I have a new appreciation for Boyz N the Hood...

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

I always felt it was great that's not even a question but in some ways I still might have underrated it some

It's on Netflix, I've watched it a couple more times over the last few weeks looking for things. Here's some things that standout.

You will never see a movie based in 1991 shot like this again. John Singleton filmed on location, He's also from L.A. He brought in gang members to assist with the dialogue and the wardrobe etc.

Then there's the acting.. Cube and Fishburne were outstanding in this. I was marveling at how good they are. Oscar level performances from both. This was the breakout for those two, Cuba Gooding, Chestnut, Nia Long, Angela etc..

The death scene is the hardest hitting of all the movies from around the time, the way it was filmed bringing Ricky back to the house, family being all there

Then the shyt Furious was spittin...the Compton scene..etc. 35 years later and it's all relevant. This is a really great film

 

[Hacksaw Jim Thuggin]

I always felt it was great that's not even a question but in some ways I still might have underrated it some

It's on Netflix, I've watched it a couple more times over the last few weeks looking for things. Here's some things that standout.

You will never see a movie based in 1991 shot like this again. John Singleton filmed on location, He's also from L.A. He brought in gang members to assist with the dialogue and the wardrobe etc.

Then there's the acting.. Cube and Fishburne were outstanding in this. I was marveling at how good they are. Oscar level performances from both. This was the breakout for those two, Cuba Gooding, Chestnut, Nia Long, Angela etc..

The death scene is the hardest hitting of all the movies from around the time, the way it was filmed bringing Ricky back to the house, family being all there

Then the shyt Furious was spittin...the Compton scene..etc. 35 years later and it's all relevant. This is a really great film

what's sad is that this SAME shyt is still happening today

young brothers throwing their lives away

 

[Money Be Green]

Meance 2 Society

 

[Art Barr]

Meance 2 Society

This.

Menace is better.

Yet in timeline.
Boyz in tha hood is how menace became menace.



Art Barr

 

[Tribal Outkast]

I always felt it was great that's not even a question but in some ways I still might have underrated it some

It's on Netflix, I've watched it a couple more times over the last few weeks looking for things. Here's some things that standout.

You will never see a movie based in 1991 shot like this again. John Singleton filmed on location, He's also from L.A. He brought in gang members to assist with the dialogue and the wardrobe etc.

Then there's the acting.. Cube and Fishburne were outstanding in this. I was marveling at how good they are. Oscar level performances from both. This was the breakout for those two, Cuba Gooding, Chestnut, Nia Long, Angela etc..

The death scene is the hardest hitting of all the movies from around the time, the way it was filmed bringing Ricky back to the house, family being all there

Then the shyt Furious was spittin...the Compton scene..etc. 35 years later and it's all relevant. This is a really great film

Yeah the gentrification shyt didn’t hit me til years later. I was too young to understand then.

 

[Luke Cage]

This.

Menace is better.

Yet in timeline.
Boyz in tha hood is how menace became menace.



Art Barr

Menace is more campy and cartoonish imo. dated

Boyz n Hood is fine cinema. timeless

 

[Art Barr]

Menace is more campy and cartoonish imo. dated

Boyz n Hood is fine cinema. timeless

Not at all.


Chu tweak' n


Art Barr

 

[Luke Cage]

Not at all.


Chu tweak' n


Art Barr

Its true, Menace feels very much like a 90s film. Where boyz in the hood feels like a film that's set in the 90s.
You just letting Nostalgia determine that menace is better

 

[Art Barr]

Its true, Menace feels very much like a 90s film. Where boyz in the hood feels like a film that's set in the 90s.
You just letting Nostalgia determine that menace is better

Not at all

Boyz n tha hood takes a way to safe approach and the reason menace is menace. Is because it pulls no punches. Boyz n tha hood is the gateway. That creates why menace is menace. Yet menace is better.


Ain't no way you sat in tha hood and had more fun with Boyz in tha hood than menace. Menace is the most fun hood movie to watch ever.

Ain't nobody saying Boyz n tha hood word for word In Tha hood like menace.

Stop


Art Barr

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

Menace 2 Society too real for yall safe ass nikkas

 

[swampfox]

Love Boyz, but Menace just hits different. It was "Scorsese in the Hood".

 

[Luke Cage]

Not at all

Boyz n tha hood takes a way to safe approach and the reason menace is menace. Is because it pulls no punches. Boyz n tha hood is the gateway. That creates why menace is menace. Yet menace is better.


Ain't no way you sat in tha hood and had more fun with Boyz in tha hood than menace. Menace is the most fun hood movie to watch ever.

Ain't nobody saying Boyz n tha hood word for word In Tha hood like menace.

Stop


Art Barr

I had more fun as a kid sure,
As a grown up, i feel like the movie was childish and more often than not glorified the violence it was trying to warn people about. Boys on the other hand explored the root cause of the violence in more depth.
Boys in the hood, had deeper character development and a more nuanced portrayal of social issues. Menace was more stylized and sensational with less character development.
The acting from the cast overall was on a lower tier as well.

i feel like Menace is a "good hood film". while boys is just a flat out good film.
its like comparing scarface to the wire. Yeah scarface has more quotables. and a dude going out doing a mountain of coke and absorbing bullets like a sponge is fun, but the wire just feels more authentic and grounded.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Its true, Menace feels very much like a 90s film. Where boyz in the hood feels like a film that's set in the 90s.
You just letting Nostalgia determine that menace is better

I was in the 'Menace is better...' camp for a long time. First let me say, both are classics. 'Menace' just got put up on Criterion and I copped the new release. I don't think they always need to be compared.

But since we always end up comparing them, I used to think 'Menace' was more raw and it is to a point but it's different because it follows exclusively guys who ain't up to shyt but puttin in work and that's how it be... not faulting that

What 'Boyz' does is show several situations.. it shows the adolescent upbringing, it shows why Dough is how he is and his relationship with his mother, it shows why Tre is the way he is... having two parents involved etc..

It shows the depth of different characters in the hood like a Furious or a Ricky but then also Dough's group of friends..

I think the directing and the acting in 'Boyz' is really want separates it for me now. The acting performances are top notch

 

[RickyDiBiase]

I had more fun as a kid sure,
As a grown up, i feel like the movie was childish and more often than not glorified the violence it was trying to warn people about. Boys on the other hand explored the root cause of the violence in more depth.
Boys in the hood, had deeper character development and a more nuanced portrayal of social issues. Menace was more stylized and sensational with less character development.
The acting from the cast overall was on a lower tier as well.

i feel like Menace is a "good hood film". while boys is just a flat out good film.
its like comparing scarface to the wire. Yeah scarface has more quotables. and a dude going out doing a mountain of coke and absorbing bullets like a sponge is fun, but the wire just feels more authentic and grounded.

I'm so glad you mentioned this because that movie is fukking terrible.