The 90's came with all these hood movies. - Juice (1992) Discussion

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[–] Nitty1981 15 years ago

Too bad todays "hood movies" are just straight to DVD garbage! What happened to quality "black" movies and TV shows! All we get now is Tyler Perry's this and Tyler Perry's that. Don't get me wrong his movies were ok at first, but they are beyond tired now. And his TV shows, although funny at times, have this whole "cheap" quality to them. What happened to the Fresh Princes and the Martins of yesteryear? I miss the 90's!

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[–] drexeltoker 15 years ago

Poetic Justice was straight up depressing (more romance than "hood") but I think you missed a few big ones...

Boyz n the Hood
Menace II Society

Top two 90s hood movies for sure.

The new decade hasn't spawned as much--Baby Boy was OK.
I think when "rappers" started making hood movies, it became crap. State Property is the worst, Belly, etc. al....

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[–] tiffanykk2002 15 years ago

Since when is Boomerang a hood movie?

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[–] valdest77 14 years ago

"Belly" was a mess, for real..."Paid in Full" was a good piece...

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[–] Ripley741 13 years ago

Hahaha, EXACTLY - thank you.

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[–] FascistAnarchist999 9 years ago

true, and set it off isn't a hood movie either.

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[–] daverindone 9 years ago

Do the Right Thing?

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[–] MrBlondNYC 9 years ago

Others not mentioned:

Straight Out of Brooklyn (1991)
Zebrahead (1992)
Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. (1992)
Blood In, Blood Out (1993)
Fresh (1994)
Mi Vida Loca (1994)
Zooman (1995)

George Carlin: It's all bullsh-t and it's bad for ya.

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[–] delthafunky1 14 years ago

My ranking is:

1.) Fresh
2.) Menace II Society
3.) Juice
4.) Clockers
5.) Boyz n the Hood

If you haven't seen 'Fresh'(1994) then DL/buy that s**t immediately. supa supa dank

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[–] shibez 14 years ago

THE REASON the 90's was such a great time for hood movies was because it was an unexplored territory, It really opened the eyes of alot of people about "what was really going on in the 'hood" ...but like all things..eventually the topic gets old and stale. It got to the point where the waynes bros made a parody film about hood movies...

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[–] ikko-ikki 14 years ago

Baby Boy was good, I like that movie a lot.

Any of you remember that movie White Boyz?

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[–] Merle_Dixon 14 years ago

New Jersey Drive.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

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[–] shibez 14 years ago

New jack City

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[–] SnoozeAlarm 12 years ago

Father Hood.

I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man with no sole. ~ Ancient Disco Proverb

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[–] jesserafe 13 years ago

Whiteboyz was good. Very under-seen. Great in so many ways, and a lot of those actors have gotten pretty big lately, unfortunately not the guy who played Flip and wrote it, Danny Hoch.

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[–] jesserafe 13 years ago

+a million

For giving props to Fresh. One of the best movies no one ever saw...

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[–] marbury50 14 years ago

Does the first Friday count?

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[–] SnoozeAlarm 12 years ago

>>>> Half that list is terrible and the other half aren't hood movies

Sounds like you're saying that all hood movies are terrible, and all movies that aren't hood movies are not terrible. Sweet!

I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man with no sole. ~ Ancient Disco Proverb

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[–] ItsEddieHaskellBeyotch 12 years ago

'Boomerang' was a gangsta/hood movie? 'Boomerang'? Really?

"Lemme at 'em! I'll splat 'em!"

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[–] WWFoverWWE 12 years ago

I don't think it has been mentioned yet but Above The Rim deserves to be acknowledged in this conversation.

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[–] DSo1976 12 years ago

Not that it's particularly hood or gangsta, but The Wood is one of my favourite "black" movies. And no mention of Colors with Sean Penn?

I think hood movies sort of died out because a lot of black people had no interest in watching negative portrayals of their own people... Like yeah, you're making us the main characters in movies, but we're thugs, pimps, and gangsters.

Even the "hero" in a lot of these movies is hood/gangsta themself, so it's hard to sympathize with them a bit knowing that they've wronged people themselves.

I also think a lot of the positive messages are lost on the target audience as well... In Boyz n' Tha Hood for instance, did kids walk away with the idea that gangs are bad, or did they walk away thinking Ice Cube was the baddest mofo in the world?

I think there's a lot of context lost on the younger audience, and if there's no one to guide them and discuss what they've watched a lot of these movies could do more harm than good to an impressionable youth.

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