Colors

[Cheech]

Just got done watching it! Gotta say its on my top five movies!! Cant wait to wear that uniform one day!

[10-42Adam]

I own it, it's a classic...

[213th]

Haven't heard of it. Who's in it? Whats it about?

[10-42Adam]

Haven't heard of it. Who's in it? Whats it about?

Taken right off the back of the DVD case:

Academy Award winner Robet Duvall and Sean Penn star in a film that "captures the vivid mark that gang life has left upon Los Angeles" (The New York Times). Directed by the lengedary Dennis Hopper and based on a compelling story by Michael Schiffer and Richard DiLello, Colors is "grimy, hard-edged, heart-thumping action" (Movieline)!

Seasoned street cop Bob Hodges (Duvall) and his new, young know-it-all partner Danny McGavin (Penn) are forced to work together in the L.A.P.D.'s renowned C.R.A.S.H. anti-gang unit. Together they set out to investigate a murder between two rival gangs. Hated and hunted by both sides, the cops get trapped in the middle of a turf war. With nowhere to turn, they are ambushed, doubel-crossed and shot at in a take-no-prisoners street battle. As the violence escalates, these two diametrically opposed men must come to terms with one important fact - to stay alive they must come together!

[213th]

Sounds good..I'll have to pick it up sometime.

[bird1]

[Jenna]

Just got done watching it! Gotta say its on my top five movies!! Cant wait to wear that uniform one day!

Seasoned street cop Bob Hodges (Duvall) and his new, young know-it-all partner Danny McGavin (Penn) are forced to work together in the L.A.P.D.'s renowned C.R.A.S.H. anti-gang unit.

Hey that unit has your name written all over it, Crash!

[k-9max]

Lol

[Hannibal]

I am a nightmare walking, psychopath talking
king of my jungle just a gangster stalking
Living life like a firecracker quick is my fuse
Then dead as a deathpack by the colors I choose,
red or blue; cuz or blood, it just don't matta

All the suckas die when my shotgun scatters
The gangs of L.A. will never die....just multiply

You see they hit us then we hit them
then we hit them and they hit us, man
It's like a war, ya know what I'm sayin
people dont even understand

They don't even know what they dealing with
you wanna get ridda the gangs its gonna take alot of work
but people don't understand the size of this
this is no joke man this is real

you don't know me, fool
you disown me, cool
I don't need your assistance, social persistance
any problem I got I just put my fist in

My life is violent, but violent is life
peace is a dream, reality is a nightmare
my colors my honour my colors my all
with my colors upon me one soldier stands tall
tell me what have you left me, what have I got ?
last night in cold blood my young brother got shot
my homie got jacked
my mother's on crack
my sister can't work cause her arms show trax

Madness insanity livin' profanity
then some punk claimin they understandin me
give me a break, what world do you live in?
death is my set, guess my religion

Yo my brother was a gang banger
and all my homeboys bang
I don't know why I do it man, I just do it
I never had much of nuffin man
Look at you man, you've got everything going for yourself
and I ain't got nuffin man, I've got nuffin
I'm living in the ghetto man
just look at me man, look at me

My pants are saggin braided hair
suckers stare but I don't care
my game ain't knowelgde my game's fear
I've no remorse so squares beware

But my true mission is just revenge
you ain't in my set, you ain't my friend
wear the wrong color your life could end
homocides my favorite binge

Listen to me man
no matter whatcha do don't ever join a gang
you don't wanna be in it man,
You're just gonna end up in a mix of dead freinds and time in jail I
know, if
I had a chance like you,
I would never be in a gang man
but I didn't have a chance
You know I wish i did

I'll just walk like a giant po-lice defiant
you'll say to stop but I'll say that I cant
my gangs my family its all that I have
I'm a star, on the wall is my autograph

You don't like it, so you know where you can go
cause the streets are my stage and terror's my show
phsyco-analize tried diognising me wise
It wasn't your brother that brutally died

But it was mine, so let me define
my territory don't cross the line
Don't try to act crazy
cause the shit dont phase me
if you died like a punk
it wouldn'ta amaze me
Cuz, my color is death
though we all want peace
but our war won't end,
til all wars seize.

See the wars of the street gangs will always get to me man
But I don't wanna be down with this situation man
but I'm in here, if I had something betta to do I think I'd do it but
right
now I'm just down here boye
I'm trying to get money cause I'm smart
I'm gunna get paid while I'm out here
I'm gunna get that paper, ya know what I'm saying
If I had a chance like you,
maybe I would be in school
but I'm not, I'm out here living day to day surviving
and I'm willing to die for my colors

[Cheech]

Hey that unit has your name written all over it, Crash!

Oh yea...Too bad CRASH got disbanded

[Cidp24]

Man, ya'll are making me feel old! I remember this came out 2-3 years after I started in LE. Great movie! The whole shift (all 4 of us back then ) went to see it together.

[Cheech]

Im surprised we have no LAPD members on LEF

[ohionarc]

Man, ya'll are making me feel old! I remember this came out 2-3 years after I started in LE. Great movie! The whole shift (all 4 of us back then ) went to see it together.

Me too man!!! I came on in '86....still a great movie.

[121Traffic]

I think there are a couple of them here, though admittedly not very active. Maybe they're at yoga class or eating bean sprout sammiches with soy "cream cheese" flavored spread.

Just kidding Californians!

[HudsonHawk]

Hannibal - Ice T goes from rapping and hustling to winning a Grammy and acting as a COP on Law & Order... only in America.

Traffic - once on a coffee run a senior guy told me to get him a latte and a wheat bagel with strawberry cream cheese!?