Why didn't The Wire kill the hood movie genre?

[get these nets]

I thought for sure that there would be no audience for hood films after the Wire went off the air.....Hollywood or direct to dvd/vod.

Not only was a I wrong but the cast members of the Wire will invariably pop up on the covers of these movies.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

I don't get your reasoning why would they stop appealing?

 

[get these nets]

I don't get your reasoning why would they stop appealing?

Wire was such a complex well rounded storyline I didn't think people would want to watch simple cliched hood films again.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Wire was such a complex well rounded storyline I didn't think people would want to watch simple cliched hood films again.

Ok I see what you mean.

I feel like there's still room for that low budget easy flick but these types of stories should have def picked up. Maybe its just lack of funding... If anything the wire probably spawned the youtube hood webisode phenomena, except again most people take all the flash from the show and leave the wit behind. Same way folks will say they skipped over season 2 of the wire...

 

[Huellz Santana]

I thought for sure that there would be no audience for hood films after the Wire went off the air.....Hollywood or direct to dvd/vod.

Not only was a I wrong but the cast members of the Wire will invariably pop up on the covers of these movies.

my nikka what? ​

 

[hex]

Most people forget "The Wire" wasn't a hit TV show when it was actually on air....so nah, there was no way in hell it could end an entire sub-genre of movies.

Fred.

 

[get these nets]

Most people forget "The Wire" wasn't a hit TV show when it was actually on air....so nah, there was no way in hell it could end an entire sub-genre of movies.

Fred.

The wire was hot in the streets and super popular to the same audience that hood films are marketed to.

try again.

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

Most people forget "The Wire" wasn't a hit TV show when it was actually on air....so nah, there was no way in hell it could end an entire sub-genre of movies.

Fred.

Yep, if The Wire debuted today....it would be the biggest show on tv and make every other show look trivial. Twitter would be on fire.

 

[get these nets]

During one of the breaks that the show took........the entire series up to that point ran on BET
here is a promo for the run



The show was hot in the streets before that but after the BET run, it was mega popular.

Comment about it never being a ratings success for mainstream audiences doesn't apply to the topic of the thread.

 

[LordDeathwatch]

Since when does a great show/film/book mean the end of an entire genre/sub-genre?

 

[hex]

The wire was hot in the streets and super popular to the same audience that hood films are marketed to.

try again.

During one of the breaks that the show took........the entire series up to that point ran on BET
here is a promo for the run



The show was hot in the streets before that but after the BET run, it was mega popular.

Comment about it never being a ratings success for mainstream audiences doesn't apply to the topic of the thread.

The series was so unpopular it actually got cancelled and David Simon had to beg HBO to continue it. That's why it was on a long ass break.

That's reality....not "it was hot in the streets"....which isn't something HBO would give a fukk about. I could understand if it was on a minor, obscure network....it was a flagship series for HBO, coming off the success of "The Sopranos". It running on BET while HBO was perpetually planning on cancelling it isn't a good thing.

Fred.

 

[get these nets]

The series was so unpopular it actually got cancelled and David Simon had to beg HBO to continue it. That's why it was on a long ass break.

That's reality....not "it was hot in the streets"....which isn't something HBO would give a fukk about. I could understand if it was on a minor, obscure network....it was a flagship series for HBO, coming off the success of "The Sopranos". It running on BET while HBO was perpetually planning on cancelling it isn't a good thing.

Fred.

You're listing Captain Obvious points about the shows ratings that are well documented. For the sake of the topic, they are irrelevant.

You can't dispute that the show was WILDLY popular with the VERY market that hood films were and are marketed to. Decade earlier NY Undercover was WILDLY popular among most Black audiences across age and region demographics. The nielsen numbers gauging all audiences barely registered the show as being viewed. The suits came in and added white characters for ratings and RUINED the show.Not exactly an aberration that a show that's supported by a segment of the audience could be on brink of cancellation.

My question was after the target audience seeing such a complex detailed depiction of crime/politics/law/school/press etc....how and why would they be open to watching low budget one note hood films ?

 

[Nero Christ]

The Godfather didn't stop cliche one dimensional gangster films from being made...it all depends on whether there is a market out there for it

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

The Wire wasn’t a hood movie...it just had good ppl doing hood shyt
There was a difference

What was that hood movie with drug dealers, a nikkas kid overdosed when his baby moms has a nikka over and he playing with the coke

Someone’s house gets burned down and someone gets shot in a car
Had some New York rappers

I think it was called 7 AM or something like that

 

[Tasha And]

The Godfather didn't stop cliche one dimensional gangster films from being made...it all depends on whether there is a market out there for it

I was just about to say this. Good movies or tv shows don't kill off the genre.

And the overlap of people consuming The Wire and people consuming those low budget hood films isn't that strong anyway. It's like asking why did ribeeye steaks existing not stop people from wanting hamburgers.