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Scarface

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Best ganster movie i've ever seen
Review: This is my favorite ganster movie. For me this is the best ganster movie i've ever seen in my whole life.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: CAN ANYONE HELP WITH THIS QUESTION PLEASE !
Review: What is the difference between the extras in the previous edition of scarface (50 min of making of and 17 min of out takes) and this new one ( rebirth, acting, creating, deleted scenes) ??

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Say hello to my little freind ( the dvd that is )
Review: This movie is a deffinet gem--i love it-- people that sy its to viloent well thats how it is in tony montanas business-the storyline is great i mean great--this is a deffinet buy--if your a true scarface fan-if you not seen the movie or are not a bi fan just buy the dvd---and if you havent seen it hurry up cuz this movie is great--in the words of tony montana " you should buy this movie you cockaroach"

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: movie - a classic... DVD - a gem
Review: Watching Scarface for the second time was a treat. Pacino is awesome as Tony Montana. From a Cuban immigrant with nothing he rises to become a gangster kingpin. On that trip, Pacino hits all the right notes. The screenplay is awesome. The many memorable lines will echo all over the room as soon as they're spoken. Pfeiffer is ideal as the cadaverous gold digger wife. F. Murray Abraham, cast as Omar, does not disappoint.

Montana's relentless drive to succeed fuels both his rise and fall. Despite his criminal acumen, he lives by a code throughout his life. He says he has nothing but his word and his balls, and he's not breaking either. Late in the movie, during an assassination attempt, he saves the lives of some children. Also, in a jealous rage over his sister, he kills his best friend and right-hand man. Cornered by hundreds of drug cartel thugs, he fights until the bitter end, when he falls in a hail of bullets in his mansion.

The DVD comes stacked with extras, including a making of Scarface and a 20-minute film extolling the film as a hiphop classic, featuring the commentary of P. Diddy, Snoop Dogg, and other rappers.

No doubt Scarface is not only a hiphop classic, but an American classic.

ken32

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This is Al Pacino at his best
Review: If you havent seen this, your missing out.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: "Jou tink ay got dees scar from eatin' PINEAPPLE, mein?!"
Review: The classic to end all classics: Brian De Palma's 1983 remake of the 1932 Howard Hawks classic "Scarface". This movie is loud, brash, over-the-top, relentlessly macho, and filled to the brim with testosterone--and no fewer than 206 F-words--courtesy of De Palma's direction, Oliver Stone's screenplay and Al Pacino's ferocious performance as the exiled Cuban yayo dealer Tony Montana.

The "Scarface" story is well known: the rags-to-riches, exhilirating highs and mind-numbing lows of Tony Montana--a Cuban criminal who is exiled along with 25,000 others by Fidel Castro in 1980. Tony begins as yet another poverty-stricken refugee in a Miami camp (albeit an extraordinarily ambitious one). Soon, though, through a little luck and plenty of sheer ruthlessness he rises astronomically to the top of slimy, bloody Miami cocaine heap in a very short time with the help of his loyal, but none-too-bright friend Manny (Stephen Bauer) and woos the girlfriend (Michelle Pfeiffer) of his "soft" coke-dealing boss (Robert Loggia). However, his ruthlessness and inability to trust anyone--which helped him rise to the top--threaten to become his downfall in the end.

So, what are this movie's strengths? The direction, the eminently quotable screenplay (which has inspired countless rappers and stand-up comedians to this day), and Al Pacino's over-the-top performance quipped with a hilarious attempt at a Cuban accent. There's good reason this film became the cult classic that it is today.

What are the weaknesses? Well, it's THREE HOURS LONG, for one. "Scarface" definitely starts to lose steam during its last hour. Secondly, the music is UNBELIEVEABLY cheesy. The music (and the fashion too) is aggressively, in-your-face 1983. No doubt about it. It's like the composer was aspiring to imitate Frank Stallone, rather than Nino Rota (composer of "The Godfather").

The DVD extras are great, detailing the film's making, its initial reception, and its enormous influence on hip-hop. Noteworthy are the numerous interviews of rappers professing their love of the film, an interview with Oliver Stone who candidly explains how his addiction to cocaine forced him to move to France(!), plus the hilarious censorship placed on this notoriously profanity-laden film when it first got shown on network television (please see the above title).

Twenty years later, "Scarface" has taken its rightful place along the great American gangster films of all time. It may not be as good as "The Godfather", but it's certainly more fun!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great film
Review: Buy it now, because this is one of the best films ever made. Extremely recommended.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: city slicka
Review: ANYONE WHO DIDNT LIKE THIS MOVIE IS A FOOL AND PROBABLLY DIDNT UNDERSTAND ANY OF IT!!!!!! IF YOU NEVER SAW THIS MOVIE BEFORE, GO AND SEE IT.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: PURE TONY MONTANA !!!!!
Review: One of the best re-editions ever made !
Best movie, best actor (al pacino), best screenplay (oliver stone), best direction (brian de palma), best production (martin bregman) and best music (giorgio moroder) !!!
WORTH 6 OSCARS AND MORE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

...SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND...

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: If you like to watch Traffic accidents, then this is for you
Review: I hated this movie and had a great time doing it. As relentlessly grim as it is artless, Scarface's bombastic score makes it painful to listen to as well. Clearly at no point did anyone say, "This is a steaming pile of dung, why don't we fix it?" The dialogue is dank, the plot predictable. One hopes that Al Pacino came down with Indigestion after all the scenery he chewed in this forgettable flick. Clearly a frontrunner for the 20th century's worst film, right behind "The Postman" and one slot ahead of "Howard The Duck". Honestly, I've seen better film on teeth.


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