee tend to come in here and just give his movies low ratings just to drive them down. There are people with literally nothing better to do than to complain about a movie that they haven't actually seen because they don't like the director.
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And I assume you have the power to read minds to make such an assumption? What actual "REAL WORLD" basis do you have to make such a laughable comment? LOL
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I enjoyed it too.
Reviewed the movie right here- https://youtu.be/m8kk3hlq5CE
Going for a youtube channel that both gives people a good idea of the movie and entertains as well so hope you like it.
I love spike Lee movies crooklynn and do the right thing being my favorites but I didn't care for this movie at all.
shareYou forgot Clockers, his best movie.
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I did forget clockers *beep*. That was his best movie. Back on task tho I didn't hate this movie but its faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar and away from his best.
shareI just saw ChiRaq I absolutely hated it, a musical comedy, my two least favorite genres..
Again Clockers is my fav movie, mainly I like serious movies, ChiRaq was horrible did they have to rap all their lines.. Is that a good idea? even if there was a movie about KRS-1 or Rakim rapping for 2hrs it would get boring, and I'm supposed to be patient with Nick Cannon??
Spike Lee is the numbered 1 hated black director among racists. He gets an automatic one from mad racists.
shareWaaah, waaah, waaaah....stooopid waisist, stuuupid.
shareSpike Lee is the numbered 1 hated black director among racists. He gets an automatic one from mad racists.
Racists love Spike Lee, of course they are racist black people, but hey, black racism is acceptable huh?
He makes crap movies and misguided liberal whites throw him money to prove how not racist they are. He is a terrible director and he always looks sleepy.
You hate Congress but every election you re-elect YOUR "guy" and wonder why things never change! share
Movie was terrible. I am a huge Spike Lee fan to, love some of his older stuff.
But this movie, Da Sweet Blood, St Anna, Old Boy remake and Red Hook Summer have been terrible.
Loved Do The Right Thing, Malcolm X, Crooklyn, Clockers, He Got Game, Summer Of Sam and 25th Hour, but he has fallen way off lately. He had a great chance here to do a movie about what is going on in chicago, but failed horrible. Besides some nice camera work the movie does nothing for me. Imagine if he did a movie about Chicago with the same style as Clockerz? With a gritty feel to it, would be awesome. What is going on in Chicago is not funny or comedy at all, this movie was a missed chance for Spike imo.
Decent camera work and some good acting does not make this a good movie. Expected more from Spike... then again, the last handful of his movies I have seen I havn't enjoyed nearly as much as his older ones (Oldboy, Da Sweet Blood, St Anna, Chi-raq And Red Hook Summer I couldn't stand.
Is it a 1/10 like some are giving it on imdb? No, but it is not a movie I would watch again or give above a 5.5/10 or 6/10.
I really wanted this movie and the Oldboy remake to be awesome, I went in with positive thoughts, came out dissapointed in both.
After having had time to process it, I have come to agree that the movie, as a whole, is a mess. A somewhat interesting mess, but still ... a mess. Lee seems lazy as a writer. He throws a lot of (very) well photographed stuff at the audience, without any real vision, and pretends it is profound. Cartoonishly silly scenes jarringly cut to scenes when we hear a melodramatic pluck on a piano and see a weeping Jennifer Hudson. What are we the audience suppose to make of this? Why does the scene with the mayor squealing like the character from Deliverance cut to more melodramatic piano music and images of victims of gun violence?
I also think the laziness shows in terms of the general adaptation of the play. It seems like too much time was spent making sure words rhymed, as opposed to making sure the characters had any actual character. The entire sex strike plot, in the end, seems like a toss off. The final 'sex battle royale' provided zero catharsis and lands with a thud. And I really wanted to not view the Angela
Bassett character cynically, but ... I mean ... come on Spike. She is nothing but a one dimensional stereotype.
Moreover, I kept wanting to give the film passes and to generally like it, but Lee just doesn't pull it off.
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After having had time to process it, I have come to agree that the movie, as a whole, is a mess. A somewhat interesting mess, but still ... a mess. Lee seems lazy as a writer. He throws a lot of (very) well photographed stuff at the audience, without any real vision, and pretends it is profound. Cartoonishly silly scenes jarringly cut to scenes when we hear a melodramatic pluck on a piano and see a weeping Jennifer Hudson. What are we the audience suppose to make of this? Why does the scene with the mayor squealing like the character from Deliverance cut to more melodramatic piano music and images of victims of gun violence?
I also think the laziness shows in terms of the general adaptation of the play. It seems like too much time was spent making sure words rhymed, as opposed to making sure the characters had any actual character. The entire sex strike plot, in the end, seems like a toss off. The final 'sex battle royale' provided zero catharsis and lands with a thud. And I really wanted to not view the Angela
Bassett character cynically, but ... I mean ... come on Spike. She is nothing but a one dimensional stereotype.
Moreover, I kept wanting to give the film passes and to generally like it, but Lee just doesn't pull it off.
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I like all the same movies that you liked (except I'd add "Bamboozled" in there) and disliked the same ones you disliked but I part ways with you on Chi-Raq. In short, I loved it and thought it was one of Lee's best movies in ages and returned him back to his audacious form.
The tackling of a very real issue and leaving no one blameless; the patter and rhyme and verse, part Shakespeare, part Tupac; Samuel L Jackson's comic relief narrator with occasional accompaniment by a Greek chorus; the vibrant color scheme dividing the Spartans from the Trojans;The fact that John Cusack and DB Sweeney were back in the same movie together for the first time since Eight Men Out.
And Nick Cannon was far better than he's ever been...well, ever.
There wasn't too much in this movie that didn't work for me. I found it a glorious pastiche of styles and sentiment yet all depicted in that recognizable Spike Lee aesthetic.
I'm glad Amazon Studios produced this -- I hope more people get a chance to see it.
I agree with you, katalist420. This movie is awful.
shareSpike disrupts the white suburban image of America. Plus hipster kids just don't get what spike has to say because it doesn't involve posh coffee shops and gossiping over who has more money.
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