I like how this movie is directed. But why was it set up as though it was a cheesy superhero movie by making Al Capone look like a supervillain. Makes what's supposed to be a notoriously gritty crime thriller into something that unnecessarily feels triumphant and heroic. Like it's Spielberg-esque when it shouldn't.>"And thus endeth the lesson!"What lesson, though? That I'm supposed to root for an ignoramus cop whose part was only of a much larger whole that he wasn't aware of the corruption lying underneath his feet?This is a Mafia movie, for Christ's sake. One of many due to the self-indulgent boomer obsession from watching the Godfather in the 70s and again on reruns and VHS. Not Aesop's Fables in Prohibition-Era Chicago.
Wow, I can't believe the director of Scarface made a bombastic over the top mafia movie.
Brian De Palma like camp.
>>219902902>Carlito's Way>Carrie>Phantom of the Paradise>Blow OutYou sure bow dat?
>>219902781>making Al Capone look like a supervillainHe literally was
>>219903186No way you didn't detect anon's sarcasm.
>>219903842I was being sarcastic.
>>219902781Music was strange in this movie
>>219902781The movie was sold to a gen who didn't grow up during Capone's fame. He was a boogeyman's name. By then vietcong, Russians, urban lone serial killers were worse.
I don't care. I liked it. Don't believe the bullshit that Ness was buried in Lake View cemetery in Cleveland right next to the Cleveland mob in Little Italy. I worked there. They just scattered a bit of ashes in a pond.
>>219902781>expecting gritty realism from a Brian DePalma movie
>>219904524This ruined the whole movie for me, the score did not fit the vibes at all. It was weird.
>>219902781Its fucking terrible movie. Same category as disney pirates. Making a pg13 family slop out of gritty source material
>>219907150The source material was a TV show from the 50s. It's not a documentary or even a docudrama.
>>219903186Carlito's Way was intentionally designed to be as far away from Scarface in style as possible and ended up being a way superior movie, only reason it isn't more popular is due to Pacino playing a restraint character and not an over the top comic book character like Tony Montana, therefore less memeable.
>>219902781That's what I liked about it.I hate mafia movies
>>219902781Road to Perdition is superior. The over the top wasn't bad. Frank Nitti was just as ridiculous as Al Capone. It is still kino.
>>219912509>Road to Perdition>Whah whah I love my son! I love you too mobster dad! Whah!
>>219912222ThisIt's the only good gangster movie because it's not really a gangster movie
