Scarface. State Your Critique

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Dude looks soft..


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I was a freshman in college when it came out, It was very controversial, received an X rating due to violence before re-edits. We went opening weekend and the theater was carding anyone that looked borderline 18 yrs old, it kinda reminded me when The Warriors came out and the kind of scrutiny the film was getting. The theater was strictly checking IDs, but not strict in checking what was being brought in. Me and several college buddys, wore big coats and snuck in a bunch of beer hoping there would be plenty of explosions or gunshots to help cover the sound of our opening of the beers. No worries there, more than enough gunshots to cover our drinking. :cool:

The movie blew us away, it was such a raw movie for the time. Michelle Pfeiffer....... :omg:instant crush when she came out on screen. It was fun coming out of the theater, everyone coming out and not just us, was buzzing about the movie and you could hear everyone quoting different lines in the movie. Strangers quoting and interacting with other strangers about the movie, just knew at the time it would be an instant classic.

I think a remake would be a bad idea, too tall an order and too big a shoes to fill to live up to. Some movies just shouldn't be remade, like Goodfellas, Jaws, The Godfather, Pulp Fiction.....Scarface is one of those type films.
 
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GMO415 said:
Scarface is a generational movie. My generation and older loved it, but mellinials tend to hate it, thus they're making a remake of the "classic".

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Whoever's decision it was to remake this movie should be shot in the face with a 40mm grenade launcher.

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And they thought it was a good idea to remake Psycho, released 1998. lol. A budget of $60 mill, and grossed only $37 mill.

Reviews....

This version of Psycho received negative reviews; it was awarded two Golden Raspberry Awards, for Worst Remake or Sequel and Worst Director for Gus Van Sant, while Anne Heche was nominated for Worst Actress, where she lost the trophy to the Spice Girls for Spice World. Literary critic Camille Paglia commented that the only reason to watch it was "to see Anne Heche being assassinated", and that "it should have been a much more important work and event than it was."
 
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Honestly, it's a movie I have to be in the mood to watch. I can take it or leave it.
 
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The early Hotel scene that ended up on the street made that movie. It hasn't aged well (all the guns (.22s) look like pea shooters :D), and was more of a drama than action movie tbh. It really just shows how far balls and sheer will/coupled with military training took you in the early Miami drug game. Menace II Society is much more graphic and spot on to black ghetto culture, but Montana gave every aspiring anti social personality "gangster" an "us vs the world" angle that was lapped up. I saw it was a kid and found it boring tbh when compared to New Jack City that just came out.

Still a classic I've seen a dozen times, but outside of the Hotel and ending scene when they raid, I wouldn't go out of my way to watch again.
 
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