I watched the movie again for the first time in a few years, and I loved it even more than the first time. The movie definitely conveys the glittery surface dressing of the 1980s culture, but also reveals the hopeless materialism and corruption that we come to remember that decade by.

My favourite scene has to be the chainsaw in the hotel room. I noticed the small RCA TV set in the scene right away because I have the exact same model tv set in my room, although I don't have a crappy wire antenna on it like in the movie. The silver screen bevel and the cheesy synthetic wood paneling caught my eye immediately b/c I see it every day.


I'll post a picture of my tv set later and you'll see what I mean. Taking screenshots from dvds is hard, so I'll post a screenshot of the set in the movie for comparison if i can.

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Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next." They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

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I saw that movie one day and I didn't see what was so great about it. But, to each his own.

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

Great movie. Good to watch after playing Vice City, or vice versa.

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I don't think anyone cares about the television dude...

Anyways, yeah that movie is one of my favorite movies ever

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My Life.

Tony had this great give-em-hell attitude (which is good) , but the downside to that was that he was a criminal lowlife and he kept on snorting all this really pure coke every day.....

I mean, he had several opened bags of coke on his desk at one point after he iced his sister's new husband.


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Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next." They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

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So say goodnight to the bad-guy.

I can't decide if it's an intentionally over-the-top film about excess (and crappy interior-decoration), or if they actually think it should be taken seriously at face value.

Great manic performance by Pacino though. He's in fine form as his screamy acting persona. The soundtrack is synthly the best. Cute how the mansion in Vice City has basically the same layout with the split staircase (sans fountain) and the main office on top of it.

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