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A caricature of himself


He's not real anymore.
I think at this point, at his age, he's either stuck with the same one-trick-pony routine, or he's playing for everybody this caricature of a black, short, angry, "political" film director.

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Yeah he's a total clown and a snorewad. The oscars are desperate if his antics are the best attraction they have.

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He's made huge inroads for black film makers who want to tell personal stories. I'll give him that. BUT, I don't find his work all that impressive, and his writing is at best sophomoric and hamfisted. His direction style also comes across as too much free-flow and not enough choreography. I can tell he strives to make movie scenes in the same vein as Robert Altman, but the end result comes across as lazy and unfocused.

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He's made some brilliant films, I will give him that.

However, that doesn't give him the right to be so monumentally rude to the co-writers of "Blackkklansman", the ones who probably did most of the real work, and whom he left standing on stage unable to speak. Some people seem to think that being a brilliant artist gives them the right to be an asshole, and that just isn't so.

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Well said.

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I just found it hypocritical for him to denigrate Green Book winning Best Picture after his grandstanding.

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Why cant he just accept that the academy loves road trip movies?

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This guy is a little racist toad who makes amateurish movies.

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He was always like that. He's like the black Oliver Stone, especially comparing the quality of their films in later life.

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