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St. Gloede

A lot of bad acting and overall clumsy direction. Also most of the characters are just plain annoying. I don't get the respect this film gets.

14 years 6 months ago

JonPer

I didn't like this movie at all. I don't get it, why is this movie a "classic"..?

14 years 4 months ago

lachyas

A bunch of people I hated yelling at each other for two hours, with clumsy direction and questionable acting. At least the film had a message I suppose.

10 years 2 months ago

mattmansfieldok

In my eyes, this is one of the most important films of the past 25 years.

12 years 5 months ago

Scratch47

One of the greatest films ever.

13 years 10 months ago

Xondar

This movie is dedicated to the families of people murdered by the police. That list would be much, much longer today, 33 years later.

1 year 9 months ago

Sir_Byzantium

An ambiguous ending, but that was probably the point of it really.

13 years 1 month ago

Cynicus Rex

“Thank God for the right nipple. Thank God for the left nipple.”

Real.

1 year 6 months ago

This is one of the greatest cinematic achievements to date if you ask me. This film has such a powerful ending that proves challenging for some who might not understand that nobody is truly meant to be the moral compass here, with the possible exception of Da Mayor. The name of the film is Do The Right Thing, which after seeing the film you realize how genius that is because see no one doing the right thing when it matters, we see the casual prejudices that exist in the everyday lives and mentality of the characters portrayed bubble over making monsters of everyone. It attempts to objectively show the faults of all parties involved after making us fall in love with so many of them. It’s such a shame that this didn’t wake the world up more when it came out, art like this could change the world if our society gave the respect it should give to artists and art as a whole.

4 years 9 months ago

WilliamBravin

Fantastic, hilarious, touching and memerable.

11 years 6 months ago

akuma587

Great film. Don't listen to the haters.

14 years 4 months ago

Musanna

One of the greatest films ever made.

12 years ago

Siskoid

Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, juggling a large cast of characters dealing with racial tensions on an extremely hot day on an inner city street, has been called ambiguous by some, too obvious by others, but I think neither hits the mark. Rather, I'd call the film ambivalent. It's not merely saying racism is bad, because we know that, nor is it necessarily striking for a deeper, hidden truth. What it does, despite the funky stylistic choices like direct addresses to the camera, is present every day racism with all its textures and levels, its clichés AND contradictions, with humor and drama both. The racism fueled by simple irritation and misunderstanding right up to the explosion of violence and hate crimes of the end of the film. How one can like a person from another ethnic group, and yet be prejudiced against the group. How some people are very much the cliché hateful people would make of a certain race, without necessarily being examplars of that race (why else would Lee give himself the role of Mookie, the lazy pizza delivery boy whose girlfriend accuses him of being a deadbeat dad?). Point is, it presents us with realities, and by presenting makes us ask questions about racism in our lives and points of view. If you're looking for something profound, you'll find it in yourself, if you dare look.

7 years 2 months ago

BigAwesomeBLT

Thought it was quite a cool day-in-the-life film for the first half like clerks, slacker or empire records. Then it really kicked in for the last 40 mins. The guy on the bike was more of a dick than Sal, but I guess boomboxes were pretty expensive back in the day? I didn't expect things to go as far as they did as everyone seemed pretty chill in the first half.

9 years 1 month ago