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a pop culture movie
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Not my favourite Pacino role but probably his most defining in cinematic terms. Very stylish and quoteable gangster film that doesn't have the warmth of The Godfather but makes up for it with some brutal violence.
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Awesome
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I haven't seen this film in almost a decade and was curious to give it a revisit to see if my opinions had changed. I typically struggle with gangster movies as I find the plot trajectory utterly predictable and therefore I fail to really engage with the story or characters - which is exactly what happened with Scarface. It's just a very average movie that doesn't really hold any surprises, but I do like Brian De Palma as a director…
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Why It’s Essential — De Palma can be hit or miss, but his films are rarely — if ever — boring. SCARFACE is his take on the crime genre, and it’s a gleefully over-the-top and entertaining achievement.
Why You’ll Want to Skip It — If you swear by the original film and it’s politics, the remake is likely to rankle.
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Al Pacino written over it..
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Esta película hay que definirla como un hito que marco un antes y un después entre las películas de acción lo digo porque fue la primera en la que se muestra a un protagonista que no es "el bueno" y mas allá de la violencia supongo que para todo el mundo fue como un patada en la cara que te hicieran "ligar" que al tipo malo le saliera todo bien mientras lograba de la forma menos correcta cumplir con su…
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This movie's way too fuckin' long, but still awesome. I heard there's a secret apartment in GTA Vice City with a shower that's bloody and contains a chainsaw. Neato.
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Oliver Stone and Brian De Palma came together to make what is now considered a classic by many of the gangster genre, combining Oliver Stone's somewhat B-movie script with endlessly quotable dialogue with De Palma's elegant and fast paced directing.
It all starts with a mini-documentary of the Mariel boatlift accompanied by an amazing deep soundtrack and one of the cuban refugees is Tony Montana (Al Pacino) being interrogated and making jokes the whole time, he's a ballsy guy and…
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Overlength can be such a problem, but it never ruined a movie more than it did with Scarface. A good editing would have kept it either 2 hours or interesting enough for us to sit through 3 hours. The first hour was awesome, but somewhere in between the second and third hour it lost momentum, only to regain it 20 minutes or so before the end. For a long time, it was just economics talk.
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Revisar 'Scarface' es confirmar que el Tony Montana de Al Pacino es uno de los mejores personajes que nos dio el cine de los años 80 y que Brian De Palma era uno de los directores más potentes que aparecieron en el cine norteamericano de los años 70 (algo que parece que tenemos un poco olvidado por culpa de sus últimos trabajos).
Lamentablemente, también sirve para confirmar que el metraje es demasiado dilatado y que a mitad de la película…