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Post subject: Scarface

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 12:19 am

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I watched this movie for the 3rd time yesterday. It's one of the best films I've ever seen. I like the 80s Miami setting, I like Al Pacino as the lead character, I like the musical score, I like the writing and I like the filming techniques De Palma used when he made this awesome movie.

I also beat the game the other day.

Discuss Scarface here.

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The Veidt Method

Post subject: Re: Scarface

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 12:25 am

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Crime drama rant follows.

I find that Scarface suffers, albeit to a lesser extent, from the same ailment as many popular dramas - all substance, no theme. It's just, y'know... a story. That's it. It just goes 'this happened.' It's like the number one question of writing anything - there has to be an answer to 'so what?'

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mike_tyson

Post subject: Re: Scarface

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 1:22 am

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Not a fan of Mob/Gangster movies whatsoever.

The length, pace, and my overall disdain for the genre makes me just hate this movie.

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Rorsach

Post subject: Re: Scarface

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 3:11 pm

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Tried too hard to appeal to the "group" back then.

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iancontinence

Post subject: Re: Scarface

Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 3:01 pm

Close to locating a gluino.

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urg godfather parts 1 and 2 were one hundred times superior

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Faust_Arp

Post subject: Re: Scarface

Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 3:06 pm

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I'm all about de niro/pesci, absolutely no idea why scarface is so popular.

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The Veidt Method

Post subject: Re: Scarface

Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 4:23 pm

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Faust_Arp wrote:

I'm all about de niro/pesci, absolutely no idea why scarface is so popular.

Didn't like that one either, to be honest.

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Faust_Arp

Post subject: Re: Scarface

Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 4:55 pm

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Aha, you knew what i meant, Goodfellas man!

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Post subject: Re: Scarface

Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 5:02 pm

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Faust_Arp wrote:

Aha, you knew what i meant, Goodfellas man!

I'm all for some thematic crime dramas... Usual Suspects, Taxi Driver, or Seven any day of the week over the 'classics.'

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Faust_Arp

Post subject: Re: Scarface

Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 5:07 pm

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All three of those films have their own nice cosy spots in my DVD collection, don't you worry about that!

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Faust_Arp

Post subject: Re: Scarface

Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 5:15 pm

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Reason i said Goodfellas before those 3 was because i thought we were talking about mob movies here. I guess usual suspects could be thinly labelled as such.

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Post subject: Re: Scarface

Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 5:18 pm

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Faust_Arp wrote:

Reason i said Goodfellas before those 3 was because i thought we were talking about mob movies here. I guess usual suspects could be thinly labelled as such.

My favorite mob movie is a teenage version of mob/noir movies - Brick. Great film, all about getting into the organized drug underworld... in a 20-year-old's basement.

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Faust_Arp

Post subject: Re: Scarface

Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 5:37 pm

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My brother has a copy of that lying around somewhere.
Say's it's a good film.
I'll give it a spin if he'll lend me it.

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