Menace To Society made Boys In The Hood seem like an After School Special.
But what movies like Scarface and Menace are to one generation and culture - Baby is to another.
I picked it up at the local Hollywood Video store on the used rack at three movies for $25. If you're not one who has to see every movie the second it comes out, this is a great way to beef up your collection at minimal cost. And if the movie sucks? So what...it only cost about eight bucks. And besides, since moving to this hillbilly town, it's kind of hard to run down to the local laemmle movie theater chain to catch a movie that failed to go wide.
Best "Street" Movies?
White - American History X
Black - Menace To Society
Asian - Baby
Hispanic/Latino - American Me
Of All Time - Scarface
2 comments:
What you talkin bout Willis?
Leaving out the entire depression era cycle featuring Edward G. Robinson ("G" for Original Gangster) and James Cagney - is the equivalent of rap without beats and samples.
Little Caesar?!?!?!?!?!?!!!
Then you got your blaxploitation era gangster joints. Fred Williamson as Black Caesar.
Then there's just a whole limitless world of Japanese and British gangster joints that are off the chain too.
My favorite brit streets would be Gangster No. 1 and Cake.
If you haven't peeped them joints, give you something to look forward to. Without a doubt, American Me is tops in the Pantheon.
American Gangster could've been all of that too, had Russell Crowe not been involved. His every stretch on screen is a waste of otherwise perfectly good cinema..,
I just went OG... you went double-OG.
But most of the Asian films (John Woo et.al.) deal with the next level of gangsterism.
The Brits do okay with anything by Guy Richie.
Cake was aight.
But I gotta' look for Gangster No. 1.
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