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elite level.
some of da lesser movies here were buoyed by their great movie soundtracks that also played a major part in da 90's.
Fact of Fiction: ATL is an Urban Cinema Classic.
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elite level.
some of da lesser movies here were buoyed by their great movie soundtracks that also played a major part in da 90's.
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Why dont we have current ones?
We forgot Tales From The Hood
We forgot Tales From The Hood
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:x those were terrible, I'm talking about the obvious ones like most of the ones listed
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Why dont we have current ones?
We forgot Tales From The Hood
. Tales,from the hood.Sunset Park was decent too.
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Type of **** that makes your soul burn slow :x
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187 is a classic to me.
Four Brothers too, although those two are both a different type of hood movie.
I remember being like 11 years old dumb excited for Dangerous Minds only to be super let down. They actually tried to make a spinoff TV series with Annie Potts as the teacher
Four Brothers too, although those two are both a different type of hood movie.
I remember being like 11 years old dumb excited for Dangerous Minds only to be super let down. They actually tried to make a spinoff TV series with Annie Potts as the teacher
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Surprised no one's mentioned New Jack City. But I agree with a lot of the films listed in here. Love me a good hood movie.
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My bad above the rim up there with Juice IMO
While we at it White Man Can't Jump
Deep Cover, and I dare King of New York
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Suck it *****!Type of **** that makes your soul burn slow
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Watched it last night
Still can't believe LuckyLuc casting doubt about this movie being a classic.
Also, this dude is a well versed actor he played Pinky in Friday, the roadie in Ray dude is mad versatile.
Dude would have had to catch a hot one after that.
Yo the sister was super fine in this movie with her afro.
But his baby moms was dope too I just didn't like her attitude.
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That's what I'm saying. It was a huge wave in the 90s then by mid 2000s they basically slowed down and stopped.
Its like it was a trend that wasn't got no more. I'd welcome some urban focused joints with an 80s and 90s feel.
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da real answer is they got progressively worse... 3 strikes and soul plane being obvious examples.
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After the early 2000s they stopped catering to the "Urban" market across the board, and then you hard the writers strike around that time which gave us the shift to majority of the stuff on tv being reality tv and most of the movies being remakes of old films and comic book movies.
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I do not count Soul Plane AT ALL
3 Strikes wasn't that bad.
Its not like the talent or writers to make these movies have all died.
Somebody needs to smarten up. The market is still there.
Could be a good mine right now.
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NT should get together and fund/write/direct a new hood classic for the 2000's.
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I do not count Soul Plane AT ALL
3 Strikes wasn't that bad.
Its not like the talent or writers to make these movies have all died.
Somebody needs to smarten up. The market is still there.
if that was da case Gabrielle Union would've left Wade after that side kid showed up and kept her career poppin...
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Gabby honestly never thrived in those types of movies.
She can do an urban or black films but fact is she isn't that good.
That's probably the only other problem with these movies they don't always require the best actors or the real talents only use the movies as a stepping stone.
She can do an urban or black films but fact is she isn't that good.
That's probably the only other problem with these movies they don't always require the best actors or the real talents only use the movies as a stepping stone.
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BMF biopic?
50 Cent already secured the rights from Big Meech.
http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/50-cent...-a-black-mafia-family-tv-show-news.23658.html
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This. And I think hip-hop has kinda died. Where now people consider Dope a successful movie, and it's predicated on the strength of the golden era of hip hop.
But you know what I really think killed ALL of it, the music, the culture, the popularity of idolizing the hood and hood movies? ???? I honestly think the NBA dress code killed it all. Things were more poppin when Iverson was allowed to dress like Iverson to every game. Put him in a suit, and the rest of the world followed.
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Dope had nothing to do with hip hop though lol
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Add on top of that, the climate is simply not the same, just like in music. Can't really expect to make those types of movies when the climate as a whole isn't there. Some of these current hood movies now are just flat out hokey and non-believable (Belly 2) or has a good premise but tragic production value (King of Paper Chasin'). Netflix is clutch for some gems though.
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The NBA dress code killed it? 
Nah the music is just whack and the generation coming up don't inspire dope ****.
Nah the music is just whack and the generation coming up don't inspire dope ****.
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So where does this rank?
Also would throw this on the list above
Also would throw this on the list above
