Menace To Society is a better movie than Boyz N The Hood

[Boolean]

Menace To Society is better simply because Cuba Gooding Jr. isn't in it

 

[LauderdaleBoss]

Damn, thats a tough one. I like both movies for what they are and hate trying to pick one that is better, especially since one kinda paved the way for the other.

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

Boys in the hood kind gives u view of normal dudes livin in bad situations and menace is about fatherless dudes causing bad situations. Menace is more fast paced, comedy and anarchy while boys is is more drama driven, heart touching type flick. Depending on the mood youre in u can view either one as being better. Classics of course.

 

[the cac mamba]

there were some corny ass scenes in boyz. just stiff acting

n they were blastin that cube - bird in the hand right, not isaac hayes

 

[NSSVO]

the wood >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

 

[Jone2three45]

there were some corny ass scenes in boyz. just stiff acting

n they were blastin that cube - bird in the hand right, not isaac hayes

Ok we'll I thought a Isaac Hayes sample is what I heard

 

[Grand Eeezus Maxwell]

Menace gets the W. Boyz was a classic cuz it was first, but it was preachy as hell in it's approach.

 

[YBE]

I could watch BNDH....I couldn't finish watching Menace until I was older

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDQliAo05Vw&feature=player_detailpage#t=107s]Menace II Society - Ending [HD] - YouTube[/ame]

I just knew that nikka was goin to hell

 

[Taadow]

the wood >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Could I, would I, should I neg him??

 

[BrownSound]

looks like eddie murphy

 

[feelosofer]

I completely disagree. Menace II Society is a hood movie made from the perspective of guys who quite frankly didn't come from the hood. They saw the hood as this ruthless, animal that ate anyone who happened to walk through it's streets. Even in the worst hood, if you were from there you weren't in that level of danger ever and this coming from someone who came up in the crack era in Newark, NJ. The actine was excellent but the plot to me was straight cartoon status to me, like a bad gangsta rap album. I felt like the characters were so out of wack that they were caricatures to me, not people, when this movie came out, I thought white people had made it. But like I said the movie is carried by its acting and the Hughes Brothers direction and cinematography. I think Dead Presidents is a much better film by them.

Boys in the Hood, while preachy at times I think was a more realistic portrayal of growing up in the hood. It was about people in any other environment could have been on the path to success. Had Ricky baker came up in the burbs, he would have had multiple avenues outside of sports to succeed. Doeboy had he not come up in those street could've been an A student going to college or something like that. The point of furious styles was to show what a young Black man could achieve with a positive father figure and to some extent was necessary for the time period it was released in.

 

[truemaster]

the wood >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

 

[up in here]

Yes imo. Why?

Because Menace was that real chit. With the fucced up, abrupt ending and all.

right, because Boyz had such a happy ending for all.

 

[Taadow]

I completely disagree. Menace II Society is a hood movie made from the perspective of guys who quite frankly didn't come from the hood. They saw the hood as this ruthless, animal that ate anyone who happened to walk through it's streets. Even in the worst hood, if you were from there you weren't in that level of danger ever and this coming from someone who came up in the crack era in Newark, NJ. The actine was excellent but the plot to me was straight cartoon status to me, like a bad gangsta rap album. I felt like the characters were so out of wack that they were caricatures to me, not people, when this movie came out, I thought white people had made it. But like I said the movie is carried by its acting and the Hughes Brothers direction and cinematography. I think Dead Presidents is a much better film by them.

Boys in the Hood, while preachy at times I think was a more realistic portrayal of growing up in the hood. It was about people in any other environment could have been on the path to success. Had Ricky baker came up in the burbs, he would have had multiple avenues outside of sports to succeed. Doeboy had he not come up in those street could've been an A student going to college or something like that. The point of furious styles was to show what a young Black man could achieve with a positive father figure and to some extent was necessary for the time period it was released in.

*sigh* Somebody says this everytime Menace comes up.

Again, as a young man coming up in that locale at that time, those "cariactures" of people portrayed are true to life. We knew (and some of us were) people like Caine, O-Dog, A-Wax, Felicia, Stacey, Sharif, Ronnie, Pernell and Chauncey. We have seen situations like the ones they were in.

And that's why I won't knock BITH, because your second paragraph is true. Still, sometimes (hell - a lot of times) there is no Furious Styles.

 

[Rice N Beans]

I think Menace stretched it a bit from time to time. It had the mentality and ideas right but sometimes it felt "empty", especially with the second girl thing.

I think Boyz was a realer flick. It's dialogue driven story was perfect imo for the idea it was trying to convey.