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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.

I think one of the reasons this doesn't work as well as Do The Right Thing is these characters feel le character types. Spike wants this to be representative of a larger conversation and each character has to represent everyone in that mold. Do The Right Thing is more about being able to happen anywhere and it just happens to be these individuals it happens to. It's been a very long time since I saw She's Gotta Have It but I definitely don't remember it as fondly as School Daze. Well, Spike Lee said on the commentary about women refusing to acknowledge some guys until they were part of a fraternity then suddenly being into them. While I know the are women and men who simply want a partner who are particular group or status, this felt really gross for him to talk about. I had thought the movie came across as anti-fraternity but the commentary made me think "No, it's also anti-woman".

The weird thing is that I normally really like movies without much story that cover a short time period. And I do actually like this movie but when you break the narrative the have a song about hair, I think it takes away from that even if discussing colorism is vitally important. I guess I'd personally get more out of it as conversation instead of a song/dance even if the sequence is well done. I think the Wake Up scene works but maybe not as much as it could. But I think it's a message not directed at me since i'm not a black college student.

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.

I know this video is irrelevant to this podcast but it's super relevant for today. Everyone should watch this.

Hamilton is one of those things that truly does live up to the hype. I saw it in Chicago and was so hyped about it that I listened to it on the drive home and wasn't bored at all.

Musical suggestion twins. I picked Hamilton, Les Mis,Mamma Mia, and Singin In The Rain

Cam Bert, you've maybe changed my mind a bit on this movie. I hadn't really thought about the state of the town of Miller comes back. I figured he'd say "Gary Cooper left? Guess I don't need to kill anyone" then he'd just be kind of a lawless but like a lot of the town is currently. But it really is a matter of one man against lawlessness itself. I had always interpreted this as "LEAVE! YOU'LL LIVE IF YOU JUST LEAVE!" I guess early 20s me didn't appreciate that. It's weird to hear John Wayne hated this movie so much. I know IRL he was a commie hating, racist jerk but I don't get what his deal is in regards to High Noon. Rio Bravo involved enlisting three other guys to stop the bad guys coming to town. It's kind of dumb to say Rio Bravo gets it right when the barebones actions are pretty similar. If he had other criticisms, I'd understand (because Rio Bravo really is a fun movie).

I'm also going to say watch Do The Right Thing at some point. I'd say it's his best movie but it's like jumping in headfirst.

I've thought long and hard about this since I found out yesterday it's my turn. I've been strongly considering making my choice the entire run of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend but decided that would be unfair to watch 30 hours of television in a week (but watch it anyway). So, I decided we're going to watch Spike Lee's School Daze instead.

NO! I'M NOT READY! I mean, yeah, I guess so.

Is the 14th good with everyone? Is The Smurfs worth watching?

I thought it was really weird that she doesn't seem to see him or even turn her head to look around when he's watching her open the series of gifts.

Cloak and Dagger was one of my favorites as a kid too. Henry Thomas was also in The Quest (AKA Frog Dreaming) which may fall a bit into Goonies conundrum but I think it sorely underseen.

This scene is weird because NPH says earlier in the movie "miracle only". What miracle gave him his sight back? Hunter and Vanessa Hudgens kissing?

No problem. Just making sure I didn't miss it.

So, what's the link?

Is this woman on the far right side supposed to be in a Belle costume? I thought it might be Dorothy from Wizard Of Oz because of the red shoes but this has to be intentional right?

Oh man, there's a song shortly after he's cursed where it keeps singing "I'm only half here" I think it was supposed to put us in the mind of Hunter but it only made me hate him more.

can anyone live up to the majesty Gaston?

This seems to be a common theme. The Jean Cocteau version from the 1940s had a similar criticism. I would to say they discussed it in the commentary track for it. I wonder how much of this is the human in every Beauty And The Beast situation never living up to every single audience member's ideal form of beauty.

Definitely don't apologize. I think the are some good ideas in this movie. I think I just went in with different expectations than what it was. There some parts I really enjoyed and I'm glad I saw it.

I think one of the reasons Beauty And The Beast stories work so well is we never see the beast before his transformation. We just hear, from the beast himself, that he was cursed by a witch. Since we only ever see the better version of him, we assume the witch was evil. But not here. The witch was in the right and he was straight up awful. He deserved his curse. While the movie doesn't work for a lot of reasons, it's broken from the very beginning due to changing the story structure. Also, I understand why June missed Vanessa Hudgens dad murdering his drug dealer's brother. I had to rewind that scene three times since we only hear a gun shot off screen.

This is where it gets difficult for me to rank things and why I don't do it. E. T. definitely has a stronger emotional impact on me than anything else covered so far. But does it have as much to say about the human condition as Citizen Kane? Does it depict loneliness and mental illness in a way Taxi Driver does? All these movies, in my mind, accomplish their goals but their goals are totally different. How do I even compare them? I could say "E.T. is better than Earth To Echo or Lilo and Stitch" but "E. T. is better than Citizen Kane (or vice versa)" is difficult for me. I'm not asking you or anyone to justify their opinion or rankings. I just don't see how it's possible.

I don't see how any kid (with the attention span to make it through the movie) can not get upset at E.T.s death. It kills me as an adult. It killed me in elementary school. According to my parents, it killed me as a toddler. It's one of the hardest deaths in cinema in my mind but it's followed immediately by the most triumphant moment in cinema when he comes back to life. I agree though. Kids seem pretty malleable. If you expose them to something, they often just assume that's the way the world is. I think they movie is well made enough that most kids won't even ask about cell phones. They be too sucked in. As an adult, I might say "with cell phones, this movie would be over in five minutes."