Movie #: 243
Movie Title: Do the Right Thing
Year Released: 1989
Director: Spike Lee
Notable Cast: Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, John Turtutto, Samuel L. Jackson
Short Description: On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone’s hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence. (IMDB.com)
Rank on the Top 100 Lists
AFI.com: #96
IMDB.com: N/A
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Date Watched: 1/30/2013
What I Liked: Some of the characters were interesting and well acted, such as Da Mayor, played by Ossie Davis, and Sal, played by Danny Aiello. Although both were in small roles, it was cool to see a movie from early in the career of Samuel L. Jackson and Martin Lawrence. The movie had a good message to it in the end about working and living together or we’ll all end up killing each other.
What I Disliked: The message I mentioned in my likes was buried in a movie that made no sense. I’m not sure if this is Spike Lee’s typical style of direction but jumping between characters and their random daily happenings made it hard follow and develop an interest with most characters. In general I found scenes and some characters to be very annoying or pointless to the overall message. The randomness and droning on about topics sort of reminded me of how I felt about the movie Clerks, which is not a movie I particularly enjoyed.
Grade: 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
Rationale: There was very little I liked in this movie because of how randomly the movie jumped around between characters and scenes and how annoying and/or pointless some characters were.
I completely agree - I wanted to turn this off after 10 minutes. Some characters were beyond annoying and completely distracted me from the few relevant parts of the movie. The semi-decent last half hour was definitely not worth sitting through the first hour and a half.
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