"25th hour" on e-mystery now!!

the best of all spike lee films, inho. tremendous. even tony siragusa was okay. and rosario dawson at her most gorgeous. 8) 8) 8)

cast, besides siragusa and dawson:

edward norton
phillip seymour hoffman
brian cox
barry pepper
anna paquin

 

That's interesting - I consider it Norton's worst film (umm, besides Death to Smoochy, which I don't even really acknowledge.)

The direction is pretty good, but I just can't handle the plot.

I'm a much bigger fan of Lee's Inside Man.

 

interesting, back at ya. couldn't disagree more. that's what makes horse racing.

 

"Where you going? Come back. I make you half black, half Russian baby. You look like Hallie Berry, they tell you dis?"

 

I like some of 25th Hour a lot.
I like all of Inside Man a lot.
And I don't like either of them as much as I like Clockers, 3 Little Girls, o Do The Right Thing.
Man's got chops.

 

"funny you should say that!" ;D ;D ;D

 

I love 25th Hour and I actually found Death to Smoochy oddly amusing.

 

I can honestly say that you are the first person I ever heard to talk about that movie as anything less than the depths of suckitude.
I know more people who like Ishtar.

 

agreed. i meant no disrespect to lee's other works. i'm a fan. i just like "25th hour" the most. maybe 'cause i missed any buzz when it first came out and found it to be an unexpectedly powerful film when i channel-surfed onto it about a year or so ago. 8) 8) 8)

 

Siragusa is God-fucking-awful in this, with his fake-ass Russian accent. Awful!

Great film though. Great ending.

 

guess i was expecting him to be soooo awful that i thought he wasn't half-bad.

 

I can understand that, shock. But I'm guessing if he wasn't an NFL player/TV analyst, and just a fat actor, his audition wouldn't have lasted long.

Plus, if he was so good ... why haven't I seen him in anything else? (other than the Sopranos, which, at that point in the series, had killed off every other fat Italian actor available)