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Originally Posted by pylon
Agreed, Carlito's way is one of my all time favorite gangster movies. From when the mobsters showed up at his nightclub to whack him, and the end, it was probably some of the most tense 20 minutes of film ever. Donnie Brasco was awesome as well. Both those films were unreal.
From a performance standpoint, Pacino was far better in both than Scarface. I think a big part of the appeal of the film is the guy appeal and over the top violence. Most women don't get Sacrface.
If you are picking movies about drug dealers, I would say Blow was actually better.
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Just reading through this thread and seeing some all-time gang/drug movies being brought up. Scarface is a classic but in a much different way than those ones, it doesn't even belong in the same category with movies like Donnie Brasco/Goodfellas. Those are all-time classic (Goodfellas anyway), serious gangster movies. What makes Scarface a classic is all the early 80's cheese, there's definitely a lot of unintentional humour in it. It's got that fun replayability factor because of it. And thus it belongs on a list of "personal comfort movies" as opposed to those other gang movies brought up.
And as someone else mentioned, I have no idea why Scarface is so revered in the urban/hip hop community, like Tony Montana is who everyone should strive to be. That's so hilariously stupid. Whenever I walk into Spencer's or places like that, and they have those big, framed portraits of Tony Montana with like a mounted gun or something at the bottom, I laugh so hard. I just picture some dude in Ed Hardy gear hanging that behind his couch, thinkin he's a baller.