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Lifestyle => Sports & Entertainment => Topic started by: EssCee on July 17, 2007, 11:52:15 AM
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Whats everyones top 10 urban movies? I need to know as i need to watch a good movie
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Friday
Next Friday
Friday After Next
Menace 2 Society
Boyz N the Hood
Don't Be a Menace
3 Strikes
Juice
Dead Presidents
The Wash
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In no particular order:
Wild Style
Boyz In The Hood
Menace 2 Society
Belly
3*6 Mafia's Choices (I swear this shit is SO BAD it's hilarious)
Friday
Friday After Next
White Boyz (with Snoop, about some wannabes in like Idaho or something, actually interesting)
Dead Presidents
Kids (On some 1994 NY shit)
Scratch
The Show
Rhyme And Reason
That's all I got off the top of my head
Damn, how the fuck could I forget Juice?! Bishop was as crazy as an outhouse rat!
Just remembered New Jack City too, that shit was awesome back then and still is today. Oh and King Of New York, Walken made a certified street classic with that one
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kids lol yaaa man great movie, less volence but still very conscious of the issues going on.
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Wow i can't believe that all of the above posters failed to mention the movie Paid in Full. This movie is an absolute must see if not a must have. The movie is basically about the dope game in harlem during the mid to late 80's. heres the wikipedia lil thing thing about it
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Paid in Full (film)
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This article is about the movie. For the album, see Paid in Full (album).
Paid in Full
Promotional film poster
Directed by Charles Stone III
Produced by Roc-A-Fella
Starring Wood Harris
Mekhi Phifer
Cam'ron
Regina Hall
Release date(s) 2002
Running time 97 Minutes
Country USA
Language English
IMDb profile
Paid in Full is 2002 film that was produced by Roc-A-Fella and directed by Charles Stone III. It is a film that takes place in Harlem at the height of the Crack Epidemic that hit there during the 1980s. The title is from the old school album by Eric B. and Rakim, Paid in Full
[edit] Plot
The basic plot is about a young man who ends up taking over the cocaine drug game in Harlem. It is based on a true story. The main character, Ace, played by Wood Harris is stuck at a dead end job at the beginning of the movie. His sister's boy friend, named Calvin, is a big time drug dealer. He eventually gets locked up, so Ace ends up taking his spot. With the help of his friend, Mitch, played by Mekhi Phifer and Rico, played by Cam'ron, he creates a huge Harlem empire.
Mitch (real life counterpart to Rich Porter) starts the movie as a well known flashy drug dealer. Ace (the real life counterpart to Azie Faison Jr) works in a cleaners, but is a good friend of Mitch. Rico(real life counterpart to Alberto "Alpo" Martinez) is not seen in the movie until he meets Mitch in jail.
While working in the cleaners Ace meets Lulu, a business like dressed Hispanic man who askes him to wash a pair of pants for him. Ace finds cocaine in his pants and is baffled because the guy does not look like a drug dealer because he is not "showy" with his wealth. The local drug dealer Calvin is locked up at the time so Ace takes over his strip. Mitch is not messing with Ace because he does not sell coke, but after he gets arrested he becomes partners with Ace dealing crack with Rico. The trio become extremely well known in Harlem. Ace is quiet and tries to remain low profile, while Mitch is a hood rich pretty boy, and Rico is a 'killa' who isn't afraid to let it be known.
Trouble lurks though. Calvin comes out of jail and tries to regain his empire. He is only getting money out of Ace's generousity. Calvin doesn't accept it and chooses to rather not get money if he wasn't doing it on his own. He ends up attempting to take over Ace's apartment and shoots him in the head, though he survives. Later on, Rico kills Calvin in retribution. Meanwhile Mitch's younger brother Sunny is kidnapped. In an attempt to get his brother back, Mitch attempts to make ransom from drug money. When he reaches out to Rico for help to sell them, Rico sees this as a chance to establish himself. He kills Mitch and takes the coke. Ace at the same time wants to get out of the crack game. He sets up Rico to sell drugs to the Feds. Rico is arrested and is seen in prison snitching on his Washington D.C. connects, but not his New York connects because as he puts it "When I get out in 25, I'll still be the king of New York." Afterward, Mitch's 12 year old brother is found dead. He had been killed by an accomplice of Mitch's uncle who hadn't been getting any money from him. Finally Ace gets out of the drug game and starts a new life.
This movie is based off of the real life documentary "Game Over", which was in turn based on a true story.
[edit] Cast
Wood Harris - Ace
Mekhi Phifer - Mitch
Cam'ron - Rico
Regina Hall - Keisha
[edit] Memorable Quotes
"Everybody eats! Everybody's gonna make this money!!" -Ace
"What's the point of havin' soldiers if you can't even use them?" - Rico
"As long as people feeling it, A nigga like me can hustle it. I love to hustle." -Mitch
"Any nigga that ever looked at me wrong, owes me money, or ever said any jealous bullshit about me is fucking dead man!" -Mitch
"Niggas get shot everyday, B." - Rico
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No one mentioned "Fresh"
and that movie "Choices" was terrible. that was money I wish I would've saved
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Wow i can't believe that all of the above posters failed to mention the movie Paid in Full. This movie is an absolute must see if not a must have. The movie is basically about the dope game in harlem during the mid to late 80's. heres the wikipedia lil thing thing about it
I just did mine off the top of the head really quick...
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Kids was nice, I read that the actor who played Casper killed himself in a hotel room in Las Vegas. :/
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No one mentioned "Fresh"
and that movie "Choices" was terrible. that was money I wish I would've saved
aww man, that movie was so horrible, it was good
You gotta watch it to clown it, you can't take it seriously. That's the beauty of it
Oh yeah, i forgot to mention Dolemite I and II
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Wow i can't believe that all of the above posters failed to mention the movie Paid in Full. This movie is an absolute must see if not a must have. The movie is basically about the dope game in harlem during the mid to late 80's. heres the wikipedia lil thing thing about it
I just did mine off the top of the head really quick...
so i take it u saw and liked paid in fulll?
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Wow i can't believe that all of the above posters failed to mention the movie Paid in Full. This movie is an absolute must see if not a must have. The movie is basically about the dope game in harlem during the mid to late 80's. heres the wikipedia lil thing thing about it
I just did mine off the top of the head really quick...
so i take it u saw and liked paid in fulll?
LOL My centiments exactly. Paid In FUll Was A Cool movie, don't get me wromng, but it's not even in my top 10 of Urban films.
Paid In Full imo, is highly overrated
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above the rim? who's da man?
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No one mentioned "Fresh"
and that movie "Choices" was terrible. that was money I wish I would've saved
aww man, that movie was so horrible, it was good
You gotta watch it to clown it, you can't take it seriously. That's the beauty of it
Oh yeah, i forgot to mention Dolemite I and II
I never saw choices 2. I always wondered how good paul and j thought the first one was and how seriously people would take them after making it
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My favorite line in above the rim
"He's something we can all be proud of... HE'S A FUCKING SECURITY GUARD!"
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^^ lol pac was awesome in above the rim
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paid in full
killa season
king of new york
kids
juice
bout it bout it
black spring break
carlitos way
dead presidents
killa season 2 - coming soon niggas
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American me
blood in blood out
colors
new jack city
boyz n the hood
menace II society
Juice
Friday
training day
higher learning
off the dome...sure there is more....
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Training Day
Menace II Society
Boyz N The Hood
Dead Presidents
Friday
Warriors
Kids
Juice
Harsh Times
CB4
Anybody seen A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints. It's a pretty good movie. I don't think it really classifies as an urban movie though.
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belly is overated...i thought the acting sucked
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Training Day
I dunno how much of a hood movie this is...
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props to the one other person in this thread that saw fresh and mentioned it, great movie.
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clockers is pretty good
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i got the hook up was funny as hell
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I liked Brown Sugar
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I just thought of another one, Baby Boy. I thought it was good. Definitely better than most.
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Training Day
I dunno how much of a hood movie this is...
I'd say so.
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^^I'd say it's a cop movie...
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I'd say it's an urban movie.... a lil' hood, mostly cop... but definately an urban movie... and that's the topic, urban movies.
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LOL..."Boyz N Da Hood" and "Training Day" are two different types of movies.
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Friday
Next Friday
Friday After Next
How High
The Wash
Waist Deep
Boyz in the Hood
Training Day
Baby Boy
carlitos way
blood in blood out
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I liked "Strapped", except almost nobody I know has seen it cause it was made-for-TV.
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training day
departed
friday
friday after next
blood in blood out
american me
boyz in da hood
waist deep
colors
empire
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LOL..."Boyz N Da Hood" and "Training Day" are two different types of movies.
yes, so is Friday & Kids.
And "urban movie" doesn't have to be your typical hood movie.
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I don't consider "Kids" a hood movie either...
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Training Day
I dunno how much of a hood movie this is...
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I don't consider "Kids" a hood movie either...
that's not what the thread is about now is it?
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^^I was under the impression that we were discussing "hood movies"...You sure you're not lost?
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training day=urban movie
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^^I was under the impression that we were discussing "hood movies"...You sure you're not lost?
you are the one who is lost my friend.
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Boyz N The Hood (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101507/)
Training Day (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139654/)
Now check the plot keywords.
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Boyz N The Hood (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101507/)
Training Day (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139654/)
Now check the plot keywords.
how you dont consider training day an urban movie i dont know. the thread aint top 10 gangsta movies.
Main Entry: ur·ban
Pronunciation: '&r-b&n
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin urbanus, from urbs city
: of, relating to, characteristic of, or constituting a city
yeah, training day, kids, boyz n the hood, and friday are ALL different genres, but they are all urban movies cause theyre all set in an URBAN back drop, none of these movies take place in the sub urbs.
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I see "Training Day" as a movie from a cops perspective, so I'd consider it a "cop movie" ("Edison Force", "Beverly Hills Cop", "National Security", "Dirty", "Money Talks" etc.)...Almost any movie with black people can be cosnidered urban, but if you really wanna be detailed, "Menace 2 Society" and "Training Day" fall under 2 different categories...PeACe
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CB4
Menace II Society