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I'll tell you if you let me talk, shoot.
The penguins.
I'll tell you if you let me talk, shoot.
Say o to my leetle friend.
As far as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.
You talkin to me? You talkin to me?
Snoochie boochies.
Damn...I just now caught the irony of Ricky watching the US Army commercial.
Holds up pretty well today, too, surprisingly..
It's, "give me the mother ing gun Tre".
1. The suddenness of the car rolling up on Gooding & the shotgun being leveled. It's so violent though it does not go off. Life is cheap there.
2. The beauty & clarity of "Ricky" VS the squalor & complexity of his "brother."
3. The plastic couch covers.
4. The mother WANTS to be a (good mother), but, doesn't know how, doesn't have the first inkling & is a monumental failure even before her sons are slaughtered.
Wrong. You can't know this. She's certainly a failure in the end but Dough was a bad kid from the start from what we've seen. It's natural for a parent to make assumptions based on how the kids have progressed. Somehow she got one to the cusp of college. A single mom in that environment? One out of two is a success. Not to mention that Dough has a heart in there somewhere. You can't pin anything on the mom but doing a good job with the cards she was dealt.
But, how did she get to that station? Divorce, abandonment,,,she chose recklessly, she dealt her own hand. She pits one son against the other which destructs this family even as it's existing on the edge of ruination. True, Dough's heart is evident, but, it's broken,,,by his mother, their interactions are some of the most incredible of this film. He's crying out to her, she hears him, and repudiates him with vengeance. She is Ricky's wife 20 years ago... nothing has changed ff 20 years.
He's on the cusp of college because he can play basketball. She bred a basketball player, a child father who is still her beautiful child. He is not a success.
Did you watch the ing movie? The fact you think he played basketball tells me you were not even paying attention or you've gone senile.
Yes, I did. You're right, football. Inconsequential.
Not inconsequential if it proves you weren't paying attention or can't remember the movie.
BS. Football/basketball. It doesn't make a difference to my point. Christ, don't start this . I implore you. We were having a fine conversation.
Alright. My bad then. You're usually so accurate that it caused some questions on your attentiveness to the movie. I agree that it doesn't matter what he played.
Thank you.
The mother character is the richest and most developed. I like her at the backyard party. She's just at her wit's end with the whole thing. She doesn't know where to turn. She's weary, too weary for her young age, and so weary she's incapable of stopping, always in motion, she's running away from it and to it. Watching her is a privilege in this film. She's a great actor and lays it all out for us. She is that mother, she went somewhere for & in this role that I cannot even fathom. Cuba goes too, but, not far enough to not come back. She went way, way out there.
Not sure if I'm following. Are you talking about Cuba's performance? Or his character? Yes, the mom is perfect. But Cube puts in the most genuine work here. But maybe wasn't a stretch for him like the mom who is probably out of her element.
His performance in that character. Fishburne is just cruising playing for the camera---same with Doughboy, taking it right off the script. Gooding and this woman are lost in their roles, in this film. They went into the role, deep in it, they became these characters, yes, for the paycheck, but, also so when they're gone their something left of their time on this earth. That's brave. Sure, you're confidant you're gonna be back when the lights are turned off and film is finished, but, a lot of actors won't go there, can't go there. They went, both of 'em. Gooding has to capture with just his facial expressions throughout and does it. It's easier for her because she can use all her talent, physical and mental, spoken and silent. It's always difficult to behold her anguish in that backyard scene. I know it's coming, I want to change the channel, but, one cannot, and one should not. She did that for us.
I like when she tells young Doughboy he's never gonna be , just like his father. And that all he does is eat, sleep, and . And then she asks who is that little er on the porch.
Don't be cussing so mother ing loud. My moms don't like that .
Hey little man... catch.
Still use this one to this very day...
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