I DVR'd the infamously botched original broadcast, not knowing what would entail before I got to actually watch it. The music and show was running smoothly enough for me to judge, but then... Boom! They cut "Piano Man" mid-song. The show reportedly ran late in some markets due to a sporting event on the same CBS stations. (I'm in the Mountain Time Zone so live broadcast TV can be a bit weird with the hour delay.)
Anyway, CBS was embarrassed…
For film released in 1989, Do the Right Thing sure feels like a 90s movie. And yet the very same film could come out today. It's eerie how this shit never goes away.
Spike Lee writes, directs and stars as Mookie, a pizza delivery boy, in an ensemble full of colorful characters and good actors, great actors. Ossie Davis delivers a brilliant performance as Da Mayor (alongside his real-life wife and frequent collaborator Ruby Dee as Mother Sister), as does…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Hark! Where art ye olde castles, swords, sorcery and kings?
Will Smith acts the hell out of tennis coach and patriarch Richard Williams. This dude is a stubborn ass, a maverick, an iconoclast, a stage dad, who likes to play hardball with his daughters' tennis dreams. Obviously it paid off, and now they're Venus and Serena. But back then, they were just two of five girls with a dream in their hearts.
Richard almost seems like a Jehovah's Witness in…
George Lucas: Sound is 50% of the experience.
This film: Sound is 100% of the experience.
It sounds like there's some early synth/theremin work on here. Pretty neat audiovisual experiment.
