General Chat / Scarface

"Drama and Crime/Gangster
Brian De Palma's blood-and-sun-drenched saga of a Cuban deportee’s rise to the top of Miami's cocaine business has become something of a popular classic since its release; it's been referenced in rap songs and subsequent gangster movies and quoted the world over. Despite this lovefest with the dialogue, the film’s brutal violence and lack of positive characters still make it controversial and disliked by certain critics. Al Pacino stars as Tony Montana, whose intelligence, guts, and ambition help him skyrocket from dishwasher to the top of a criminal empire but whose eventual paranoia and incestuous desire for his kid sister (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) prove his undoing. Michelle Pfeiffer plays Tony’s neglected coke-addicted trophy wife, and Steven Bauer is his concerned friend. F. Murray Abraham, Robert Loggia, and Paul Shenar are some of Tony’s sleazy business partners and potential killers. Oliver Stone wrote the expletive-packed screenplay, based on Howard Hawks’s 1932 version--which was ostensibly about Al Capone and starred Paul Muni and George Raft. The synth-heavy Giorgio Moroder score expertly evokes the drug-fueled decadence of 1980s Miami, and De Palma provides several of his elaborate set pieces, including a horrific showstopper in a motel room with a chain saw."

RERELEASE: September 19th, 2003 (New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Detroit, Dallas, Miami and San Francisco)
MPAA Rating: R.

Cast and Credits

Starring: Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia
Directed by: Brian De Palma
Produced by: Martin Bregman

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Yesum. Never seen the movie, even though we have it. Might as well see it on the big screen for the first time.

/Wait's for Scarface's reply

So, they want me to drive to Miami to see a movie about some lunatic drowning in huge piles of cocaine? No. Maybe if it comes to Tampa, and there's nothing else playing, then I'll go.

Besides, Oliver Stone is a talentless hick (and Brian De Palma has moments of genius, mixed in with the endless amount of shit he produces).

Anywho...

I say, go and watch Howard Hawks' version, not as explicit, but certainly more entertaining and well crafted.

One of the best films ever made and you should watch it.

Chainsaw scene is sick but one of the best in the film.
Just watch it

They are releasing it in the major city.

The only reason they are doing it right now is because there is NOTHING in the theaters.

Heck, they just rereleased The Italian Job.

Anyways, I would see it but its not playing in Portland, oh well.