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truegoldenboy · 14 days

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Boyz N Da Hood (1991)

If you grew up around drunks, you know a lot of things happen because of that bottle…

Don’t make your issues the event of the hour.

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awzer · 1 year

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Boyz n the Hood

AWZER.

#awzer #movie #hood movies #90s #boyz n the hood

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melaninpov · 11 months

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Paid in Full (2002)

Wood Harris | Mekhi Phifer | Cam’ron

In the late 1980s, Ace is a young man employed by a Harlem dry cleaning shop, working hard to stay out of the drug business. While making deliveries, he meets a drug dealer who convinces Ace to join him. Ace recruits his friends Mitch and Rico and the trio become major players in the Harlem drug underworld, a violent business that will test the friends' loyalty and wits as the money rolls in and the dangers grow beyond their control.

#classics #paid in full #wood harris #mekhi phifer #cam’ron #classic film #melaninpov #hood movies #true story #hood memes #90s movies

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purityarcade · 1 year

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money making mitch.

#hood movies #paid in full #hustle #quotes #awge #vlone #vintage 90s #80s fashion #awge shit #purity arcade

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thelove-potion · 1 year

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Youngblood 70s hood movie

#70s film #hood movies

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azsdiary · 1 year

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When Martin is telling Will (who’s dating his sister) that she has awful taste in men and goes for hotheaded obnoxious jerks I saw a pain in wills eyes. The pain of accountability I think.

#will smith #bad boys ii #bad boys #bad boys movie #2000s nostalgia #2000s movies #martin lawrence #bad boys 2 #Gabrielle union #hood movies #black 2000s movies

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underground-hip-hop-affiliated · 1 year

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Brother Panic: Decoded Finally! All The 90's Hood Movies

#Brother Panic #Esoteric #Hood Movies #New Jack City #Belly #Menace II Society #Boyz n the Hood #Fight Club #American History X #Deep Cover #Juice #etc #Shadow Self

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xperimento626 · 2 years

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Women of Friday

#friday #movie #1995 #usa #ice cube #nia long #F. Gary Gray #mine #fav movies #film #still #women #stoner #comedy #black #american #hood movies #cinema #90's #L.A.

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schlock-luster-video · 2 years

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On June 30, 1995 Friday debuted in the United Kingdom.

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manicpixieangel444 · 5 months

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𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒕𝒆𝒆𝒏𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍.

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betterthanbatman1 · 7 months

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HOW DID I NOT NOTICE THIS BEFORE

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horsechestnut · 19 days

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There are so many Dick, Bruce, or Tim kills the Joker fics on AO3, meanwhile Barbara was the one talking about how The Joker should be the exception to the No Kill Rule years before Red Hood Jason even existed.

#joker: last laugh #barbara gordon #oracle #batgirl i #let. barbara. kill. the. joker.#she deserves it #also that's basically exactly what jason says in the red hood movie #(i have not read the comic yet I'm still in 2001)#batfam #batfamily #i read comics #look i'm not saying dick shouldn't be allowed to kill the joker #but right now on ao3 there are more fics where D*NNY PH*NTOM kills the joker #then fics where Barbara does #we should fix that

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hybridreviews · 1 year

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My FAVORITE Things #4: FRIDAY

Welp, I'm writing about this movie.... and posting it on a Saturday.

I remember always watching this way back when I was younger from the classic New Line Cinema logo (and the best one from that company) and hearing that classic line coming from Chris Tucker before playing The Isley Brothers with the first shot being shoes hanging from a telephone wire, panning down to the neighborhood. OK, I’m getting far of myself, let me start over. Hey, welcome back to My…

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#black #Chris Tucker #comedy #comedy-drama #Friday #hood movies #Ice Cube #Movies #My Favorite Things #New Line Cinema #rambling #review #Warner Bros.

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thelove-potion · 1 year

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70s hood movie

#aheroaintnothingbutasandwich #hood movies

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smokeybrandreviews · 1 year

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Smokey brand Select: Ghetto Fabulous

On a whim, i googled Hood Movies because i was curious what would come up. As a black kid who grew up in the Nineties, there was a cultural recognition to what denotes a “hood” film. These things can run the game it of genre. Some are thrillers, some are comedies, the vast majority are some form of crime dram, and a good portion are just straight up exploitation; All of which are, quintessentially, black. I googled the term because i was curious if what i understood a hood flick to be, jived with what the greater public outside of my very melanated experience and culture. I was mildly surprised that our definition was only partly accurate, mostly from the late Eighties onward. Apparently, “hood” films go back to the Fifties, which doesn’t even make sense to me, but whatever. Going over this list, i saw classics; Films that informed my worldview and expressed the reality i experienced everyday, in rather poetic ways. I wanted to take a look back and kind of present a list that, i think, is a solid entry into this rather eclectic sub-genre of film. Also, Denzel Washington is all over this sub-genre. Seriously, i can make a list of hood movies that just star him!

8. Belly

Belly is ridiculous, that’s why it’s so low on this list. It is, without a doubt, unabashedly, trash but it is wildly entertaining trash! Hype Williams basically made a feature length music video and it shows. I always liked dude’s use of the frame and his eye for color in all those music videos he directed back in the Aughts so to see what he could do with a proper feature run time was well worth the price of admission for me. It’s unfortunate that the film, itself, is mid at best. Pretty as sh*t, and some of the dialogue is just chef kiss, but, overall, Belly ain’t great. What it is, is a guilty pleasure of mine that absolutely had to make this list.

7. Do the Right Thing

This is, for my money, the best Spike Lee has ever been. Do the Right Thing was a whole ass vibe when it came out. You have to understand, at that time, race was a huge deal. To see a young, upstart, director basically confront that sh*t, the sh*t no one in the mainstream talked about, the sh*t we lived every day, and do it in a way that was accessible, digestible, and understandable to those without our melanin? It was a shot to the heart, to say the least. Do the Right Thing made waves like Get Out did, but damn near two decades before Peele even thought about Chris Washington. Do the Right Thing is a classic and I'd be hard-pressed not to include it on this list.

6. Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood

Much like that ridiculous title would lead you to believe, Menace is a straight up satire of all the hood flick dropped in the Nineties. And it’s a great f*cking send-up. Long before the Wayans found success with Scary Movie, Don’t Be a Menace was testament to their ability to spoof literally anything. Menace is legitimately hilarious and became just as influential as the content it was lampooning. I’ve always been a fan of whatever the Wayans clan drops but this flick definitely sits on top.

5. City of God

Yo, this film is no to be f*cked with. Seriously, poverty is a cruel mistress that breeds straight up monsters. My personal experiences when i was deep in that lifestyle were startling but they paled in comparison to the sh*t happened in other parts of the world. City of God takes a look at what ghettos looked like in Brazil during the Sixties and holy sh*t! This film is visceral, aggressive, and unapologetic with it’s reality. I was shocked the first time i witnesses this straight of malice but, over time, i came to understand that this was the reality of Paulo Lins, the author of the book from which this whole ass pain-train of a film was based.

4. Dope

Dope is a classic. It’s basically a spiritual successor to Friday and you better believe that sh*t is making an appearance on this list. I love how Dope took everything i knew about this genre, everything i grew up experiencing, and basically just brought it into modern times. Or, at least, modern for that time. Watching dope for the first time really gave me the same feeling i had when i first watched Friday and that, alone, secures it a spot on this list. It just so happens that Dope is a great film on it’s own. It also has the benefit of introducing me to Kiersey Clemons.

3. Juice

This was one of those flicks that everyone saw when i was a kid. It was one of three: Juice, New Jack City, and Boyz n the Hood. Now, for my money, Boyz is the better film and Juice has the iconic Nino Brown but i always had a soft spot for Juice. I don’t know what it is, but i just adore this movie. Maybe it was the young Omar Epps? Maybe it was the delightfully deranged Tupac? I couldn’t say but, given a choice between those three films, I'd choose Juice every time. That’s why it’s on this list and the other two are only getting mentions. You should definitely watch them, though. They’re really good, too.

2. Training Day

I have mixed emotions about Training Day. I absolutely adore this film, strictly because Denzel Washington’s Alonzo Harris is one cold motherf*cker. That said, as dope as this portrayal was, it shouldn’t have won the Oscar. The Academy reward Washington for portraying the worst version of who we are as a culture and that sh*t sucks, no matter how f*cking captivating the performance was. Training day is a goddamn masterpiece, no argument there, but it’s a portrait of why people see black folks as cruel, ruthless, villains. In that respect, Washington killed it and this films deserves to be on this list but i f*cking hate that it is. Harris is absolutely irredeemable and that’s rare in a Washington film. Still, Eva Mendes is naked in this so, i mean, there’s that...

1. Friday

I adore Friday. This film captured exactly what it was like to grow up in the ghetto during the Nineties. I was only eleven when it came out but i recognized the absolute accuracy this film had to my reality. Crackheads, security doors, and drive-bys. All of that was very real but, at the same time, this film was able to capture the heart of the hood, that comradery you have with your neighbor. No one in the ghetto has much but we do have each other and that rang truer than anything with Friday. More than that, it’s chock full of great comedy, fantastic performances, and real, enduring, characters. Seriously, my nickname, Smokey, is literally derived from Chris Tucker’s character in this film.

Honorable Mentions: New Jack City, Boyz n the Hood, Fences, American Gangster, Colors, He Got Game, Fresh, 8 Mile, Hustle and Flow, Menace II Society, Hoodlum, The Wood, American Me, Set It Off, White Men Can’t Jump

#Smokey brand Select #Hood Flicks #Hood Films #Hood Movies

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infinitysgrace · 11 days

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"his desire to prove himself got him killed"

that's a weird way to say his mother lied to him, betrayed him and pulled a gun on him, and then watched while smoking a cigarette as he got the shit beat out of him with a crowbar...

#infinite ramble #dc comics #jason todd #'looks like you chose the wrong person to trust this time' real thing his mother said to him #sorry the Under The Red Hood movie lied to you

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