So we've had our best NYC movies post. Time for our worst. I'll start with Summer of Sam. For all the shit Spike Lee gives Clint Eastwood, I wish someone had taken him for task for this piece of crap. If Clint can't direct a film about Charlie Parker, then why the hell should Spike direct one with a punk rock subplot?
In the movie, Adrien Brody plays a guido turned punker. We know this because he has a crazy spiky mohawk hair do and safety pins and all that crap. That'd be great if anyone in NYC scene looked like that in 1977. But no, actually everyone looked kind of like The Ramones and The Dictators. Long hair, leather jackets. Other bands such as Talking Heads had a preppy look. Bottom line, that British style did not show up in NYC until much later.
Funnier still though is Brody's character playing air guitar to Baba O'Reilly. Yeah, because those hardcore punkers were really into The Who. Boring old farts, anyone?
2 comments:
actually I think bayonnemike looked like that in 1977. Oh wait, that was the year of the rabbinical facial hair.
take away the punk gaffes (slamdancing???) and about 45 minutes off the run time and i think there's a good movie. oh yeah, and the bed-stuy angle that had nothing to do with anything. c'mon rambler, it doesn't get any better than that ridiculous reggie cameo (aka 60 yr old man in fro)
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