Memento/Bamboozled


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By semillama on Sunday, April 29, 2001 - 03:39 pm:

    Memento: what a glorious mindfuck of a movie. See this as soon as you can. Good acting, great plot, well executed. My candidate for movie of the year actually, even over Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

    Bamboozled: Once again, Mr. Lee has produced a controversial picture, but I think that it's one of his best as well. Get's bogged down a bit in the middle, but overall it's very good. Fine acting, too, which was the first I think I've seen with Damon Wayans and Tommy Davidson. All around, I recommend this highly. I wish R.C. was around to talk about this movie, I'd like to know what she thought of it.


By Pug on Monday, April 30, 2001 - 02:11 am:

    I also clocked "Bamboozled" last weekend---brilliant---altho as per usual it's got those Spikeisms indigenous to Spike Lee's stuff where he always plays both ends against the middle and you're never 100% sure of what he wants you to think....I'm anxious to hear anyone's take on it.


By Skooter on Monday, April 30, 2001 - 09:54 am:

    I posted on that movie a long, long time ago. anyway, I thought in turns it was Lee's most brilliant, sarcastic, bitter and controversial film. The acting was great, and it did need about half an hour cut out, but I was really impressed


By semillama on Monday, April 30, 2001 - 12:31 pm:

    I agree with you Pug. I think that's why so many people hated it. One thing I got out of it was Lee's equating much of modern commercial Hip-hop with the old minstrel shows.


By Pug on Monday, April 30, 2001 - 03:53 pm:

    Yeah----but I think one really pointed thing about it is---here are the militant rappers, the Mau Maus...(w/the ludicrous white guy claiming he's black)...and as militant and terroristic as they are(offing Man Ray/Mantan) Lee seems to be telling us, these people are idiots.....and he always does that, too----as many fingers as he points, he points them in about a bazillion directions----ambiguity on top of ambiguity...but then I thought that of "Do the Right Thing", too.
    It's like there's just a kind of universal Wrongness----no one in this movie is ultimately "Right" and they all more or less end up getting destroyed....


By patrick on Wednesday, September 5, 2001 - 12:31 pm:

    Memento rocked.

    This should be a standard for contemporary cinema. Creative, curious, solid acting and intelligent.