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I'm back, and as some of you might have noticed last week was not me. It was actually my evil brother who mom left on spin cycle for too long. You see, he shrunk. The family was all touched by this, but decided we couldn't have someone who would be the butt of all jokes to represent the family for the movie reviews. That's why I was brought back. You see between the contract disputes, major business transactions, and wild orgies, I had been incredibly busy, and didn't have time to be in town, let alone see a movie. So for that reason, my comeback show will hopefully be as good as any you've seen. Gee, just think of what high standards those are. (weird face) anyway to get this show on the road. I saw the Spike Lee, Denzel Washington picture, He Got Game. It's a story written by good ol Spike himself where a star high school basketball player gets offers to play for the best college programs in the country. Surprisingly Oregon State wasn't mentioned, but I'm sure we would've been right after Georgetown. The athlete, played by real life NBA star Ray Allen is visited by his father who was in jail for murdering his wife. The governor has made a deal with Denzel, the father, that if he can get his son to sign with a certain school, the jail sentence will be cut considerably short. So Denzel (last in Fallen) is out trying to convince his son. The only problem, the son hates him for killing his mother, and wants nothing to do with him. As a child Ray Allen's character Jesus was pushed hard to play ball. Denzel used to work with him far past dark, running laps, doing drills, and roughing him up. All this in an attempt to make him a great ball player. To this point the movie had great things going for it. It was dramatic, emotional, and all made sense. But then in typical Spike Lee fashion during Denzel's pursuit of Jesus, don't worry it's a biblical name, Denzel's character falls in love with a prostitute, sleeps with her, visits his wife's grave, and buys a new pair of Air Jordan's. If you're thinking wait a second, what does a prostitute have to do with basketball? Well I don't know, it's a Spike thing. You wouldn't understand. Then to top it off, it starts showing Jesus going to parties for recruitment, sleeping with lots of big breasted, small brained women. Now this was a troubling part for me. Never in my movie reviewing career has exposing breasts been a bad thing, or even a distraction. For whatever reason, even after thinking about it twice I actually decided those useless scenes detracted from the movie. I was disappointed from a movie and a director I expected more from to resort to the ol, quick give them a shot of naked ladies. These random sex scenes with no connection to a plot or anything else for that matter have their place, you know what. They're called porno's. If I wanted to see sex that didn't fit in the plot of the movie I would've rented one. I wanted to see He Got Game continue with the father-son struggle that had been depicted so well to that point. The movie ends in a way that was almost as cheesy and stupid as Spike Lee at a Knicks game. I really was looking forward to seeing He Got Game. Spike and Denzel have made great movies in the past. One of my favorites of all time is the biographic motion picture featuring the civil rights activist and Muslim, Malcolm X. Lee also brought Denzel in to play a character in Mo' Better Blues. If only Spike could've given Denzel's character a much better part. So as far as I'm concerned, when you're talkin about Ray Allen, He Got Game, but unfortunately Spike Lee didn't for this one. So yet another basketball movie with good action, but sub par story. So He Got Game didn't have game in my book, scoring only 6 points against me. That's right six out of ten, but back to the little game me and Mike Stevens were playing (look away grab the ball dribble a bit and shoot) ok Stevens that's h-o-r-s for you chump. Last updated: Thursday, March 20, 2008 02:45:33 AM |
