Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods (Official Thread)

[ThaRealness]

I must be in the minority because I’m not a big fan of this movie.

Yeah, it was pretty bad. I held out longer then the rest of the fam

Gave up when

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Dude stops to take a shyt and finds the treasure. Thats some "And then he woke up and it was all a dream" level storytelling

 

[Silent_H]

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No problem with the grenade moment...just dont think he needed to yell out grenade. Should have just had him do it

Probably a reflex. They all had PTSD to a certain extent, as seen at the beginning when the one legged kid threw the firecracker and they all hit the deck. Being back in Vietnam 50 years later allowed the muscle memory to bubble up to the surface.

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

Probably a reflex. They all had PTSD to a certain extent, as seen at the beginning when the one legged kid threw the firecracker and they all hit the deck. Being back in Vietnam 50 years later allowed the muscle memory to bubble up to the surface.

On the rewatch I'll say the bigger issue (or maybe not)

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was the grenade even close enough to Otis to seriously hurt him? Seemed like he rolled it right at Melvin.

 

[ThaRealness]

This shyt wasnt even fukking with Without a Paddle

 

[FlyGuy]

Paul on the boat


Norm!
Norm

 

[FreshFromATL]

Loved this movie

 

[Dontay Flaco]

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when ol boy tried to get them 13s from the line on the boat. I would have done the same thing.

 

[Mʀ2ᴋDᴇᴇᴢ]

delroy actually feels like the character written for the movie while denzel feels like denzel in whatever scenario the movie calls for if that makes sense

I feel it what you’re saying about Denzel, it’s like his own lil style to whomever he’s portraying & Delroy loses himself becoming a different persona

No knock against Denzel though yall

 

[lamont614]

Black Klansman was way better. This just had too many cringe moments and it dragged.

6/10

nah

 

[lamont614]

Just finished

Movie was straight crack

Glad I copped this before they sold out




Gonna frame it and put it in my living room

How much was it when you bought it

 

[BillBanneker]

It's flawed, but I really liked this. The dynamic with all the vets were dope and delroy crushed this (he always does with spike tho).

 

[lamont614]

Me and my 13 year old watched this last night
Didn’t even feel like 2.5 hours






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That intro I always seen that pic of that protesters getting shot never seen the video

that nikka was really leaking





Delroy was god tier

You know the land mine was coming but it still had me on the edge of my seat


Thankfully no gay shyt was shoe horned in the movie

Netflix and spike


It ain’t no thing blood



when old boy hit the shiettttttt I wish I was in theaters when that happened

I bet the crowd would have went wild


The symbolism from the maga hat to the jays to throwback pics and audio and video

I love black movies with soul all those men remind me of my ogs



10/10

 

[manyfaces]

@Rhakim and all the brehs who seen The Emperor Jones

Delroy Lindo's walk through the jungle scene gave me the same vibes/awe of Paul Robeson in The Emperor Jones at the end.

I timestamped for the brehs who want to see (just the last 10 to 15 mins)

Yeah, can definitely see that. Now I gotta go back and watch The Emperor Jones again. Haven't seen it in years.

 

[Motife43]

I enjoyed the movie. Not up there with some of Spike's greats but solid nonetheless.

The most common beef I've seen was the use of Chadwick Boseman/the use of older actors. Seeing him in the helicopter with the old heads threw me off at first, but I actually enjoyed the way they casted and wrote those characters in.

I read this article yesterday about a guy who was traveling in Thailand and ended up being Chadwick's stand-in: I was traveling in Thailand and got cast in Spike Lee's new movie 'Da 5 Bloods'

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

Yeah, can definitely see that. Now I gotta go back and watch The Emperor Jones again. Haven't seen it in years.

Yea

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losing his mind
Talking to himself/breaking the 4th wall
Seeing visions of his old friend
Getting killed at the end

Speaking of which...I'd be down for an Emperor Jones remake