Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Scarface-20TH aniversary

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Posted by Darryl Spicer (Member # 711) on 09-10-2003, 07:54 PM:

Anyone out there going to be running this? Just curious if there is anything going to be added or done special to it. I think the release date is September 19th. There may only be a 10 print release of it too.

Posted by Bill Enos (Member # 440) on 09-11-2003, 12:38 AM:

We ran it as a Saturday midnite about 6 months ago. It started with about 500 in the audience and ended with about 90. I'd never seen it but I think Maltin hit on the head saying it's way too loooong and not very interesting. I know we'll pass on it.

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 09-11-2003, 01:53 AM:

But hey! The "Animal House" DVD says "Scarface" will have DTS!

I may rent it just to get a good freeze frame of Mary-Elizabeth Mastrantonio in that nightie before she gets riddled by machine gun bullets. She has some nice, bodacious ta-tas.

Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 09-11-2003, 09:38 AM:

DTS the original had 4 track mag prints so they should offer that again [Smile]

Posted by Claude S. Ayakawa (Member # 1401) on 09-11-2003, 06:35 PM:

The movie had become a cult classic among some people for reasons I just cannot understand. I saw the movie at the Waikiki #3 when it was firt released and I did not like the movie at all. It was a so so gangster film and I have seen much better ones before. I was also very annoyed by the excessive profane dialogue. I am no prude when it comes to the use of the 'F' word if it is used a couple of times in a film but when it is use in almost every sentence, I find that very excessive and offensive. This is just my personal opinion for those of you who have no problem with excessive cussing in films- and every day life.

-Claude

Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 09-12-2003, 01:11 AM:

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This is just my personal opinion for those of you who have no problem with excessive cussing in films- and every day life.

The knowledge that we have worked with more subcontractors should not be unexpected.

But I agree that movie just drug on & on & quickly wore out any interest. The language had nothing I hadn't heard before, the shoot-em-ups had been shot up before, etc. I think folks were expecting a sort of Cuban-American Peckinpah take on the Godfather, & instead it was just a sort of like one of the old B gangster pictures.

Posted by John Walsh (Member # 168) on 09-13-2003, 08:55 AM:

Anyone know where I can rent the orginal Paul Muni "Scarface?"

Posted by Bill Gabel (Member # 1105) on 09-15-2003, 12:40 PM:

On September 30th, Universal will release on DVD "Scarface". If you buy the Special Deluxe Gift Set of "Scarface" it will include the 1983 and the 1932 features. List price is $59.99

Posted by Charles Everett (Member # 889) on 09-17-2003, 01:56 PM:

Why is Universal so hot to re-release this version of Scarface? Snoop Dogg, Sean "Puffy" Combs and one other rapper said this movie had a major impact on hip-hop.

Only big-city megaplexes are getting this re-release; they include the AMC Empire in New York and the UA Riverview Stadium in Philadelphia. The ad in this week's Village Voice says the re-release is in DTS/Dolby Digital and for one week only.

Shamefully, Focus Features and Universal did not develop a website for Scarface. They also do not mention this picture at all on their own websites.

Posted by Michael Coate (Member # 757) on 09-17-2003, 05:32 PM:

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Shamefully, Focus Features and Universal did not develop a website for Scarface. They also do not mention this picture at all on their own websites.

Sure they did: www.scarface-dvd.com . This "re-release" is esentially a promotional vehicle for the new DVD. There's a big media event in New York tonight.

Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 09-17-2003, 06:04 PM:

Why is it shameful when a movie doesn't have a website? Just curious.

I was under the impression that there was already enough pull-advertising out there.

Posted by Charles Everett (Member # 889) on 09-25-2003, 05:17 PM:

Scarface did so well last week, it's being held over. Wonder if Focus plans to expand this beyond the big-city megaplexes?

Posted by Pravin Ratnam (Member # 1417) on 09-25-2003, 05:52 PM:

The fact that it is not releasing in Atlanta is ridiculous.