Last week: James Cameron

This week: Spike Lee

Writer, director, producer and actor Spike Lee, one of america's finest and most important filmmakers. A lot of his work explore racial and political issues, while simultaneously being intelligent and bearing Lee's signature style.

What does KTT think?

top 5. gets no credit for his influence. very underrated filmography

One of my goats. Do the right thing >>>>

Do The Right Thing one of my fav movies, s*** is f***ing perfect.

GOAT

The criterion box set of Do the right Thing

Need to see more of his stuff

elite director

25th Hour is one of my favourite movies, great director with so many classics.

mfs calling the man who made that s***ty oldboy remake “elite”

nigga so what
He still made do the right thing and Malcom x
Plenty of elite directors have misses

you mention two movies across a three decade career

he’s done good exploring the themes he’s focused on but miss me with him being anything other than mid

He’s not just done good work
He’s done masterful work multiple times
his mid movies don’t take away from his masterpieces
U can try but nothing will take away from the greatness spike lee has done did black film

She’s Gotta Have It
Mo Better Blues
Jungle Fever
Crooklyn
Get on the Bus
4 Little Girls (one of the more memorable documentaries I’ve seen, especially w regard to the way the camera captures the interviewees’ faces)
Bamboozled (one of the century’s best so far)

His 90s run is phenomenal

those are just my personal favorites… Clockers n Sun of Sam are cool too. And I don’t love 25th Hour like others (sorta weird bc it’s one of his most acclaimed but it’s not really my thing) but idk how anyone’s calling him mid if they’ve actually seen any of the above.

School Daze & Da Sweet Blood are my two least favs, but everything else I’ve seen has been at least alright… even the (I think) much maligned Girl 6 + She Hate Me. Spike has so many lowballed films that are actually good af when given the chance. He def could use a little more quality control, but still is talented enough to make sorta crappy s*** like Chiraq still interesting on some level. Most of his disappointing s*** is def post-Bamboozled (his last Great film arguably the best imo)

Why did you and Patrice O’Neal fall off?

this the dude who did all the skate vids music vids and where the wold things are correct

At his peak his films have/had a very distinct vibe I appreciate that

Imagine calling the man who gave us Do The Right Thing mid Mid filmmakers dont make that many great movies.

lynch made dune (havent seen but this always gets trashed) and is still a goat

Was kinda hoping this thread would do better. Same with the Cameron one from last week. The next couple of weeks i might try to chose less acclaimed but more divisive directors.