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I've never seen Breaking Bad. I know Giancarlo Esposito. (And of course I know Don Johnson's "Heartbeat." Come on, son )

it aint their 1st rodeo

But...but you've surely seen the masterpiece that is the music video for Don Johnson's Heartbeat featuring Giancarlo Esposito? And, he's not as recognizable in Do The Right Thing but he's definitely fantastic in it. [

That's the ONLY thing you remember him from?

I always love to see Sam Jackson in early roles. I sometimes forget that even though he didn't really get big until, I want to say, Jurassic Park, he's been around forever. I was also thinking this might be the youngets I've seen Lawrence Fishburne, but then I turned on Apocalypse Now and I was like, "Oh, yeah! I forgot all about Baby-Baby Morpheus..."

Daddy. Come to Brazil.

here’s me listening to the ep: “LOL”

SAME

It turns out he's in Trading Places as well, in a bit part.

ETA: oops my quote got erased. My favorite early SLJ role

I didn't know about Apocalypse Now. Very cool! I thought I recognized Julian from somewhere but it turns out The Usual Suspects is the only movie I remember him from. The administration "toady" helps Bruce Willis in Die Hard 2.

When I was a kid I saw a magazine that kind of suggests that some people even look at butts just for fun. Lol, don't ask me why but for reals, they do!

This is what hurts the movie most. He's trying to make three different movies: a musical, a metaphor for society encapsulated in a college, and just a weekend in the life of a college. Each of these would be great movies but not all together.

For sure. The first time I saw this, I don't think I understood how big a deal or personal identifier that was even though I'd had a black woman try to educate me when I was younger on natural hair and how it's perceived by society. My main memory of this movie was there was a sequence set in a beauty shop and, on this viewing, I was like "oh, this makes a lot more sense."

Yes, I’m stepping out of my lane, but hair can be a HUGE identity/cultural issue for black women. In the salon scene, you saw the natural hair vs straightened hair fighting out like the Jets and the Sharks and personally I thought it was a fun cheeky homage to West Side Story.

Isn't that the whole purpose of including women in film?

Yeah. I think Lee tries to make Dap seem more enlightened but he still has faults. I'd be fine with that since I think everyone is a character type rather than a character but I feel like this is just a failing of Lee himself on his treatment of women in film. If I thought his point was about society being misogynist, I'd accept that but I don't think they was the intention. I think he just treated the women as objects to advance the men's stories in this.

Yeah, it seems to be trying to make a point about how horribly this or that group treats women, and I’m just like, “Well, it’s not like our ‘good guys’ are paragons of enlightenment.”

With the stepping "competition" at Homecoming, were the same dances done year after year or did they change each time? Also, Wikipedia says the fight was unstaged and real. Spike kept the actors apart (a la Animal House) during filming so their animosity was somewhat genuine.

I don't think that it's so much that they are "best buds" so much as they have a better understanding of one another. I think that that whole last scene is just meant to be metaphorical. That is, "We need to stop fighting each other and figure this shit out."

This movie was significantly less musical than I remember it being from the first time I watched this. And it's kind of hurt by spending so much time on the musical numbers instead of building up relationships or a narrative. For a movie that has a lot to say about colorism, it spends a lot of time kind of just spinning its wheels. I listened to the commentary on this and the are a couple things that were interesting. 1. Spike Lee didn't have much to say. There were several long stretches where he didn't say anything at all which is kind of telling. 2. Spike Lee's brother died during hazing at a fraternity. So, that explains, in part, why the fraternity is functionally evil.

It's closer to Die Hard, there are even nods to it throughout the movie. One non-spoiler aspect being the villain calling his henchmen, and actually saying "So don't waste time talking to me", an EXACT Hans Gruber quote. I'm amazed they got away with adding so many Die Hard references.

Normal actors playing mentally handicapped is insulting as hell, and I can't think of a single time it's been pulled off. There are actors with these handicaps -- use them. It's like Gary Oldman walking around on his knees in Tiptoes, just totally unnecessary and kinda offensive.

For a second I thought this was an adaptation of the Capcom survival horror game of the same name, but this looks like utter dogshit. Though the plot seems to be just as insane as the game's.