New Jack City
1991 Directed by Mario Van Peebles
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They're a new breed of gangster. The new public enemy. The new family of crime.
A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
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No matter how dated this gets (and it's dated as hell) I will always love this film. It's stuck in the 90's and I love it for it. One of my favorite badass, quotable, and awesome films. A modern (by modern I mean stuck in the 90's) blaxploitation classic in my book.
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I used to LOVE this movie when I was 12. It's been about 15 years since I've seen it. Still fun but has not aged very well.
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"I wanna shoot you so bad my dick's hard!"
That's just one of the many awesome quotes in one of the most awesomely badass films ever made.
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It's dated but Wesley is badass as usual. Some great lines too.
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I didn't know that Christopher Williams (of "Dreamin'" fame) was a light-skinted pretty boy.
I learn something new every day.
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This is the inaugural edition of What's On My Parents' Bookshelf, where I watch a movie that I find sitting on their bookshelf out of sheer boredom and sheer unwillingness to tackle the 200+ movies in my Netflix queue (mostly out of sheer guilt).
I thought it was just okay. I must say that this movie is incredibly dated, and not even in an entertaining way, like House Party. It definitely shows it age, and I thought things progressed too fast - we really didn't see what made Nino Brown such a bad motherfucker, just that he was a…
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I had totally forgotten that I'd previously seen New Jack City. About 20 minutes in everything looked really familiar. So, I guess its not that memorable but I did enjoy the rewatch. New Jack City feels like a streamlined version of crime epics like the Godfather or Scarface. As Mario van Peebles makes a point of basing his film on a villain rather than the hero cops aiming to take him down. The film is all about Wesley Snipes so when we get to our showdown scenes its disappointing that we don't have much invested in Ice T or especially Judd Nelson's characters. They've just been a series of cool one-liners throughout. Snipes' Nino Brown is…
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I really think Mario Van Peebles thought he was making the new Godfather. But he was delusional. The acting is laughable, the direction amateurish at best, the casting horrible... and accurate to the time period or not, the worst hairstyles of any movie I've ever seen.
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This movie is all over the place. Visually interesting if a little over the top with the expressive dutch angles and Dick Tracy-esque set/costume design. Wildly unbelievable from start to finish. That might be something to do with the white man from Moscow, Idaho who wrote it.
There's a whole bunch of didactic exposition on the evil of drugs juxtaposed with glamorising the evil gangsters who push it and excusing their behaviour due to lack of opportunity for poor black Americans. What?!
Van Peebles obviously went to the Spike Lee meets Brian De Palma school of directing but works without the subtlety that those two are known for.
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I didn't know that Christopher Williams (of "Dreamin'" fame) was a light-skinted pretty boy.
I learn something new every day.
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This is the inaugural edition of What's On My Parents' Bookshelf, where I watch a movie that I find sitting on their bookshelf out of sheer boredom and sheer unwillingness to tackle the 200+ movies in my Netflix queue (mostly out of sheer guilt).
I thought it was just okay. I must say that this movie is incredibly dated, and not even in an entertaining way, like House Party. It definitely shows it age, and I thought things progressed too fast - we really didn't see what made Nino Brown such a bad motherfucker, just that he was a…
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"I'm lookin' for some new-jack cops to take down a new-jack gangster."
New Jack City leaves everything on the table, telling a complete gangster story of Tony Montana wannabe Nino Brown and the vengeance-seeking cop who wants to take him down. The movie is very fast-paced and is heavy on the action, but its pulpy violence is not without the social commentary. Chris Rock's character in particular gives the film emotional pathos that sets it apart from other "hood movies" from the 1990s. As a crime film, it's very entertaining. As a cautionary tale, it leaves a little to be desired, but its message is still pure.
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I only watched this because of the Ice-T / Wesley Snipes combo.
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I had totally forgotten that I'd previously seen New Jack City. About 20 minutes in everything looked really familiar. So, I guess its not that memorable but I did enjoy the rewatch. New Jack City feels like a streamlined version of crime epics like the Godfather or Scarface. As Mario van Peebles makes a point of basing his film on a villain rather than the hero cops aiming to take him down. The film is all about Wesley Snipes so when we get to our showdown scenes its disappointing that we don't have much invested in Ice T or especially Judd Nelson's characters. They've just been a series of cool one-liners throughout. Snipes' Nino Brown is…
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I was really disappointed with this movie.It felt like it was all over the place.I would say that Chris Rock does give the best performance of his career playing Pookie,but other than that It wasn't really that good.New Jack City was very over the top.
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Zum ersten Mal gesehen. Hat mir gut gefallen. Cooler Soundtrack, guter Cast. Kommt mittlerweile vielleicht etwas altbacken daher, aber fängt die Stimmung in New York toll ein.
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When you make your move to infiltrate The Carter, you'll only need 4 guys. After all, the floppy discs of the financial records will be clearly marked.