Only The Illest Hood Classics AKA Dartflix Edition #7

The definition of a hood classic is a film or movie, regardless of genre that has gained cult staus amongst inner city dwellers. These were the flicks that were always out at the hood video stores but had an inch of dust on them at the other ones. There isn’t a specific formula to what makes a hood classic. A lot of times it can be an overlooked movie that became a popular rental later, a movie that is/was geared to urban audiences (literally, a “hood” movie), a straight to DVD movie that someone rented and spread the word about or an international movie that heads saw once or twice on cable back in 2002 that has taken on a new life as a DVD/rental now. I’ll list quite a few of them (damn near 100), some you may be up on and others...not so much. Keep in mind that a lot of the movies that would’ve been in the “Hood classics” list below have already been used in previous lists so I used some other flicks that have yet to be used in this one. Let us proceed...

Dart’s Three Trailers Of The Week (2/11/07- 2/17/07):

The Reaping
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0444682/trailers

Pathfinder
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0446013/trailers

Premonition
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477071/trailers

Hood classics available for rent through Netflix:

City Of God
Hoodlum
Blade
Blade 2
Blade Trinity
Three Kings
Heat
Soul In The Hole
The Fifth Element
Young Guns
Young Guns 2
Spartan
The Crow
Ned Kelly
Gummo
The Transporter
The Transporter 2
Raising Victor Vargas
Bluehill Avenue
Dirty
Jason’s Lyric
Lock, Stock & 2 Smoking Barrels
Snatch
Donnie Brasco
21 Grams
The Killer
Bard Boiled
City Of Fire
Infernal Affairs
Infernal Affairs 2
Infernal Affairs 3
Empire
Bloodsport
Kickboxer
The Last Dragon
Undercover Brother
Hoop Dreams
Event Horizon
Narc
From Hell
Made
Marked For Death
Hard To Kill
Out For Justice
Kalifornia
Friday
From Dusk Til Dawn
Wonderland
Confidence
Man On Fire
Bringing Out The Dead
Colors
Predator
Predator 2
Clockers
Thirteen
Mi Vida Loca
Stigmata
Bolier Room
Go
A Bronx Tale
Foxy Brown
Ronin
Barbershop
Barbershop 2: Back In Business
New Jersey Drive
Coach Carter
Suicide Kings
Strange Days
Kids
The Jacket
Bully
Dolemite
12 Monkeys
South Central
Brotherhood Of The Wolf
Boyz N The Hood
Road To Perdition
Fight Club
Willy Dynamite
Traffic
The Wood
Kill Bill
Kill Bill 2
Cleopatra Jones
Running Scared
Brown Sugar
Leon The Professional
Malcolm X
The Player’s Club
No Escape
Belly
Hav Plenty
Boondock Saints
Uptown Saturday Night
Freeway
ATL
Hollywood Shuffle
Sleepers
Soul Food
Gridlock’d
Let’s Do It Again
Crooklyn
Commando
House Party
House Party 2
House Party 3
3 The Hard Way
The Best Man
Blood In, Blood Out..Bound Together By Honor
Desperado
Roger Dodger
Memento
Shaft (1972)
Shaft (2001)
Way Of The Gun
Once Upon A Time In Mexico
Ichi The Killer
White Men Can’t Jump
Menace II Society
Mo Better Blues
Black Caesar
Total Recall
Zebrahead
The Believer
Black & White
The Warriors
Blow
Training Day
Carlito’s Way
Posse
The Other Brother
State Property
Spun
I’m Gonna Git You Sucka
A Man Apart
City Of Lost Souls
Basic
Higher Learning
25th Hour
Phone Booth
Tears Of The Sun

Dart’s Picks:
Whatever flicks from this list your aren’t up on check ‘em out. If anyone has questions about any of these joints just shoot me a question about ‘em in the comment box.

Dart’s WTF? Awards/Watch This Bullshit At Your Own Risk:
You know as soon as you see trailer in the previews at the movie theatre that it’s gonna suck...you don’t need me to list a bunch of wack shit for you on this one.

I won’t do the genre specific posts anymore (I've dropped enough jewels over the past month and a half). From now on I’ll just list the new releases for the week/month and some slept on joints here and there (like I did with the first one). Next week it’ll be a whole different set up for Dartflix.

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