Originally Posted by Shotsie

No, I don't believe that at all.


I think Spike Lee believes what he says - that he's genuinely upset over what he feels is irreverent treatment of a brutal period in African-American history. I think he feels like a Jew would if somebody made a slapstick comedy set in Auschwitz, with starving, emaciated Jews slipping on banana peels and falling into gas chambers. This is Spike Lee we're talking about here. This is the guy who directed "Malcolm X" and "Bamboozled"(a movie about black stereotypes in Hollywood), and has a production company called "40 acres and a mule." You really think he's that shamelessly fucking phoney that he'd stoop to playing media charades for bigger box office numbers? I know the guy's full of shit, but come on. Nah. Besides, I've never heard Tarantino bash "Red Hook Summer", or whatever other box office flop Lee's put out over the last decade. He hasn't made a good movie since "25th Hour."


Or maybe I?m wrong. Or maybe it?s some hybrid where Spike kind of gives a shit, but knows Denzel *really* gives a shit back from his beef with Tarantino on "Crimson Tide", and Spike needs to preserve that relationship so that he can keep the possibility of "Inside Man 2" alive... who knows. Maybe Spike?s the guy who convinced Michael Jordan to grow a Hitler stache. If so, he?s brilliant.