TheDigitalGardener said:

Did they call it Boyz N The Hood because they could not spell boys and in or and?

[Edited 6/12/11 13:17pm]

No, that's just the way they called it. It's actually based off the Eazy E song of the same name so that's how that name came about...

Timmy84 said:

TheDigitalGardener said:

Did they call it Boyz N The Hood because they could not spell boys and in or and?

[Edited 6/12/11 13:17pm]

No, that's just the way they called it. It's actually based off the Eazy E song of the same name so that's how that name came about...

I know Timmy, i'm just kidding around.

Timmy84 said:

TheDigitalGardener said:

Did they call it Boyz N The Hood because they could not spell boys and in or and?

[Edited 6/12/11 13:17pm]

No, that's just the way they called it. It's actually based off the Eazy E song of the same name so that's how that name came about...

Who was actually supossed to be in the film. The whole NWA.

TheDigitalGardener said:

Timmy84 said:

No, that's just the way they called it. It's actually based off the Eazy E song of the same name so that's how that name came about...

I know Timmy, i'm just kidding around.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Timmy84 said:

No, that's just the way they called it. It's actually based off the Eazy E song of the same name so that's how that name came about...

Who was actually supossed to be in the film. The whole NWA.

I doubt it. NWA broke up when the film was being made.

Timmy84 said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Who was actually supossed to be in the film. The whole NWA.

I doubt it. NWA broke up when the film was being made.

At least they got Ice Cube.

Timmy84 said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Who was actually supossed to be in the film. The whole NWA.

I doubt it. NWA broke up when the film was being made.

It was written for NWA, but when Cube left, they just went after him. Theyt was supposed to be his friends always on the stoop, not Ricky and Tre.

Just like House Party was actually written for DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Timmy84 said:

I doubt it. NWA broke up when the film was being made.

It was written for NWA, but when Cube left, they just went after him. Theyt was supposed to be his friends always on the stoop, not Ricky and Tre.

Just like House Party was actually written for DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince.

OIC... but yeah.

Timmy84 said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

It was written for NWA, but when Cube left, they just went after him. Theyt was supposed to be his friends always on the stoop, not Ricky and Tre.

Just like House Party was actually written for DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince.

OIC... but yeah.

Yeah, homie with the pacifier, lol.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Timmy84 said:

OIC... but yeah.

Yeah, homie with the pacifier, lol.

And with no real reason why he wore it either. I never got that.

"Menace II Society" is waaay more "West Coast Realistic" than "Boyz N The Hood".

Dont get me wrong..."Boyz" was awesome, funny and all that, but just a little too Hollywood.

Never watched Juice...never dug Tupac.

As for "Dont Be a Menace While Drinkin..."--a bunch of east coast ni**as making fun of us west coast ni**gas.

GARBAGE.

StonedImmaculate said:

"Menace II Society" is waaay more "West Coast Realistic" than "Boyz N The Hood".

Dont get me wrong..."Boyz" was awesome, funny and all that, but just a little too Hollywood.

Never watched Juice...never dug Tupac.

As for "Dont Be a Menace While Drinkin..."--a bunch of east coast ni**as making fun of us west coast ni**gas.

GARBAGE.

Only the Wayans were East coast. Alex Thomas, Darrell HEath, Chris Spencer, Suli ect West Coast Comics.

Timmy84 said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Yeah, homie with the pacifier, lol.

And with no real reason why he wore it either. I never got that.

Most likely to comfort him like a security blanket. Lol

babybugz said:

Timmy84 said:

And with no real reason why he wore it either. I never got that.

Most likely to comfort him like a security blanket. Lol

StonedImmaculate said:

"Menace II Society" is waaay more "West Coast Realistic" than "Boyz N The Hood".

Dont get me wrong..."Boyz" was awesome, funny and all that, but just a little too Hollywood.

Never watched Juice...never dug Tupac.

As for "Dont Be a Menace While Drinkin..."--a bunch of east coast ni**as making fun of us west coast ni**gas.

GARBAGE.

That intro from Menace II Society is still chilling 18 years later...

StonedImmaculate said:

"Menace II Society" is waaay more "West Coast Realistic" than "Boyz N The Hood".

Dont get me wrong..."Boyz" was awesome, funny and all that, but just a little too Hollywood.

Never watched Juice...never dug Tupac.

As for "Dont Be a Menace While Drinkin..."--a bunch of east coast ni**as making fun of us west coast ni**gas.

GARBAGE.

Really? I've always thought that MIIS abit overboard and hollywood, like what a bunch of middle class kids thought the hood would be.

"Boyz N The Hood" kinda gave me a balanced view, and hell, I know those people.

Timmy84 said:

StonedImmaculate said:

"Menace II Society" is waaay more "West Coast Realistic" than "Boyz N The Hood".

Dont get me wrong..."Boyz" was awesome, funny and all that, but just a little too Hollywood.

Never watched Juice...never dug Tupac.

As for "Dont Be a Menace While Drinkin..."--a bunch of east coast ni**as making fun of us west coast ni**gas.

GARBAGE.

That intro from Menace II Society is still chilling 18 years later...

That ENDING when he dies stuck with me.

Harlepolis said:

StonedImmaculate said:

"Menace II Society" is waaay more "West Coast Realistic" than "Boyz N The Hood".

Dont get me wrong..."Boyz" was awesome, funny and all that, but just a little too Hollywood.

Never watched Juice...never dug Tupac.

As for "Dont Be a Menace While Drinkin..."--a bunch of east coast ni**as making fun of us west coast ni**gas.

GARBAGE.

Really? I've always thought that MIIS abit overboard and hollywood, like what a bunch of middle class kids thought the hood would be.

"Boyz N The Hood" kinda gave me a balanced view, and hell, I know those people.

It showed people that can make it out the hood (Cuba’s character) but most of the time people don’t and fall prey to the streets like with menace.

StonedImmaculate said:

"Menace II Society" is waaay more "West Coast Realistic" than "Boyz N The Hood".

Dont get me wrong..."Boyz" was awesome, funny and all that, but just a little too Hollywood.

Never watched Juice...never dug Tupac.

As for "Dont Be a Menace While Drinkin..."--a bunch of east coast ni**as making fun of us west coast ni**gas.

GARBAGE.

It was funny.

It's a matter of taste. I like Juice the best. Not a Tupac fan either.

KatSkrizzle said:

StonedImmaculate said:

"Menace II Society" is waaay more "West Coast Realistic" than "Boyz N The Hood".

Dont get me wrong..."Boyz" was awesome, funny and all that, but just a little too Hollywood.

Never watched Juice...never dug Tupac.

As for "Dont Be a Menace While Drinkin..."--a bunch of east coast ni**as making fun of us west coast ni**gas.

GARBAGE.

It was funny.

It's a matter of taste. I like Juice the best. Not a Tupac fan either.

And I mean a matter of personal taste.

babybugz said:

Harlepolis said:

Really? I've always thought that MIIS abit overboard and hollywood, like what a bunch of middle class kids thought the hood would be.

"Boyz N The Hood" kinda gave me a balanced view, and hell, I know those people.

It showed people that can make it out the hood (Cuba’s character) but most of the time people don’t and fall prey to the streets like with menace.

Statistically, it's a bell curve. There are a few that rise above, most end up the fools sitting on the porch with Cube.

Boyz N The Hood.

Hands down.

babybugz said:

Timmy84 said:

That intro from Menace II Society is still chilling 18 years later...

That ENDING when he dies stuck with me.

YES! I still get chills from it. Damn.

It depends on what you're looking for...

In terms of reality, the most realistic of all the three..Boyz N the Hood without question

If you like suspenseful thrillers...Juice

If you like just Hollywood hood violence, a typical ghetto flick...Menace II Society should be your first and last choice because it's the best.

If I was 18 or 20 years old answering this question, I would've chosen Menace II Society hands down because I didn't know any better. But now as I watch this film, this film is 70% fantasy, and only 30% reality (60/40 at best). It gives the allusion of being all reality but it's really not. Juice was pure suspense, nothing realistic about it except it was set in Harlem and like Menace it has the grand illusion of reality.

Boyz N The Hood should not be put into the same category as the other films, that's like putting Cooley High in the same category as Foxy Brown and The Mack. Boyz wasn't a hood exploitation film like Menace, or South Central, Colors, or any others, it was a coming-of-age movie set in South LA (called South Central back then), there wasn't a lot of drug reference or usage in the film, and truth be told there wasn't a lot of violence in this film. It's one of the only Black films ever to talk about the pain of violence, when you talk about violence and don't talk about the consequences or the aftermath of killing a person and the effect it has on people, then it's basically exploitation, and Boyz N the Hood was not an exploitation film.

Boyz N The Hood for sure.

I only liked Menace II Society from a comical standpoint with

the roles Lorenz Tate and Clifton Powell played.

I didn't like Juice at all.

funkycat00 said:

Juice. Cause it has a nice soundtrack to go along with it.

That's what I was going to say...I'd pick Juice just for the music in the movie alone. That and Tupac's performance was on point.

Boyz N The Hood comes in at a close 2nd.

I absolutely can't stand to watch Menace II Society. It pisses me off every time.

[Edited 6/13/11 4:09am]

I love Boyz...it started my lust for Morris...whew

Juice...made me realize that Tupac probably could really act with some training....and he had the LONGEST ASS eyelashes for a dude.

off. topic...but who would have ever knew that Cuba could play such a "great" bad guy in movies after Boyz? I love when he plays an arrogant son of a bitch!