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Showed my parents and wife Boyz N the Hood last night
Posted on 1/3/26 at 10:26 am
Posted on 1/3/26 at 10:26 am
Great movie. First time I’ve watched it since I found out it was party inspired by Stand By Me. The parallels are pretty good. Especially between the young more innocent kids and their almost inevitable fate once they grow up to become violent and mean. Except for the main duo who have a chance to make it out, only for one to make it and the other to ultimately die.
I think it does a great job of not being preachy and also hitting both conservative and liberal talking points about why “the hood” is the way that it is. Even within the characters they are not monolithic in their views.
I don’t think a movie like this could be made today with that type of message or writing where it doesn’t really place blame in any one direction but it just tries to show the reality certain parts of America live in for better or worse.
Curious what the MTV board thinks of this movie.
I think it does a great job of not being preachy and also hitting both conservative and liberal talking points about why “the hood” is the way that it is. Even within the characters they are not monolithic in their views.
I don’t think a movie like this could be made today with that type of message or writing where it doesn’t really place blame in any one direction but it just tries to show the reality certain parts of America live in for better or worse.
Curious what the MTV board thinks of this movie.
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Posted on 1/3/26 at 10:35 am to jlovel7
Agree with your points but Menace II Society was so much and completely unapologetic. That one reminds me of Carlito's Way; the protagonist is doomed from the start.
Posted on 1/3/26 at 12:21 pm to jlovel7
No, RICKY!!!
Posted on 1/3/26 at 12:28 pm to jlovel7
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I don’t think a movie like this could be made today
Posted on 1/3/26 at 12:36 pm to jlovel7
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Posted on 1/3/26 at 12:51 pm to jlovel7
Thought Menace II Society was better
Posted on 1/3/26 at 2:22 pm to saintsfan22
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saintsfan22
Not sure what’s funny. This movie has so much more nuance than what would be made today. The only heavy handed part is really the gentrification speech. But even that in this is balanced out by showing the reality of the situation is also contributed to by the choices the individuals make.
Tre makes good choices and is a success. Doughboy makes poor choices and goes to jail and is killed. Ricky is the innocent who makes good choices but is caught up in the crossfire anyway.
Posted on 1/3/26 at 2:53 pm to jlovel7
Either they don’t know, don’t show, or just don’t care about what’s goin on in the hood.
Posted on 1/3/26 at 3:04 pm to wareaglepete
You ain't shite. You just like your daddy. You don't do shite, and you never gonna amount to shite. All you do is eat, sleep, and shite.
Posted on 1/3/26 at 3:08 pm to jlovel7
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Not sure what’s funny.
The idea that the themes of Boyz N the Hood is too far to put in a movie today is laughable.
This post was edited on 1/3/26 at 3:09 pm
Posted on 1/3/26 at 5:45 pm to saintsfan22
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The idea that the themes of Boyz N the Hood is too far to put in a movie today is laughable.
More meant there’s no way it’s this well made or nuanced rather than heavy handed and sloppy.
Posted on 1/3/26 at 9:20 pm to jlovel7
I’m gonna get you sucka is better
Posted on 1/3/26 at 9:38 pm to jlovel7
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than heavy handed and sloppy.
A dude has a lecture about gentrification and the man poisoning the black community and like 15 random arse neighborhood people gather round for the midday school session. Aint no fricking way that could happen in a movie now and you'd say it isn't extremely heavy handed.
Posted on 1/3/26 at 10:33 pm to jlovel7
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First time I’ve watched it since I found out it was party inspired by Stand By Me
What I understood the Film, It was based off the Writer/Directors Life, John Singleton.
Didnt hear a bleep about it being the Urban version of Stand by Me.
Reguardless, it is a great piece of work. Probably one of the best for that year/decade.
Posted on 1/4/26 at 10:25 am to Sunnyvale
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What I understood the Film, It was based off the Writer/Directors Life, John Singleton. Didnt hear a bleep about it being the Urban version of Stand by Me.
The framework of the story and incidences mostly are from his life. There are some individual elements that pay homage to SBM. The biggest being the kids saying “do you wanna go see a dead body”
Also the parallel between the kids and the teenagers who they inevitably will turn into if they don’t make a course correction.
Posted on 1/4/26 at 3:16 pm to Shotgun Willie
Don't be a Menance to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood. Is the real GOAT of those movies.
Posted on 1/4/26 at 3:28 pm to Napoleon
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Don't be a Menance to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood. Is the real GOAT of those movies.
Message!
Posted on 1/4/26 at 7:38 pm to jlovel7
It was a little heavy handed. OK, we get it...there's a lot of helicopters flying over the neighborhood.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 9:22 am to saintsfan22
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The idea that the themes of Boyz N the Hood is too far to put in a movie today is laughable.
he's just saying that the movie doesnt blatantly demonize conservatives as the main and overwhelming reason that the hood is the hood, and that it is unlikely a movie with such a message would be made today (particularly a "black movie", as it were)
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