'Scarface' leaves its mark on an admiring audience

Plaindealer ^ | 09/27/03 | Clint O'Connor

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

"In this country, you got to make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the woman."

Sounds like Bill "Say hello to my little [bent] friend!" Clinton.

[AppyPappy]

Great movie but hard to watch. Very 80's.

[Semper Paratus]

If you took out the F word the script would shrink by 50%.

[Hillary's Folly]

I had no idea they said "fag" that often...

[ChadsDad]

favorite line "shoot that piece a chit"

[flying Elvis]

"Say hello to my leetle friend."

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

IMHO, one of the best unintentionally funny movies of all time - a real howler! The dialogue is priceless - Ed Wood would have been proud.

[wimpycat]

Extremely violent movie, but it's one of my favorites for Al Pacino.

But it's no fun at all watching it when it comes on USA network. Something is lost when you hear Sosa telling Tony: "Don't fool me, Tony. Don't ever fool me."

[Space Wrangler]

Scarface is definitely one of my favorites. I remember sneaking in to see it at the movies when I was 13 or 14. Many of my friends and I still use quotes from Scarface.

My favorite: "A communist? A communist I would kill jus for fun, but for a green cart, I will cahr him up real nice"

[dennisw]

Say hello to my leeetle fren......

I never knew the rappers and rap thugs took this movie to heart. It makes perfect sense. Same way I like the Sopranos but let's face it, it cheapens our culture and makes for more cynicism and faux worldliness.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

I agree. Scarface is easily one of the worst movies ever made, right up there with Showgirls.

[jordan8]

Scarface, crappy movie. Marked the beginning of the descent of Al Pacino to the embarrassment he is today.

[CommerceComet]

Thanks, I was beginning to think that I had watched some other Scarface because the one that I saw was pure, unadulterated crap!! I cannot believe that people actually like that garbage.

[jude24]

Scarface was a remake of a Howard Hawks movie I had to watch for an English class. The old one was kinda intriguing.

It's kinda rare for you to hear an English professor say that the critics reading something into a film are full of crap, but she said so.

[MinorityRepublican]

[BookmanTheJanitor]

'Scarface'?....is that the movie where Pacino yells a lot? (nyuk, nyuk)

[MinorityRepublican]

Yes that's right but at the same time, it's a classic.

[MadIvan]

It took me a little while to understand what he was saying, but otherwise, a good film - this was the beginning of the "rabid" Pacino, who reached his "over the top" apogee in "Devil's Advocate".

I can't think about this film without recalling how he said "cockroach".

Regards, Ivan

[MinorityRepublican]

Bump!