Name me one movie where you were satisfied with the ending of ANY of his movies. I challenge you...

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you liked Malcolm X's ending? wow.

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'I am Malcolm X'...eh

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It had genuine spirit and made anyone with a soul
wanna fuckin cry.

What a bitch you are, seriously.

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Worst of all of his movies.. Completely Pretentious.

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That was the worst idea ever.

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This is maybe off the topic, but a few years back I read a bio on Fellini, and towards the end of it he talked about how he met Spike Lee, and how Lee was this up and coming new director that he genuinely liked, and saw promise in (it was funny at the time, considering the VERY rare yet...non-complimenting way he depicts blacks in his films). He said that Spike was a huge fan of his.

I was kind of confused by that at first, but now...I bet like Fellini, Spike thinks of his movies as kind of one loong story, where to him absolutely nothing is superfluous, even if it's a tangent from the main plot.

He doesn't see the story as ending per say, and it shows. In most of the movies I've seen, except for a couple of the most recent ones, he tries to end of on a sort of surreal, metaphorical note that, I don't know, is supposed to win him cred with his old film school/art house buddies. School Dayz, Jungle Fever, He Got Game, even Malcolm X--the endings were kind of embarrassing, like 'damn, okay, you're deep, I get it, you really didn't have to take it THERE to prove it.'

25th Hour was the only one that pulled off an ending that packed a punch without reaching at going off on the deep end. It just kind of made me wish he had, you know, put at least a couple more black people in the main cast. Or any at all, besides 1 cop with like three lines.

And I didn't mind the endings to Crooklyn, Jungle Fever, and He Got Game, either
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He Got Game was ok as far as I can remember.

can't remember how Crooklyn ended.

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Moms (Alfre Woodard) died, which left Pops (Delroy Lindo) to watch over the family

And the actual ending was a sort-of preview of 25th Hour, as we see Moms "talk" to the daughter about surviving as the only girl in a house full of boys...

And then the credits rolled over an old episode of Soul Train while that great Crooklyn single played... it was fresher than it sounds...
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>And then the credits rolled over an old episode of Soul Train
>while that great Crooklyn single played... it was fresher than
>it sounds...

yeah that was pretty cool.

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I remember liking Crooklyn, and thinking that Clockers was *okay*.

But I'll stand by my opinion on the ending of He Got Game and Jungle Fever.

Too damn pretentious.

If it fit with the tone of the movie, I'd see it.

But. I don't know if anyone remembers the Wayan's early "Don't Be A Menace" flick, but in that flick, at key faux emotional/meaningful scenes, Keenan would randomly show pu out of nowhere to yell out "MESSAGE!!!!!" I thought he was spoofing Spike directly, cause that's how almost all of Spike's endings seem.

Furious Styles' pontificating in Boyz in the Hood... especially since, on at least one occasion, Keenen showed up as a mailman... which was how Singleton made his cameo in Boyz...


>But. I don't know if anyone remembers the Wayan's early "Don't
>Be A Menace" flick, but in that flick, at key faux
>emotional/meaningful scenes, Keenan would randomly show pu out
>of nowhere to yell out "MESSAGE!!!!!" I thought he was
>spoofing Spike directly, cause that's how almost all of
>Spike's endings seem.
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nah man fuck that.. ok fuck it Ill give you 25th hour (i did like that joint).. but malcolm X, do the right thing.. JUNGLE FEVER?!?!, mo better blues? no sir.. cant cosign.

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>nah man fuck that.. ok fuck it Ill give you 25th hour (i did
>like that joint).. but malcolm X, do the right thing.. JUNGLE
>FEVER?!?!, mo better blues? no sir.. cant cosign.

it ended right where he began, as a black family
in a brownstone in Brooklyn.

The difference is, he lets his kid go play instead
of forcing him to play the trumpet, indicating the
difference between his generation and his father's.

Symbolic and artful on a lot of levels.

Not sure how the fuck you missed that, other
than your being an idiot.

Brilliant ending.

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is the only one i've really been satisfied with...one of my fav movies even tho it's really not about much lol

His avante garde way of saying "fuck you, establishment"
almost always work.

He always throws a signature shot in them...love
that.

I can't think of a single ending that I SPECIFICALLY
had beef with

just to be different just CAUSE is lame..if he was being different and was actually doing something artistically different rather than just being a douche bag, then fine. but u don't get that from him. it either comes off as a really bad ending or u doubt his skills. *shrugs*

and if you love it you usually are one of those people that go against the grain just for the sake of going against the grain lol which is a trend in itself.

>just to be different just CAUSE is lame..

He's not. He's one of the best filmmakers of the
past quarter century. He actually doesn't need
gimmicks. He's actually smart, and knowledgable
about the craft. He just happens to think creatively
about shit.

>if he was being
>different and was actually doing something artistically
>different rather than just being a douche bag, then fine.

Or maybe you're just an idiot, or a hater, or both.

I personally like risk-taking with the endings, and
he does his with subtlety that I appreciate. His films
are not back loaded like most movies...the end on a calm,
reflective note...I've always appreciated that.

>but
>u don't get that from him. it either comes off as a really bad
>ending or u doubt his skills. *shrugs*

Not even white people who hate him doubt his *skills*

Everyone admits he's extraordinarily talented. The beef
with Spike these days is that he's an asshole and that he
complains and race baits, etc. No one doubts his *skills*
because he's one of film's most genuine game changers
ever, and again, even white people who hate him admit
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lol.. what are you spike lees cousin or something? lol. fuck outta here.. people are idiots to you if they disagree? niggas endings are weak for the majority of his movies.


ill give you 25th hour but the majority of his joints lack cohesiveness and dont tie up loose ends.

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I thought that was a non Hollywood way of ending that movie.

It would have been a typical Hollywood ending if he would have just went back to playing his trumpet and lived happily ever after.

And also the original title was "A LOVE SUPREME" which would have been more befitting for the ending.

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...but if you're gonna sit there and say that he's always artistically doing the same thing with his ending which is NOT "the end on a calm,
reflective note..." for the sake of just NOT doing it because everyone else does it lame..not all movies have to end a certain way and i feel if he wasn't worried about not going against the grain doing ending like everyone else, he would have a clear state of mind where he might be able to see that some of his movies deserved "a cliche ending"...

you can appreciate him going agasint the grain all you want, and yes you are right he is a brilliant director, writer, game changer, but that does not in no way mean he is brilliant for his endings lol nor does it means if i don't like his endings that i cant appreciate his other accomplishments and talents u scunt rass...you got personally offended like i shit on your food lol

one of his flaws are his endings and his inability to get out of the routine of going against the grain for all of the movies he directs..sometimes a simple cliche ending is right for a movie.

if i can recall correctly doesn't denzel throw the ball in the air and it lands in front of jesus? or the other way around? yeah... terrible. i liked the movie though.

It was an artistic choice, and a symbolic one as well... from the father to the son and all... and anyone who finds that "corny" or whatever must not have been paying attention to the previous 2 hours and 12 minutes that came before it...
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>It was an artistic choice, and a symbolic one as well... from
>the father to the son and all... and anyone who finds that
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>previous 2 hours and 12 minutes that came before it...

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Very corny.

For a movie to play it straight the whole time and then fumble into a finale that supposed to be taken metaphorically, completely going away from the tone and flow the movie had up til then, just because the film maker can't let the actual story begin and end by itself...

Yes, that's corny. Very, very corny.

And Spike does it all the time.

That shit is like the original ending to Clerks, where Kevin Smith was going to murk Dante just cause, well, it's sort of an indy movie kind of ending.

I think it's really cheap. Most of his endings feel like Spike himself is trying to step in and hit us all with his hammer of wisdom just in case we were only watching the movie for entertainment.

the film to me had a gritty realism to it...which was contradicted by the tone and feel of the final shot. that was the problem. i mean anytime you have a theater of people who audibly groan at a closing shot, it's probably not a good thing.

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The retard putting the MLK/Malcolm picture on Sal's wall, while Sinatra and Travolta and all these white italians were burning down. That was great. I dug that.

It should have ended there, instead of the coda where Mookie gets his money.

And then the MLK/Malcolm quotes, which kind of contradict each other, but that shit made you think.

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>It should have ended there, instead of the coda where Mookie
>gets his money.


I liked that part... Danny Aiello crumpling up the money and throwing it at him. I loved that.

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>>It should have ended there, instead of the coda where Mookie
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>I liked that part... Danny Aiello crumpling up the money and
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It was more of a Spielberg ending.

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Not the plot machinations leading up to the ending. I'm talking literally the last 2 or 3 minutes. And the last image is really haunting, and makes up for the heavyhandedness of the previous half hour imo.

But I'm someone who likes Bamboozled, flaws and all.

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It wasn't one of his best but I'd have to think of it as more of a wake-up call for anyone watching the movie that oblivious to all of that.
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it's his trademark. I suppose that's art. I liked She Hate Me though.

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SMH @ anybody saying 25th hour

that movie had a dope ass ending, Spike wasnt even the writer of that like his other films

You see the family cycle complete, with a slight change.

That's how a lot of families evolve and change.

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I know niggas who put aside dimes for Michelle Obamas
all the time(and I'm in the Michelle = attractive camp,
by the way).

Clark ain't gonna stand by your black ass when you're old
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Denz had so much pussy in that movie, he don't need to
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Lola is still Lola...slow shot of her diving back underneath the covers...her candle altar still intact. Beautiful.

School Daze...A- to B+....Dap screaming "WAKE UP!!!"...we see all of the pro and antagonists huddled around the bell in the middle of the yard....funny how thru all of this culture war shit...they still are members of the same student body. Heavy handed but Memorable.

Do The Right Thing....A++++....Radio Rahim dies....Sal's Burns...Mookie and Sal have a heart to heart of sorts...loved the way that despite Mookie's kickoff of the riot...you can tell Sal still has love in his heart for him. Well done.

Mo Betta Blues....solid B....Bleek's life folds in upon itself....now he is his mother and chooses a different path for his son...channels his own inner child in the process. Well done.

Jungle Fever....D. This ending did suck.

Malcolm X....B+....Malcolm get's assasinated right after Sam Cooke's "Change Gone Come" (which was BEAUTIFUL!)...audio of Ossie reading Malcolm's obituary choked EVERYBODY in the studio up...everyone saying "I AM MALCOLM X!" cemented how much of an icon Detroit Red was and is in the psyche of Black America. Very fitting.

Crooklyn...solid B. Momma dies...convo of mother and daughter on the couch telling her how she is going to be the woman of the house when Momma's gone...goes straight to her going to tend for her brothers. Then the Soul Train line...very nostalgic.

So far...I can only see one or two (three tops) endings that were underwhelming...and one (25th Hour) that is almost one of the best parts of the movie.

In short...I disagree.

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