For me it's a "vibe" movie. It's not great but I enjoy the experienceWatching this shyt now
Other examples:
Belly
Eyes Wide Shut / 2001
Mallrats
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
If you accept Scarface (1983) film for what it is, it’s a good movie at best
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Other examples:
Belly
Eyes Wide Shut / 2001
Mallrats
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The first half, maybe even 2/3rds of the movie is arguably a masterpiece.
It's the ending that makes you have to suspend your disbelief and it's lit, but it's so ridiculous that it can take you out of the movie a bit
It's the ending that makes you have to suspend your disbelief and it's lit, but it's so ridiculous that it can take you out of the movie a bit
Piff Perkins
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It's wild how he did Scarface and Body Double back to back. Purely on an 80s aesthetics perspective, they're two of the best films to tell you what that decade was about.The more De Palma movies I’ve watched over time, the more I actually enjoy Scarface for what he was aiming for…it was incredibly ballsy on his part.
Mac Ten
Class of 97 !!!
I've brought the DVD over 20 times since 2014... the uncut version, not the TV version that I saw on BET back in 2008.
Despite the cartoonish performances from the cast, there's a lot of good lessons to learn from Tony. Now I know the consequences of getting high off your own supply.
Don't do what Tony did, brehs. He lost his Biish, his homie, sister, crew, money and his life at the end.
The video game was always "What If Tony survived?"" to me as well.
In total, the 1983 movie will always be a classic in Black Culture though. Many rappers have used that movie as a template(Jay-Z, Kool G Rap, Nas, Biggie, Rae & Ghost, etc).
Even Pac parodied the scene where Frank Lopez was in the office with Bernstein and looked like he saw a ghost when Tony came in.
Despite the cartoonish performances from the cast, there's a lot of good lessons to learn from Tony. Now I know the consequences of getting high off your own supply.
Don't do what Tony did, brehs. He lost his Biish, his homie, sister, crew, money and his life at the end.
The video game was always "What If Tony survived?"" to me as well.
In total, the 1983 movie will always be a classic in Black Culture though. Many rappers have used that movie as a template(Jay-Z, Kool G Rap, Nas, Biggie, Rae & Ghost, etc).
Even Pac parodied the scene where Frank Lopez was in the office with Bernstein and looked like he saw a ghost when Tony came in.
Al Pacino was on fire
Tony's mother was right the entire time...
His sister couldn't wait to be corrupted..lol
His sister couldn't wait to be corrupted..lol
Lets cut the crap and hop off our high horses and film snobbery for a minute. Scarface is a great film period. It has its issues and and certain parts didn't age well—outside of the opening theme that Mobb Deep sampled, most of the soundtrack is bad—but Pacino's performance as Scarface is one of the best out there hands down. Its way over the top-crazy accent and all, Pacino pretty much bodies every scene from start to finish. Just like the classic movie "Airplane" where's it goes nonstop-joke after joke after joke.. Scarface is the same way.. they don't take the foot off the gas one bit. Great colorful co-star cast, Manolo, Gina, Frank, Chi Chi, Sosa, Michelle Phifer, Omar Suarez, etc. Any movie that has a ton of quotables—and Scarface has a thousand of them—is a classic in my book. Pure gold. Stop frontin'
Thats all this thread,a bunch of people who cant wait to tell us "This film isnt noir enough for me". Go watch your black and white films with subtitles,or one of these movies that dont give you a real ending ,so that you have the freedom to choose your own
Scarface is a classic,now Belly is trash. Just so we dont get the impression I like every violent movie with some quotables and classic scenes.
Don’t care what the critics then and now have to say about this movie. It’s a classic pure 80’s fukkery that influenced so many projects. The music, quotes, clothing, characters, and set designs are all memorable.This’ll be the last time you see a bad guy like this
BlackAchilles
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Also I always felt the tongue has a real tongue-in-cheek roasting of the American Dream, meddling in Latin America and buying into whiteness that the "Duh Scarface is mid ppl only watch it cause rappers gas it up" crowd seems to ignore but I don't feel like typing a whole essay on my phone rn
