17 Years Later, is it time to admit "Dead Presidents" is a Classic Movie??
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Jone2three45
Supporter
This and Clockers is GOAT.
You have to sit and watch those to movies from beginning to end.
You have to sit and watch those to movies from beginning to end.
61 Corpses
The Breh
Pops took me to see this when I was 12 as a way to warn me to never join the service 
Bookem Woodbine killed it in this flick.
Bookem Woodbine killed it in this flick.
Rapmastermind
Superstar
Good movie - yes
Great movie - maybe
Classic - Nope
What i liked about this movie was that it told a Vietnam story and the aftermath of it from a black perspective, which is rarely if ever been done before.
But seriously, fukk a bar of soap and come clean here guys, The soundtrack to this movie is classic and prolly made alot of us watch this movie simply based off the soundtrack.
Yes the soundtrack was a huge part of the movie. Being born in 1980, most of the songs came before my era but I do remember my parents playing a lot of them growing up cause they were from that time. The Issac Hayes song "Walk On By" which he covered but flipped the beat was on of my favorites cause Biggie sampled it on "Warning". It was cool cause he made a modern day video and had Chris Tucker and Larenz Tate in it so that helped connect it to my generation. But the movie was still great. The Reviews were mixed cause again it was true that at the time a lot of critics hated on Black films even if they were good or not. SMH @ "Dead Presidents" having a 45% rotten on Rotten Tomatoes, I can't take that review seriously.
The only reason "Boyz in the Hood" and "Menace" got good reviews cause they couldn't hate on them cause they were different and 1st in hollywood. But notice both "Dead Presidents" and "Poetic Justice" both got average reviews. They were the 2nd films of John Singleton and the Hughes Brothers. Mind you in the black community both films are Classic. But there's no denying Both soundtracks were Epic. They were both basically "Best of the 60's and 70's" Soundtrack. They did an amazing job putting the track list together. This song I bumped for days by Barry White:
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JillScottsHunny
Banned
Just because you like it, doesn't make it a "classic".
Pops took me to see this when I was 12 as a way to warn me to never join the service
Bookem Woodbine killed it in this flick.
I STILL ended up joining the service like an idiot
Now I gotta go to Aphganistan to fight this White Man's War
daemonova
hit it, & I didn't go Erykah Badu crazy, #yallmad
sorry but Poetic Justice was a horrible movie, I kept waiting for them to get out that mail truck and start the movie, by the time they got out that mail truck the movie was over.
Clockers intro with all the portraits of the dead bodies with bullet-dome size holes in them. My young eyes wasn't prepared for all that
threattonature
Veteran
when he threw Poetic Justice in there.
Rapmastermind
Superstar
"Dead Presidents" is more of staright up Classic than "Poetic Justice" but "PJ" Is a hood Classic. But I agree about the whole Mail Truck ish, lol.
HollywoodP
#LongLive24 #TMC America's Team, Lakeshow, & ASU
You getting a little carried away.Anyways its a classic. One of the saddest movies ever.
at that dude who got his own dikk stuffed in his mouth by the Vietcong.Majestic Pape
The-Coli = W SOHH = L
Anyways its a classic. One of the saddest movies ever.
Dead Presidents was the best movie released in the '90s playa.
HollywoodP
#LongLive24 #TMC America's Team, Lakeshow, & ASU
you could say it 100 times...it still wont make it true.
Majestic Pape
The-Coli = W SOHH = L
It's an opinion clown, it isn't true or not true.
You saying it isn't the best movie doesn't make that true either.
