Movie Details
| Title: | Deep Cover | |
| Director: | Bill Duke | |
| Year: | 1992 | |
| Genre: | Crime | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 11.11.22 |
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| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 11.11.22 | Blu-ray | This Screening is part of event: DVRfest 2022 roll: 9 spine: 1086 from one of the oldest discs in my collection to one of my newest! I just picked this up in the last 50% off sale after talking to my friend Grant about it. I think I saw this at some point when it hit HBO but have no memory of it and back then I didn't know the director was also the dude from Predator so it was time for a revisit. Also, part of me is feeling a yearn to return to these 90s thrillers that proliferated back then and I saw randomly on cable. My old neighbor and best friend Camron recently reached out and we've been catching up so the early nineties have been flooding back into my brain. Cable and HBO played a significant role back then, as did the video store, but more on that later. So now that I've seen it, I'm pretty sure my memories of this are just from the Dr. Dre music video. The movies on HBO were more like Light Sleeper and Bad Influence. I wasn't into hip hop back then but that "It's 187 on the undercover cop" was catchy and everywhere. The introduction of Snoop Dogg... even though I greatly prefer Eric B and Rakim's song from Juice, but this certainly sits up there with Ice-T's Colors. This was pretty good. It's a surprisingly mainstream pick for the Criterion collection, but I'm with it. This probably aged better than other black movies from that era like New Jack City (which I remember liking back in the day but even then i thought it was pretty over the top) and Juice (except the song of course). Boyz n The Hood and Menace 2 Society probably still pack more punch but for a crime thriller this was solid. It's nice to see Jeff Goldblum not play a wackadoo variant of his current persona, back when he could "act" "normal." Fishburne's also great, there's some great Hollywood scenery in the locations, and a nice breath of accessible air after a day full of reading subtitles. Ok, it's midnight. Let's do one more. Next! |
