Reviews, ruminations, ramblings, and reminisces about the movies. New for 2020 - The Year in Movies. Every few days I will post about a year in movie history and then post my favorite movie from that year.
Friday, February 25, 2011
245. The 25th Hour (2002)
Champagne for my real friends, and real pain for my sham friends.
Regardless of how you feel about Mr. Spike Lee, a movie like this is an absolute reminder that he is a doggone good filmmaker. The combination of Lee's direction and a movie rooted in the emotion of real-life father and son actors Edward Norton and Brian Cox makes this one near perfect movie. I thought quite a while about whether to include this movies soliloqy, but then I figured it would be a pretty fun one to edit.
Reader beware, offensive monologue coming up:
Okay, I changed my mind... Half way through editing the F-bombs out, I realize that it really didn't make it any less offensive. So, I offered up the secondary quote above, but I urge you to look up Norton's "F*#& You" speech if you want to be shocked and amazed.
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So awesome! And the end, the beating... So awesome.
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