Justice for Doughboy| Boyz N' the Hood 1991 - 90s classic movie commentary/recap
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2023
- Chile....Doughboy and Ricky's mom was the problem!!!
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Not sure what happened to the Nia Long pop up but....The character Brandi was played by Nia Long 🙃
Chile...Angela Bassett is drop dead gorgeous. 😍
To be honest, I feel like that Ricky was just a spoiled child where he just did what he wanted and yet his mom was still 10 toes down for him while looked at doughboy as the failure and I think that’s honestly unfair because Ricky wasn’t the sharpest tool in the shed yet doughboy was looked at as basically the problem, Child am I honest opinion you were right if doughboy had the same guidance as Trey did, he probably would’ve thrived but instead he had a problematic mother, which honestly is common these days, where sometimes the parent will favor one child instead of the other but Trey still saw him as still being a good person, even though when others didn’t think that he was
Fun fact: The chain snatcher is wearing a "We want easy" shirt, with the filming taking place during Ice cube's departure/beef with nwa.
Rewatching this movie as an adult & i’ve come to the realization that Ricky wasn’t street smart. He laughed at Trey when Trey told him that he was afraid of having sex, he was shook when they were in Compton & he didn’t take Ferris & his crew serious when they were after him. If Ricky would have gone to the store when he was asked to instead of trying to pass buck off to Doughboy the outcome may have been different. Fun Fact: Little Ricky was played by Dovonan Mccrary. He’s the younger brother of Darius Mccrary (Eddie Winslow from Family Matters.
@therealmarlonbellamy he would of ran into those goons regardless.
I’m gonna keep saying it, Dough Boy was a victim. His mother failed him from birth
And his dad
@@REDBONEPRODUCTIONS876precisely! Although the mom was deeply flawed she was still there. DB needed a strong male influence like Furious to step in and take the reins
@@TrangPakbabyshe treated both kids differently Dough Needed love in general
@@TrangPakbabyjust being there isn’t enough though. Both parents can be there and still have a hostile environment. It’s not enough to only “be there”.
@@sparklefairy34 I’m not saying it was enough but she was there, which is more than his father.
I wish instead of Doughboy dying, they should’ve had him change his life and leave the hood, but sometimes that’s not the case.
I agree that would’ve been nice to see
not a realistic enough ending it wouldn’t have made the ending as impactful
What sucks even more is the fact that they just had text on the screen that says he died
Singleton did right. There's nothing that could have been filmed to make his death more impactful, especially not after Ricky's murder.@@syria0110
Higher Learning could be in the same universe as Boyz N The Hood.
Angela Bassett and Lawerence Fishburn. Acting couple made in heaven
They really couldn’t escape eachother 😂 in the cinema universe
They got to be ike and Tina too 😩♥️
Work spouses
@@bulbiezalso Akeelah and The Bee
They have good onscreen chemistry 🧪💯🩷
Despite growing up in the same house, Ricky was always sheltered from the dangers around them particularly by dough boy. I think that’s why he didn’t take the danger as seriously as he should’ve because since he was a kid it always worked out in the end (without acknowledging that this usually happened because of his brother).
Thats a good point. Doughboy always looked out for his brother
In spite of Doughboy envying the love and attention that Ricky receives from their mother, Doughboy was very protective of his brother as evident when they were little, Doughboy fought those older guys after they took Ricky’s football because not only was he aware how much Ricky loved that ball, but it was also given to him by his father and Doughboy knew that Ricky would wind up in hot water with Brenda and the latter would’ve most likely blamed Doughboy for Ricky losing his ball. Another example is when they were teenagers and Doughboy came to Ricky’s defense after a Blood member (the same one along with the other Bloods that ended up killing Ricky) deliberately bumped into Ricky because he assumed he was a Crip. Even after they fought, Doughboy noticed the Bloods driving by and quickly went to look for Ricky, only to later find his baby brother’s lifeless corpse. Ricky didn’t always appreciate Doughboy, and Doughboy often threw jabs. It’s heartbreaking because their fight was the last time they saw or spoken to each other 💔
True. Even when the bigger boys took Ricky’s football it was Doughboy that took the beating for his brother, not even the two of them taking it together
@@frankdees507 right. And Ricky might’ve not died this time either if his brother was able to reach him in time.
I think you mixed up the names. The blood guy was Ferris. Monster was the guy who used the AK.
If anything, Brenda saw Ricky as her meal ticket. She didn't value Doughboy because of who his father was. She clearly had some animosity towards his father and decided to take it out on him, which was part of the reason why he was the way he was. Brenda showed favoritism and it hurt Doughboy, it really did.
He valued both her kids. Doughboy was bad and his mom saw it even as a child
@@melvynsngltn27 she was a subpar parent with poor pussie management and lack of support from their fathers who aren't shown in the film at all. She was the problem.
@@melvynsngltn27 you obviously didn’t watch the movie or your just supporting her solely because she’s a woman
@@melvynsngltn27 Kids aren't born bad, they learn it, through Abusive behaviors.
@@unknownvenusstar1402 not all
that scene of doughboy realizing that his brother and most black men are just another dead body in the streets and then him dying two weeks later makes me tear up every time man😞he was rlly dealt a bad hand of cards from birth
Every time I get teary
facts
Most black men?
I cried man, hearing OP mention the part in the movie I missed about Ricky not getting any news headlines about his death and being treated as just another statistic made me cry again. Doughboy fading out was the final nail in the coffin 😭
@@brenthunter7965were aware here. So what’s you’re point for saying that? Wack b 🤬
Doughboy's mom was a poor excuse of a mother
Facts: Below are the worst mothers in black movie history:
Brenda from Boyz N The Hood
Carol from South Central
Khailia from Losing Isiah
Wanda from Holiday Heart
Cassey from Women Thou Art Loosed
Victoria from Madea’s Family Reunion
Jennifer from Daddy’s Little Girls
Mary from Precious
and add angel from poetic justice
@@mizzjacquettaxx6974 Yes. She didn’t get much screen time.
@@therealmarlonbellamyMary from Precious is the worst of the worst
@@DBALextrasMary makes the rest look like angels.
We all teared up when doughboy walked off. Doughboy didn't get enough credit for letting trey out and have no issue with it.
Speak for yourself. I didn't tear up at all during this movie. I just thought that Ricky and Doughboy's fate was sad and senseless.
Nah forreal, to be honest it felt like Doughboy’s Death was sadder than Rick’s Death
I agree! I was already crying over Ricky, when the sentence appeared as he walked off from Trey he had been killed, too I cried even harder!
The fade out of him was taken from Stand by Me, where Chris fades out at the end.
I never understood one thing. If you’re already lying about having sex, why not just lie and say you used a condom. He got barked on for no reason 😂😂😂😂
True. He got fussed at for an act he never committed
I always felt so bad for Dough, especially in the scene where he carries his dead brother in the house and tries to comfort his distraught mother, only for her to attack and blame him for Ricky’s death.
When your the black sheep your always guilty
I didn’t understand why Ricky was the golden child… he was so uneducated with books and in the streets. then he had a child that early in his life… his mom was trippin’
Ricky was only a golden child in the eyes of his mother but in general he was far from perfect and was lacking in a lot of areas and that's because he was spoiled most of his life Doughboy on the other hand despite his lifestyle was very intelligent and had the potential to be more like Trey if given the proper love care and guidance that he deserved.
@@miyagriffin9673 rewatching the movie I gotta give Dopeboy his props because if he wouldn’t have chosen the dopeboy lifestyle he could went to college with Trey. Ricky probably would’ve still been at the house with his precious momma
Ricky was the golden child because his father was probably the one who got away from Brenda.
It was implied Ricky's Dad died from Natural Causes when he was very little. I think it's in a deleted scene
Combination of she liked Ricky’s daddy more and Ricky could get her out of the hood if he went pro in football.
"Ricky doesn't strike me as a critical thinker" lmao
I mean, he didn’t make the smartest decisions. For example, when he, Chris, Doughboy and Tre were little, he brought his football with him and Doughboy told him not to bring it because he knew somebody would take it. And instead of sticking together with Tre, he split up and took a piss around one of the corners that his killers were hunting him down at.
Thank you SO much for doing this.
- I NEVER liked Dough aBoys mother.
- Her treatment of him (in general), bitterness and toxic persona were significant problem
She mentally abus-ve. She said Doughboy won’t amount to nothing and that’s what happened Doughboy.
@@zuzuspeaks the karma hit her with Ricky getting killed. she favored one, abused the other, ended up losing both.
yep I didn't like her from jump street but looking back at her she experienced this in childhood with a parent, normalized this dysfunctional behavior and put this on her sons. it's also a classic narcissist parenting behavior; the golden child vs the scapegoat. Flipped the script if both lived, she would be crapping on Ricky for not turning out like she wanted with more fatherless kids, loses his scholarship and working jobs for couples months then quit behind on child support while Dough went to college, graduated and a professor at a university with tenure.
I'm glad my mom loved all my brothers equally like you should.
Brenda had anger and bittersweet towards Dough Boy's father. When we first met her, she was going off on him talking about he was just like his father.
The first gun shot ended Ricky’s career. The second one ended his life.
Ended the potential football AND military career. Too bad the second shot did him in. I liked Ricky.
Recycled ass comment.
My heart really went to doughboy and my disappointment went to his mom Brenda. I like to think if Brenda gave him just an ounce of love maybe his life wouldn’t have been so rough: In and out of jail, becoming a gang member and then dying. When we meet both characters for the first time she’s belittling him. It’s not like he asked to be there. Plus the favoritism is sickening. Both boys could’ve been going to college, but one was neglected to the point he found acceptance in the wrong crowd.
He joined a gang to find real family like most young men. His mom didnt abandon him physically but she def did emotionally. It was probably more hurtful for her to be there clearly despising him than not there at all.
If she had used condoms and birth control doughboy wouldn’t be born. But getting females to acknowledge they are the problem is hard
One thing I noticed in the movie is the evolution of furious. When we are first introduced to him his house is a disaster bachelor pad. With a weight bench in the living room. What we would expect from a 20 something year old. Then as he gets older his house turns into a home. Incredible film
That's because he had a kid living with him after
@@MASTEROFEVIL a weight bench should be the primary thing that a man should have in his home especially when he's raising a son! One of the main lessons you teach your son as a father is to be ready for the world physically as well as intellectually! More fathers need to have weight benches and a collection of books in the home rather than just televisions and gaming consoles! We need to be focused more on watching the news rather than reality television We need to raise our children to be mentally and physically fit! I see too many children in a world of obesity and inactivity who can barely read and way too many grown black men who are overweight and out of shape because they don't have fitness equipment in the home and they're dying in their 30s! A great deal of this stuff would stop if more men would focus on working out for two hours a day and eating the right foods! Don't get me wrong I enjoy a little bit of bourbon and whiskey every now and again but that's all-in moderation! We need to do better as a community.
Doughboy was the realest character. When you needed him he was there. When Ricky hit his ball took it was doughboy who tried to get it back. Ricky was talking ish and doughboy got his back. When Ricky got killed it was doughboy who avenged his death. And Brenda blamed him for Ricky’s death. He was never loved by anybody but Tre’. Doughboy had the coldest quote
‘I ain’t even got no brother, ain’t got no mother neither, she loved that fool more than she loves me.’
Your heart breaks
Why was Ricky carrying that milk all that time?
Tales From The Hood: "Boy musta had weak bones"
Lol 😂 stop!!!
chill🤣🤣🤣
Chile 😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂 That will never get old!!!
Lmao
The insanity of Brenda still trying to blame Doughboy after Ricky got shot was always crazy to me. All he wanted was to grieve with her and she still snapped. Horrible mother. Sidenote.. Monster was in Doughboy's crew, the one who shot Ricky was named Ferris.
Ferris shot Ricky? No.
@@TF-gf3fs No. His homeboy did.
The day that Ricky says” I want to do something with my life alright. I want to be somebody”, is the same day that his life gets killed and that really broke me down from watching this movie.
I can’t even watch it like that
Sad realistic tho the jealousy + crabs in a barrel type shit. Dude who purposely bumped into Ricky back when everybody was chilling by they cars. Low-key knew Ricky was the local High school star RB.
He should have stayed by tre and if doughboy had got there in time he would have took all of them out
@tw82rone5 dude was looking for trouble , it be like that , dudes staring at you real hard for no reason lol.
@@tw82rone5makes u think of Cooley high the movie
*Fun Fact: During that scene where Ferris bumped into Ricky and eventually he let off his gun, John Singleton didn't warn the actors that shots would be let off so them runnin, scared, racing to their cars & peeling off was them legit thinking it was real....*
They also had to line the freeway with cargo containers to block the view on set just in case any real gangs tried to shoot Ice Cube as some sort of initiation. That’s part of why the shooting was stressful for them too, NWA was at its peak back then so the threats to his life were nothing to take lightly
This movie really teaches how important a father is In his son’s life especially seeing tre and how having a father in his life affected him positively compared to dough boy and his friends , and dough boy deserved better his mother was terrible and was just picking favorites
Yes, I think that's what john singleton was trying to convey in the movie about how important having a father is.
I always thought that was the moral of the story especially since the movie was centered around 3 young men. Yes, Trey almost made a poor decision but who knows, he could've thought about something his father told him which led to changing his mind. But I always thought that was John Singleton's point of this story.
Actually in fiction and non fiction…It’s basically RNG when it comes to these types of things…you can have both parents but the kid will still come out as a terrible and juvenile delinquent…you can have no parents and learn from others as your journey goes on…nothing is guaranteed. But having both parents may raise a higher chamce for getting a good kid.
I really love how this movie was the jumpstart for so many people’s careers, including Regina King ❤️❤️❤️ (after 227 ended and this is her first role too).
OMG that’s right!
Cuba goofing, ice cube, Morpheus
@@ProjectShinkai nnot laurence he was in plenty of roles before this . plus him and angela had just been in whats love got to do with it
@@danyellewashington9087 true that why I didn't list her. I only knew him from what's live got to do with it before this
Brenda was the real villain, if she treated both of her son equally instead of showing favoritism towards Ricky and not Doughboy, they could’ve lived a better life and Doughboy wouldn’t have to act the way he acted.
At one point in the film, while talking to Chris and Monster, Dooky revealed that the reason why Brenda praises Ricky and belittles Doughboy was because they both had different fathers. It’s possible that Doughboy’s father resembled his son not just in looks, but in the lifestyle that he lived in (the gangster life, something that Brenda didn’t approve of) hence why Brenda treated Doughboy the way that she did whereas Ricky’s father wasn’t in the streets and was a decent guy. Brenda didn’t realize that the reason why Doughboy was the way he was due to her verbal abuse and emotional neglect. And she learned the hard way when two of her sons were buried.
@@niabelizaire3596I actually doubt she learned anything at all
Some parents really treat their kids based on how they feel about the other parent.
No some women. I don’t see men doing that
Boyz N' the Hood is one of the most important films ever made, so much so that the Library of Congress deemed it "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" enough to preverve in the national Film Registry.
John Singleton was also the youngest Black director nominated for an Oscar for Boyz in the Hood.
Lovehate relationship with this movie and many of our 90s classics, just pure black trauma with a sprinkle of knowledge-i can only watch it like once a year if that but its real, cant deny that
I get what you're saying, but I think the reason for these movies was to bring awareness of the hood. To show we're just people in a messed up situation. Sometimes you have to show the rawness of life
"MESSAGE!!" 😂😂😂
Yes I felt the same about Baby Boy the first time I watched it as an adult. I thought wow this sent a horrible message as a child.
Both Brenda and that self hating cop were the true pieces of garbage in that film. Especially within the case of Brenda being a mother who favors one son while putting down the other. Favoritism is truly an ugly thing to practice. If she didn't like the Doughboy's papa, keep that energy for him and him only. Not Doughboy. Now she has to live with the thought of losing two sons. Ricky himself should be more grateful to have a brother like Dough instead of being a dick to him moments before he lost his life.
As always I'm glad that you picked this movie to review which was a true hood classic. In fact I remember watching the vhs tape for this movie where John Singleton was giving a public announcement type of message about the consequences of living a very foul lifestyle before the beginning of the movie. Those are one of the things I miss about living in the 90s. Great times indeed. Speaking of the clue, it's Menace II Society. I can't wait to see that.
You should check out either Showgirls(1995) which talks about evil, shady elements of competing for the spot of being a top star in a Las Vegas show and 187(1997), that movie where Samuel L. Jackson played a high school teacher suffering from PTSD. That movie also showed how teachers truly don't get enough respect as they should and fun fact, a teacher wrote the film.
My mom put me on showgirls . I love that movie
ice was just bad he wanted to be a crip and thats what he was
@@sportsfan-bs9nf sure he did bad things but his mother's treatment towards was the leading cause of him acting out
The mail carrier who delivered Ricky's test scores was the director, the late great John Singleton (RIP)
I bet she rolled over and went back to sleep when she was told doughboy had died 😒
Still didn’t know what happened too there mom after her sons die…
Or it’s possible that she killed him.
Or she probably flicked that cigarette & went back in the house just like when he got arrested.
@@therealmarlonbellamydamnnn she probably did😢
That would be an interesting twist to the death of Doughboy.🤔 We all assume that he was killed by the gang, but he killed them. I could picture Brenda snapping and killing Doughboy because of Ricky’s death!
No denying in a movie (except for What Loves Got To Do With It) Angela and Lawrence together as the leading adults make me feel like the younger characters are going to be alright in the end.
Wish they were my parents
As much as I love this movie, it’s hard to watch as an adult knowing that Brenda emotionally neglected Doughboy (also verbally abused him too). Her favoritism towards Rickey didn’t save him nor Doughboy.
This movie and Poetic Justice are in a cinematic universe I’m convinced.
It’s a full circle moment for both Regina King and Angela Bassett since they starred in the same movie again, that time playing sisters (How Stella Got Her Groove Back. Hopefully you can review that movie in the future ❤️❤️❤️).
I agree. Its very hard to watch. Even though Doughboy did some mischievous things, he wasnt a bad kid. He needed attention and to know someone gave a damn along with direction.
If you're going to make a Universe, Snowfall is in there because in the final ep. he there's a reference/scene of John Singleton work/shooting scenes for Boyz n The Hood fyi
That means that Baby Boy would be in this universe as well.
@nanadotwa9488 Yess! I love Snowfall, it’s one of my favorite shows! ❤️💯
It might sound fake deep, but the scratch-off is a metaphor and I think the ridiculousness of it was deliberate. It represents the possibility of never having to worry about football, joining the military, or how he’ll make it taking care of his family. His confusion over his future was so great he ignored an imminent threat to his life. That’s how and why poor people make bad decisions regardless of the unfairness of their circumstances.
Damn you might actually be onto something because I just assumed he had zero street smarts or awareness. But he probably thought he had an actual chance at winning the scratch off and making money
How Cuba looking older then Laurence….. that’s what I always think when I watch this film. Also Laurence was super fine in this film ❤
My favorite scene in the whole movie is when Tre wanting retaliation on Ferris for killing Ricky and meets Furious coming out his room after grabbing the gun and they have that heart to heart.
"Give me the MFkin Gun Tre"! One of the most iconic scenes in Black Cinema!
Trey wanted retaliation on Ferris.
@@therealmarlonbellamy Lol, yeah I got mixed up.
Glad tre dad stop him before he do something will lead him too jail.
"Im sorry about your friend and my heart goes out to his mother, but thats their problem. You're my son, you're my problem"
I love that line and a very important lesson that a lot of young men dont get until its too late. Thats for Ricky's family to deal with not Tre.
They used to tell ppl that drinking milk built strong bones. With him being a football player, I’m pretty sure that’s why he’s walking around with the milk carton lol
Pretty sure that milk would go bad pretty quickly as well especially with how blistering hott it looked outside lol
I so love this movie. I hate that DoughBoy died but that was one of the most realistic outcomes living in LA and gang banging at that time. In an alternate universe I see DoughBoy going to jail then getting out, going to college at Columbus University as Fudge from Higher Learning lol
the dude in the wheelchair going joe swanson speed in the chase at 12:45 just sent me 🤣🤣🤣
Thank you, I always had these thoughts about this movie. Ricky only had football and nothing else but his moms support and Doughboy had street smarts, book sense and emotionally mature. He’s the victim of the story.
It’s crazy watching this movie over again as an adult, just to see how many odds Doughboy & Ricky I had stacked against them with their mom being just terrible (mainly to Doughboy) and Trey, who was blessed enough to have two mature emotionally, mentally stable parents whose lessons helped him out in the end.
The difference between single parent households with multiple kids and divorced couples with one kid. Guess who's got their eggs in one bakset and acts like it with how they take care of it.
22:44 cube handled all Ricky’s problems like from the football to the get back. Including the push at the car show like cube honestly keep Ricky untouched till this point in his life.
Ain't nothing new, mothers are still treating one child like Doughboy despite them not even being in the streets.
Another John Singleton's classic (RIP🕊️)
Why am I just now noticing this is Ike and Tina? 😂😂😂
Yes! They have great onscreen chemistry. No denying that...
Oh shit, I just noticed that too 😂
Me too! I just realized watching this lol
They also act together on Akeelah and the bee
Whew!!! You said it all! Doughboy definitely deserved the love and attention that his brother Ricky received. I’m glad he saw his mother Brenda for what she is…ain’t ish. She should’ve had the skeeza or maybe a toxic sticker. Unrelated but Snowfall’s last episode paid homage to Boyz in the Hood which ties together so perfectly! Even though Doughboy didn’t mistreat his mom, I noticed how his mistreatment of other women is basically a byproduct of how his mom treated him. Furious was the father that a lot of the kids needed. He was Hotep before the woke culture became popular. Sad enough how many good movies continue to prove that violence begets violence. I think I saw the girl who played Damita from Class Act (I hope you have that movie on your list). Excellent analysis as always.
I think I know your hint: M2S
Yes!! She defintely needed a Deadbeat counter. I missed that 🙃
Class Act is definitley on the list too!
@@forthenostalgia No worries! It happens to the best of us 🤗
Snowfall's ending is a top 10 finale of ALL TIME - maybe even top five. (I don't watch enough TV to know.) The BitH nod was just chef's kiss.
Honestly I watched this a year ago, my first time as an adult and I cried at reading about Doughboys death. I really felt more for him than Ricky, to be raised in the same home by the same mother and yet not have the same home and a different mother was incredible.
The part where Doughboy is expressing how he feels and walking away into...fading away hurts to see and makes me cry sometimes because it felt like some metaphor of..him heading towards his death. Its like that weird feeling you get before you see somebody and you're hoping so bad that it wont be the last time you see that person...but somehow it is 😕. Im sorry if that sounded dramatic.
You skipped over how Ricki made a 701 score on his SAT. He passed.
Barely......
@@TF-gf3fs Hey. I wasn't talking to you.
It was 710 kid
@@Boxingfan13 Who cares? That's still barely passing.
@@TF-gf3fs no shit stupid I never said it was you need to talk to the person who just tried you instead of coming for me
The Ricky scene and Dough Boy with his mom always brings tears to my eyes. Even watching this reaction. So sad.
Brenda spoiled Ricky rotten. I thought she loved him because he played football, and was her ticket out, but you pointed out that she loved him more as a boy, too.
When she was a boy in the movie she said Ricky was going to play football. He was a meal ticket to her.
@@TF-gf3fshe wasn’t a meal ticket to her 🤦🏾♂️she genuinely loved Ricky. The reason why she loved him was because she loved his father and she hated Doughboy’s father
@@Boxingfan13 That doesn't make it right and he was. She took pride in the fact that he was her only hope out of the hood. As a boy Ricky said he's going to play ball and the mom said "that's right"
@@TF-gf3fs of course she said that’s right kid she supported his dream and ofc she took pride in the fact that he could make it out but that’s not the reason why she loved him. You clearly didn’t watch the movie🤦🏾♂️
@@Boxingfan13 Actually I did. She treated her sons based on how she felt about their fathers even though they both left her to raise their sons by herself. She's still a horrible mother and you and no one else is going to change my mind about it.
The knocking boots part had me 😂😂😂😂
Great movie and deep dive, I see some comments about Doughboy's Mom (true she added so damage to him raising and plus she's traumatized by whatever Dough's father did) but in reality it's his father leaving them in a fatherless home. Dough got the brutal mental anguish from his mom but never realized SHE was left to raised her sons alone!
Singleton drove it home with this movie and that a boy needs his father to teach him how to be a man in this crazy world.
That was an excuse beyond excuse it just shows women don’t take accountability one they both could of been toxic to each other and single mother or not that was her choice not doughboy and neither his father, it happens all the time she made a baby with an aint shit toxic man she ain’t had no problem with rick or his dad the way she loved Rick you would think she would want his dad back but that gives her NO RIGHTS to treat doughboy the way she treated him idgaf what happened favoritism is truly disgusting and the way she went about it made me wanna throw a brick at my tv , (She played an amazing role though) cause I can’t stand the bitch
No, she should have chose better. And also she didn't treat Ricky that way, his father wasn't in the picture either and she treated him good.
Regardless of if she was left alone to raise them, she shouldn’t take that out on her son. Period. He didn’t ask to be there and yeah it sucks that the baby daddies weren’t there but oh well that’s life sometimes.
I agree that the deadbeat fathers should be held accountable, however we all know that women would always take the blame. "should have chose better" (refer to comment above).
BUT! That still gives his mother NO excuse for why she treated him that way. Just because his father wasn't sh*t doesn't mean you treat your son like he ain't sh*t too. The actions of his father aren't his fault. He is still your child, and as a mother, she had the responsibility to show him the same love and care that she gave to Ricky. Imagine being a child and being raised by a mother who resents you but shows unconditional love to your brother.
That "stomach just sour" line killed🤣 but a few things to point out that were overlooked is the guy the who bumped Ricky was named Ferris the Monster guy (big dude in the sunglasses) is part of Ice Cube crew, he bumped Ricky, almost hit Tre with his car and generally antagonized them because he was from crenshaw mafia and Ice Cube and his friends were Rollin 60s also it was pointed out to me when I older was that the reason their mother got mad at Doughboy and assumed he had something to do with Ricky's death was apparently the mother was always aware of his drug/gang ties and assumed his brother was killed in retaliation because of something he'd done but it doesn't excuse her constant criticism of him throughout his short life and had she not always been so hard on him and behaved differently herself she would've had a friend in Furious who could've helped guide both of sons especially Doughboy in the right path because like you said he wasn't stingy with his knowledge and was willing to share it with anyone who'd listen
It wasn’t even Doughboy’s fault that Ricky got killed and it pissed me off that Brenda blamed Doughboy for his brother’s death. Brenda only assumed that Doughboy was in cahoots with Ricky’s murder due to his affiliation with the Crips, and due to both of her children getting in a physical altercation prior to the murder. Instead of jumping to conclusions, Brenda should’ve asked questions, hell Tre witnessed Ricky’s shooting and knows who pulled the trigger, she could’ve asked him. When Doughboy saw Ferris and crew rolling around the block, he knew Tre and Ricky were in trouble, hence why he grabbed his piece and rolled up with Dooky, Chris and Monster to protect his brother and best friend. Unlike Doughboy and Ricky, Tre had a paternal figure in his life, Furious (who was strict, yet attentive and caring to his son). Without a male role model, Tre would’ve ended up like Doughboy and had Doughboy not grow up fatherless, he would’ve been a scholar like Tre. If Brenda had treated Doughboy with respect and gave him some guidance and affection, he wouldn’t have winded up as a statistic and she wouldn’t have been a childless woman by the end of the film.
Lance from the best man is what ricky could have been if he wasn't killed
Agreed! That movie series is well written!
Literally
Seeing DB fade out is just as heartbreaking as seeing the guys fade out in Life. That shit hits HARD
90s and 2000s hood films will always be my fav type to watch
*Every time I see the clip of the scene where Ricky is fatally shot, i'm amazed at the actor that did it & what him accepting this movie role did for him.......... IYKYK*
When Ricky's girlfriend hit that first scream , gets me everytime
The whole reason why Ricky dies is such a seemingly stupid but sad reason. The movie takes place in 84, and in Cali during the 80s (well since the 70s), there's been a rival between two gangs, The Rollin' 60'S Crips and the Crenshaw Mafia Bloods.
During the scene at the street party, you'll notice that Ricky's wearing a **BLUE** LETTERMAN JACKET. While we know that ofc, he's wearing his school uniform jacket, the other guys who are Bloods, notice it and falsely assume he was a part of the 60s Crips.
I truly believe this issue could've been stop had it not been for Dough flashing his piece, and not resulted in Ricky's death. However, if they were truly gunning for Dough they would've got him, or if they were just coming for the group, Tre mostly likely would've gotten killed too.
It's all because of a stupid blue jacket that leads Ricky to be the victim of gang violence.
The movie is based in the 90's the same year it was released in
Boyz N The Hood (1991) is one of the most greatest hood movies of all time. The story, performance's, direction, music, and cinematography was spectacular and phenomenal. It also gives a insightful and articulate representation of police brutality, racial equality, sex, drugs, gangs, violence, motivational, powerful, and inspirational life messages. It was decent and to this day I still watch it. Boyz N The Hood (1991) is a true blue ultimate masterpiece in cinema. John Singleton directed a classic that will be in our hearts forever. It never gets old. 😍😎💯👍
18:06 I love this scene. “Don't think you special. You may be cute, but you ain't special” I still use that line today 😂 Lawrence and Angela made such a great movie couple.
In college I did a movie character analysis on this and decided choosing “Tre”(Cuba Gooding He’s Character), but while watching, I soon realized how more interesting Dough Boy’s character is and the conflict between him and his mother during the film. I feel like a lot of people that watch movies tend to overshadow these type of things because they are more focused on the main character’s “story”. In this movie, I really didn’t find Tre’s character interesting at all. I understand that he’s supposed to be the more “woke” friend, but honestly his character didn’t really show too many moments where he was “woke” at all.
Rest in peace to all the dough boys that passed away your heroes in yall own ways
Girl I am screaming. No shade at all, cause it do be hard out here, but why it took Tre mom damn near 10 years to find that job?! 😭😭😭
I believe she was in school getting her degree as well. Success is not an overnight thing. I find it commendable because she had a plan and stuck with it.
Right unlike Ricky and em mom that relied on her "golden child" to get her out the hood not realizing the unrealistic thing that something can't go wrong. smh and eating off her child @@NellaB_
@@NellaB_ I do wish the film focused a little more on her. Being a single black mother, getting a degree then working towards her career is something that should be celebrated. I know a lot of people like to say the film focuses on the importance of Fathers in young boys lives but Reva was instrumental in how Tre turned out as well. Reva was the opposite of Doughboy's mother and wanted what was best for Tre.
For me, it's a little difficult to take this movie seriously because I watched the Wayans Brothers parody movie on this first and it ruined it for me 😂🤡😂
Similar here. I saw Boat Trip first so I can’t take Cuba seriously in this at all 😂😂
Especially when trey was openly swinging
Doughboy was never given a fair chance the mother took out her mistakes on him and it wasn’t fair to him at all everything he did was for her attention and love when she let the cops lock him up for stealing snacks let it be known how she didn’t love him
Are you joking 😂I liked the Doughboy character but he was always the bad child
@@melvynsngltn27You are sick. With an emotionally abusive mother and no father what do you expect. She would literally insult him saying he was just like his father and that he would amount to nothing. That’s traumatizing to a child. However, I’m not surprised that you’re trying to defend the mother.
@shayla106 no unlike you I don't you at it one way
Girl I tear up at the end as well. This movie all in all was so damn sad. Brenda was absolutely trash.
That Officer iss called officer self hatred 😂😂
When I saw Brenda and Ricky wearing the same colors with on point coordination many years later, that part really freaked me out. To be rigorously honest, If Ricky wasn’t Brenda’s son, he definitely would be the ideal husband candidate. No doubt about that. Lord have mercy on my soul. SMH. Sigh
Ricky was her sonband.
Classic movie Ricky pretty much got killed for no reason he wasn’t about that life and he was trying to get out of the hood and was going to get into college
He did get killed for no reason. For challenging someones ego...thats all it took
And that’s all it ever takes even now
Sometimes a man and a women will treat their children based on the relationship, and in the manner of how they feel about the mother or the father of their children.
Oh I really like this movie. I mean I like menace II society more, but I think that this is such a good movie. Also it’s weird seeing Morris Chestnut with hair 😂😂
I cry after the doughboy monologue too 😭
“Poor lil tink tink” Imma start saying that 😂 this is hands down one of my fav movies and I can quote this movie verbatim
Another fire upload! 🔥 I’d like to think that in an alternate universe, Doughboy lived, got away from the hood early on, and went to college where he became super senior Fudge in Higher Learning lol
SAME!!!!!
Thank you for bringing us this review. This movie is the quintessential hood classic. This was the first coming of age movie i first saw this in theaters at the age of 10 years old while i was visiting family in Fresno, California. Rewatching this as an adult i realize that Ricky wasn’t street smart due to him being coddled by his mother. He laughed at Trey when Trey told him that he was afraid to have sex, he was scared when Furious took them to Compton & he didn’t take Ferris & his crew serious when they coming for him. Brenda favoritism towards Ricky did more damage to Doughboy than the hood ever did & Brenda lost both of her sons as a result of her favoritism. The scene when the self hating crusty lip ass cop pull the gun on Trey gave me chills. Of course the scene when Ricky was killed & when Doughboy avenged Ricky’s death gave me chills as well.
Fun Facts: Will Smith was offered the role of Trey but declined due to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Tyrin Turner auditioned for the role of Trey. He said he did the scene when Trey was punching the air & he learned that in Hollywood they tell you anything. They told him he got the role & he didn’t. Prior to this movie Tyra Ferrell was on the short lived show Pryor’s Place, she was also in New Edition’s My Secret video, School Daze & The Mighty Quinn. Cuba Gooding Jr. appeared on Amen & Coming To America. Little Ricky was played by Dovonan Mccrary, he’s the younger brother of Darius Mccrary (Eddie Winslow from Family Matters). The girl who called Doughboy a bitch was in Ice Cube’s Today Was A Good Day video. Sad facts: A lot of the cast have passed away such as Jessie Ferguson the self hating cop, Derick Gobert, the dude who sucked on the pacifier, he was killed by a rival gang at a car race, Lexie Bigham, the dude eho who gave Ricky his football back died in a car accident, Lloyd Avery II, the dude who killed Ricky. He was murdered in prison. He left the suburbs to gang bang. He begin living out the roles he portrayed & Whitman Mayo (Grady from Sanford & Son). Next week’s review is another one of my favorite movies & a hood classic Menace II Society.
Can we please get reviews on the following movies:
Cooley High
New Jack City
South Central
Fresh
New Jersey Drive
Roll Bounce
ATL
Dope
That’s what my mother did to my nephew. She was all lovey dovey to him when he was a kid but when he became a teenager she treated him like that mother toward Doughboy. My nephew did get into trouble with the law but he has been trying to do better. I am the only one who gives him encouragement and positive attitude toward him. My mother and my sisters (one of them is my nephew’s mother) talk shitty to him.
Furious was a damn good father.
My favorite part is the part about gentrification. Pure facts!
You never miss! I love this UA-cam channel!
Thank you 😊
I honestly thought Doughboy was smarter and more mature than Ricki and would have gone even further. Doughboy was closer to Tre in mentality ( maybe even smarter ) than Ricki was..
Furious Styles reminds me so much of my father. Sigh. SMH. He was and still is powerful figure in my life. He’s now well into his 70s and still full of life and beautiful knowledge.
Awwwww! I bet your father was a handsome devil in his youth. I hope he’s still in perfect health with NO diabetes, arthritis, hypertension, or other common diseases prevalent in the U.S.
I love this channel. You really be breaking these movies down and the commentary is just magic!
Idk if anybody has told you this but the reason for the pacifier is because the actor had just quit smoking and was using the pacifier to help. John Singleton just told him to keep using it during filming. On that note, RIP Dedrick D Gobert.
The guy with the pacifier, Dooky, late actor DEDRICK D. GOBERT (1971-1994) was trying to quit smoking at the time, and director John Singleton decided to just leave that in for that character instead of him smoking cigarettes in all of his scenes while shooting the movie.
I love this film, it is a timeless classic. I have some thoughts about Ricky and the mother. How is Ricky a golden child, but he is a teen dad? I wanted to know the mother's reaction to that because, had that been Doughboy, she would have kicked him out of the house and not raise her grandchild. At least Doughboy had some sense to not get any woman pregnant. How is Ricky's father any different from Doughboy's father? They are both deadbeat dads, so why doesn't she emotionally abuse Ricky and Doughboy?
Movie Recommendations:
1. Dangerous Minds
2. How Stella Got Her Groove Back
3. She's All That
4. Menace 2 Society
5. Above the Rim
I always assumed that Ricky’s dad must have got killed and was obviously a football player as well because Ricky always kept that football close to him as a kid. I think Doughboy dad left her which is why she was so bitter towards him but I could be wrong
The golden child can never do ANY wrong. I have both the scapegoat and golden child in my family. The golden child sometimes or most times have very little structure. The scapegoat gets the complete opposite. The golden child gets their way almost all the time. It happens in some narcissistic family structures.
Trey: Represents stability and having a great balance. He was socially aware because of his strong father and educated, logical mother being there to guide him through life.
Ricky: Represents obliviousness. Although he lived in the hood, he was pedestalized by his mom as the golden child and protected from danger by his brother who was an OG. With him being a star football player, he was likely protected at school and in the neighborhood. This is very common with many good athletes from the inner city. I call it the "jock bubble."
Doughboy: Represents earn your stripes. He learned through life experience. His mom resented him, so he depended on the streets, which is where he learned the unflattering truth about life.
Furious: Represents wisdom and logic. He is very analytical, proactive, and can see whats happening before it does.
22:46 Ice Cube actually got a star on the Hollywood walk of fame back in 2017.
The soundtrack is absolutely 🔥
Doughboy was a victim of his environment as well as the breakdown of his family: Absentee Father + Unloving Mother + Street Life = A young boy who grows up in violent neighborhood being berated and cussed out by his mother who puts her younger son on a pedestal! He wasn’t loved by anyone! I believe if Brenda showed the same love to Doughboy the way she showed Ricky, I think Doughboy never would’ve made the choices he made. You can see that he didn’t a fair chance in life and he accepted the sad demise that he was facing! I always liked the Doughboy character! Justice For Doughboy!✊🏾
Omg notice how doughboy was also the most disrespectful to the women. Calling them b’s Ho’s and so on. I imagine it’s because of how his mother was so cruel to him, which then manifests into a hate for women in adulthood. His mother tore him to pieces growing up and this happens to a lot of black men. They grow up having a narcissistic mother and subconsciously translate that to hate for women. Or no real respect for women.
You should probably check out a deleted scene, when furious styles had a conversation with doughboy. It’s a powerful scene that shouldn’t have been deleted.
What?! I didn't know this existed, is it on youtube?
@@Zumcho Yes, ua-cam.com/video/Akhw8a4r-ek/v-deo.htmlsi=1mE9oFOruvGebS0G
Doughboy was the most tragic character. In the end he still loved his brother even though he was the star child. 😔
Oh! This movie is a classic! I’ve watched this movie so many times & I was sad for Doughboy. 😢 he deserved better. Thank you for another great review ❤❤
My parents had this on Laserdisc. Im old af, anyways, this movie was genuinely a horror movie to me. I remember closing my eyes and ears when the ricky scene and the retaliation from doughboy scene. Like it terrified the hell outta me
Sammmmeeee! I was traumatized forever
Maybe Ricky being a young athlete on the football team was why he was snacking so much and drinking milk in the movie. Not all Black people are lactose intolerant. Don't forget, Ricky was a "good guy", so he wasn't gonna be drinking 40's like everybody else in the hood.
Exactly bro must’ve been trying to bulk because he was consuming SOMETHING in damn near every scene
I always thought Cuba was wrong for this part. For 1 he looks the same age as Lawrence Fishburn (about 36). And 2 he is not as fine as he is talked up in the movie.
Yeah apparently Cuba was only like a few years younger than Lawerence when they played father and son 😂
I didnt know they were so close in age. Thats wild. Yea, he was awkward in this role for me. However, young Tre killed it!
@@forthenostalgia YES! Young Trey was great.
@@forthenostalgiaCuba was 21 here. Laurence Fishburne was between 28 & 30 I believe
Trey had the Gordon cartrell shirt the shirt Theo had Denise make lol
Ah, it's Regina King back at it again. She was good in Poetic Justice so it's nice to see her here once again.