Did anybody else cry at the end of the 25th hour?

I found the movie very, very sad but then again that's cos all my friends are lowlifes and dealers.

From Ed Norton's final scene in the park (you know which one I mean) all the way through to the dream sequence. What an astounding movie.

My favorite part was in the club right after teach kisses the girl and walks out of the bathroom and Spike gets all cinema with it - supergreg action in hard stereo = perfect touch

For myself, I enjoyed the movie tremendously. I didn't cry
but I did have my emotional moments.

Of course, I'm a hardhead - I can distinctly remember every
time I've cried watching a movie. The first I can remember is
E.T when I was six, and the last two were:

Mulholland Drive, the part with the girl singing Roy Orbison
songs in spanish

and at the end of Rabbit Proof Fence the tears were running
down my face. it was a mixture of 20% sadness at the state
of the world and 80% happiness/respect for the two old women
and what they've gone through and survived, and how they are
still able to smile and laugh.

The film had some interesting things to say regarding responsibilty (of himself and his friends/family) but the idea of couching this malaise as a parallel to New York post 9/11 malaise seemed a mis-step, as did the heavy handed leading score. I have a lot of respect for Spike Lee, but thought most of this was very badly judged - and in many places just plain boring.

i agree that the movie was boring in a few spots. it was almost playlike at times, with characters sitting in a small area talking about issues. It didn't have Spike Lee's usual involving pacing, as seen in clockers and he got game. It did not have an ongoing sense of tension or excitement, mafia subplot withstanding. but maybe that was his way of portraying a sense of resignation and impending unavoidable doom?

Perhaps the frustration I had was with the supporting characters being much, much more interesting than the lead. Therefore it felt like a missed opportunity.

i'm kinda surprised pete disliked it so much.

How could I have forgotten how much 9/11 imagery there was in this movie? If only there could've been a sign somewhere for Lee to film that said something to the effect that I should never forget.

what a completely awful movie - spkie lee and ed norton have to be the two corniest people in the world

I also forgot how little this movie adds up to without the 9/11 refs and the two fantasy setpieces.

i found the end sequence pretty moving, tho somewhat corny yah. just like v.o. delivery & the 'this is still a beautiful country' line

OK, the syndicated version cuts the guts out of that final fantasy sequence, which basically renders the entire movie totally pointless.

Seriously, how do you fucking cut this?

i like corny spike lee

there is a lot of 9/11 imagery in this, yeah, but it was also, if I'm not mistaken, the first movie made in NYC after 9/11, and I think that point is really important. I guess you can be all rockist about it and only evaluate the film on it's own merits but I find the movie impossible to divorce from the culture in which it was made.

Yes, watching the montage that got cut reminded me that the 9/11 stuff really was the point of the whole thing. Maybe it's just that repeat viewings make all the superficial plot points more irritatingly off-topic.

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i believe most of it was shot before 9/11

My favorite ten minutes of film. God, no matter how many times I watch that ending it still devastates me. The unconditional love of the father, certainly, but that vision of 'America.'

and to think the guy who wrote this went on to write the supremely terrible Troy, Stay and X-Men: Wolverine (the other one he's done is The Kite Runner film but i haven't seen it so can't say if it was any good).

Wow, that Marvel Comics page is something else. Killing innocents makes supervillains cry.