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Although, considering Ice Cube has gone and made, like, warm-and-fuzzy farces with children and mayhem, I think that somebody put Valium into the water supply for the L.A. basin in the middle 1990s.
I would guess the combination of getting rich, being a parent, and generally growing up would tend to make anyone less of a thug.
Wasn't Ice Cube also in Boyz in the Hood?
Wasn't Ice Cube also in Boyz in the Hood?
I didn't include the breakout roles.
Well, Ice-T was also in Ricochet with Denzel (one of the great, loony action films of all time where he plays a gangsta with a heart of gold). And Ice-Cube's first big role was Boyz in the Hood.
And they were both in Tresspass which was a pretty good film, IMO.
Yeah. there was a hilarious interview around that time in which Ice-T was trying desperately to be polite about Boyz, while clearly thinking it was a tedious piece of shit with no explosions.
(What was the name of his metal band? Something with "death" in it, right?)
Body Count
Vanilla Ice played himself in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
Well, Ice-T was also in Ricochet with Denzel (one of the great, loony action films of all time where he plays a gangsta with a heart of gold).
Oh yeah, I saw that! All I remember is the end, where Denzel jumps down this big chute thing. I missed that on my IMDb skim. Ice-T's been in a lot of movies, it seems, but Ice Cube's been in bigger ones.
Vanilla Ice played himself in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
And don't forget his breakout role in Cool As Ice. Followed by his stint as "Music Store Employee" in The New Guy. And coming in 2005: The Helix...Loaded. The plotline is as follows:
When "The One" dies, Orpheum must find the "Other One."
Kind of x-posted from Bitches:
Our movie network is showing the Barbarian Invasions (2003 Best Foreign Film), and I've finally gotten to see it, having missed it in the theatres. It really is lovely and a wonderful coda to The Decline of the American Empire. It is shocking to see the years on the actors' faces, but Decline was 1986, which is a bit difficult to accept, but alas true. If you haven't seen it, I recommend them both highly, as movies on the human condition.
All I remember is the end, where Denzel jumps down this big chute thing.
Oh man, John Lithgow as the villain (Who came with his own "little bitch" sidekick/henchman) making Dr. Lizardo look like a piece of restrained acting, was a hoot. Lindsay Wagner as Denzel's grumpy superior officer. Kevin Pollack as Denzel's partner doing his Shatner impression. Loony, just loony.