does anyone else think menace ii society has held up better than boyz n the hood?

[Rell84shots]

They both hold up extremely well, and as i said in another thread Charles S Dutton speech in M2S is shockingly accurate in today's climate.

 

[Roman Brady]

yes, but that doesn't make it powerful, just preachy

You are preaching to the choir on that, a lot of the flicks from that genre had the subtlety of a sledgehammer and insulted the intelligence of the black folk. Its like they felt they needed to spell it out because the black moviegoer was too dumb. I don't remember so much of that in m2s but I do in boyz in the hood and most certainly south central

 

[GzUp]

Menace is just more raw and gangster, reason why I enjoyed the movie better.

Boys was more real to me, watching it as a kid was like watching my neiborhood

 

[the cac mamba]

some of cubas acting is cringeworthy. morris too

but ricky on the couch is a fukkin horrifying scene to this day, you feel like you're in the room

 

[satam55]

Meance >>>>> Boyz

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

"WHAT THE fukk YOU MEAN YOU AIN'T GOT THE MONEY YET?"
"fukk YOU, TAT! WHO YOU THINK YOU ARE? Ron O Neal or something?"

"Talking bout I better pay or else...i ain't yo bytch, nikka"



"TAT, What you tripping fo?"
"YOU OWE ME SOME MONEY TOO MUHFUKKA?"
"Hell, nah, but here ya go"

 

[Whitty Hutton]

I must be the only nikka that can't really watch Menace anymore because it's overly ignant and there's absolutely nothing optimistic when it ends

 

[Roman Brady]

I must be the only nikka that can't really watch Menace anymore because it's overly ignant and there's absolutely nothing optimistic when it ends

 

[KevCo]

Boyz changed the way i thiught about alot of stuff..think I was like 10 when I saw that movie. both age about the same to me, both are excellent movies Ill still watch when they are on

 

[TheGodling]

Boyz is a better movie with a better message.

 

[Bickin Back Being Bool]

both are classics, but Boyz was better in every way

watched menace a couple of months ago, it felt like a whole bunch of random scenes glued together, where boyz flows together

 

[karim]

The way the film plays out. Especially the end, when Doughboy claps those bloods, it's just a more powerful scene than what menace offered. Menace was more a shock value film, it's very entertaining but it has turned into more of an unintentional comedy in many ways. Boyz is just deeper to me, explores the family more, furious trying to keep his son on the right path, his gentrification speech, the whole first and third act. The musical score. It's tone seperates it imo. When I was younger menace I always like a bit more though.

menace wasn't a shock value film, it was uncompromising and realistic. it exposed how people grow up in those types of surroundings, become who they are through adaptation and how some of them try to make the best of their lives and fail(kane, malik), while others completely stop giving a fukk and accept their lives for what they are(o-dog, a-wax). i agree that it has a certain unintentional comedy, but name another movie that managed to casually portray growing up in a broken home in the hood the way that menace did? the message of the movie is that kane never had a chance. boyz in the hood tries to hit you over the head with it's message, menace shows you the hood for what it is, without pretending that there is a solution. boyz tells you that you can make it out of the hood if you turn your life around. menace tells you that you might make it out of the hood if you turn your life around, but if you do, you're lucky, because more likely than not you'll become a victim of circumstances.

 

[Food Mane]

Menace points to environment, Boyz in the hood points to family structure. Both movies are really good, but Menace almost seems like a refutation of Boyz and that almost makes it seem more realistic. Does anyone think things would have been different for Kane and O-Dog if they had Furious Styles in their lives? I don't

 

[8====D]

i can just relate more to menace. . .boyz in the hood felt like a movie with actors/actresses, but menace feels like im there while watching it. . .

shooting craps
lining nıggas up for talking shıt
pulling bad hoes at the park
preachy ass friend like shareef
getting money by any means necesssary

 

[Mr. Manhattan]

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