Kinda cheesy looking back...

There are a few scenes a bit off too, but plenty of our fav. movies do right? Lets take a look.

For 1+2 those guys were basically wasting his time with chatter so Alonzo could escape. I'm sure you visited someone and while waiting for them to get ready a family member of theres is talking nonsense to you. In this case was playing along since he knows its a dangerous situation.

3 - this scene is what males everyone wonder and I think we can all agree, Jake got lucky but as another poster mentioned - The leader of that gang wasnt just some thug like his two friends but a powerful crimelord to the level of the 3 wisemen, and thus not as blood thirsty as evident by how calm he was in the kitchen and how much he knew about Alonzo. By the scenes end it came down to if hes gonna kill this cop whom his cousin admittedly stopped from being raped. Only someone real messed up would go through that. As far letting him go. I doubt Jake could or would go through looking for trouble with them at that point and the gang leader knew that.
4.found this pretty good answer on Yahoo answers - "hes saying hes so powerful and destructive that he makes King Kong look like a little capuchin monkey. its a turn of phrase meaning he (King Kong) doesnt have anything in his/her personal traits or abilities that is better than what i got
5.as far as that final scene, thats a bit dicey too. We know that entire neighborhood hated Lonzo. He probably robbed, threatened and arrested them or their family and there was nothing they could do. All the other cops that stepped to Alonzo probably were dead or there never were any. So the neighborhood was glad to see someone brave enough to stand up to him -- that is a cop. Would it go down like that? Maybe not, but its a movie =)

You spent way to much time trolling on a film that nobody remembers or cares much about.

Better luck next time...

#1-2 ... that gang member was just talking nonsense to stall Jake. Plus, the film deliberately wanted this gangster and the shirtless gangster to be clowns. They were meant to juxtapose with the calm, intelligent Smiley. The film wanted Smiley to be the man in that scene, not the other 2 gangsters

#3 ... The scene shows that Smiley had a code of honor. He was big on family. Remember that he told Dreamer to take the girls next door after they hit Jake with the bottle? Remember how, when Alonzo knocks on the door, the little girl runs to get Smiley and doesn't talk to Alonzo? The suggestion is that Smiley told the little girl to avoid speaking to Alonzo.

As for whether Jake would come back for Smiley, the answer is no. The movie indicates that Smiley is a really high ranking person, as he had privileged information about Roger and Alonzo. So there isn't much that police can do to Smiley. Plus, I get the sense that Jake will respect Smiley; they had a deleted scene where Jake and Smiley talk briefly before Jake goes to the jungle.

#4 ... King Kong ain't got nothing on me is a reference to being king of the jungle; that neighborhood where Alonzo is shouting is known as the "Jungle"

#5 ... the gangster had Jake's back because the gangster hated Alonzo. Remember when Alonzo first takes Jake to the jungle. They talk to this gangster. The gangster tells Alonzo, "Thanks for helping out my nephew." Then when Alonzo walks away, the gangster says, "Man, I'm sick of this. I can't stand that guy." ... the gangster (as well as everyone at the jungle) really hated Alonzo.

I agree on all points.
The writing is weak in many parts.
Most of the dialogue is cheesy and redundant, Alonzo's above everybody else. But the three wiseman cops, the thugs on the street, Alonzo's cops, even Snoop, it's all written by someone imagining how gangsters talk to sound dangerous, but it all sounds like a guy with no clue trying to sound dangerous.
If anything, it makes them look LESS dangerous and believable, as in all talk and no bite.
Alonzo at the end has only his motormouth to impress us, but he's just weak and annoying.

Petsonally while I disagree about it being cheesy I will never understand Denzel winning an Oscar for this. But then again I can say the same thing about other previous Oscar decisions

Always felt this movie as a little cornball and on the nose. The themes and characters are all great, and it opened up a lot of people's eyes to the true nature of how things work on the street. It was a very important film. But yeah. It's a little cheesy. I think it needed to be so everybody could understand it.

"My Niggah!" would a black guy really keep saying that repeatedly? Especially to a white guy?

I think the whole intent is that we aren't supposed to like Alonzo and he is also supposed to be very cocky and feels indestructible. At the end when the community turn on him it's like the veil is lifted and we see that no one actually likes him after all.

That said it isn't a great film and Denzel, well, Denzel plays Denzel as per usual.