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>because besides the business factor, there's also issues of
>quality and effort.
>
>Spike's films are all flawed in their own ways, but you can
>tell that the man knows cinema and knows the basics of making
>a decent picture. He understands film language and film
>history.
>
>Everything Tyler Perry has done up to this point says the
>opposite about him.
>
which is an even bigger indictment on Spike. if the man knows cineman, knows the intricacies of filmmaking, etc. then how can an untrained novice like Tyler Perry be a better stortytelling and has made better quality of movies than Spike the last 10+ years or so?
i'm a Spike fan. a diehard. i've seen every movie of his. i'm not much of a Tyler Perry fan.
but the last few Tyler Perry movies have kept entertained and held my interest more than Spike's last several.
inside man, 25th hour, she hate me were boring, bland, and/or sucked. miracle at st. ana was mediocre. the kobe thing he just did sucked. the last semi-good movie of Spike's was "he got game", and the last good one was "get on the bus".
Spike is tapped out creatively. And he wasn't that much of a storyteller to begin with. Releasing a movie year after year, you run out of things to say and start repeating yourself.
i can't say the same thing about Tyler's work.
>Tyler Perry only makes Spike Lee obsolete in a short-term
>money-over-longevity view on filmmaking.
Tyler Perry has been around for a while now. He isn't going anywhere. In fact, Tyler has been trying to let go of the Madea character and put that to bed. But the demand, along with his work in general, is so high for it, he can't.
can't say the same thing for Spike. Spike can barely get funding for films.
>Tyler Perry will
>never command the respect that Spike does, because Tyler Perry
>will (as far as the talent he's displayed to this point
>indicates) never, ever be able ot make a "Do the Right Thing",
>a "School Daze", or a "Malcolm X". he's simply not capable.
fam thats almost 2 decades ago. its 2009. all that respect, and Spike can barely get a film made and makes movies nobody wants to see.
respect?
mofos will see a movie if they know Tyler Perry is directing. thats respect.
Spike only gets props nowadays if he is sitting courting at Knicks games and Lakers games, not his movies.
>These are films with critical acclaim and legacies, that will
>last for generations and will be shown in film schools and
>festivals as examples of good cinema.
"malcolm x" and "do the right thing", yes.
"school daze"..no...lol (and i love "school daze").
>No self-respecting film
>teacher is going to screen a Tyler Perry film as an example
>for her students to follow.
thats great. Spike makes movies for academia.
check this out though:
very few film goers are going to see a Spike Lee joint nowadays.
>
>Yes, Spike's in a rut now; he's past his prime. That makes him
>irrelevant to current pop culture, but not to cinema history.
Spike's legacy is not in doubt.
His irrelevance is certain though.
And he knows it. He has ran out of things to say as a director/artist, so now all he can do now is say sh*t about other movie directors who are actually doing something with their art.
>And Spike being out of his prime and Tyler Perry making money
>doesn't make Tyler Perry a better filmmaker because those
>cardboard pictures of his are not going to last.
Tyler is a better filmmaker right now because he makes better films than Spike Lee.
And he has this entire decade.
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