Clint Eastwood 1, Spike Lee 0

[CPA]

Originally posted by: Born2bwire

Originally posted by: QED

Originally posted by: Locut0s
Wow lota hate for spike lee here. Leaving the current topic of the link aside I've never liked anything Clint Eastwood ever directed. He may be a legend but he's highly overrated as far as I'm concerned. Seems everything he touches turns to scar gold and gets %90+ on rottentomatoes. I've read several well regarded negative reviews of his movies that swim against the Hollywood suck up tide though that agree many of his movies just plain stink. On the other hand I know for a fact that Spike Lee has done some genuinely artistic film making in his day. Not sure if he's made anything in the past 10+ years that's good though.

If by "artistic" you mean "crappy", then I will agree, Spike Lee has done some genuinely artistic film making in his day.

Seriously, what movie of Spike Lee's can hold a candle to Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby"?

Or Unforgiven?

or The Bridges of Madison County

 

[Inspector Jihad]

nobody has been around to pwn spike since reggie retired. good for clint.

 

[alkemyst]

As someone married to a Japanese woman I am pissed Clint didn't portray any Japanese Marines raising that flag. Only an ignorant bastard would say there couldn't be any Japanese people in Iwo Jima.

 

[Ackmed]

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon

Originally posted by: Ackmed
He did use an Indian, like what happened in real life.

Also, the article in the link is wrong. The article calls the men who raised the Flag, soldiers. They were Marines, and one Corpsman. Marines are not soldiers, thats the army.

"Flags of Our Fathers" deals with the U.S. soldiers who raised the flag while "Letters from Iwo Jima" looks at the battle from the Japanese point of view.

The article writer, and Lee are both ignorant to the fact, that Marines, are not soldiers.

the military may make that distinction, but i guarantee you the civilian population, who handily outnumber you, does not 😛

It doesnt matter if they do or not. The fact is, we are not the same, and calling us soldier is wrong. There are many differences between us.

 

[buck]

Originally posted by: dennilfloss
He got served. 😎

:laugh:

 

[IEC]

A large black and white poster of Clint Eastwood is on my wall.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: QED

Originally posted by: TallBill

Originally posted by: Sentrosi2121
The first smart thing that comes out of Spike Lee's piehole will be the first.

*puzzled*

Maybe he meant to say "The next smart thing that comes out of Spike Lee's piehole will be the first."?

Do you think that "Sentrosi" is Spike Lee's AT Avatar?

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: Locut0s
Wow lota hate for spike lee here. Leaving the current topic of the link aside I've never liked anything Clint Eastwood ever directed. He may be a legend but he's highly overrated as far as I'm concerned. Seems everything he touches turns to scar gold and gets %90+ on rottentomatoes. I've read several well regarded negative reviews of his movies that swim against the Hollywood suck up tide though that agree many of his movies just plain stink. On the other hand I know for a fact that Spike Lee has done some genuinely artistic film making in his day. Not sure if he's made anything in the past 10+ years that's good though.

"Unforgiven" is perhaps the greatest film to come out of the US since it's release. Eastwood is a fantastic director. Everything else he has done is quite good, solid, or at least watchable. To call him overrated is pretty damn naive.

Spike Lee does do some good film work, too....but I find a lot of his stuff somewhat tacky.

 

[zinfamous]

....Edited

"The Man" after me again 🙁

bad timing..I suppose 😛

 

[LegendKiller]

Spike Lee is so racist.

 

[alkemyst]

wherever you enlist, whatever your rank, whoever you are, whenever you joined...to the masses you are just a soldier.

I respect the marines, but they get labeled as the 'retards' of the military often as bravery is far less on the totem than profit.

a typical joke would be: They are called Marines, because they can blow a floater out their ass at any moment.

 

[buck]

Originally posted by: Locut0s
Wow lota hate for spike lee here. Leaving the current topic of the link aside I've never liked anything Clint Eastwood ever directed. He may be a legend but he's highly overrated as far as I'm concerned. Seems everything he touches turns to scar gold and gets %90+ on rottentomatoes. I've read several well regarded negative reviews of his movies that swim against the Hollywood suck up tide though that agree many of his movies just plain stink. On the other hand I know for a fact that Spike Lee has done some genuinely artistic film making in his day. Not sure if he's made anything in the past 10+ years that's good though.

You obviously are in the minority on your opinion of Clint Eastwood.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: buck

Originally posted by: Locut0s
Wow lota hate for spike lee here. Leaving the current topic of the link aside I've never liked anything Clint Eastwood ever directed. He may be a legend but he's highly overrated as far as I'm concerned. Seems everything he touches turns to scar gold and gets %90+ on rottentomatoes. I've read several well regarded negative reviews of his movies that swim against the Hollywood suck up tide though that agree many of his movies just plain stink. On the other hand I know for a fact that Spike Lee has done some genuinely artistic film making in his day. Not sure if he's made anything in the past 10+ years that's good though.

You obviously are in the minority on your opinion of Clint Eastwood.

Leave him be, his 'rents left him alone for 3 weeks on a planned vacation and he didn't line up poontang prior to that.

Even a 30 year old virgin needs love.

 

[Kaiser__Sose]

Originally posted by: thesurge
malcolm x> million dollar baby

QFT.

Malcolm X is better than any Eastwood film I've seen.

 

[XMan]

Originally posted by: Kaiser__Sose

Originally posted by: thesurge
malcolm x> million dollar baby

QFT.

Malcolm X is better than any Eastwood film I've seen.

Denzel FTW there. I don't know how much credit you can give to Spike.

 

[Ackmed]

Originally posted by: Kaiser__Sose

Originally posted by: thesurge
malcolm x> million dollar baby

QFT.

Malcolm X is better than any Eastwood film I've seen.

*looks at avatar*

Of course you think so...

 

[gamepad]

Why doesn't he complain about other minorities in these films. Should it only be black and white people? Does he think people of Hispanic or Asian descent should be left out?

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Spike Lee is a racist, POS.

And an idiot.

 

[IGBT]

Originally posted by: LegendKiller
Spike Lee is so racist.

..he's made a tidy living off the race rackets. Just like the megaphone maniacs sharpton and jackson.

 

[brandonbull]

Originally posted by: QED

Originally posted by: TallBill

Originally posted by: Sentrosi2121
The first smart thing that comes out of Spike Lee's piehole will be the first.

*puzzled*

Maybe he meant to say "The next smart thing that comes out of Spike Lee's piehole will be the first."?

"The next smart thing that comes out of Spike Lee's piehole will be the next."?

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: brandonbull

Originally posted by: QED

Originally posted by: TallBill

Originally posted by: Sentrosi2121
The first smart thing that comes out of Spike Lee's piehole will be the first.

*puzzled*

Maybe he meant to say "The next smart thing that comes out of Spike Lee's piehole will be the first."?

"The next smart thing that comes out of Spike Lee's piehole will be the next."?

"The last smart thing that comes out of Spike Lee's piehole will be his first." ? 😕
I don't really know what that might mean. 😛

+

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: Locut0s

Originally posted by: QED

Originally posted by: Locut0s
Wow lota hate for spike lee here. Leaving the current topic of the link aside I've never liked anything Clint Eastwood ever directed. He may be a legend but he's highly overrated as far as I'm concerned. Seems everything he touches turns to scar gold and gets %90+ on rottentomatoes. I've read several well regarded negative reviews of his movies that swim against the Hollywood suck up tide though that agree many of his movies just plain stink. On the other hand I know for a fact that Spike Lee has done some genuinely artistic film making in his day. Not sure if he's made anything in the past 10+ years that's good though.

If by "artistic" you mean "crappy", then I will agree, Spike Lee has done some genuinely artistic film making in his day.

Seriously, what movie of Spike Lee's can hold a candle to Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby"?

Arranged by Rotten reviews most of these sum up my thought on Million Dollar Baby:

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/...ame_order=asc&view=#mo

I don't claim that Spike Lee is any master film maker I just dislike Clint Eastwood more. If you want a good film of Lee's there's Do the Right thing.

That movie was so gratuitously ghetto. He tried too hard.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: Ronstang
Spike Lee is a also delusional if he thinks that African Americans have been ignored in movies about WWII. There are not a lot because their involvement was rather limited due to the segregation but even in 1952 they made a film about their contribution called Red Ball Express.

Oh come on!

Everyone knows that political correctness is more important than factuality or historical correctness.

Spike Lee needs to make a movie telling it how it really was- a heroic team of black men battled their way past the Japanese and Germans who were on the island and were able to raise the flag to proudly display the 50 stars and stripes. Afterwards the most famous black general, Abraham Lincoln, gives them the medal of honor in a highly publicized ceremony on the deck of the USS Arizona.

 

[foghorn67]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Oh come on!

Everyone knows that political correctness is more important than factuality or historical correctness.

Spike Lee needs to make a movie telling it how it really was- a heroic team of black men battled their way past the Japanese and Germans who were on the island and were able to raise the flag to proudly display the 50 stars and stripes. Afterwards the most famous black general, Abraham Lincoln, gives them the medal of honor in a highly publicized ceremony on the deck of the USS Cuba Gooding Jr.

Fixed.

And no, for the sake of continuing the theme of this thread...I don't know what that means.

 

[CorCentral]

Looks like both Spike Tv and Easywood have both 1up'd Lee!


The last deal I remember with Spike Lee was when he was complaining that Spike Tv stole his name, could'nt use it or something like that....... Lee Lost!