FILM POLL: Your fave Black "Hood" movie of the early-to-mid 90s

There's something a bit wrong about lumping in Boyz n the Hood with Friday.

first responder hall of shame hurting...

You missed one movie in the Wayans brother's parody: South Central. Then there's Sugar Hill, etc. Compare these movies to the mid-late 90s hip hop movies: Phat Beach. I Got the Hook-Up, etc.

FEAR OF A BLACK HAT

I feel compelled to vote for one of the 3 I saw in the theater (CB4, White Men Can't Jump and Friday), but I'm not sure which.

Also, flashback on TS: CB4 vs Fear of a Black Hat

trespass vs deep cover vs menace II society

I sort of think Fresh belongs on here too maybe. I voted House Party.

1991 - New Jack City
1992 - Trespass
1991 - Boyz n the Hood

I struggle with chronology...

i used to love clockers but in hindsight i havent seen it in a decade and it has ropey videogame bits in

You forgot Leprechaun in the Hood.

lol @ no write in for higher learning

i mean gree hee hee

What about Dead Presidents, the Hughes brothers' second film? That came out in 1995.

I second the motion against Higher Learning.

Ah, hell, Set it Off

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I FEEL SORRY 4 UR MOTHER!!!!!!!!!!!

Ice T for some reason came to my college town when Trespass came out - he was very cool - and the movie ain't half bad either - that's my vote.

Boyz N The Hood all the way

ayo Pappa

I sort of think Fresh belongs on here too maybe. I voted House Party.

― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, January 20, 2009 3:13 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark

fresh would get my vote.

some of these are just movies with black people though.

yeah, House Party 2 didn't take place in a hood, it took place on a college campus!

and White Men Can't Jump was all on Venice Beach!

ayo Whiney

Fine. I will accept your nominations for Boomerang, Love Jones, Sprung, Nutty Professor, and How Stella Got Her Groove Back.

You got the juice now.

also don't forget Def Jam's How To Be A Player

when i saw that movie in the theater there was a scene where Bill Bellamy had some ice cubes next to his bed and said, "If you don't know what these are for, you better ask somebody." I leaned over to my friend and whispered "yo what's the ice for" and we LOLed. That is all I remember from Def Jam's How To Be A Player.

i struggled not to put cool as ice on this

I FEEL SORRY 4 UR MOTHER!!!!!!!!!!!

― ﾞ（ﾟ､ ｡ ７ (cankles), Tuesday, January 20, 2009 1:23 PM

I was Pooky once, man.

There was a time when people thought New Jack City was better than Menace II Society??!?! When was that?

I'm not guilty. You're the one that's guilty. The lawmakers, the politicians, the Columbian drug lords, all you who lobby against making drugs legal. Just like you did with alcohol during the prohibition. You're the one who's guilty. I mean, c'mon, let's kick the ballistics here: Ain't no Uzi's made in Harlem. Not one of us in here owns a poppy field. This thing is bigger than Nino Brown. This is big business. This is the American way.

man it's hard to choose between menace II society and friday

Juice because a)it's about a DJ, and b)the song JUICE

I was trying to find a jpeg of Laurence Fishburne sitting at his desk with the FURIOUS STYLES nameplate.

There was a time when people thought New Jack City was better than Menace II Society??!?! When was that?

― Alex in SF, Tuesday, January 20, 2009 5:38 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark

Before we knew Color Me Badd were mostly White...

would 'hoodlum' count?

Also missing:
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What's the other one where the guys steal a car and go from Brooklyn into Manhattan for one night?

also: 'heaven is a playground'

Oh, the car one was in fact Hangin'...

OST:
"The Power (Homeboys Mix)" - Snap
"Rock Bottom" - 2 in a Room
"Dance All Night (House Mix)" - Poison Clan (The Baby 2 Live Crew)
"Swingin'" - Prince Akeem
"Ticket to Heaven" - The Knowledge (Feat. Kenny Bobien)
"Do You Believe" - Beat Goes Bang
"Pretty Girls" - Stevie B
"Games" - Trinere
"We Want Some Pussy" - 2 Live Crew
"Vacate the Premises" - The 2awk
"What Is Black" - Billy Box
"Hangin' With the Homeboys and Dr. Feelgood" - 2 Live Crew and Triple XXX

"would 'hoodlum' count?"

Or Rage In Harlem?

Yeah, Fresh is better than any of these.

Maybe not Deep Cover.

"Got some blow, got some rock? Man, I'll suck your dick."

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"Yeah, Fresh is better than any of these."

It's definitely not better than Menace. Is this some crazy East Coast vs West Coast thing where that movie is underappreciated?

I don't think so - I live in Texas but have spent a bit of time in CA and none at all in the East.

There's something a bit wrong about lumping in Boyz n the Hood with Friday.

― Joe Bob 1 Tooth (Hurting 2), Monday, January 19, 2009 11:14 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Dunno about that. I give Singleton credit for sort of founding the genre & generating a lot of needed conversation at the time of its release, but was it really that much more than an ABC after-school special with lots of guns and cursing? Seems to me the Hughes bros. took the formula & made a more realistic, less didactic, & generally better film. And Friday is just good, well-written comedy - tho its legacy has been a bit tainted a bit by the legions of bro types who quote it endlessly, sometimes with quasi-racist inflection.

In keeping with our dorkish & increasingly domestic lifestyle, my girlfriend & I sometimes procure and watch DVDs in thematic sequences, genre-based or otherwise. This past spring, we watched NJC, Boyz, Juice, Menace & SC within the span of a week or so.

i like Menace II Society best, but mostly because it has such a fucking awesome OST that i've had since it came out-- don't know how i slipped this one past my parents, think i had it on cassette originally.

# Title Performer(s)
1 "Nigga Gots No Heart" Spice 1
2 "Straight Up Menace" MC Eiht
3 "Packin' a Gun" Ant Banks
4 "Top of the World" Kenya Gruv
5 "Only the Strong Survive" Too Short
6 "All over a Ho" Mz. Kilo
7 "Guerillas Ain't Gangstas" Da Lench Mob
8 "You Been Played" Smooth
9 "Lick dem Muthaphuckas" Brand Nubian
10 "Death Becomes You" Pete Rock & CL Smooth, YG'z
11 "Unconditional Love" Hi-Five
12 ""P" is Still Free" Boogie Down Productions
13 "Stop Lookin' at Me" The Cutthroats
14 "Pocket Full of Stones" UGK
15 "Can't Fuck Wit a Nigga" DJ Quik
16 "Trigga Gots No Heart" Spice 1

i had completely forgotten Robin Harris was in House Party. I regret having voted now...

desperately need a robin harris appresh thread, since he is the goat

Maybe there are two separate threads for hood movies and daily life of black folks in contemporary NYC.

I considered an 80s equivalent, but could only come up w/ shortlist, mostly Spike Lee :

1985 - The Last Dragon
1986 - She's Gotta Have It
1987 - Hollywood Shuffle
1988 - Action Jackson
1988 - I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
1988 - School Daze
1989 - Do the Right Thing

70s Blaxploitation list can't be trimmed down enough!

Considering this:

1971 - Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
1971 - Shaft
1972 - Blacula
1972 - Shaft's Big Score
1972 - Superfly
1972 - Troubleman
1973 - Hell Up in Harlem
1973 - The Mack
1973 - Shaft in Africa
1973 - Black Caeser
1973 - Cleopatra Jones
1973 - Coffy
1974 - Sugar Hill
1974 - Three the Hard Way
1974 - Truck Turner
1974 - Uptown Saturday Night
1974 - Black Belt Jones
1974 - Foxy Brown
1975 - Dolemite
1976 - Sparkle
1976 - Dolemite 2: Human Tornado
1976 - Car wash
1977 - Peaty Wheatstraw (The Devil's Son-in-Law)
1980 - Disco Godfather

i could watch Peaty Wheatstraw right now.

mainly for

1.) his "act" (insulting people for about 5 minutes)
2.) later telling people he doesn't have time for this shit since he has to rehearse for his act

For 80s, Wild Style? Beat Street? Superrappin? Was Straight Out of Brooklyn 80s or 90s?

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song should win, although Black Caesar is pretty awesome. Larry Cohen used to be able to do no wrong.

Yeah, all the breakin/hip-hop movies could be on there

xp

Menace II Society by a really, really wide margin. Although the first House Party movie is great and really funny (Robin Harris!!!)

Damn, straight outta bklyn shoulda been on this poll

xp

Shakey, "desperately need a robin harris appresh thread, since he is the goat"

Fresh is really great too, I agree.

Still... "y'all want a cheeseburger?"

Boyz In Tha Hood was on TV the other day and man is it bad. really clumsy.

I'm not sure Singleton's ever topped the Shaft remake frankly.

surely you mean higher learning

Although this A-Team movie has promise haha.

I'm not sure Singleton's ever topped Kristy Swanson and Jennifer Connelly's lesbian love scene in Higher Learning.

Also add (maybe?):

South Central
Mi Vida Loca
Laws of Gravity

Say what you will about Boyz in tha Hood, but it the movie that made most of these possible...

Whoops, scratch Mi Vida and Laws if we're sticking to "black."

Menace II Society has an opening or near-opening scene that is one of the few times when I've been completely distracted by the artificiality of the design. It's so clear that they're not outside but on a soundstage, with stage lighting; it's so fake. (This is the scene where two guys are sitting on the stoop of an apartment building.) Then again, the other time I experienced this was with Eyes Wide Shut.

There was a third House Party? Is it worth seeing?

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im voting 4

1996 - Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood

^^obsessed w/ this shit when i was in middle school - to this day i still say "doorbell!"

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How does Trespass get two votes?

bill paxton fans

i feel sorry for this poll

when i saw that movie in the theater there was a scene where Bill Bellamy had some ice cubes next to his bed and said, "If you don't know what these are for, you better ask somebody." I leaned over to my friend and whispered "yo what's the ice for" and we LOLed. That is all I remember from Def Jam's How To Be A Player.

― wkiwpedia (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, January 20, 2009 1:40 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark

hahahaha

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so the BFI is doing a MASSIVE black film season in october.

http://shadowandact.com/2016/07/13/bfi-launches-black-star-the-uks-largest-ever-celebration-of-black-actors-on-screen/

should be interesting. ashley clark is a great person to curate. BUT, why boyz in the hood as the film they are re-releasing? (i know theyre also doing in the heat of the night, i wonder what the other will be). idk if its held up.

also, is this just black film in the west? (ie US and UK?) cos if it doesnt include any african film thats going to be weird.