Boyz N the Hood | | Cast : | Laurence Fishburne, Cuba Gooding Jr. | | Director : | John Singleton | | Studio : | Columbia/Tristar Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Widescreen | | Released Date : | July 12, 1991 | | DVD Released Date : | March 06, 2001 | | Language : | French (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | June 01, 2005 | | Summary | Boyz N the Hood: A Reassessment | Content
 | BNTH was one of my favorite movies when it was first hit theaters in the early nineties; but now it is 2005, and my opinions have changed dramatically.
First of all, there is the language. While it is true that using profanity in a screenplay makes language seem more authentic, saturating it with profanity does not, and in fact makes the screenwriter appear as if he is simply trying too hard.
Singleton also resorts to constantly playing the all-to-familiar black victimologist race card, culminating with Furious Styles' famous line "Why do they want us to kill ourselves?"
A thorough examination of the psychology behind such a statement is another subject altogether, but at its most basic level, it reveals a worldview that is destroying Black America. Blaming the white man for the scourge of drugs, alcoholism, and violence in black communities only seeks to absolve the black man of his responsibility in these matters. Yes, African-Americans have been historically mistreated in America, but the attitude of victimology is the absolute worst way to handle the situation. It virtually guarantees that the situation will get worse. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 20, 2005 | | Summary | this is tight movie | Content
| they shouldnt of shot ricky,they pushed ricky and ricky dissed them,the bloods people were about to knock his ass out until doughboy pulled out the 9 mm and they walked away.they chilled in the 64 impala when the bloods shot up a round of uzi bullets to scare everybody off.then later in the movie rickys wife asked him to get milk,ricky asked doughboy to get it but doughboy dissed him on his wife,so they started fighting,doughboy beat him up and made his nose bleed until mom came and slapped doughboy away.then ricky left to the store.tre went with doughboy and the bloods seen them leave and where going to try to kill ricky so they wont lose a reputation.they pass up but ricky and tre run through a backyard.doughboy seen the bloods pass so he knew they were after ricky so the jumped on the car to get ricky away.ricky and tre split up through the alley and thats when the orange nissan pulls up without ricky knowing,ricky sees them runs like crazy but they shoot two bullets with a double barrel shotgun that goes through ricky and kills him instantly.the bloods speed off and thats when doughboy comes too late and takes ricky home dead.they go to kill them that same day.doughboy,lil chris,dooky, and tre go,tre tries to bring his dads 57 but his dad doesnt let him.after a long ride tre asks to get off the car crying.they get tired of looking for them all day so they go to eat at a rallys.thats where thay see the bloods eating outside.they turn off the lights and do a drive by hitting all of them with ak bullets. doughboy still gets out of the car and shoots one in the leg, the other in the back, and then he goes to the leader who is trying to crawl away.he said he didnt pull the trigger but doughboy still shot him in his face 4 times.doughboy gets killed 2 weeks later it says on the screen |
| Rating | | | Date | May 13, 2005 | | Summary | Haunting Inner City Movie | Content
| It's been some time since I saw "Boyz 'N the Hood" but much of it has stayed with me. I was impressed by so many of the elelments that went into making this such an excellent movie; the acting, the directing, the writing, the editing, virtually everything. I'm just a fellow who grew up in Iowa and lives in North Dakota so I'm hardly one qualified to praise this film for its' realistic portrayal of inner city life. I don't know if this movie is "realistic" or not in that regard. However, I know that the writer and director had a message to convey and they conveyed it well.
"Boyz 'N the Hood" is about many things. It is about the challenge of raising a child in a one-parent home. It is about the senselessness of random, pointless violence. It is about the limited means of escaping the ghetto as a child growing up in it (and it does an excellent job of contrasting the dependability of education over sports). It is about the importance of having pride and respect for your self. There are so many messages on so many levels that it is hard to absorb them all in a single viewing. That is what is so impressive about this movie.
Although the movie shows us dead ends, violence, emptiness, failure, sorrow and despair, it leaves us with hope and an appreciation that that the straight and narrow road is still the best route to success no matter what the point of embarkation. |
| Rating | | | Date | April 25, 2005 | | Summary | Clasisc drama but with some sterotypes!! | Content
| This film is great and classic. This is the best creation of John Singleton, nomitated for two oscars: director and writer, this is the film that started it all: inspired "Don't be a Menace" and "Grand Theft Auto San Andreas". This movie is WHORTH buying it!!!
One of the reviewers above said that the movie contains to many sterotypes, it's not THAT true!! but I think he meant to the movie "Don't be a Menace".
The stereotypes in this film are that the black people are VERY,VERY dangerous and few are educated (this is even worst than the Hollywood movies), black people addicted to sex, black people always cursing and black people always hearing Hip Hop music (this is one of the WORST and ANNOYING sterotypes ever).
The movie is also blaming other people for the problems in the hood and I don't understand why the "N" word is a horrible and racist word if they keep saying that all the time!!!
P.S: Don't get me wrong! This is one of the best movies I ever seen! Im addicted to it!!! and when I said that stuf abou Hip Hop I meant that not all the black people hear Hip Hop.
ADIOS!!
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| Rating | | | Date | March 08, 2005 | | Summary | Boyz N The Hood | Content
| This is a story of three friends growing up in South Central Los Angeles, the friends are Tre Styles the scholar (Cuba Gooding JR) Ricky Baker the jock (Morris Chestnut) and Darin 'Doughboy' Baker the would-be gangster (Ice Cube) Tre is the only one with a father played by Lawrence Fishburne while ricky and doughboy don't and there mom only likes Ricky. There is some good acting and this is a great hood movie which i highly recommend to hood movie fans |
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