tomspanks

This was the clip I was talking about lol

Just want to clear up this point above. I listened to a Spike Lee interview about School Daze and he says that "a" brother died during pledging, not that "his" brother died.

I did appreciate that the movie made me consider issues within the black community without having to include a white experience. I'm glad I watched it, as I've only seen 2 of Spike Lee's movies before. But it just doesn't work as a musical for me.

My problem (or saving grace) was that I have been watching this movie in ~20 minute increments for 3 days now. So when the Jets/Sharks dance fight of hair came on, it didn’t feel like I had been waiting for 30 minutes. And yes, it did delight me that this dance fight was between the 2 female groups about hair rather than the fraternity vs Dap groups about their politics, which I was expecting them to do tbh.

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.

“Tool of Kendra”

Yet he could cover up his back of the head tattoos with a hoodie. Hoodies > magic?

He’s already got metal in there lol

So we know plastic surgery wouldn’t work on Kyle’s skin. Made me wonder, did he try concealer for his face tattoos?

Check out Crooklyn if you wanna dip your toe in the Spike Lee pool?

Enjoy your summer meetings, nerds!

And maybe it’s me but the hands look like they belong to the same person.

I was just thinking, if Kendra's ultimate goal was to teach Kyle that looks aren't important and that it's your inner beauty that counts, then why change him back at all? Why reward him with the thing that caused him to be a rotten person in the first place? I dunno, I would maybe turn him back into a 5 or 6.

Like Snorks?

You know something’s been bugging me and it just occurred to me that they gave the smurfs in this movie eyelashes and hair and tiny pecs and made them more lifelike, but they don’t have fucking nostrils. Like, their noses are just these blue face bumps that serve no real purpose, except maybe eskimo kisses?

You know what I found distracting? The way the prosthetic didn’t quite get attached to his face in the corner of his right eye. Sometimes due to the lighting you could see a big gap there. Should’ve filled the space with more silver caulk.

Not only that, they spell it CARROL Gardens

No, I'm pretty sure that's a Dorothy.

In the scene where we first meet Kyle's father, Kyle has to send a text to him to share the news about the school election: Monday, May 17. Then presumably the next day, Kyle receives a text that the "witch is mad": But now it's Tuesday, April 27, about 3 weeks in the past. It's a funny goof, but I find it more interesting that the school would hold elections at the end of the school year. I've never seen that before.

...Five stars.

I guess they were from big tomato cans or something, considering his job.