Back to the Drawing Board: 9 Black Films That Were Disappointing…

She Hate Me

I’m like a Spike Lee junkie. I’ve seen most of his films and own a majority of them (She’s Gotta Have It is everything to me), but one that I bought as a fan, thinking it wouldn’t disappoint, actually left me feeling mad confused. That of course was She Hate Me. I love me some Anthony Mackie, and clearly I’m a Kerry Washington fan, but these two couldn’t save a story that was a stretch by even my man Spike’s standards. I was a fan of one part of the plot that touched on the unfair consequences people have to deal with for doing the right thing (the inclusion of Frank Wills of the Watergate scandal was a great idea), but how that turned into a man selling his sperm to lesbians and fathering countless children all over NYC? I don’t know. The movie seemingly ended with this guy in three-way relationship with his ex-fiancée and her girlfriend, and I (as well as my pretty disgusted mom) were left scratching our heads and left pining to watch Mo Better Blues instead.