Spike Lee's second movie is some bizarre piece of auteurism masked as a college sex comedy set at an HBCU. It's got all the expected weird and wacky characters who get into college hijinx, but then there's a Broadway-style musical number in the middle, racial tension between light and dark skinned girls, and a strange tonal turn in the last five minutes where a girl (basically) gets raped and there's all these nonsensical angles and Laurence Fishburne yelling at the camera. I don't hesitate to call Spike Lee one of the three or four genius directors alive, but often, like Tarantino or PT Anderson he'll just make a movie that so abrasively bucks audience expectations that it's difficult to know what to make of it as a film. Also, I'm glad he stopped putting himself in his own movies because he is NOT A GOOD ACTOR.RATING: 63%
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I liked Do the Right Thing. Didn't see this one. Thought Malcolm X was boring and The 25th Hour was pretentious and boring. That's pretty much Internet John on Spike Lee.
malcolm in the middle (of the ghetto)
Frankie Muniz is half Puerto Rican, cracker.
that show is half a crappy show (the other half is crappy too)
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