August 05, 2004
spiked from the get-go

I was considering seeing Spike Lee's new film "She Hate Me" this weekend. I still might just because these reviews are just so bad that this might be a film that simply is so bad that it has to be seen.

Spike Lee's She Hate Me is his worst movie ever-even worse than Bamboozled, his self-serving indictment of modern minstrelsy, which at least was worth arguing about. - New York Magazine
She Hate Me manages to be at once racist, homophobic, utterly fake, and unbearably tedious. This time, it's Spike Lee who's doing the bamboozling. - Entertainment Weekly
The mélange of plots, subplots, reveries, gags, cartoons, dirty bits, and hissy fits points to a work that is structurally modelled less on the classic narratives of cinema than on, say, a portion of Russian salad. - The New Yorker
Long after "She Hate Me" has exhausted its material, it refuses to give up. In the last interminable third of the movie, Mr. Lee and his screenwriting collaborator, Michael Genet, throw in a lesbian Mafia princess, Simona (Monica Bellucci), whose father, Don Angelo Bonasera (John Turturro), does an extended, tedious parody of Marlon Brando in "The Godfather." - New York Times
Posted by mikewolf at August 05, 2004 02:12 PM
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