Boyz N The Hood: Squeaky clean virgin Cuba Gooding Jr. is the main character. Later starred in Snow Dogs.Menace II Society: More nuanced and ambiguously moral main character.
Boyz N The Hood: Diversions on themes of fatherhood and gentrification.
Menace II Society: Contemplations on the breakdown of society and imminent anarchy.
Menace II Society also has the superior soundtrack, which is huge.
Also, don't get me started on New Jack City; which is a cinematic abomination that indulges in every bad early 90s movie technique and has a ridiculously annoying early Chris Rock. Gang Tapes, however, is a latter-day underrated classic.
However, Boyz N The Hood does reference Tecmo Bowl.
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