Haven't seen the trailer (in theaters, anyway) for the next Spike Lee Joint, She Hate Me. According to the usually accurate Internet Movie Database:
Plot Outline: Fired from his job for exposing corrupt business practices, a former biotech executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.
So, um, yeah.
On the other hand, Monica Bellucci.
And Lonette McKee, who don't get nearly enough work, but neither does Ossie Davis. The danger of being a classically trained -- or just talented -- Negro actor or actress. Unless you want to work with one or more of the Wayans brothers, who are neither. . .
Want to know more? No, I'm not sure I do either, but there's a bit of an interview with Spike Lee at MovieWeb:
AP: So you’re making this new movie, something with lesbians...
Lee: No no no no no. It’s called ‘She Hate Me.’ It’s coming out this summer on Sony Classics, starring Anthony Mackie — he was the young brother battling Eminem at the end of “8 Mile” — Kerry Washington, Ellen Barkin, Monica Bellucci, Woody Harrelson, John Turturro, Brian Dennehy. Q-Tip’s in it. It’s about a young African-American who gets involved in some shady things and gets set up at his company and he’s fired. Because of his predicament he puts his morals and values aside and starts a business impregnating lesbians who want to have kids.
AP: Personally impregnating them?
Lee: It depends. Any way you want it. Artificial insemination or the real thing, $10,000 each. In a month he impregnates 19 women.
AP: How far into the movie before you get to that point?
Lee: That’s the first 10 minutes (big laughter). Nah, I’m joking. But really, it’s a comedy.
Uh huh. . .
I have a bad feeling about this.
Guess I could wait until I've seen the movie before commenting, but then I couldn't join those fun-filled discussions of Fahrenheit 9/11 either. . .
Are the (*snicker*) hardcore SF fans annoyed about I, Robot? Because that would make me feel better.
I'd have a look, but I'm afraid I'd get. . . whateverthefuck they have all over me.
Look at it this way, at least it sounds better than Soul Plane...
Michael, I don't think that even rises to the level of damning with faint praise.
Not that I've seen Soul Plane.
Or plan to.
Ever.
I don't plan on seeing Soul Plane either. I thought (silly me) that once I saw the plot that it could rise to the diminished level of one of the Wayans Bros. satires.
Nope.
After hearing the toilet-paper thin plot, I figure it's on the level of a REALLY bad Bob Newhart flick I saw years ago, First Family. That one's the only movie I've ever gotten up and left from after paying for it (it was just THAT bad!)...
I know some Asimov fans. The ones I know are Not Amused by what they've heard about I, Robot.
There was a huge fit in the hard SF fanbase about Starship Troopers when it came out, too. Some people were pissed off that it wasn't a scene-by-scene recreation of the book; others thought it was an acceptable rendition of the basic ideas into a different medium (cf. LOTR books/movies and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?/Blade Runner)
You wanna see a pitched battle, get some Amber fans together and dangle a rumor of a movie/miniseries in front of them. Don't do it without your spit-guard, though! (And I say that as a fan who'd be in the middle of that fight!)
I've seen the trailer, and I think it's gonna be worse than Soul Plane, which at least (I think) knows it's a comedy with no redeeming values. And as far as I know, he's actually having sex with the women, who are all wearing lingerie and pouty lipped. It's like "King Magazine presents: She Hate Me!"
Ugh. And it's a "comedy?" Double ugh.
It's enough to make me wish we could trade Spike in the racial draft (Thanks to Dave Chapelle!).
Worse than Soul Plane? (and I'm only half kidding)
Just damn.
Hey! Ossie was in the just-released-on-DVD-this-week movie, BUBBA HO-TEP!
His character lives in a nursing home. The character's name is John F. Kennedy.
Yes, *that* John F. Kennedy.
He's actually still alive.
Hey, they DYED him. Really!!
Val
Who LOVED Dave Chapelle's racial draft sketch!