in retrospect Larenz Tate performance as O'Dog is overrated

[MR. SNIFLES]

EVERY HOOD HAS AN O DOG. HE SEEMS LIKE YOUR AVERAGE YOUTH DISCONNECTED FROM EMOTIONS. HE SEEMS A LOT LIKE CHIEF KEEF.

 

[Ineedmoney504]

fukk outta here

 

[???]

OP It's very easy to nitpick shyt when time has passed and a lot has changed since we are all older now. Back in the day, we weren't watching shyt so hard looking for flaws in everything, that's why we enjoyed content more back then than nowadays where everybody is a critic making shyt less enjoyable. His performance was great and very memorable.

 

[Will Ross]

O dog was supposed to be a stereotype of what a young black man was. That is why his character was so over the top.

 

[Kool]

Yep... and the movie Menace 2 Society is overrated. Boys N the Hood was a better film.

The movie Menace to Society was a little too cartoonish... it was way too extra. You can tell that the filmmakers of Menace 2 Society watched Boyz N the Hood and was like... "We making a movie way harder than Boy N the Hood... it's going to be some real hood shyt".

When the Hughes brothers made Menace 2 Society they were clearly trying to outdo Boyz N the Hood... and they FAILED.

 

[???]

O dog was supposed to be a stereotype of what a young black man was. That is why his character was so over the top.

I mean in 2018 you got some crazy people out here saying scarface is overrated. cmon man, nobody could speak such blasphemy back in the 80s/90s, it's insane.

 

[Will Ross]

I mean in 2018 you got some crazy people out here saying scarface is overrated. cmon man, nobody could speak such blasphemy back in the 80s/90s, it's insane.

True

 

[???]

Yep... and the movie Menace 2 Society is overrated. Boys N the Hood was a better film.

The movie Menace to Society was a little too cartoonish... it was way too extra. You can tell that the filmmakers of Menace 2 Society watched Boyz N the Hood and was like... "We making a movie way harder than Boy N the Hood... it's going to be some real hood shyt".

When the Hughes brothers made Menace 2 Society they were clearly trying to outdo Boyz N the Hood... and they FAILED.

How old were you when both movies came out? You are just making stuff up in your head, all the shyt you typed is junk and completely FALSE.

 

[WesCrook]

If you thought this in real time back in the day then you would have a point.

Dude was convincing. Nobody was thinking otherwise in real time.

This "in retrospect" point of view doesn't count.

People dismiss thug portrayals as one-dimensional

However, mafia performances get constant praise, regardless of who plays the part.

 

[???]

People dismiss thug portrayals as one-dimensional

However, mafia performances get constant praise, regardless of who plays the part.

if he doesn't take o dog seriously, then i don't think he would have any patience with any of the godfather movies, it would be like dying a slow death for his ass.

 

[FeloniousMonk]

If you ever met a gang banging 15 y/o in the 90s from Soutch Central who didnt give a shyt about life and thought he had no future..the character Larenz was emulating

You wouldnt think he was overacting.

 

[???]

If you ever met a gang banging 15 y/o in the 90s from Soutch Central who didnt give a shyt about life and thought he had no future..the character Larenz was emulatingYou wouldnt think he was overacting.

nah don't even bother, 20 yrs from now he will say his alias/avi stringer bell was not authentic enough. i mean watching the wire after the fact, we can now hear bits and pieces of elba's british accent. people will say he didn't properly portray a baltimore native, this is all crazy talk man.

 

[FrankieLymon757]

Still think he should have won sumthin for his role in Dead Presidents..Chris Tucker should have at least been nominated for best supporting actor in some award show as well...

 

[Yogi]

If you ever met a gang banging 15 y/o in the 90s from Soutch Central who didnt give a shyt about life and thought he had no future..the character Larenz was emulating

You wouldnt think he was overacting.

I agree. I watched some of those interviews from that Streetgangs channel on YouTube, and some of those current LA gangbangers still act a lot like O’Dog.

 

[Here Comes the Pain]

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His performance was more than plausible.

& Don't forget Clifton Powell who played the shady hood nikka quite well.