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Boyz n The Hood Reaction! (Patreon)

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2024-03-01 18:00:11
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2026-06
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Boyz n the Hood (1991) - Sesskasays

Download Edit (3.8 GB) Edited Reaction Alongside the regular multi-part full, you now have the option of watching an edited version of the full movie reaction with 10-15mins of Picture-in-Picture. You can watch this edit

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Ryan

I haven't seen this one, I'll be catching up within a couple days.

Thomas Corp

First off, hell of a sweater, Jess. Again, if it helps, here again we have a film that I don’t find it to be tremendously surprising that you say you’ve never seen it prior to this winning in the poll. I never saw it myself until three days ago to prepare for your reaction. Like you said, no particular reason as to why I never saw it prior to then, just never got around to it. I don’t think Dad ever saw it, nor do I think Mom’s ever seen it. I think my brother may have seen it before. I’d have to ask him about that. What you knew going into it was about the same for me as well. Nice to hear that it ended up being one of the favorite movies that you’ve reacted to. Yes, a good character study; a good study of nature versus nurture, or both in some cases. Overall, it felt like a well-written tragedy, with glimmers of hope. Same as you, I’m white, thus there are aspects to this that I can’t speak to, nor can I fully understand. But there is a great deal of empathy for the characters in this. It is curious that word of mouth that I heard over the years favored talking about Ice Cube as Doughboy rather than Cuba Gooding Jr as Tre, despite Tre being the chief protagonist. Now seeing the film, I get why, and you summed up well what was really great about the character, especially the tragedy of him being poorly treated by his mother. Laurence Fishburne as Furious Styles, which yes, is a good fucking name, I concur, was the best part of this film. I loved hearing you express the appreciation for him that you did. Just as I so appreciated, Jess, your comments about liking how this film had a refreshingly positive representation of a divorced couple amicably co-parenting their son. Speaking as someone whose parents divorced when I was eleven, and then grew up with a similar thing, it was just nice to see such a positive representation of that. I do wish we could have gotten more of that, especially as it would mean more Angela Bassett, but what we got was great. With it, there’s mild dissonance seeing Angela and Laurence playing a much healthier couple than two years later, when they played Tina Turner and Ike Turner who had a decidedly acrimonious relationship. I had a moment that got to me a little when there’s the comment made that Tre looks more and more like his dad every day. Made me say, “Sounds familiar.” I shared your reaction to the scenes with the police as they were horrific scenes. Concerning Ricky, a few pieces slid into place as I was watching. A marble moved forward about the idea of what was going to happen, especially when the nineties music for “shit’s about to go down” as you put it, started playing. Made me comment, “I think I remember hearing something about that.” Seeing the scene reminded me that I had seen that clip before. Your own reaction, Jess, was devastating. Tore at my heart some. It further hurt seeing the cycle continue. And that last scene between Doughboy and Tre, as Mike said in Better Call Saul, “You know what happened. The question is, can you live with it?” Everything you had to say about this film in the post-reaction thoughts, I can’t improve on that, you were tremendous, Jess. I will add that I appreciate the thoughts you had on the SATs, your observations on that, and you sharing your own experiences. I don’t even remember what I got on those. I probably didn’t do very well. I also appreciated your liking Regina King’s character, who, by the way, made me do a double take, saying, “Oh shit, that’s Regina King.” I’m with you on the characters could tone down the less than forward thinking vernacular vis-à-vis women. Similarly, I had a similar reaction to you when Brandi called out Tre for not having a ring, despite talking about marriage, leading me to note, “The lady makes a fair point.” All in all, Jess, again, loved everything you had to say about the film, and I loved this wonderful reaction. I thank you for both.

Ryan

I've now seen the movie, and watching it alongside you was a great way to do it. Another white person here, though I've read up on how important it was to a lot of the cast and crew to make an authentic representation of these kinds of black California neighborhoods, so I can only assume they got it right. And that really helps it stand out from Do the Right Thing, which two years earlier had also done the whole thing of "Most of the movie is just a slice of life in a majority black neighborhood before it suddenly explodes into violence in the last 20 minutes." And speaking of that, my one real complaint is that Singleton actually manages to be less subtle about his message than Spike Lee, most of all in the scene of Furious lecturing a whole neighborhood about the futility of black-on-black crime. They're good lessons, but I just wish he'd trust us to pick them up through the story itself. One bit I found especially interesting was making the nastiest cop black. The movie was released just three months after the Rodney King assault, which I imagine means it happened DURING production, and that was definitely on everyone's minds, so I'd be very curious to know how that affected their views toward this character. I figured the whole time that someone was going to end up shot since that tends to be how these kinds of movies go, and for a while I was thinking it would be Furious, but then as everything kept going so good for Ricky it became less and less of a surprise how things ended up, which didn't stop the whole scene and everyone's reactions from being devastating (and I'm just sorry you had this scene as kind of an amuse bouche before Schindler's List). It's very interesting how you can actually see John Singleton become more confident as a director as the film goes on, with it being shot entirely in sequence, and it's a shame he was never able to match this movie's success, just sporadically releasing some tepidly received action movies before his death from a stroke. It just feels wrong that the guy behind this film went out simply proving that Taylor Lautner didn't have any kind of viability outside Twilight, though it was pretty fun to basically see the birth of 2 Fast 2 Furious in the scenes with the car hydraulics. But if you have to be known for just one film, this is a pretty good one for it.

Alvin Cura

I had been on Crenshaw in the 90's. Obviously it was a very long time ago. But there was a lot familiar in this film; both when it came out and now. There are some works of film/tv/theatre/media that are quite important; so much so that the work itself is kind of beyond like/dislikes. There was much in this film that I definitely didn't enjoy; but I think it was important that the story was told.

Alvin Cura

By the way, just to be complete, you may want to watch "Higher Learning" and "Poetic Justice".