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Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee, June 12,2020) Movie • Page 3

Discussion in 'Entertainment Forum' started by iCarly Rae Jepsen, May 18, 2020.

  1. Cameron

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    I loved that part. The whole first 45 min I was hooked.
     
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  2. TJ Wells

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    I could watch Isiah Whitlock Jr. drink fruity drinks for the rest of my life.
     
  3. Cameron

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    So glad we got the shiiiiiiiit
     
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  4. TJ Wells

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    I have to say, Eddie's death is one of the most fucked up things I've ever seen in a movie. I knew he (or someone) was gonna get exploded but JESUS CHRIST.
     
  5. Pretty good, I enjoyed the last hour or so more. The flashbacks didn’t bother me at all, I don’t see that as an issue.
     
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  6. This was pretty great. The main cast are all great, and I cracked up at ”Damn, just put the gold on Craigslist.”
     
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  7. Rowan5215

    An inconsequential shift as the continents drift.

    that line delivery was impeccable

    pretty sure every Isiah Whitlock Jr. "sheeeeeeit" i hear adds another year to my lifespan
     
  8. imthegrimace

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    Just came to post that I loved the sheeeeeeeeit.
     
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  9. aoftbsten

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    This was great. Delroy is absolutely phenomenal. His monologue scene & the forgiveness scene are just astounding. I think the choice to keep the actors the same age in the flashbacks was quite fitting. Despite the passage of time, these men are stuck in that war.

    There are a few minor issues with the execution of the more violent scenes, but they are not enough to sink the film. I just finished and I'm itching to watch it again.
     
  10. aoftbsten

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    I was dreading it every time they said they found another one.

    This is the scene that hooked me haha.
     
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  11. yung_ting

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    I loved this so much, absolutely flew by. Funny, moving, and intense. Loved every minute of it.
     
  12. jkauf

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  13. TJ Wells

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    Eh. I really like the cast as is.
     
  14. imthegrimace

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    Yeah everyone was great
     
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  15. Serh

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    feel like both washingtons at the same time would be distracting for some
     
  16. imthegrimace

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    I had no idea that he was Denzel’s son until just now.
     
  17. TJ Wells

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    I also feel like it implies no Delroy which is fucking blasphemy.
     
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  18. Cameron

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    Also had no clue that was his son
     
  19. aoftbsten

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    Delroy brings the movie up a whole level. Hard to imagine it without him.

    John David’s speech patterns are very similar to Denzel’s.
     
  20. Morrissey

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    This was good.

    Almost every Spike Lee movie has a small part that makes it feel like an accident or some sort of amateur film and it is hard to tell how intentional it is. In this one, it feels off that they get excited to find the gold, dig to find the box, see that the box is rotted out, but then find more gold anyway. In almost any other movie that would be the end of the gold hunt or the gold would be in another place in another scene.

    Conversations about the telegraphing of the explosion or the artificiality of the non-attempt to de-age the actors illustrates the ways that Lee has embraced the obvious phoniness of films in order to better use them as polemics, much like later Godard or some documentary filmmakers. It makes judging the films a much different experience; the film is structurally messy and would be dramatically trimmed down and streamlined if the filmmaker didn't have the clout of Spike Lee. Even still, within an often silly and disorganized film, there is poetry in the smaller moments. Paul's attempts to shoo away the street merchant before his meltdown is an empathetic depiction of how people with mental issues, rather than the hysterics of most movies and shows, swallow so much pain in order to try to keep an air of normalcy for the people around them, knowing how their struggles can be a burden to those around them and knowing how easy people can use that as an excuse to disconnect.
     
  21. matthaber

    beautiful and chequered, the end

    Loved every second of this.
     
  22. aoftbsten

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    This has got me going through Spike’s earlier work. Can’t believe I’d never seen Malcolm X or Do The Right Thing before. Both great. Malcolm X in particular was fantastic.
     
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  23. Morrissey

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    25th Hour is one of a handful of films that really taught me how movies could move and challenge you. I was 14 when I saw it and didn't know what I had just seen.
     
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  24. Nathan

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    25th Hour might be my number 2 Spike.
     
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  25. Tim

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    Multiple Marvel threads got bumped to mourn Chadwick Boseman (which, fair; I loved his Black Panther too), but also, he was great in this. Hope some people who slept on it check it out now. Though, his role being a deceased friend everyone misses is gonna hit different now.