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Summary: a powerhouse of a movie
Review: Boyz N Tha Hood stands into the line of being one of the best movies depicting life in the hood or South Central. I think john Singleton made a god point here. the 3 actors who play friends, Ice Cube, Cuba Gooding Jr and Morris Chestnut are magnificent and powerful. there's no flaws here only its length of time. Laurence(or Larry) Fishburne as father Furious is in one of his best roles, who tries hard to teach his son values in life. the shocking and most saddening part would be when Ricky(Chestnut) gets killed and then when Ice Cube gets his revenge. Singleton did a good job with the script also, basically telling what he saw when he was growing up in that area
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Summary: A PREMIER "HOOD" MOVIE, OF ALL TIME. BRILLIANT.
Review: Amidst the usual droll that passes for the "gangsta" genre, this movie shines like a sheer gem of movie making. A stunning, gripping, touching drama set in the real streets of LA. Veers around the tensions of inter-city culture, and what it's like to be an African-American youth growing up in South Central Los Angeles. Gut-wrenching potrayal of a hard-hitting theme as it is, the movie also sports a bevy of great names: Lawrence Fishburne, Cuba Gooding Jr, Angela Bassett, Ice Cube. I was hooked from Minute 1. Unembellished story line. Most of all an important message you can't possibly ignore, unless you watch it with your eyes closed. Which will anyway open when you see the ending of this stunning film. A must see -- there is a reason why the DVD is priced a bit steep. I would've bought it even if it was 10 bucks more.
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Summary: BOYZ N THE HOOD Special Edition DVD Review
Review: Finally, "Boyz N The Hood" gets proper treatmant on DVD with a double-disc special edition. John Singleton's film debut was one of the first films to take a realistic look at what was really going on in many urban California neighborhoods at the time. Telling parts of his own childhood story, Singleton gave us some deep, social commentary mixed with some groundbreaking performances from a number of relative newcomers. Cuba Gooding, Jr. is Tre Styles, a young black male growing up in South Central during the turbulent and violent early 90's. Under the watching eyes and guiding hand of his father, Furious (played brilliantly by Laurence Fishburne), Tre learns life's difficult lessons as with friends and family, he battles the harsh world that is out there on the streets. "Boyz N The Hood" is one of the most movies that is hard to forget. Once you've seen it, chances are that you will want to experience it again. While later films in the genre exploited violent images and often glorified them for entertainment purposes, this movies touches on the emotion behind the violence. When there is violence even towards characters that we may perceive as "bad", the film shows us the honest consquences. While there are many excellent performances here, it is first-time actor Ice Cube's portrayal of "Dough Boy" that really had audiences talking. No matter how many times I view the film's emotional climax, I always "feel" it. Cube's closing monolouge is just so genuine and powerful. As he walks off, fading into memory, we feel that loss. Dough Boy isn't some poor black sterotype that blows away people without thinking twice. He has human qualities. Even when he is doing things we don't agree with it, he is sympathetic. He is angry about the lack of love that he gets from his mother who praises his brother but shuns him. Despite fighting with his brother, he still runs to his rescue, moments later. Dough Boy is portrayed in a way that he can be hard-edged but we still can relate to his suffering. That seems to be what is missing from many of these hood films that try to duplicate "Boyz". "Boyz N The Hood" was and still is one of the most important films in the genre. This DVD offers a lot of things that many fans have been waiting for such as an audio commentary, a featurette looking back at the film's making, and two deleted scenes. While the first omitted scene is a rather pointless back and forth between Gooding's Tre and his mother, played by Angela Basset, the second scene featuring the movie's stand-out characters Dough Boy and Furious is excellent. This DVD is definetly worth picking up for any true fan of this epic film.
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Summary: Still A Boy From Da Hood
Review: Even after 10 years, this movie is deep and tells a story that is going on even today. I wanted to buy this movie on DVD last year but when I read they had a special 10 year anniversary edition coming out this year. So I waited and was not disappointed. I loved the special features which included commentary from the entire cast presently as they all reflected and looked back on the film and what it meant to them. To look at how much these actors/actresses have blown up since this film, it was quite a door opener for everybody. From ICECUBE, to Cuba Gooding, Jr., Morris Chestnut, Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett, Nia Long, Tyra Farrell, and Darius McCreary (played young Ricky, former star of Family Matters, and Kingdom Come fame), and Regina King. These are now some of the biggest names in Hollywood right now. It's started a whole generation of urban reality movies (Juice, Menace II Society, Clockers, etc) that was long missing in Hollywood or just totally ignored by the establishment. It should be just as important a black film in the 90's as Spike Lee's Do The Right was in the 80's. Even looking at it now, I enjoy it just as much as when it came out. Two things I was kind of dissapointed about with this special edition DVD was that it only had two deleted scenes and when they interviewed the guys who played Doughboy, Tre, and Ricky as kids, they never interviewed the guy that played Doughboy. However minor, it's still a 5 star classic in my book.
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Summary: ONE OF THE ALL TIME BEST!
Review: It's about time this movie comes out in a re-mastered edition! It's now a 2-disc set....I hope the 2nd disc is worth it! Most 2 DVD sets the 2nd disc is NOT worth the money at ALL! Boyz-n-the Hood is by far One Of the All time BEST movie EVER! This is for sure John Singleton's BEST!
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Summary: VERY TOUCHING
Review: NO MOVIE CAPTURES THE REALNESS OF THE L.A. GHETTOS LIKE THIS ONE. THE PLOT REVOLVES AROUND THREE BOYS THAT LIVE THERE, TRE [CUBA GOODING, JR.] WHO WANTS TO GET OUT OF THE HOOD, TRE'S GOOD FRIEND RICKY [MORRIS CHESTNUT], WHO WANTS TO GO TO COLLEGE AND BECOME A FOOTBALL PLAYER, AND DOUGHBOY [ICE CUBE], A WOULD BE GANGBANGER WHO LIKES IT IN THE HOOD. BUT TRAGEDY STRIKES WHEN A GROUP OF GANG BANGERS VICIOUSLY GUN DOWN RICKY. AND NOW THERE SEEMS LIKE THE ONLY WAY FOR PAYBACK IS VIOLENCE. THIS MOVIE IS REALLY TOUCHING AND IT'S REALLY ON THE MONEY. IT'S PRETTY SAD TO SEE THAT WHEN SOMEONE IS FINALLY GONNA DO SOMETHING WITH THEIR LIFE, IT GETS TAKEN AWAY FOR BS REASONS. THIS MOVIE WAS ONE OF THE FIRST MOVIES TO ACCURATELY DEPICT WHAT GOES ON IN THE HOOD. THE IMPACT OF THIS MOVIE SHOULD TELL PEOPLE THAT GUNS AND GANGS AREN'T THE WAY TO GO. THIS IS STILL THE BEST HOOD MOVIE TO EVER BE RELEASED.
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Summary: way off base
Review: This movie portrays all white people as being racist and totally clueless of balck society. Like all John Singleton movies, as well as Spike Lee, whites are portrayed in a negative light. White people are the only group you can be prejudstice about without being labled racist. One line that bothered me was when the father says that white people put gun shops and liqour stores on every corner so black people will get drunk and kill each other. That is extremely way off base. The reason that these establisments are there is because people patronize them. If you do not want these businesses in your neighborhood do not shop there period. Organize you community to have them removed. I would like to see John Singleton and Spike Lee make a movie in which whites and blacks are working together to make a better society.
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Summary: speechless
Review: This film is truly one of the most intense, real and raw films . Goodings first lead staring role and one of Goodings best performance! This is a powerful film about three friends who grow up in South Central L.A. And this film was nominated for Best Original Screenplay. This is something for everyone to see!
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Summary: Boyz 'N the Hood
Review: Boyz'N the hood is a very memorable movie, remember watching it when it first came out, recently I decided to add it to my DVD collection. Actors Cuban Gooding J.R. (Trey), Lawerence Fishburne (Furious), Ice Cube (Dough Boy), Nia Long, Morris Chestnut (Ricky) deliver a very moving and powerful movie. John Singleton gets directing credit for this amazing movie. As some have already said this is not a gangster movie, this is a movie about growing up poor in South Central LA, and the survival needed to make it, its also about the relation between a father and his son (Trey & Furious), and about two of Trey's friends who have no father, brothers Ricky and Doughboy- one the rising football star, the other the local hood. To there mother, one can do no wrong, and the other is always in the wrong. Movie has some really positive moments, one of my favourites is when Trey and his pops are riding in the car, and listening to Five Stairsteps "Ooh Child" a classic soul song. Another thing that makes characters stand out is watching them develop from boys to men. Tragedy strikes in the movie, and Trey goes to look for revenge, then stops himself coming to realization that thats not the choice he wants to make in life. "Boyz 'N the Hood" is a good movie, that will keep you captivated from start to finish.
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Summary: SAD MOVIE.
Review: I SEEN THIS MOVIE AND IT WAS GOOD. EVEN THOUGH HE WAS PLAYONG A BAD BOY IN THIS MOVIE I STILL LIKED IT. HE IS ONE GOOD ACTOR AND HE KNOWS WHAT HES DOING. IF U HAVENT SEEN IT THEN U SHOULD GO AND SEE IT.THE ONLY THING I HATED WAS HOW HIS FRIEND DIES AT THE END. THATS THE ONLKY THING I DONT LIKE.
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