I found out Darth Vader was Luke's father from The Simpsons when I was like 8 or 9.
It's not so much about forcing your children to watch but sharing the movies with them.You're right. I'll force hookers to watch Caligula instead.
It's not so much about forcing your children to watch but sharing the movies with them.
Die Hard, Terminator 2, Commando, Predator, Aliens
Die Hard, Terminator 2, Commando, Predator, Aliens
My stepfather introduced me to action films at a young age. He didn't care about ratings or anything like that. So we saw everything. He was a big movie collector and had a huge VHS library. Ironically, he didn't let us watch Eddie Murphy's Boomerang, due to the gay character in the beginning and the double entendre he made about oral sex. I must of watched T2 over 20 times. I loved that movie.
Die Hard, Terminator 2, Commando, Predator, Aliens
My stepfather introduced me to action films at a young age. He didn't care about ratings or anything like that. So we saw everything. He was a big movie collector and had a huge VHS library. Ironically, he didn't let us watch Eddie Murphy's Boomerang, due to the gay character in the beginning and the double entendre he made about oral sex. I must of watched T2 over 20 times. I loved that movie.
Your stepfather rocks. I wasn't joking.
Die Hard, Terminator 2, Commando, Predator, Aliens
My stepfather introduced me to action films at a young age. He didn't care about ratings or anything like that. So we saw everything. He was a big movie collector and had a huge VHS library. Ironically, he didn't let us watch Eddie Murphy's Boomerang, due to the gay character in the beginning and the double entendre he made about oral sex. I must of watched T2 over 20 times. I loved that movie.
Your stepfather rocks. I wasn't joking.
I didn't think you were joking. By today's standards of acceptable violence those movies are pretty tame. Profanity may be an issue, but aren't they going to hear those words eventually in school like everyone else.
Make sure you take them to sunday school at the same time TVC, and tell them that El Topo is basically a visual bible.
As deeply troubled Fenix (Axel Jodorowsky) is enslaved by his armless mother and forced into a murderous existence following his release from a sanitarium, Jodorowsky instills his protagonist with a desperate sense of fear and helplessness from which there seems little chance of escape. An alternately brutal, hallucinatory, and beautiful film, Santa Sangre is without question a polarizing effort by its very nature, though viewers willing to be seduced by Jodorowsky's alluring cinematic nightmare will find themselves surprised, enthralled, and richly rewarded with an uniquely unapologetic film that's not easily shaken off.
A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the heretical church of Santa Sangre ("Holy Blood"), and then commit suicide. Back in the present, he escapes and rejoins his surviving and armless mother. Against his will, he "becomes her arms" and the two undertake a grisly campaign of murder and revenge.
Oh, and my parents didn't really make sure I watched any particular movies. I found out Darth Vader was Luke's father from The Simpsons when I was like 8 or 9.
i remember watching cape fear (scorsese) with my dad. he didn't change even the channel during the rape scene, lol.
Most directors make films with their eyes. I make films with my cojones.
I ask of film what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs.
To me it's a 7/10 type affair. Not horrible, but certainly not a "classic" as many hail it today. There just isn't a lot of...I dunno, substance...there. And I never complain about that with movies but Scarface eh. I'm just tired of going to NAACP events and hearing all my peers declare it as their favorite movie.
To me it's a 7/10 type affair. Not horrible, but certainly not a "classic" as many hail it today. There just isn't a lot of...I dunno, substance...there. And I never complain about that with movies but Scarface eh. I'm just tired of going to NAACP events and hearing all my peers declare it as their favorite movie.
So all of your friends are crude stereotypes?
godfather is a pretty bad movie.:lol
well what's good about it? what did it teach you about the criminal world? or was it just a trashy emotional story that never really went anywhere?godfather is a pretty bad movie.:lol
godfather is a pretty bad movie. I don't think I would have even watched it if it wasn't for all the hype. scarface on the other hand is actually a funny movie to watch with how over the top it gets with the violence.
I consider both movies pretty low and shitty though. If you see somebody praise either, just tell them they're wrong and say it's another organized-crime-with-honor-shooting-people-in-the-nuts type of movie.
Don't worry nintenho, no one here thinks you can comprehend more than that.do you guys really not get how simple either movie is? the godfather book was considered trash when it came out but then the movie was considered high art.
Don't worry nintenho, no one here thinks you can comprehend more than that.do you guys really not get how simple either movie is? the godfather book was considered trash when it came out but then the movie was considered high art.
Scarface? Eh if I have kids I'm not renting it, ever. I'll let them see Godfather first. I'm tired of that stereotype
Sad story: A couple days ago Pizza Hut had this deal where EMU students got free pizza. So I was sitting at a booth with some other black guys, and there was this small TV near us that was playing The Godfather - which is like my third favorite film of all time. So me and my brother are watching it, and the three other black guys are too. I sat down right at the part where Appolonia is killed by the car bomb. But as you know, the "action" scenes in Godfather are separated by lots of dialogue/plot scenes
*5 minutes later*
Black guy #1: nicca this is BORING
Black guy #3: It's either this or...*looks at the other VHS tapes on the TV table* Lion King.
Black guy #2: Ayo man it's aight, stop hatin
Black guy #1: I'm not hatin but come on. This ain't no mob movie. Scarface is better
Black guy #2: co-sign
Black guy #3: No shit, this aight but my nicca Pacino ain't nuthin in this. Tony Montana baby, all day!
Black guy #1: No doubt. Ayo did we miss all the shooting parts?
:'( :-\ >:(
Scarface? Eh if I have kids I'm not renting it, ever. I'll let them see Godfather first. I'm tired of that stereotype
Sad story: A couple days ago Pizza Hut had this deal where EMU students got free pizza. So I was sitting at a booth with some other black guys, and there was this small TV near us that was playing The Godfather - which is like my third favorite film of all time. So me and my brother are watching it, and the three other black guys are too. I sat down right at the part where Appolonia is killed by the car bomb. But as you know, the "action" scenes in Godfather are separated by lots of dialogue/plot scenes
*5 minutes later*
Black guy #1: nicca this is BORING
Black guy #3: It's either this or...*looks at the other VHS tapes on the TV table* Lion King.
Black guy #2: Ayo man it's aight, stop hatin
Black guy #1: I'm not hatin but come on. This ain't no mob movie. Scarface is better
Black guy #2: co-sign
Black guy #3: No shit, this aight but my nicca Pacino ain't nuthin in this. Tony Montana baby, all day!
Black guy #1: No doubt. Ayo did we miss all the shooting parts?
:'( :-\ >:(
People don't say co-sign in real life....
I'm so sick and tired of Scarface bashers holy fuck.
Don't worry nintenho, no one here thinks you can comprehend more than that.do you guys really not get how simple either movie is? the godfather book was considered trash when it came out but then the movie was considered high art.
If important films can't have lowbrow text as their source material, there goes the entire Alfred Hitchcock oeuvre.
Don't worry nintenho, no one here thinks you can comprehend more than that.do you guys really not get how simple either movie is? the godfather book was considered trash when it came out but then the movie was considered high art.
If important films can't have lowbrow text as their source material, there goes the entire Alfred Hitchcock oeuvre.
/touchdown
Btw, WTF @ at the trailer TVC posted. I have to see that, if only to see that woman's vagina
It's all because of the rappers/MTV Cribs attention this movie got, that it's hated so much by whiny elitist white people.
And average how so? I find it funny how someone who cites a shit-trilogy like LotR as one of their favorites gets not any shit at all, but a Scarface fan is being laughed at. lmao :lol
It's all because of the rappers/MTV Cribs attention this movie got, that it's hated so much by whiny elitist white people.
And average how so? I find it funny how someone who cites a shit-trilogy like LotR as one of their favorites gets not any shit at all, but a Scarface fan is being laughed at. lmao :lol
Don't worry nintenho, no one here thinks you can comprehend more than that.do you guys really not get how simple either movie is? the godfather book was considered trash when it came out but then the movie was considered high art.
If important films can't have lowbrow text as their source material, there goes the entire Alfred Hitchcock oeuvre.
/touchdown
Btw, WTF @ at the trailer TVC posted. I have to see that, if only to see that woman's vagina
Check out this one, PD. Jodorowsky movies always feature abundant nudity.
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I had to post the Japanese trailer because of all the trailers it features the least nudity. Note that the real movie is in mexican or some shit. No idea why they released an english dub in Japania. distinguished mentally-challenged fellows.
The Godfather is like having a bottle of Fat Tire, whereas Shitface is like glugging down a 40 of schlitz. Scarface, just like Schlitz, is only for minorities, alcoholics, and dirty poors. Some of us here have CULTURE.
The Godfather is like having a bottle of Fat Tire, whereas Shitface is like glugging down a 40 of schlitz. Scarface, just like Schlitz, is only for minorities, alcoholics, and dirty poors. Some of us here have CULTURE.
I don't understand how people can love the Die Hards, the Terminators, and all of that and shit on Scarface while harpin' about "culture".
because scarface is SERIOUS BIDNESS for a collection of wanna-be thuglets
TVC praises Robocop but hates Scarface. SMH.
why is scarface shit when are the same folks who like robocop, indiana jones, die hard, terminator;etc.
it's the same damn shit. really popular summer blockbuster type of crap.
So it's basically just a bunch of white people hating on scarface because distinguished black fellows and spicks like it
Or, Scarface is a genuinely bad movie with nothing redeemable about it, save a few memorable one liners.So it's basically just a bunch of white people hating on scarface because distinguished black fellows and spicks like it
Basically yeah. Scarface became one of those cool things to hate. I mean you're not really edgy until you start to express your dislike in this movie.
scarface is also poorly-written and acted
it's closer to transformers and new jack city than raiders or terminator
why is scarface shit when are the same folks who like robocop, indiana jones, die hard, terminator;etc.
it's the same damn shit. really popular summer blockbuster type of crap.
Or, Scarface is a genuinely bad movie with nothing redeemable about it, save a few memorable one liners.So it's basically just a bunch of white people hating on scarface because distinguished black fellows and spicks like it
Basically yeah. Scarface became one of those cool things to hate. I mean you're not really edgy until you start to express your dislike in this movie.
How is Scarface bad at what it does? It's about a gangster and fucking people up and stealing the white man's women. It does this wonderfully.
What the heck is wrong with his performance?
What the heck is wrong with his performance?
Keanu does better accents. He sounds like a cartoon character! Plus he is in Hammy pacino mode, which is always terrible. Normal Pacino mode sometimes results in goodness.
EDIT: HERE julimumu, since I have not seen Scarface in like 5 years, I will go and buy it now.
I enjoy Scarface for what it is, I'm hispanic, and in my expert opinion, Pacino's accent is fucking laughable. Extremely cartoonish and fake-sounding.
I felt his performance in Heat was laughable; I recently bought the film and watched for the first time in ages yesterday. You can see the strut in his walk - everything is exaggerated and hyperbolic, and it doesn't mesh with the movie to me. Although I guess some would say that was the point lol - one of the differences between Pacino and De Niro's characters. But meh I don't buy that. De Niro out acts and out classes Pacino in that film, top to bottom
I think the white person equivalent for Scarface might be Wall Street/Glengarry Glen Ross.
Or, you know, Star Wars.
Himuro: Like I said, it's a 7/10 type film. I'm not bashing it, but it DOES feel like this cheap straight to DVD type movie. I wouldn't say that about Die Hard or even Commando. And I fucking HATE hearing black people praise it and declare Montana their role model. Do these people skip the last 5 minutes of the film or something?
I think the white person equivalent for Scarface might be Wall Street/Glengarry Glen Ross.
Or, you know, Star Wars.
Uh oh, Mandark, you said something relevant that I missed. . .
OLIVER FUCKING STONE wrote Scarface (and Wall Street) and I am like the biggest Oliver Stone apologist on the internet. There is a SIGNIFICANT CHANCE I might like the movie. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK. SHIT! FUCK MY CUNT! FUCK.
DOUBLE FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK. SHIT! FUCK MY CUNT! FUCK. Giorgio Moroder did the soundtrack CUNTS FUCK. Looks like I might be swallowing the Himumu load tonight :(
I felt his performance in Heat was laughable; I recently bought the film and watched for the first time in ages yesterday. You can see the strut in his walk - everything is exaggerated and hyperbolic, and it doesn't mesh with the movie to me. Although I guess some would say that was the point lol - one of the differences between Pacino and De Niro's characters. But meh I don't buy that. De Niro out acts and out classes Pacino in that film, top to bottom
Well, I agree with this. Still love the movie, though.
nicca the first thing niccas buy with their paycheck is a copy of Scarface and a box of Magnum condoms. Stop being an Uncle Tom
nicca the first thing niccas buy with their paycheck is a copy of Scarface and a box of Magnum condoms. Stop being an Uncle Tom
Oliver Stone! The one-stop shop for all your aggressive, transgressive masculine wish fulfillment needs!
Disclaimer: I have not seen that much Oliver Stone.
In reality, there is this one group of extremely cruel and vicious people that murder for money. They are called the Mafia. There is this one movie that shows these people as family men that murder for honor, it is called bullshit. I did not know anything about the godfather story before I watched it so you can see why I would be disappointed. It's just a trashy, pretentious story that tries to look "gritty" and falls on it's ass. That's all very obvious./touchdownIf important films can't have lowbrow text as their source material, there goes the entire Alfred Hitchcock oeuvre.Don't worry nintenho, no one here thinks you can comprehend more than that.do you guys really not get how simple either movie is? the godfather book was considered trash when it came out but then the movie was considered high art.
nicca the first thing niccas buy with their paycheck is a copy of Scarface and a box of Magnum condoms. Stop being an Uncle TomUncle Tom means a slave that would give his life to free other slaves. It's meaning was distorted when some racists made a movie where they showed the "uncle tom" as a slave loyal to the white masters.
In reality, there is this one group of extremely cruel and vicious people that murder for money. They are called the Mafia. There is this one movie that shows these people as family men that murder for honor, it is called bullshit. I did not know anything about the godfather story before I watched it so you can see why I would be disappointed. It's just a trashy, pretentious story that tries to look "gritty" and falls on it's ass. That's all very obvious./touchdownIf important films can't have lowbrow text as their source material, there goes the entire Alfred Hitchcock oeuvre.Don't worry nintenho, no one here thinks you can comprehend more than that.do you guys really not get how simple either movie is? the godfather book was considered trash when it came out but then the movie was considered high art.
In reality, there is this one group of extremely cruel and vicious people that murder for money. They are called the Mafia. There is this one movie that shows these people as family men that murder for honor, it is called bullshit. I did not know anything about the godfather story before I watched it so you can see why I would be disappointed. It's just a trashy, pretentious story that tries to look "gritty" and falls on it's ass. That's all very obvious./touchdownIf important films can't have lowbrow text as their source material, there goes the entire Alfred Hitchcock oeuvre.Don't worry nintenho, no one here thinks you can comprehend more than that.do you guys really not get how simple either movie is? the godfather book was considered trash when it came out but then the movie was considered high art.nicca the first thing niccas buy with their paycheck is a copy of Scarface and a box of Magnum condoms. Stop being an Uncle TomUncle Tom means a slave that would give his life to free other slaves. It's meaning was distorted when some racists made a movie where they showed the "uncle tom" as a slave loyal to the white masters.
In reality, there is this one group of extremely cruel and vicious people that murder for money. They are called the Mafia. There is this one movie that shows these people as family men that murder for honor, it is called bullshit. I did not know anything about the godfather story before I watched it so you can see why I would be disappointed. It's just a trashy, pretentious story that tries to look "gritty" and falls on it's ass. That's all very obvious./touchdownIf important films can't have lowbrow text as their source material, there goes the entire Alfred Hitchcock oeuvre.Don't worry nintenho, no one here thinks you can comprehend more than that.do you guys really not get how simple either movie is? the godfather book was considered trash when it came out but then the movie was considered high art.nicca the first thing niccas buy with their paycheck is a copy of Scarface and a box of Magnum condoms. Stop being an Uncle TomUncle Tom means a slave that would give his life to free other slaves. It's meaning was distorted when some racists made a movie where they showed the "uncle tom" as a slave loyal to the white masters.
No shit
You're a dumbass. Don't quote my posts
I hate Natural Born Killers.
Have you seen the original b&w one?
No, the structures and characters of both movies are basically identical, except for the change in time and place. So, when you say that it's a B-movie that's been stretched out to epic length, you're more right than you know.
It's not my favorite gangster movie (it's a little too primitive, like Little Caesar and Public Enemy; The Roaring Twenties is MUCH better), but it's a pretty good film. Way better than the '80s version, IMO. First Paul Muni movie I ever saw. It's weird that he used to be a big star, his acting's so hammy and over-the-top, even when compared to his contemporaries.
i don't know. i'm probably just a scarface fanboy but everytime i watch it, time flies by and it feels like an hour
The bit with the chainsaw IS the best part, tho. That and the MOUNTAIN OF COKE on Tony's desk at the end.
Wait are you saying that the mafia as depicted by The Sopranos, The Godfather, and those terrible Gotti family reality shows isn't real in its depiction of honor? These terrible and vicious men that put merit in family date back to the mid-19th century, and you can date them back to the Renaissance if you don't restrict yourself to one mafia with origins in Italy.I just hated how the movie insisted upon itself. It just didn't have much of a story, although the acting was pretty good. If you're a baby boomer, I can understand why you would call it your favorite crime movie of all time because you were hyped to jack off on it. If you were born after it came out, then one viewing is all you need in your lifetime. I don't get why any young person would give a fuck about the movie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Borgia
The bit with the chainsaw IS the best part, tho. That and the MOUNTAIN OF COKE on Tony's desk at the end.
I don't get this. What's so good about the chainsaw scene? It's not especially gory or anything. Dexter blows it out of the water. You don't even see the saw going into flesh at any point.
Also, why is the Scarface such a cockface to Salieri?
do you people understand the sarcasm in the uncle tom comment? it was very transparent.Wait are you saying that the mafia as depicted by The Sopranos, The Godfather, and those terrible Gotti family reality shows isn't real in its depiction of honor? These terrible and vicious men that put merit in family date back to the mid-19th century, and you can date them back to the Renaissance if you don't restrict yourself to one mafia with origins in Italy.I just hated how the movie insisted upon itself. It just didn't have much of a story, although the acting was pretty good. If you're a baby boomer, I can understand why you would call it your favorite crime movie of all time because you were hyped to jack off on it. If you were born after it came out, then one viewing is all you need in your lifetime. I don't get why any young person would give a fuck about the movie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Borgia
Scarface is shit really too but at least it's not as boring.
1) There's more to a movie than the storyI realize that it's a significant movie but I don't expect somebody praising the movie today to actually be talking about all of that (especially with the way PD worded how the people he met on the street would not "get" the movie). While it's an important movie, it's simply not some good. The directing and acting were as perfect as possible. But the movie's story was trash.
2) The Godfather is a by-the-numbers mafia flick, but it invented the numbers
3) The acting perfectly fits the tone of the movie set by the visuals, the time period, and the score
4) That score is fuck all amazing
5) Its visuals are often copied, but very rarely matched
The first two Godfather flicks are films in every regard. Maybe the story is a bit plain to you today, but look at the total packages. They don't make them like this anymore.
I'm not a huge Godfather defender. They would likely not even rank on a serious top 10 list, but to deny that they are of extremely high quality when ranked along with the apex of American cinema is to be as ridiculous as a holocaust denier. I don't think Coppola is especially talented, either that or he is talented and unlucky, but he earned his reputation with those two films alone.