Thank you my brother for the shout-out it means a lot to me thank you all the ones that listening and on the channel thank you guys I appreciate that very much let's enjoy the movie
Hollywood tends to waste collabs when it comes to black actors......Sam Jackson and Denzel played in one film and Morgan Freeman. Angela Bassett and Denzel only played in Malcolm x and nothing else.
I'd say after a certain 1993 film they did together Laurence had got a lot of hate for playing the character so well. I wonder if that had any influence on them not doing more movies together.
Angela Bassett and Lawrence fishburne have done three movies together. What's love got to do with it? 1993. Boys in the Hood. And akeelah and the Bee 2006
I think Doughboys character confused you because he was very intelligent amd he couldve have probably been someome successful but he was already written off by his own mother when he was still a child smh
@@rashadwalker8218 I think he could have been anything he wanted to be. I watched this movie again the other night for the hundredth time and I saw it through my grown up eyes. There are so many of us who were raised with both parents, a great father and every opportunity in the world. These people still can mess up in their lives. I'm not sure what the right answers are. Some can overcome every hardship and some can't....
Yup let’s not forget to add the fact he has no father so technically dude had 0 loving parents. Mix that with animosity of your brother because he’s always praised. Disaster waiting to happen. I always felt sorry for him. Only time he felt he mattered or was cared for was by his friends who were a bad influence
In my 10th grade Speech class, we were asked to recite monologues from different movies, and I chose the "Gentrification speech." Mrs. Olson was aghast but gave me an A
The actor who played the Blood who infamously shot and killed Ricky in the alleyway, Lloyd Avery ll, actually ended up joining the Bloods shortly after the movie's release. In 2001, he got sent to life in prison for double homicide. And then he got strangled to death by a cellmate on September 6, 2005.
@@knockoutking3764 No. God always forgives. "You reap what you sow” is nonsense because he repented for all of his sins and became a born again Christian.
Not only that. When he was in prison, he became a Christian. For some unknown reason, he got a new cellmate who was a satanic worshipper. After strangling and killing Avery, he performed some kind of satanic ritual over Avery's remains as a "warning to God. " Even though his family had accepted that he was going prisom for life, they still wondered why in the hell would they pair him up with a convicted murderer who had the very opposite religious belief as him
"Dookie" played by Dedrick D. Gobert who has transitioned on R.I.P. was chewing on the pacifier because he was trying to quit smoking and John Singleton made an artistic decision to use it in the film as a prop for the character.
@@Jekyll_Island_Creatures Lol truthfully, I only ever known that to be more of a white thing, most the people I know from back in the day including myself who used to do that only ever just chewed gum.
"Any fool with a dick can make a baby, but only a real man can raise his children." Fun Fact: Theatrical movie debut of Regina King. Break Yourself Fool Fact: To maintain a sense of realism, writer and director John Singleton never warned the actors and actresses about when shots would be fired. Their reactions were real. Real Life Supervillian Fact: Lloyd Avery II, who played the gang member that shot Ricky (Morris Chestnut), became a member of the Bloods after this movie's release. He was arrested in real life in connection with a double homicide, sentenced to life in prison, and was killed on the evening of September 6, 2005 by his own cellmate. Awards And Honors Fact: John Singleton's writing and directing debut. Despite being a rookie, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) nominated him. John Singleton's Oscar nomination for Best Director at the age of twenty-four made him the youngest director to ever receive such an accolade, beating Orson Welles by a good two years. Gun Enthusiast Fact: Furious' (Laurence Fishburne) revolver is a Colt Python .357 fitted with a six inch barrel. The handgun that Doughboy (Ice Cube) used was a Colt double eagle Mk.II Series 90 chambered in .45 ACP or 10mm Auto. The rifle that Monster (Baldwin C. Sykes) used to injure and kill Ferris (Raymond D. Tuner) and his two friends is a folding-stock Norinco Type 56-1 (Chinese AKS-47/AKMS clone). He inserts the magazine incorrectly when he is loading the rifle; the way he loads it prevents the hook in front of the feed lips from connecting properly to the magazine.
Drug addict fact: pacifiers we’re a sign of the XTC culture in the early 90’s grinding your teeth isn’t fun, and a pacifier helps. It looks so goddamn goofy and out of place, but it’s what was happening 😂
John Singleton wrote this script for his film class. He gave it the structure and characters similar to those he'd studied in classic Hollywood films. He had minimal directing experience beyond his class work but was still lucky enough to get the chance to direct his own film. This was a time when black films were red hot and studios were willing to give young black filmmakers a shot. Singleton ended up with the first ever Oscar nomination for a black director and his script was nominated as well. (And this small $6.5M film ended up a hit at the box office bringing in around $58M.)
At the same time, a lot of those other movies were unfortunately ignored by the masses, especially if they did not present a hard or violent life that eventually got exploited. "CB4," "The Inkwell," and so on, even "Love and Basketball," "Brown Sugar" later. Nowadays, supposedly "enlightened" people suddenly pretend they always cared about such diverse films but they were the ones ignoring them over the years.
It’s not the first. Cooley High & the first movie that Larry Fishburne was ever in Cornbread Earl & Me came out in the 70’s. Cooley high took place in the Cabrini Green projects in Chicago. In fact it was those movies that inspired Singleton to get into filmmaking & the ending in both of those movies was basically the same as this.
Fun fact: This movie was directly inspired and influenced by Stand By Me. John Singleton was a fan of Stephen King. You can see it if you’ve seen both films, and are aware of the association.
Yup. Doughboy disappearing at the end, when it's revealed that he was murdered, is a direct visual reference to Chris disappearing at the end of Stand By Me, when it's revealed that he was murdered.
"Oh, his balls connect in the middle..........SHADDUP" It's the little things J that make you the best, and Blank's editing of course. Nothing but love and respect!
This movie was one of THE MOST influencial movies of the early 90's...for many reasons. I remeber not being old enough but somehow getting in to see it in the theatre with my best friend. Driving home I just started bawling because I felt such deep sorrow at the real reflection the movie portrayed. I was tearing up so bad I missed one of the stop signs on the way home.😢 That was one of the only times in my youth I had ever cried because of a movie....E.T. & Born on 4th of July.
The guy with the pacifier, late actor DEDRICK D. GOBERT (1971-1994), was trying to quit smoking at the time, so director John Singleton just left that in the movie for that character instead of him smoking in the movie.
I'm so glad you got to see this. ❤ I saw this movie in the theater when it came out (showing my age 😂) and I've seen it multiple times since and the scene with Ricky dieing still makes me cry every single time. I know it coming, and I still cry. 😢 Very powerful movie. ❤
Son: Who dis? Mother: "Who dis?" What kinda way is that to answer the phone? Let me speak to your father. Son: Hey dad! **hands him the phone** Father: Who dis?
Dough knew right off that Tre wasn't a killer. Like he said, shouldn't have been there in the first place. Sad thing though is when Dough said it just goes on and on. Most likey Monster would go after whoever killed Dough etc etc....."you still got one brother left" ❤
So many lessons in this movie. As you said, how a person's raised follows them their entire life. Even Ricky, whi didn't have a gather figure in the house, was shown unconditional love by his mom. And he was a totally different person from his brother, who received absolutely no love from his mom. Great reaction and I'm glad you get to keep your black card!!
"Why he got a pacifier? Was that cool in '91?" Sadly, yes. Guys were chewing on those all over the place at that time. Jet Magazine had the Beauty of the Week, and it was almost always on page 43. My grandfather had a subscription and I would go through each one just to look at that. In 1984, I had a Michael Jackson Beat It t-shirt just like that one young Doughboy was wearing. I might still have it.
There's another Laurence Fishburn movie that I haven't heard about in a while, "Deep Cover" (1992), have you seen it? I won't say who else is in it, that will be a STFU moment.
My condolences to Destin I know how the loss of a parent feels it's hard I lost both of my parents to believe me you're not alone may your dad rest in peace
Fun fact: the director met Laurence Fishburne while they were both working on Pee-Wee's Playhouse. John Singleton was a PA at the time, and wanted to hear stories about Spike Lee. Laurence told him, and even brought him a cup of coffee. John was touched, and told him there'd be a part for him in the movie he was writing.
You asked about the pacifier, and yes, back in the early ‘90’s you saw all sorts of teenagers and young adults with pacifiers in their mouths! I had a teenager at that time and she knew I’d better not see her with one, but when she wasn’t around me, she had one, too.
Another great reaction, so glad to see that you finally got to see this great movie. Hits hard in all the right areas and makes you think about how you see things from other perspectives in life!
This is one of the best films of the 90's. Laurence Fishburne's.performance as Furious Styles was so powerful and he at least should have received an Oscar nomination.Thank you J for reacting to it.
Great reaction man. One of those great movies that never gets easier to watch. Every time I watch it I think about Ricky’s dreams. The ending never changes. Increase the peace. 👏👏🥰
POETIC JUSTICE (1993) is also an excellent John Singleton film that’s very much worth seeing, as are HIGHER LEARNING (1995), ROSEWOOD (1997), and BABY BOY (2001). Sadly, since he died so young, at age 51, he only left us with 9 theatrical films, but they’re mostly pretty solid films. He also worked in television, mostly in the last decade of his life (he passed in 2019).
This movie is great, I remember watching it when it first came out. Another good movie with a great soundtrack is " Do The Right Thing " ," Colors " & " New Jack City ". I'm sure Blank will easily recognize most of these.
I seen this in the theater. When it hit VHS I had my parents watch it while we lived in NY. It was the first time I seen my Dad cry from a movie or maybe ever. Shocked me.
Anyone else remember when ice cube was on the fbi radar as extremely dangerous in the band NRA and now makes family movies. With wholesome family content?
Rick is a young athlete who's in shape and plays football, that's why he's always eating and drinking milk. Not all Black people are lactose intolerant.
The older man when Tre’s dad was showing them about gentrification, was 100% right. Black people kill each other by drugs or guns everywhere. And it’s never talked about.
This was the first R-rated movie I ever saw at the theater on my own. Even though it was set in L.A., I saw a lot of the hood I grew up in and went to school in on that screen. Over 30 years later, I'm so far removed from that kind of environment that it feels like a distant memory, even though I know that nothing's changed. And what you said about this taking place in 1991 while we still have the same shit in 2023 hit me deep. It's so fucked up and it hurts me to think about the next 30 years, and the decades beyond that. I'm glad though that we have this movie to remind us about life's daily struggles, and I hope people never forget the reality.
A friend of mine I knew back when I lived in Washington Park in Chicago recently got out of there and moved out into the world of normal people. After living in the suburbs of Virginia just a couple blocks from me for the last couple years she said the most telling things she noticed after getting out of that type of environment was that it’s not normal to go to funerals two or three times a month. She never realized it wasn’t normal, and everybody didn’t do that. She hadn’t had to go to one funeral the entire two years she’s lived here. that was the most telling thing she thought. How many go to funerals all the time is not normal.
Dude you are such a good person. God bless you. Someone on another channel was going through a hard time (who I don’t know, just from reading comments) and I recommended your channel to him because you’re so cool and you always make me laugh so I figured I’d tell him to come over here. You are a great dude. All the success in the world to you. Peace and love.
Dont feel bad for jumping when they opened fire while everyone was hanging out. Everyone there is also actually scared. They didn't tell anyone about the automatic fire to get a natural reaction from the cast.
Aye, I was just trying to look out for you, man. This is a safe space but the outside world may not have taken so kindly to you not having seen this classic! 🤣
Fun fact I use to live in the neighborhood where this was shot at. The scene where they hop in the lower rider and it's a panning shot as they drive off. That once was my aunts house on the corner in the background.
I grew up around people like this and I was taught to stay as far away from these people from my mom! My goal has always been to not talk to them and get enough money to move away. I know it may sound controversial to some but to me having the same skin color doesn't make you my people, having the same morals does.
I wouldn't say that's a controversial opinion. In fact it is common in nearly all communities apart from the black community. In my opinion it is one of the major factors that is holding the black community back. Collectivism sounds good in theory but the cold hard fact is that when you define who you consider 'your people' based on skin color, you implicitly condone their behavior regardless of how amoral it may be. It's a childish way of looking at people and is inherently racist when you think about it.
So the guy playing Lil Chris, Reggie Green in the wheelchair went to middle school with my husband! Hubby said he used to fly through the hallways, taking corners like a madman!😆😆😆
@31:45 About that Black Cop, the director had a back story for him but it never made the film, long story short, his son was killed by black gang members. Which is why he behaves in that manner. It is sad.
Cube killed it. and that just wasnt a 1 note gangster role either. he actually had to show some range. that ending scene is still his best work. and he was just pup here. very impressive
I saw this in the movie theater - the crowd was silent/in shock when Ricky got killed. I wish he woulda hopped over a fence instead of running throught the alley.
This is my favorite film all time. It says everything. It has everybody. John Singleton every day, all day. I'm one hundred percent bias too. It's the first film me and my childhood bros turned to each other and said soneone finally said it. There it was all up there on the big screen. This movie takes big swings at big targets, but it's the little details it completely bullseyes too. Like the racist black cop. My white dad was a cop who got partnered with a black cop just like the one on the movie in Oakland, Ca back in the 70's. Pops put in for a transfer for another partner. He told me years later after retiring 25 years patrolling the same streets in Oakland why. He said they saw the worst of the worst on a daily basis from prominently black people. Yet it never made him a racist. But, if he'd stayed partnered up with that black cop, he would've been inside of a year. That always stuck with me. Plus, we all saw it as kids in my neighborhood first hand too from white-bkack cop pairings. Life's a trip. John Singleton got it. He told the whole story. He had white friends. Who had his back growing up in the same bat shit neighborhood. We're all in this together. Like i said, it floored me and my longtime mates because we didn't thing anyone would actually tell a balanced story that spoke out it's not a race rhing: its a poverty thing. It becomes a race thing to distract you from the fact its a poverty thing and a poverty thing being forced upon you and your community to be profited from and exploited. Exploitation knows no color. That's why we like your channel. You are realer than real. Lol. To a fault. Haha. Sometimes you be too truthful, as in, 'Shut up, shut up. They gonna come for you! No Murderwhistle.' Lol. You The Man. The coolest cat and not just cause you jumpy like one at sudden moves and loud sounds. what, what. ;D ❤️🤙
Thank you my brother for the shout-out it means a lot to me thank you all the ones that listening and on the channel thank you guys I appreciate that very much let's enjoy the movie
Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett should have made dozens of movies together. Unbelievable acting chemistry between them.
Hollywood tends to waste collabs when it comes to black actors......Sam Jackson and Denzel played in one film and Morgan Freeman. Angela Bassett and Denzel only played in Malcolm x and nothing else.
Agreed! What's love got to do with it is such a great movie about Tina Turner...these two are amazing in it.
I'd say after a certain 1993 film they did together Laurence had got a lot of hate for playing the character so well. I wonder if that had any influence on them not doing more movies together.
Angela Bassett and Lawrence fishburne have done three movies together. What's love got to do with it? 1993. Boys in the Hood. And akeelah and the Bee 2006
@@ccjtv809 True, but look at the gap between those last two. Not that it's a problem or anything but just aggregate to what I said before.
I think Doughboys character confused you because he was very intelligent amd he couldve have probably been someome successful but he was already written off by his own mother when he was still a child smh
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@@rashadwalker8218 I think he could have been anything he wanted to be. I watched this movie again the other night for the hundredth time and I saw it through my grown up eyes. There are so many of us who were raised with both parents, a great father and every opportunity in the world. These people still can mess up in their lives. I'm not sure what the right answers are. Some can overcome every hardship and some can't....
Yup he was doomed from birth
Yup let’s not forget to add the fact he has no father so technically dude had 0 loving parents. Mix that with animosity of your brother because he’s always praised. Disaster waiting to happen. I always felt sorry for him. Only time he felt he mattered or was cared for was by his friends who were a bad influence
Another sad thing is there’s millions of doughboys out there
"Let me out" has so many meanings in that scene. Hits hard.
Shows intelligence
Even in Doughboys grief he thought enough of Trey to let him out knowing he didnt belong there
It's crazy because once Trey gets out Furious stops with the stress balls. Like they had a mental connection.
Damn i didn't even peep that until now, good eye my friend@@KHAOE1
In my 10th grade Speech class, we were asked to recite monologues from different movies, and I chose the "Gentrification speech." Mrs. Olson was aghast but gave me an A
That's an iconic scene, nice. Furious Styles is a legend.
If everyone had Furious Styles as a dad, we'd be colonizing other planets right now.
The actor who played the Blood who infamously shot and killed Ricky in the alleyway, Lloyd Avery ll, actually ended up joining the Bloods shortly after the movie's release. In 2001, he got sent to life in prison for double homicide. And then he got strangled to death by a cellmate on September 6, 2005.
Good
Damn, that’s pretty wild
You reap what you sew!
@@knockoutking3764 No. God always forgives. "You reap what you sow” is nonsense because he repented for all of his sins and became a born again Christian.
Not only that. When he was in prison, he became a Christian. For some unknown reason, he got a new cellmate who was a satanic worshipper. After strangling and killing Avery, he performed some kind of satanic ritual over Avery's remains as a "warning to God. " Even though his family had accepted that he was going prisom for life, they still wondered why in the hell would they pair him up with a convicted murderer who had the very opposite religious belief as him
"Dookie" played by Dedrick D. Gobert who has transitioned on R.I.P. was chewing on the pacifier because he was trying to quit smoking and John Singleton made an artistic decision to use it in the film as a prop for the character.
You also chew pacifiers when you're rollin on ecstasy.
@@Jekyll_Island_Creatures Lol truthfully, I only ever known that to be more of a white thing, most the people I know from back in the day including myself who used to do that only ever just chewed gum.
@@theghettoraclenot if you were from Chicago in 80s when deep house underground party were crackin
I didn't know that. Thank you.
"Any fool with a dick can make a baby, but only a real man can raise his children."
Fun Fact: Theatrical movie debut of Regina King.
Break Yourself Fool Fact: To maintain a sense of realism, writer and director John Singleton never warned the actors and actresses about when shots would be fired. Their reactions were real.
Real Life Supervillian Fact: Lloyd Avery II, who played the gang member that shot Ricky (Morris Chestnut), became a member of the Bloods after this movie's release. He was arrested in real life in connection with a double homicide, sentenced to life in prison, and was killed on the evening of September 6, 2005 by his own cellmate.
Awards And Honors Fact: John Singleton's writing and directing debut. Despite being a rookie, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) nominated him. John Singleton's Oscar nomination for Best Director at the age of twenty-four made him the youngest director to ever receive such an accolade, beating Orson Welles by a good two years.
Gun Enthusiast Fact: Furious' (Laurence Fishburne) revolver is a Colt Python .357 fitted with a six inch barrel. The handgun that Doughboy (Ice Cube) used was a Colt double eagle Mk.II Series 90 chambered in .45 ACP or 10mm Auto. The rifle that Monster (Baldwin C. Sykes) used to injure and kill Ferris (Raymond D. Tuner) and his two friends is a folding-stock Norinco Type 56-1 (Chinese AKS-47/AKMS clone). He inserts the magazine incorrectly when he is loading the rifle; the way he loads it prevents the hook in front of the feed lips from connecting properly to the magazine.
Thanks 👍 I knew most of this, but you definitely broke it down nicely
JayReckless28 ...You're welcome. I tried to answer questions that people might have.
Go in Peace and Walk with God. 😎 👍
Drug addict fact: pacifiers we’re a sign of the XTC culture in the early 90’s grinding your teeth isn’t fun, and a pacifier helps. It looks so goddamn goofy and out of place, but it’s what was happening 😂
Regina King was also completely transformed from her good girl character on the sitcom "227."
John Singleton wrote this script for his film class. He gave it the structure and characters similar to those he'd studied in classic Hollywood films. He had minimal directing experience beyond his class work but was still lucky enough to get the chance to direct his own film. This was a time when black films were red hot and studios were willing to give young black filmmakers a shot. Singleton ended up with the first ever Oscar nomination for a black director and his script was nominated as well. (And this small $6.5M film ended up a hit at the box office bringing in around $58M.)
At the same time, a lot of those other movies were unfortunately ignored by the masses, especially if they did not present a hard or violent life that eventually got exploited. "CB4," "The Inkwell," and so on, even "Love and Basketball," "Brown Sugar" later.
Nowadays, supposedly "enlightened" people suddenly pretend they always cared about such diverse films but they were the ones ignoring them over the years.
The first art film set in the hood, and one that influenced a generation of filmmakers.
Such an iconic piece of work ❤
It’s not the first. Cooley High & the first movie that Larry Fishburne was ever in Cornbread Earl & Me came out in the 70’s. Cooley high took place in the Cabrini Green projects in Chicago. In fact it was those movies that inspired Singleton to get into filmmaking & the ending in both of those movies was basically the same as this.
_Killer of Sheep_ from 1978 came before it (one of Spike Lee's favorite films), but _Boyz N the Hood_ gained much more popularity.
Lol definitely not an art film. It’s a low budget genre film.
@@seanbumpus3126 It did show at Cannes.
But not much point arguing. Categories are always gray.
Fun fact:
This movie was directly inspired and influenced by Stand By Me.
John Singleton was a fan of Stephen King.
You can see it if you’ve seen both films, and are aware of the association.
Never heard that before but now that I have I can definitely see the parallels.
12:30!
Walking down the train tracks had the same vibe
That walking in the tracks and looking at a dead body scene gave me Stand By Me vibes.
Yup. Doughboy disappearing at the end, when it's revealed that he was murdered, is a direct visual reference to Chris disappearing at the end of Stand By Me, when it's revealed that he was murdered.
RIP, John Singleton, 1968-2019.
The pullout game - "It works 100% of the time, some of the times"
😂😂😂
"Oh, his balls connect in the middle..........SHADDUP" It's the little things J that make you the best, and Blank's editing of course. Nothing but love and respect!
This movie was one of THE MOST influencial movies of the early 90's...for many reasons.
I remeber not being old enough but somehow getting in to see it in the theatre with my best friend. Driving home I just started bawling because I felt such deep sorrow at the real reflection the movie portrayed. I was tearing up so bad I missed one of the stop signs on the way home.😢 That was one of the only times in my youth I had ever cried because of a movie....E.T. & Born on 4th of July.
The guy with the pacifier, late actor DEDRICK D. GOBERT (1971-1994), was trying to quit smoking at the time, so director John Singleton just left that in the movie for that character instead of him smoking in the movie.
Doughboy wanted to do the right thing, but mostly because of the way his mother treated him, he was truly a product of his environment.
This is one of those movies that had a once in a lifetime cast and John Singleton’s masterpiece. A classic. - Gene A.
Higher Learning is an alternate ending to this movie
I mean. It does starr some of the same folks
This movie still makes me cry like a baby. From the moment Ricky goes, till the end…soo many tears. Amazing movie.
I may be wrong but I always took the milk as a symbol that he’s is still a growing boy yet to reach his goals as man.
J never saw this? Wow. Let's go
18:14 idk why your reaction caught me off guard I’m in tears rn😂😂😂😂😂
I'm so glad you got to see this. ❤ I saw this movie in the theater when it came out (showing my age 😂) and I've seen it multiple times since and the scene with Ricky dieing still makes me cry every single time. I know it coming, and I still cry. 😢 Very powerful movie. ❤
Such a heavy movie, but J can still make me laugh. Nice reaction guys!
agreed. that’s what makes j’s reactions so good.
Son: Who dis?
Mother: "Who dis?" What kinda way is that to answer the phone? Let me speak to your father.
Son: Hey dad! **hands him the phone**
Father: Who dis?
Dough knew right off that Tre wasn't a killer. Like he said, shouldn't have been there in the first place.
Sad thing though is when Dough said it just goes on and on. Most likey Monster would go after whoever killed Dough etc etc....."you still got one brother left" ❤
So many lessons in this movie. As you said, how a person's raised follows them their entire life. Even Ricky, whi didn't have a gather figure in the house, was shown unconditional love by his mom. And he was a totally different person from his brother, who received absolutely no love from his mom. Great reaction and I'm glad you get to keep your black card!!
Check out the symbolism of the crackhead who snatched the chain This move was made after ice cube left NWA. He had on an We want eazy shirt
"Why he got a pacifier? Was that cool in '91?"
Sadly, yes. Guys were chewing on those all over the place at that time.
Jet Magazine had the Beauty of the Week, and it was almost always on page 43. My grandfather had a subscription and I would go through each one just to look at that.
In 1984, I had a Michael Jackson Beat It t-shirt just like that one young Doughboy was wearing. I might still have it.
Not going to lie, when you jumped at the exact same time as everyone in the movie to the gunshots I laughed pretty hard
I forgot that Bassett and Fishbourne were in this. They worked together for the first time. The next time is in 'What's Love Got To Do With It?'
Yup. They also acted together in Akeela and the Bee.
There's another Laurence Fishburn movie that I haven't heard about in a while, "Deep Cover" (1992), have you seen it? I won't say who else is in it, that will be a STFU moment.
John Singleton was both the first Black director to be nominated for the Oscar, and also the youngest - he was only 24 years old.
My condolences to Destin I know how the loss of a parent feels it's hard I lost both of my parents to believe me you're not alone may your dad rest in peace
I am so sorry 😞.
A hood classic.
Certified
@35:31..That mailman was the movie director JOHN SINGLETON...
Fun fact: the director met Laurence Fishburne while they were both working on Pee-Wee's Playhouse.
John Singleton was a PA at the time, and wanted to hear stories about Spike Lee. Laurence told him, and even brought him a cup of coffee. John was touched, and told him there'd be a part for him in the movie he was writing.
You asked about the pacifier, and yes, back in the early ‘90’s you saw all sorts of teenagers and young adults with pacifiers in their mouths! I had a teenager at that time and she knew I’d better not see her with one, but when she wasn’t around me, she had one, too.
Another great reaction, so glad to see that you finally got to see this great movie. Hits hard in all the right areas and makes you think about how you see things from other perspectives in life!
This is one of the best films of the 90's. Laurence Fishburne's.performance as Furious Styles was so powerful and he at least should have received an Oscar nomination.Thank you J for reacting to it.
Great reaction man. One of those great movies that never gets easier to watch. Every time I watch it I think about Ricky’s dreams. The ending never changes. Increase the peace. 👏👏🥰
POETIC JUSTICE (1993) is also an excellent John Singleton film that’s very much worth seeing, as are HIGHER LEARNING (1995), ROSEWOOD (1997), and BABY BOY (2001). Sadly, since he died so young, at age 51, he only left us with 9 theatrical films, but they’re mostly pretty solid films. He also worked in television, mostly in the last decade of his life (he passed in 2019).
I laughed so hard when you were getting perinoid about the milk.
Whole, baby!
(hmmm...that didnt sound right...)
32:26 scene,, Watermelon Man.-Ernie Moore Jr.
I love how laurence fishburn and angela bassett also played Ike and Tina. Angela is the true def of aging gracefully. Aka black don't crack.
This movie is great, I remember watching it when it first came out. Another good movie with a great soundtrack is " Do The Right Thing " ," Colors " & " New Jack City ". I'm sure Blank will easily recognize most of these.
Do the Right Thing is still one of my favorite movies ❤
I had the soundtracks on tape to all of those...such influential movies.
I seen this in the theater. When it hit VHS I had my parents watch it while we lived in NY. It was the first time I seen my Dad cry from a movie or maybe ever. Shocked me.
"Yeah? I hope they're good cause them the last fries you're about to fuckin' eat." 🤣
"Why is he always drinking milk? That shit bothers me" 🤣🤣🤣
This is about as true to life as a movie has ever gotten in my opinion. Especially in the early 90s
Anyone else remember when ice cube was on the fbi radar as extremely dangerous in the band NRA and now makes family movies. With wholesome family content?
Don’t be a menace while drinking your juice in the hood has to be next up
Rick is a young athlete who's in shape and plays football, that's why he's always eating and drinking milk. Not all Black people are lactose intolerant.
The older man when Tre’s dad was showing them about gentrification, was 100% right. Black people kill each other by drugs or guns everywhere. And it’s never talked about.
That was Grady from Sanford and Son.
This was the first R-rated movie I ever saw at the theater on my own. Even though it was set in L.A., I saw a lot of the hood I grew up in and went to school in on that screen. Over 30 years later, I'm so far removed from that kind of environment that it feels like a distant memory, even though I know that nothing's changed. And what you said about this taking place in 1991 while we still have the same shit in 2023 hit me deep. It's so fucked up and it hurts me to think about the next 30 years, and the decades beyond that. I'm glad though that we have this movie to remind us about life's daily struggles, and I hope people never forget the reality.
Broo, you always pickin the bangers!
Even seeing this now in edited form as they put Ricky on the couch, I can’t help but get chocked up.
Love how you mention *stand by Me* both are coming of age movies with young boys saying "you want to see a dead body"
“ I wanted some of them balls” 😂😂😂 Best quote in the reaction ‼️
A friend of mine I knew back when I lived in Washington Park in Chicago recently got out of there and moved out into the world of normal people. After living in the suburbs of Virginia just a couple blocks from me for the last couple years she said the most telling things she noticed after getting out of that type of environment was that it’s not normal to go to funerals two or three times a month. She never realized it wasn’t normal, and everybody didn’t do that. She hadn’t had to go to one funeral the entire two years she’s lived here. that was the most telling thing she thought. How many go to funerals all the time is not normal.
Good point.
35:15 scene feels like Spike Lee story telling, School Daze??-Ernie Moore Jr.
"Boy you've been locked up too long" 🤣 This is why we watch!
I always wondered where all those leaves on the lawn came from when there’s nothing but palm trees around!
12:53 J said dang bruh hard for no reason 😂😭☠️
If you want to see a different Lawrence you could check “King of New York” with Christopher Walken.
Angela in “Strange Days” is great.
This movie makes me cry every time. I love this movie.
11:00 - My mom was like this. You start to believe that stuff after hearing it all the time. Took a while to reverse that thinking.
Dude you are such a good person. God bless you. Someone on another channel was going through a hard time (who I don’t know, just from reading comments) and I recommended your channel to him because you’re so cool and you always make me laugh so I figured I’d tell him to come over here. You are a great dude. All the success in the world to you. Peace and love.
I grew up in LA, a lot of brothers had Beatles in the hood, tricked out like you wouldn’t believe
The bug that Tre drives is the same bug Furious drove when Tre was a kid
“a little black stand by me” 🤣🤣
Dont feel bad for jumping when they opened fire while everyone was hanging out. Everyone there is also actually scared. They didn't tell anyone about the automatic fire to get a natural reaction from the cast.
Aye, I was just trying to look out for you, man. This is a safe space but the outside world may not have taken so kindly to you not having seen this classic! 🤣
Lol I appreciate you looking out for me - J
Cute ❤
Thank you Tanisha🙌🏽 he was about to lose it indefinitely💯😁
Great reaction, remember first time I saw this as teenager
Being from the UK it felt like a different world...... Much love🙏
Fun fact I use to live in the neighborhood where this was shot at. The scene where they hop in the lower rider and it's a panning shot as they drive off. That once was my aunts house on the corner in the background.
I grew up around people like this and I was taught to stay as far away from these people from my mom! My goal has always been to not talk to them and get enough money to move away. I know it may sound controversial to some but to me having the same skin color doesn't make you my people, having the same morals does.
I wouldn't say that's a controversial opinion. In fact it is common in nearly all communities apart from the black community. In my opinion it is one of the major factors that is holding the black community back. Collectivism sounds good in theory but the cold hard fact is that when you define who you consider 'your people' based on skin color, you implicitly condone their behavior regardless of how amoral it may be. It's a childish way of looking at people and is inherently racist when you think about it.
@@geraldmorgan6906 Collectivism is even bad in theory.
@@geraldmorgan6906 Good point.
So the guy playing Lil Chris, Reggie Green in the wheelchair went to middle school with my husband! Hubby said he used to fly through the hallways, taking corners like a madman!😆😆😆
@shellymarquez9320 the actor himself was genuinely handicapped?
@mikeshoe74Yup. He was sh0t and paralyzed in a drive-by. He became a motivational speaker.
@31:45 About that Black Cop, the director had a back story for him but it never made the film, long story short, his son was killed by black gang members. Which is why he behaves in that manner. It is sad.
Your reactions are the best, you have me rolling 😂😂
Loving your T shirt. Dope as hell!
He was great in Men of Honor, Jerry McGuire, Pearl Harbor, As Good as it Gets, and awesome acting in Radio
Cube killed it. and that just wasnt a 1 note gangster role either. he actually had to show some range. that ending scene is still his best work. and he was just pup here. very impressive
It's amazing that no one in the film crew got killed during the making of this documentary
I saw this in the movie theater - the crowd was silent/in shock when Ricky got killed. I wish he woulda hopped over a fence instead of running throught the alley.
Next to no one has reacted to this great movie so thanks for doing it.
Great reaction as always! If you haven't seen it, I recommend The Color Purple. I think you would like it.
How could you have not seen this movie...WOW!
Young Nia Long and young Angela Bassett in this movie together? That is too much fine, my head about to explode.
This is my favorite film all time. It says everything. It has everybody. John Singleton every day, all day. I'm one hundred percent bias too. It's the first film me and my childhood bros turned to each other and said soneone finally said it. There it was all up there on the big screen. This movie takes big swings at big targets, but it's the little details it completely bullseyes too. Like the racist black cop. My white dad was a cop who got partnered with a black cop just like the one on the movie in Oakland, Ca back in the 70's. Pops put in for a transfer for another partner. He told me years later after retiring 25 years patrolling the same streets in Oakland why. He said they saw the worst of the worst on a daily basis from prominently black people. Yet it never made him a racist. But, if he'd stayed partnered up with that black cop, he would've been inside of a year. That always stuck with me. Plus, we all saw it as kids in my neighborhood first hand too from white-bkack cop pairings. Life's a trip. John Singleton got it. He told the whole story. He had white friends. Who had his back growing up in the same bat shit neighborhood. We're all in this together. Like i said, it floored me and my longtime mates because we didn't thing anyone would actually tell a balanced story that spoke out it's not a race rhing: its a poverty thing. It becomes a race thing to distract you from the fact its a poverty thing and a poverty thing being forced upon you and your community to be profited from and exploited. Exploitation knows no color. That's why we like your channel. You are realer than real. Lol. To a fault. Haha. Sometimes you be too truthful, as in, 'Shut up, shut up. They gonna come for you! No Murderwhistle.' Lol. You The Man. The coolest cat and not just cause you jumpy like one at sudden moves and loud sounds. what, what. ;D ❤️🤙
The three most traumatizing cinema deaths for me) When Cochese dies in Cooley High, Ricky (here), and Mufasa (in the Lion King). 😪
Yup.
43:21 scene reminds me of Friday..like The Fridays might have started as a play on, Boyz In The Hood.-Ernie Moore Jr.
You have me over here dying in the earlier scenes,
" I need all yall to move" LOL
R.I.P. to John Singleton for a classic flick
18:30 the way he says "mark" like the whitest person on earth and peels out is great
This is one of the best movies around I swear.
25:59 "If God was female their would be no wars... just every 28 days real intense negotiations" - Robin Williams
That was hilarious at that scene where ice cube had played duck hunt!
“Oh his balls are different, they connect in the middle, shut up”