Invest in something that doesn't have a shelf life. An education, your health, you girl (guy), kids, f'ing anything really. When 'x' is played out, faster than ever these days, you give them your disposable income 'y', which they invest better than you did to begin with. Don't be that person w/ the hot new shoes, big, tacky rims, whatever his cool now...cuz' it won't be for long and you still live as financially disadvantaged (read, "poor").
"I find it ironical that Spike Lee gets preachy against corporations exploiting black culture, wasn't he the one advertising Air Jordan's and ripping off poor African Americans enticing them to spend almost all of their disposable incomes buying shoes? (Hell the crime wave which started robbing people of their new shoes is not even funny). Spike Lee is the real Timmi Hillnigger."
Where is Spike Lee? Answer Spike Lee. Answer Spike. It's ironical! Answer for yourself!
@airbrushedhottie He doesn't have to answer, any person that isn't smart enough to realize that Spike has come a long way since doing Nike commercials doesn't deserve a reasonable answer.
You folks might be missing the point. Hilfiger and Timberland were both 'UNENTHUSIASTIC' about the idea of their clothes being popular with young, Black People. Yet, Black People continued to buy their fucking clothes.
Which basically explains other stupid shit like how Blacks consign that fat, Cop bastard Rick Ross even though He's phony as a 3 dollar bill.
It's been said that he that ignores history will repeat it. This generation has a lot of fucking up left to do if that so.
I find it ironical that Spike Lee gets preachy against corporations exploiting black culture, wasn't he the one advertising Air Jordan's and ripping off poor African Americans enticing them to spend almost all of their disposable incomes buying shoes? (Hell the crime wave which started robbing people of their new shoes is not even funny). Spike Lee is the real Timmi Hillnigger.
@linxusims There are parts in this movie where Spike even takes jabs at himself. Maybe this is one oft them. Have you noticed he doesn't do those types of commercials anymore?
@linxusims In reference to the Mars Blackmon character in the Nike Air commercials, Spike was REHASHING his character from his first film, 'She's Gotta Have It'. In the film, Mars talked about basketball often. The Mars character was only saying the same thing everyone else was saying about Jordan.
Be careful, you're on the verge of being a 'Revisionist'. The Hilfiger Corporation as well as Timberland made pronouncements that they don't want to be associated with Blacks wearing their clothes.
Timmi Hillnigger and tommy hilfiger are pretty much the same Thing, a product made by a corp that is embraced by the poor and want to keep a "nigger mentality" like they said "stay in the ghetto" luckily this trend is JUST NOW starting to die out slowly
It could be aired on tv, if the media wanted it to be aired. IT WOULD WAKE TOO MANY BLACK PEOPLE UP. Bad for business and oppression. And the clothing designers take advantage of Black people because BLACK PEOPLE LIKE TO BE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF. It's what we do. We glorify oppression and "the struggle". Revolution! Revolution! BULLSHIT. The world has heard that BS for nearly 30 years. It will NEVER happen. Look at the Latinos and Asians alone. They united in a way that Black people only talk about
latinos and asian's american history cannot be compared to ours. they're immigrants. black people didn't come to this country on their own volition.
also, the 'revolution bullshit' has actually been around for at least 50 years. in the late 60s, black people united in a way asians and latinos DIDNT NEED to think about (and havent come close to matching, in america at least; mind you i'm not saying they were any less oppressed, it was just different)
i'm not sure if you saw the movie, but that was the whole point of the parody, to show how he was trying to market to the "urban" crowd by taking advantage of the image of black people and black culture in urban areas. why do you think they called him timmy hillnigger?
LMAO @ 0:55 "Oh, all my niggahs wear timmy hillniggah. ahfellahhwieeeohhhhh, it's ghetto-ah-fabulous!!!" ...Ands that's EXACTLY how stupid our people look on BET and other shows and such as sisters disgrace themselves on rap videos.....The video was funny as hell, but it was a WAKE UP CALL MY PEOPLE!! STOP MAKING THESE MOTHA-F@CKERS RICH!!! This is what they REALLY THINK OF US. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE....
True true, especially when you've got the fools who are ready to kill or hurt another person for their shoes and clothes. Don't they realise how f--ked up that is?
You're nothing more than a slave to materialism and consumerism. Our ancestors never went through so much suffering to escape slavery for us to end up in a modern-age one.
As for the videos, it makes me question the self-worth these women have. A lot of them aren't even paid for that foolishness. It's free work for "publicity" smh.
Yo, Poster, tag this video correctly. I youtube timmi hilnigger, can't find it unless i type in bamboozled. If it was found by timmi hilnigger, it would have had a million hits right now.
This commercial is hilarious. When you're watching the movie, during shots of the audience during the Mantan episodes, you can see some people in the audience are wearing Timmi Hillnigger clothes.
don't take it the wrong way you dumb bastards this is a direct parody of the retardedness of tommy hilfiger and other clothing designers who take advantage of black culture
@trademarktaz nobody's taking advantage of black culture. You act like Timmy Hillnigger is putting a gun to black peoples head and forcing them to buy his shit,
@trademarktaz but check it... mah fuckas be all up on dat shit... the wicked supply is there, and so is the ignant mah fuckas who bust a nutt to wear it....
@trademarktaz so you mean i cant design hiphop clothing because im not black? i love hip hop so i think im entitled to design my own hip hop clothes thats what i think.
I always found this part hilarious. This should act as a major wake up call to african americans buying all this name brand crap and still staying broke. I wish they could air this on TV
Exactly. Buying 150-200 dollar pair of shoes and you can't pay the rent, make the car payment, and keep the damn lights on. Triflin and bama! This what keeps black folks slaves to their clothes. Like Jesse Jackson said "Worry about what you put in your brain and not what is on your butt."
in 1505 a woman was hunted down and killed by an evil clown.now that you have read this,that same clown will be sitting next to your bed with a machete and red,evil glowing eyes when you wake up,unless you post this to 10 other videos in 1 hour of reading this
cuz i remember watchin this movie my junior year in highschool n i couldnt help but laugh i kno the movie was a seious situation but when this shit came on it caught me off guard n i forgot what i was watchn man teacher kicced me outta class 4 a minute cuz i was laughn loud n when i was n the hallway it still had me laughn but Bamboozled is by far my favorite movie everytime i watch it i learn something new
i know how you feel. it's a rollercoaster of grim and bleak truth with just the hilariousness of the absurdity of the situation and of racism itself in general.
People didn't watch the film because half of them didn't get it, and the other half don't like being criticized :). People are saying it was too hard to understand but I think it was actually too easy to understand, which is why people were pissed at this movie. If I was Tommy Hilfiger, I wouldn't be able to help but laugh at this film, cause even though I wouldn't like the fact that Spike took a shot at me, I wouldn't be able to deny the truths in his logic.
Last time i checked it was people like 50 cent selling cheap clothes to black people at marked up prices. Spike Lee's just a racist hack who hasn't made a relevant movie since Malcolm X. People who's logic is flawed admire other people who's logic is flawed as well. I recommend you take a philosophy class.
Beatlemaniac, 50 Cent was a nobody when this film was released. There really weren't that many clothing labels owned by hip-hop artists in 2000 at all, though I know that seems crazy since so many have labels now. Spike said it himself, at the time Hilfiger was just the biggest fish in the pond; he felt he had to go at him. And I think Spike had a couple more relevant films, they weren't necessarily good films, however.
Who cares if you heard black audience members criticizing the film? Make up your mind for yourself. Just because some black people don't like a black director's work doesn't mean it's suddenly cool or correct to agree with them.
Nobody could see what Spike was trying to do. No one seem to get the Satire & Irony Spike was trying to look at. In Brands and Black People and they way they are Marketed too.
Despite the fact that a lot of people miss the mark (admittedly, it took me a lot of thinking to really understand this movie) this movie really does have a message, and it is an impressive literary work.
It's not that complicated. The spoof commercials like The Bomb malt liquor and Timmi Hillnigger are almost satirical infomercials aimed PREDOMINANTLY at African-Americans. You can talk about making change and continue the same actions yourself. That makes you a hypocrite and almost certainly leads to failure
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Hahahahahahahahaha, he's not brilliant, he's actually quite a shitty writer and as a director he's baraly salable...if he was white he'd never get work.
of course this comes from an idiot who thinks banal directors like Spielberg and Zemeckis are great..please like Scorcesse, Lumet, Wertmueller . Allen, and Bergman Mr Lee is an ORIGINAL
lol what alota old people dont realize about alot of hip hop fashion company's is that they just like this LOOOOLLL. like gunit or rockawere or whatever dont even cost that much its them fucking white labels that got like $400 tags and shit on them
Yeah but its not always a white guy selling them that stupid shit! Most of the time its another black person profiting from it: 50 Cent, Jay-z, Sean Combs. Spike Lee has no sense of what a double standard is. His dark humor often falls flat, his satire is grossly insulting, and his dialogue is ridiculous (see: she hate me). Face it, Spike Lee is a has been director that peaked with 'Malcolm X' and has been going down hill ever sense.
I can agree with some points of what you're saying. "She Hate Me" was ridiculous and it lost me because the fact that he impregnated so many women overpowered the other side of the story that was based on "Enron". The two points in the movie didn't fit together at all and the frequent sex scenes were distracting from a valid point.
Most of that is image, bought and paid for by white executives and producers. These people have to get the money to make their product (be it music or film) from somewhere.
Whites executive produce the negative music AND the puppets that decry it. It's like they are literally creating the problem to make more money. The rap fucks with the heads of young black youth, they go out and commit random acts of violence, then the puppets whine about how bad young black men are. And the ratings skyrocket
First of all, Spike Lee puts many intelligent and REAL-life aspects into his movies. You have to be blind not to realize that many people rather LOOK the part than LIVE the part. Some people rather look like they have money rather than invest and get out the ghetto. Don't start docking me points I SAID SOME PEOPLE NOT ALL PEOPLE.
I am black & many of my friends struggle with this. They drive tricked out cars in the projects & buy COOGI B4 they start a bank account. Sad but it is true.
Spike Lee's really fond of lampooning hip hop with lame synthpop drums =) he does it in Clockers too. There's enough to dislike about the guy, but I like his habit of doing that =)
The funniest thing about this is that self-satisfied smirk on Timmi's face. Spike Lee talked about being confronted by Tommy Hilfiger, who was really offended by this.
not only was it sublte attack on gangsta rap, but it was also a blatant attack on the materialistic apsect of hip hop culture, that's what makes this scene so good.
all of the neo nazis and those white racists, you know the ones that are always saying the n word here on youtube and talking shit have a black guy that they use to make bafoon videos. they call him jiggaboo jones. its real I shit you not!! how did they get a black person to actually clown for them I will never know but he does. I feel like doing what the mau mau's did to that fucker.
If you'd see the entire movie, you would find it's actually quite subtle. This is a parody clip that along with another one (a beer commercial) is hysterical but not really part of the plot. This is a great movie and it would be worth seeing it, along with two other Spike Lee joints - 25th Hour and Sucker Free City. If you still think that Spike Lee is doing "Do the right thing" over and over again you're really missing out.
hm. I have seen Bamboozled the movie, but it was in 2002, so maybe its just my bad memory for not remembering this commercial scene. I'll try to check 25th Hour.
this is an amazing movie, with so many observations about humankind, race relations and the media, you should be forced to watch this in America especially, and everybody might learn to get along a little better, and quit trying to put each other in boxes all the time.
There is a later point that someone makes saying that Spike didn't need to beat people over the head with satire. The person that originally posted this is exactly why he should; because some people just... don't... get it.
Damn at 1:04-1:05 that dude looks like dwight freeney turning into adrian peterson.
KizaSoze25 2 months ago
LMAO at Booty Head bump!!! 0:22
HiphopRae714 2 months ago
lmao at the brotha steppin at 0:07
humpty60 2 months ago
"A fool and his money are soon parted."
Invest in something that doesn't have a shelf life. An education, your health, you girl (guy), kids, f'ing anything really. When 'x' is played out, faster than ever these days, you give them your disposable income 'y', which they invest better than you did to begin with. Don't be that person w/ the hot new shoes, big, tacky rims, whatever his cool now...cuz' it won't be for long and you still live as financially disadvantaged (read, "poor").
1tonghost 2 months ago
This kind of makes me wish Spike Lee made a sketch comedy show. Damn, imagine if he and Chapelle joined forces.
TheDSil 4 months ago
@TheDSil THAT WOULD BE THE SHIT
moody2274 4 months ago
Back then it was Tommy Hillfiger. Now its Gucci, and Louis Vetton. Still the same bullshit all over again. ITS CALLED PRODUCT PLACEMENT
osei1977 5 months ago
Is a "hill nigger" an actual insult?
I can't find anything when I Bing it
BLACKIESBOY 5 months ago
im the zombie that didn't get the message and only noticed the hot girl at the end sike!
Labcabin96 6 months ago
: D : D : D
MultiSinoda 6 months ago
niggas in the geeto
hazardous1990 7 months ago
alot of you seriously cant see the message behind this
acdcrules3 7 months ago 3
As a black man...I think every black family should be forced to watch Bamboozled and Drop SQuad back to back once a year.
PumaSweat 7 months ago 6
this was the best freakin movie ever, I swear!
Ruthlyn 7 months ago
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Ruthlyn 7 months ago
I uploaded the entire film.
MGSFan22 8 months ago
Wait. I think I remember seeing some Timmi Hillnigger jeans on sale.
GreatMewtwo 10 months ago 3
"I find it ironical that Spike Lee gets preachy against corporations exploiting black culture, wasn't he the one advertising Air Jordan's and ripping off poor African Americans enticing them to spend almost all of their disposable incomes buying shoes? (Hell the crime wave which started robbing people of their new shoes is not even funny). Spike Lee is the real Timmi Hillnigger."
Where is Spike Lee? Answer Spike Lee. Answer Spike. It's ironical! Answer for yourself!
airbrushedhottie 11 months ago 3
@airbrushedhottie He doesn't have to answer, any person that isn't smart enough to realize that Spike has come a long way since doing Nike commercials doesn't deserve a reasonable answer.
MGSFan22 8 months ago
Keep it real my GEETOE
CutThroatDiamondbakZ 11 months ago 3
that was also the same guy who played pino's brother in do the right thing, right?
sholeizugly 11 months ago
@sholeizugly No, that was Richard Edson. Timmi Hillnigger is played by an actor named Danny Hoch.
J0rdanY0ung417 5 months ago
@J0rdanY0ung417 yeah i had to watch em both again
sholeizugly 5 months ago
Hi, I'm Timmy Hillnigger, heeeeeeeeeeeeey.
MGSFan22 1 year ago
You folks might be missing the point. Hilfiger and Timberland were both 'UNENTHUSIASTIC' about the idea of their clothes being popular with young, Black People. Yet, Black People continued to buy their fucking clothes.
Which basically explains other stupid shit like how Blacks consign that fat, Cop bastard Rick Ross even though He's phony as a 3 dollar bill.
It's been said that he that ignores history will repeat it. This generation has a lot of fucking up left to do if that so.
MTXSHO9732vV8SHO 1 year ago 4
this is so deep...
LavenderScented 1 year ago
I swear to god Timmi Hillnigger looks like Peyton Manning
ninjarlou 1 year ago 3
@ninjarlou Lol, I know.
LiquidSolidRaiden 1 year ago
hahaha wtf
TheClodfather 1 year ago
This shit is hilarious but sadly so true, people need to wake up....
ATMX17 1 year ago 3
OK am I the only one that notices Spike picked the most Jewish looking guy on the face of the Earth to play Timmi. Not an accident.
orange2821 1 year ago 5
@orange2821 and it shouldnt be
jabre12 1 year ago
I find it ironical that Spike Lee gets preachy against corporations exploiting black culture, wasn't he the one advertising Air Jordan's and ripping off poor African Americans enticing them to spend almost all of their disposable incomes buying shoes? (Hell the crime wave which started robbing people of their new shoes is not even funny). Spike Lee is the real Timmi Hillnigger.
linxusims 1 year ago 2
@linxusims Yeah, and when Malcolm X movie came out, didn't he advertise X caps and gear to the African Americans. Spike Lee is the biggest hypocrite.
cutup260 1 year ago
@cutup260 Watch the "Da Bomb" commercial, he's no hypocrite, he never advertised beer and liquor.
LiquidSolidRaiden 1 year ago
@linxusims Watch the "Da Bomb" commercial from this film, he isn't a hypocrite when it comes to advertising liquor and beer.
LiquidSolidRaiden 1 year ago
@linxusims There are parts in this movie where Spike even takes jabs at himself. Maybe this is one oft them. Have you noticed he doesn't do those types of commercials anymore?
digital2500 1 year ago
@linxusims In reference to the Mars Blackmon character in the Nike Air commercials, Spike was REHASHING his character from his first film, 'She's Gotta Have It'. In the film, Mars talked about basketball often. The Mars character was only saying the same thing everyone else was saying about Jordan.
Be careful, you're on the verge of being a 'Revisionist'. The Hilfiger Corporation as well as Timberland made pronouncements that they don't want to be associated with Blacks wearing their clothes.
MTXSHO9732vV8SHO 1 year ago
@MTXSHO9732vV8SHO You make some good points there!
linxusims 1 year ago
Timmi Hillnigger and tommy hilfiger are pretty much the same Thing, a product made by a corp that is embraced by the poor and want to keep a "nigger mentality" like they said "stay in the ghetto" luckily this trend is JUST NOW starting to die out slowly
chuckbear 1 year ago
It could be aired on tv, if the media wanted it to be aired. IT WOULD WAKE TOO MANY BLACK PEOPLE UP. Bad for business and oppression. And the clothing designers take advantage of Black people because BLACK PEOPLE LIKE TO BE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF. It's what we do. We glorify oppression and "the struggle". Revolution! Revolution! BULLSHIT. The world has heard that BS for nearly 30 years. It will NEVER happen. Look at the Latinos and Asians alone. They united in a way that Black people only talk about
cocteautwinsfan 1 year ago
@cocteautwinsfan
latinos and asian's american history cannot be compared to ours. they're immigrants. black people didn't come to this country on their own volition.
also, the 'revolution bullshit' has actually been around for at least 50 years. in the late 60s, black people united in a way asians and latinos DIDNT NEED to think about (and havent come close to matching, in america at least; mind you i'm not saying they were any less oppressed, it was just different)
sean0milan0 1 year ago 4
Geeto
pugzkiller4321 1 year ago 2
Wake up NOW
AfricanProtector 1 year ago
I can't wait for da day they show dis as an actual commercial.
kadeen3000 1 year ago 2
TIMMY TIMMY TIMMY TIMMY HILL...NIGGER!!
WAKE UP !!
funny doe cos its tru
kadeen3000 1 year ago
i'm not sure if you saw the movie, but that was the whole point of the parody, to show how he was trying to market to the "urban" crowd by taking advantage of the image of black people and black culture in urban areas. why do you think they called him timmy hillnigger?
trademarktaz 1 year ago
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hazardous1990 1 year ago
LMAO! Tommy Hilfiger was upset about this and said Spike Lee owed him an apology...
Hilarious but the message at the end is deadly serious - overpriced designer wear is a sure-fire way to remain in poverty.
JayArgonaut 1 year ago 4
125% authentic ghetto active-wear
robimess 1 year ago 5
sauce on the chick in the end with dat ass
DillaWorld 1 year ago
LMAO @ 0:55 "Oh, all my niggahs wear timmy hillniggah. ahfellahhwieeeohhhhh, it's ghetto-ah-fabulous!!!" ...Ands that's EXACTLY how stupid our people look on BET and other shows and such as sisters disgrace themselves on rap videos.....The video was funny as hell, but it was a WAKE UP CALL MY PEOPLE!! STOP MAKING THESE MOTHA-F@CKERS RICH!!! This is what they REALLY THINK OF US. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE....
redbonegal 1 year ago 6
True true, especially when you've got the fools who are ready to kill or hurt another person for their shoes and clothes. Don't they realise how f--ked up that is?
You're nothing more than a slave to materialism and consumerism. Our ancestors never went through so much suffering to escape slavery for us to end up in a modern-age one.
As for the videos, it makes me question the self-worth these women have. A lot of them aren't even paid for that foolishness. It's free work for "publicity" smh.
JayArgonaut 1 year ago 3
@redbonegal The line is, "All my niggas wear Timmi Hillnigger, or they don't wear a damn thing at all." Still, it's like wth.
GreatMewtwo 5 months ago
wow..
OsazeMoswenYazid 2 years ago
Yo, Poster, tag this video correctly. I youtube timmi hilnigger, can't find it unless i type in bamboozled. If it was found by timmi hilnigger, it would have had a million hits right now.
floeticdeath 2 years ago
lol
00579G47 2 years ago
That chick at 00:53
kaisergecko 2 years ago 3
word
0ace0hitta0 2 years ago
We keep it so real we give you the bullet holes!
augustbaby823 2 years ago 2
KILL ME CAUSE IT'S TRUE!
Steadno 2 years ago 3
Spike Lee is not as stupid as folks thought. He was fully aware of all your reactions toward this film----both good and bad.
BronkoScunkadelik 2 years ago 5
I wanna buy some Timmi Hillniger clothes!!!!
g3nov3s3 2 years ago 8
This commercial is hilarious. When you're watching the movie, during shots of the audience during the Mantan episodes, you can see some people in the audience are wearing Timmi Hillnigger clothes.
ViagraMan2Us 2 years ago 5
don't take it the wrong way you dumb bastards this is a direct parody of the retardedness of tommy hilfiger and other clothing designers who take advantage of black culture
trademarktaz 2 years ago 46
@trademarktaz nobody's taking advantage of black culture. You act like Timmy Hillnigger is putting a gun to black peoples head and forcing them to buy his shit,
lol...
CraigKramer 1 year ago
@trademarktaz but check it... mah fuckas be all up on dat shit... the wicked supply is there, and so is the ignant mah fuckas who bust a nutt to wear it....
djmmcee 11 months ago
@trademarktaz so you mean i cant design hiphop clothing because im not black? i love hip hop so i think im entitled to design my own hip hop clothes thats what i think.
yespresents 11 months ago
I always found this part hilarious. This should act as a major wake up call to african americans buying all this name brand crap and still staying broke. I wish they could air this on TV
NorDuVie 2 years ago 53
Exactly. Buying 150-200 dollar pair of shoes and you can't pay the rent, make the car payment, and keep the damn lights on. Triflin and bama! This what keeps black folks slaves to their clothes. Like Jesse Jackson said "Worry about what you put in your brain and not what is on your butt."
luvs2teach00 2 years ago 15
LOL. This reminds me of my cousin. He just bought weapons from his college loan money. smfh.
floeticdeath 2 years ago
@NorDuVie
They'd probably wonder, "Is that a new store? I want clothes from there!"
<;(
BLACKIESBOY 1 year ago
One of the FUNNIEST THINGS EVER.
From one of my favorite movies of all time.
That shit is ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS.
Btw he dances so gangster
MagicalTawco 2 years ago
you guys do know this is satire right? The whole movie is an indictment of gangster rap.
KiljanArslan 2 years ago 3
@KiljanArslan no - THIS shit is real life- and this is coming from a black man
215workhard 2 years ago
dat girl at the end was SEXY
emceenicc 2 years ago 6
i just died when that guy got accidentally bumped on the head by that girl's booty dance. sorry.
thescarlettpimpernel 2 years ago 4
well this is what we get for complaining that tommy made no clothes for black people
Chillaxes 2 years ago
2 funny lol
isysslovestheoldies 2 years ago
wait a sec, isn't that the bridge that appears on the dvd cover of the movie "Krush Groove"?
amtraklover 3 years ago
guy kinda looked like Payton Manning lol
CodyMacRae 3 years ago 3
Hehe..."gee-to".
mordredt02 3 years ago
"gee-toe active wear", thank you very much. heh!
thescarlettpimpernel 2 years ago
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in 1505 a woman was hunted down and killed by an evil clown.now that you have read this,that same clown will be sitting next to your bed with a machete and red,evil glowing eyes when you wake up,unless you post this to 10 other videos in 1 hour of reading this
MDiGIaC 3 years ago
this movie is educational and funny as shyt!
cami725 3 years ago 4
cuz i remember watchin this movie my junior year in highschool n i couldnt help but laugh i kno the movie was a seious situation but when this shit came on it caught me off guard n i forgot what i was watchn man teacher kicced me outta class 4 a minute cuz i was laughn loud n when i was n the hallway it still had me laughn but Bamboozled is by far my favorite movie everytime i watch it i learn something new
westt34 3 years ago
its okay to laugh its a dark comedy
Chillaxes 2 years ago
i kno but i was laughing like hard jus becuz of the jingle lol n the ending lol i had to get control of myself lol
westt34 2 years ago
i know how you feel. it's a rollercoaster of grim and bleak truth with just the hilariousness of the absurdity of the situation and of racism itself in general.
thescarlettpimpernel 2 years ago 2
People didn't watch the film because half of them didn't get it, and the other half don't like being criticized :). People are saying it was too hard to understand but I think it was actually too easy to understand, which is why people were pissed at this movie. If I was Tommy Hilfiger, I wouldn't be able to help but laugh at this film, cause even though I wouldn't like the fact that Spike took a shot at me, I wouldn't be able to deny the truths in his logic.
dawb86 3 years ago 7
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Last time i checked it was people like 50 cent selling cheap clothes to black people at marked up prices. Spike Lee's just a racist hack who hasn't made a relevant movie since Malcolm X. People who's logic is flawed admire other people who's logic is flawed as well. I recommend you take a philosophy class.
Beatlemaniac28533 3 years ago
Beatlemaniac, 50 Cent was a nobody when this film was released. There really weren't that many clothing labels owned by hip-hop artists in 2000 at all, though I know that seems crazy since so many have labels now. Spike said it himself, at the time Hilfiger was just the biggest fish in the pond; he felt he had to go at him. And I think Spike had a couple more relevant films, they weren't necessarily good films, however.
dawb86 3 years ago
I'd say 25th Hour, He Got Game and Miracle At St. Anna were all pretty relevant to me.
cbaldwinjr 2 years ago
For most that don't know, this is a satire of the clothing article "Tommy Hillfigure" (or however you spell it).
ForteUltimus 3 years ago
TIMMI TIMMI TIMMI TIMMI!!
mezol1zee 3 years ago 3
LOL!!!!! This is why I love Spike Lee!
I love how the white guy was dancing at the beginning.
But the truth behind this spoof is very sad. This is why I'm glad Lee did this.
twistedbabydoll 3 years ago
Who cares if you heard black audience members criticizing the film? Make up your mind for yourself. Just because some black people don't like a black director's work doesn't mean it's suddenly cool or correct to agree with them.
grinnell1109 3 years ago 2
It would've been funnier if they showed a hip-hop star shooting the commercial and his son asks "but Hillfigger doesn't sound like a white-guy name."
Bamboozled could've been a bit more subtle. It lost momentum when it showed the public enjoying the blackface routines.
MondoBeno 3 years ago
When I first saw the trailer for this movie, I could hear the black audience members saying "what the fuck is this?"
One black guy behind me said "Spike Lee's gotta go back to film school."
MondoBeno 3 years ago
You know what thats why the film Tanked at the Box Office.
Nobody could see the Satire and the Irony behind what Spike was trying to say about B
edrofec 3 years ago
Nobody could see what Spike was trying to do. No one seem to get the Satire & Irony Spike was trying to look at. In Brands and Black People and they way they are Marketed too.
edrofec 3 years ago
Despite the fact that a lot of people miss the mark (admittedly, it took me a lot of thinking to really understand this movie) this movie really does have a message, and it is an impressive literary work.
alexanderzero 3 years ago
It's not that complicated. The spoof commercials like The Bomb malt liquor and Timmi Hillnigger are almost satirical infomercials aimed PREDOMINANTLY at African-Americans. You can talk about making change and continue the same actions yourself. That makes you a hypocrite and almost certainly leads to failure
cbaldwinjr 2 years ago 3
WTF was with that chick at the very end!?! that part has always made my eye twitch...
TheRevsWife 3 years ago
SHE MADE MY LOINS TWITCH(fiendish laughter ensues as I wring my hands)
blkskin1 3 years ago
lmfao dude thats sick XD
TheRevsWife 3 years ago
Eww.....was she wiping herself on that car? That's nasty!
RedAH84 3 years ago 2
yeah, this is funny as hell... wake up. spike is a champ and smarter than google YO!
side5 3 years ago 2
Simply BRILLIANT..Spike Lee is the greatest living American director
astroshape 3 years ago 4
I had the priviledge of meeting and shaking Mr. Lee's hand at a closed curcuit meeting in VA in 1996 or 98 Hes is very nice person.
KMitnick75 3 years ago
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Hahahahahahahahaha, he's not brilliant, he's actually quite a shitty writer and as a director he's baraly salable...if he was white he'd never get work.
Averyofthemain 3 years ago
of course this comes from an idiot who thinks banal directors like Spielberg and Zemeckis are great..please like Scorcesse, Lumet, Wertmueller . Allen, and Bergman Mr Lee is an ORIGINAL
astroshape 3 years ago 4
Simply amazing.
jesuisdashit 3 years ago
lol i remember when i was like 10 and tommy hilfiger was mad hot
ojAndroid 3 years ago 2
lol what alota old people dont realize about alot of hip hop fashion company's is that they just like this LOOOOLLL. like gunit or rockawere or whatever dont even cost that much its them fucking white labels that got like $400 tags and shit on them
ojAndroid 3 years ago
Yeah but its not always a white guy selling them that stupid shit! Most of the time its another black person profiting from it: 50 Cent, Jay-z, Sean Combs. Spike Lee has no sense of what a double standard is. His dark humor often falls flat, his satire is grossly insulting, and his dialogue is ridiculous (see: she hate me). Face it, Spike Lee is a has been director that peaked with 'Malcolm X' and has been going down hill ever sense.
Beatlemaniac28533 3 years ago
I can agree with some points of what you're saying. "She Hate Me" was ridiculous and it lost me because the fact that he impregnated so many women overpowered the other side of the story that was based on "Enron". The two points in the movie didn't fit together at all and the frequent sex scenes were distracting from a valid point.
gabbymtt 3 years ago
Most of that is image, bought and paid for by white executives and producers. These people have to get the money to make their product (be it music or film) from somewhere.
Whites executive produce the negative music AND the puppets that decry it. It's like they are literally creating the problem to make more money. The rap fucks with the heads of young black youth, they go out and commit random acts of violence, then the puppets whine about how bad young black men are. And the ratings skyrocket
InsanityManifest 3 years ago 3
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Lee sucks as a director, even Malcom X had a afterschool-special feel to it.
Averyofthemain 3 years ago
This proves that Sike Lee is an over-rated director that prefers to speak before he thinks.
Beatlemaniac28533 3 years ago
First of all, Spike Lee puts many intelligent and REAL-life aspects into his movies. You have to be blind not to realize that many people rather LOOK the part than LIVE the part. Some people rather look like they have money rather than invest and get out the ghetto. Don't start docking me points I SAID SOME PEOPLE NOT ALL PEOPLE.
I am black & many of my friends struggle with this. They drive tricked out cars in the projects & buy COOGI B4 they start a bank account. Sad but it is true.
gabbymtt 3 years ago 2
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im givng u thum down 4 bein blck
JReyes123 3 years ago
sahit is funny as hell i watched it last year and didn`t laugh for some reason(was I high)
RealDefentertainment 3 years ago
LOL continue to stay broke and never leave the ghetto lmao
princedime11 3 years ago
Priceless. I love Danny Hoch. He stars in another great satire, WhiteBoyz. Check it out.
lifeinterrupted 3 years ago
Spike Lee's really fond of lampooning hip hop with lame synthpop drums =) he does it in Clockers too. There's enough to dislike about the guy, but I like his habit of doing that =)
handtrembler 3 years ago
The funniest thing about this is that self-satisfied smirk on Timmi's face. Spike Lee talked about being confronted by Tommy Hilfiger, who was really offended by this.
ignoranceandwant 3 years ago 3
Damn LMAO
DeunicmacTube 4 years ago 2
I have another one for you peeps, CRACKERBU FOR THEM WHO TRIED TO WEAR FUBU
DeunicmacTube 4 years ago 3
The movie is a great subtle atttack on gangster rap.
deligthelf 4 years ago 4
not only was it sublte attack on gangsta rap, but it was also a blatant attack on the materialistic apsect of hip hop culture, that's what makes this scene so good.
masscommlarry 3 years ago 4
SUBTLE? lol
thejobloshow 3 years ago 3
My thoughts exactly.
RelwarctheMighty 3 years ago
You'd be suprised how moronic people actually are in the real world. Most people wouldn't understand it if it was more subtle than this.
sameel3 3 years ago 2
Yyyyyyyyooo!
RichV20 4 years ago
This movie was so crazy. but it was so true though, you all should see it.
tee007mile 4 years ago 11
all of the neo nazis and those white racists, you know the ones that are always saying the n word here on youtube and talking shit have a black guy that they use to make bafoon videos. they call him jiggaboo jones. its real I shit you not!! how did they get a black person to actually clown for them I will never know but he does. I feel like doing what the mau mau's did to that fucker.
MOBROOKS 4 years ago
The movie is great...and the guy in the clip is Danny Hoch. He is great and this clip is mocking life and its realities.
PHANTASTIKMUSIK 4 years ago
geto haha
startingover15 4 years ago
dont dude look like a broke reject peyton manning
capitalb16 4 years ago
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WHAT DA FUCK IS THIS . GREAT MOVIE BUT WUT DA FUCK IS DIS TIMMI HILLNIGGER
DAMN DiS MOFO SUCKS DICK
IT AINT EVEN FUNNY
ghettodagga 4 years ago
It's called satire.
reichmarshall 4 years ago
this movie is so good.
brokeneckgiraffe 4 years ago 2
holy shit, i've never seen this. pure spike. yeah this is real subtle.
flatsol 4 years ago
If you'd see the entire movie, you would find it's actually quite subtle. This is a parody clip that along with another one (a beer commercial) is hysterical but not really part of the plot. This is a great movie and it would be worth seeing it, along with two other Spike Lee joints - 25th Hour and Sucker Free City. If you still think that Spike Lee is doing "Do the right thing" over and over again you're really missing out.
NortonYorksterdam 4 years ago 2
hm. I have seen Bamboozled the movie, but it was in 2002, so maybe its just my bad memory for not remembering this commercial scene. I'll try to check 25th Hour.
flatsol 4 years ago
25th Hour is the Official New York City post-911 movie.
NortonYorksterdam 4 years ago
wow, spike is so subtle. really doesnt need to club you over the head or anything with what hes trying to say. fart
grgrgrgff 4 years ago
Could you please post the commercial for Da Bomb Malt Liquor? It lets you get yer freak on.
russianracehorse 4 years ago
Da Bomb Baby Bomb Baby
hahahahaha
its used to be on here awhile back
derspenc 4 years ago
Chemical testing has found that Viagra doesn't work on black johnsons.
That's why OUR scientists have developed Da Bomb for you!
NortonYorksterdam 4 years ago 5
hahahahah this was funny as ever
derspenc 4 years ago
is makes ya feel like a man yo, and it makes them bitches feel like natural women!
NortonYorksterdam 4 years ago
lol wheres that video
trianglesforsquares 4 years ago
Hill-Niggah...lol
DaneFace 4 years ago
Lmao this is funny shit
darcampb 4 years ago
this is an amazing movie, with so many observations about humankind, race relations and the media, you should be forced to watch this in America especially, and everybody might learn to get along a little better, and quit trying to put each other in boxes all the time.
BunstanMcFunkstan 4 years ago
dem shits wuz off da chain where can i get a pair of dem
twizzle676 4 years ago
the negro is the largest consumer of bullshit. they want every new shit right now
Gorrila187 4 years ago
So true
BMDecipher 4 years ago
you're realy missing the point you moron
BunstanMcFunkstan 4 years ago
As opposed to the oh-so-discerning tastes of middle class white youth? Riiiiiiiiight.
Quit generalizing.
trannyguy8000 4 years ago 5
Indeed.
There is a later point that someone makes saying that Spike didn't need to beat people over the head with satire. The person that originally posted this is exactly why he should; because some people just... don't... get it.
MelEdits 4 years ago 3
I hate you because you are right so i have to diss you.
shortbutstakked 4 years ago
lol "my neegaz in the geeto".
k0ugar 4 years ago 2
Damn son...
Chump27 4 years ago
lol word
EMPTYCANS 5 years ago
spike's right on the point with this
dei514 5 years ago 2
Same message as in the move white men cant jump. You'd rather look good and lose than look bad and win.
lucybrown1 4 years ago
might be
jtpnwa 5 years ago
i thought that was peyton manning at first.
ninjarlou 5 years ago
so did i
mrice9793 5 years ago