Four African American Vietnam veterans return to Vietnam. They are in search of the remains of their fallen squad leader and the promise of buried treasure. These heroes battle forces of humanity and nature while confronted by the lasting ravages of the immorality of the Vietnam War.
Delroy Lindo Jonathan Majors Clarke Peters Norm Lewis Isiah Whitlock Jr. Mélanie Thierry Paul Walter Hauser Jasper Pääkkönen Johnny Trí Nguyễn Lê Y Lan Nguyen Ngoc Lâm Sandy Huong Pham Jean Reno Chadwick Boseman Van Veronica Ngo Nguyen Anh Tuan Duc Luong Quoc Tuan Tran Minh Thuong Hoang Sang Thanh Van Nguyen Bao Ngoc Linh Huynh Le Cuong Nhu Thuc Hung Cuong Thuy Hong Nhu Le Ngoc Anh Show All…
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One of my (many) frustrations with Blackkklansman was Spike using real, brutal footage of a woman's murder to close out the film, as if the point couldn't be made without it, and he opens this one with that. Then sort of splices in shots of real, dead, mutilated bodies throughout the movie when you're not expecting them. :( I get what he’s going for, but fuck it is just… not good. Sorry, I’m just truly not interested in seeing it.
This movie is carried on Delroy Lindo's back. And on Jonathan Majors' very jacked arms. It's always a little eye-rolly when movies insist on deeply incorporating Trump and Trump imagery in their films (and I feel VERY weird about the…
I hope this makes sense: the colorful, psychedelic imagery in the poster wasn’t really in the film, but I still felt that. Ya know? Spike Lee is so good at giving you a physical reaction.
Felt like a shock to the system after weeks of lazy, passionless filmmaking. It is the story of two wars that never ended - Vietnam and civil rights - and it contains stunning work from Lindo, Majors, Blanchard, and Lee.
spike lee does The Treasure of the Sierra Madre as men-on-a-mission, hangout/heist picture through black history and vietnam only instead of being slowly corrupted by greed lee wrestles with how we are already corrupted and haunted by imperialism, whether we understand exactly how or why or the all-consuming depth of it or not. delroy lindo gives one of the most brutally sad, destructive performances in a lee joint (no small feat, especially considering his own in Crooklyn) playing a man whose seething rage, political contradictions and emotional complexities are as direct a counter-point to retroactively trying to "win" this conflict through cinema as there's ever been. nothing easy or fair or righteous about the application of violence or the allocation of resources as dictated from the top-down so if you manage to survive the senseless carnage on the ground you might as well take what you can and give to the cause.
last night my mom texted me "Delroy Lindo" at 10:30pm with nothing else and I have to say that I agree
There are not many films about black people's experience during the Vietnam war. Thank you, Spike Lee.
Spike Lee remakes Rambo: First Blood Part 2 but this time it's a good movie
What a colossal disappointment. How does one go from making Blackklansman, a movie that subtly uses issues and events of the past to comment on our current society, to making a movie that does the same thing except just shoves it down your throat the entire runtime.
Everything about this seems so rushed. It’s extremely ugly, it has the cinematography and color palette of a Hangover movie. Every dialogue scene is shot reverse shot until your brain melts. I felt nothing for the characters, because I barely knew anything about them despite the movie being two and a half hours long. It expects you to give a shit about the shoehorned love interest. The editing is messy. The production design…
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Da 5 Bloods is Spike Lee fully embracing his strengths as both an essayist and a pulp scavenger, finding form in adventure genre modes while taking to task a symbolic Vietnam space affected by American images, the threat of imperialism, and the dynamics of historical trauma. As much as this references Apocalypse Now (with a themed movie bar - the first of many acute details) and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Spike Lee paints an expansive, often imbalanced picture of tension between the oppressed and the oppressor, particularly under the lens of colonization. Shades of Sam Fuller too. The interplay between vivid memories of the immoral war and the ghostly agony of the present converge and clash in…
the kind of mess only a brilliant overly emotional person with a thousand ideas could make, and i love that about it. of course this is about the way the state weaponizes anger and trauma, the cruel irony of two oppressed groups forced to fight each other for something they don't benefit from, but the thing i thought the most about was how hard it is to move forward when there are so many landmines from the past blocking your way, it's impossible, they make it impossible, state violence is an infinite ripple effect. whatever this movie's faults (and i am certainly not the right person to analyze them), this is an essential perspective on this clusterfuck of a war,…
Just general thoughts on this movie is that it is definitely a great film and some people will really love it and I could see it being the film of the year for people. Me personally, I wasn’t too sold on it, I think there’s a lot going on and it doesn’t click for me, and maybe some of it is just because it went over my head. I will say Delroy Lindo does a fantastic job in the lead role and totally sells it for me in his character. I think the scenery is beautiful and the deeper meanings, history that plays into it, and the lessons behind it all are very important and clear in this movie. Spike…
This movie is a very rare one for me, because while I can say that I watched it and thought it was good, it wasn’t something that I necessarily enjoyed.
I actively avoid seeing footage or images of real life death, and watching that in this film with no prior warning was truly haunting and disturbing. If that’s not something that bothers you, then perhaps this is one you’ll actually enjoy.
I was sorely mislead into thinking that Chadwick Boseman was gonna have a larger role in the film, but that aside his role was important and even more symbolic after his passing. The acting in this film is spot on start to finish and despite the long runtime the story is constantly Flowing. Since it’s a Spike Lee film, political commentary is guaranteed, even if some of it is unnecessary and does not have any real relevance whatsoever in the film. Either way, I would highly recommend this one.
I have fallen in love with Spike Lee’s directing style, he’s one of the boldest filmmakers working today. Not his best, but still great, especially because of Delroy Lindo.
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