Poop Shute

I know there will be a lot of vehement disagreement with what I'm about to say, but, sorry. It's just how I feel.

Scarface is a very over-rated movie.

And btw, if you haven't seen it, be warned that I will ruin the ending for you here.

I had never seen it before and had heard great things for so many years. Bookman's had the DVD for cheap, so I thought, what the hell.

Al Pacino was not disappointing AT ALL, but then that is not at all surprising. He did a great job of making himself unlikable. His accent, while a touch overdone, was very consistent and not the slightest bit distracting.

The story I've seen before. All the old gangster movies with guys like James Cagney and Edward G Robinson all went this way. Back then there was a series of codes you had to follow with movies. A big one was if you made a mobster movie the mobster had to die in the end. This was their way of making sure all these movies about bad guys said to the audience: CRIME DOESN'T PAY.

Because it's a well known fact that if a mobster in the movies succeeds then that means we could all succeed as mobsters, right?

So, when Tony Montana (Scarface) ends up destroying everything he loves and then gets murdered in the end I was neither surprised nor impressed.

I don't know. It was just another one of those movies, and because it was made in 1983 it had a terribly lame, synth-heavy soundtrack, which didn't help me like it any more.

For Pacino's performance alone I will give it 2 out 5 Stars. Or wait...

I suppose I sould come up with my own rating system for movies.It's obvious, isn't it?

2 out of 5 Poops.

*******

Today I leave for LA to maybe shoot some promotional thing a friend got me.

I also might end up PA-ing for a half a day, but either way I get to spend some time with Mr Crohn, and that's cool.

And maybe I might meet somebody who can help my career a lot. We'll see.

See you on Sunday.