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TANGENT anyone?

posted 9 years ago by whatyoutalkinboutman
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Basing this story on a GREEK play basically caused the movie to ZOOM right over the heads of the people who are complaining that they;

A) Don't get it
B) Think Spike Lee is (Add any of the same lame Insults that people who dislike/hate Mr. Lee have been rehashing for years here)
C) Don't understand why he based the story on a Greek Tragedy!
D) all of the above

None of which has anything to do with ART! Here's a tip! If you don't like a piece of art, TURN AWAY! Why do people waste their time commenting on or watching Mr. Lee's efforts if they HATE/DISLIKE him so much? And then the comments go from not liking Spike to arguing over which city has the highest murder rate or any number of things that have NOTHING to do with the original post! BAFFLING!

My ass may be dumb, but I ain't no dumbass. -Ordell Robbie

[–] kmags84 9 years ago

I agree whole heartedly. Spike got the most hate until Nolan made it big, still a close call though. I'll never understand it. To jump on a board of a film you don't like (Probably never even saw), dog it, and turn it into an issue that has nothing to do with the Artform of Cinema.

P.S "I bet it was your idea to take the picture though?"-Ordell Robbie

[–] theunopeneddoor-697-442391 8 years ago

(Psst...Lysistrata isn't tragedy...)

Never Drumpf! Never Hillary!

[–] dmoulou 8 years ago

I agree with you... only that Lysistrate (Λυσιστράτη in greek) is a comedy and not a tragedy.

Sorry for my English, not my first language 

[–] Ithilfaen 8 years ago

Yup and that's why all the morons are scratching their heads about how the critics could have given thumbs up to a movie they can't understand because they're illiterate and can't understand hyperbole and satire, and they can't get past the first degree.

For every lie I unlearn I learn something new - Ani Difranco

[–] gary_overman 8 years ago

Having not seen the film, I've not commented directly on it, so that is a fair point, but I have made comments on some issues raised on this board.

However, I don't agree with another thing that I am seeing here and that is the thought that if you don't like a film, don't comment on it. Do I understand this correctly? If I do, then this is something that I cannot go along with. We have every right to say that we don't like a particular work of art, as long as we do so fairly. By this, I mean, that it is not okay to misrepresent it, for example, but to fairly criticize art is certainly within the bounds of ethics.

Am I understanding correctly?