Scarface gets a lot of unnecessary hate.. that's a top 30 film easy

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I get that the film has no subtlety about it. Palma hits us over the head with the main themes (mainly The American Dream capitalistic excess) right from the start. Plus, the dialogue is too on the nose.

But the cinematography is amazing, the soundtrack is lit, and let's be honest.... this is where all that film theory pretentiousness goes out the window - Al Pacino as Scarface is simply one of the most iconic, instantly relatable characters of all time. There's a reason he established an incredible cult following

Acting is subjective. You simply can't make up criteria to say Daniel Day Lewis' in My Left Foot, or Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate is a more meaningful then Al Pacino in Scarface :yeshrug:
 
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I think the main problem is people always want you to worship it then backlash comes... I understand its considered a Classic but I could probably only remember one scene out the movie... Every Black or hood person dont care about this movie...

Now, Ive NEVER seen it really gettin hated on except by uppity whites... But I have seen Black people try to force you to love it... Then it starts...
 

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I think the popularity boom in the early 00's may have overexposed it for the whack section of the public, but it ain't ever fall off :myman:
 

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Naw people used to shyt on Scarface all the time. Back in the 2000s MTV Cribs era, when rappers were always talking about Tony, and Scarface posters and bootleg Scarface t-shirts were mad popular. It was common for people (kinda pretentious "real" movie fans) to say Scarface was the most overrated movie ever.

Some people would even try to say boring films like Millers Crossing and Once Upon a Time in America were better movies than Scarface

why do black people like scarface - Google Search
 
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I think the main problem is people always want you to worship it then backlash comes... I understand its considered a Classic but I could probably only remember one scene out the movie... Every Black or hood person dont care about this movie...

Now, Ive NEVER seen it really gettin hated on except by uppity whites... But I have seen Black people try to force you to love it... Then it starts...


yeah it falls under that category of "You aint a real nikka if you don't blah blah"

I don't care about none of that shyt. It's a cool movie but it's overrated by the "real nikka" populace.
 
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