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Al Pacino Movies: 1990-1999
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Poll Question: Which is your favourite movie?
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    Posted: March 18 2023 at 13:54

                  1990: Dick Tracy
 3 stars 1990: The Godfather Part III
                  1991: Frankie and Johnny
 3 stars 1992: Glengarry Glen Ross - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiV2J463unM
 4 stars 1992: Scent of a Woman
 4 stars 1993: Carlito's Way
                  1995: Two Bits
 4 stars 1997: Donnie Brasco
 3 stars 1997: The Devil's Advocate
 4 stars 1999: The Insider - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdUI_0mIkec         
 2 stars 1999: Any Given Sunday        


Edited by Psychedelic Paul - May 31 2023 at 16:06
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Best Al Pacino moments from Heat (1995)
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Hi,

This is a better era for me to see Al do his thing.

I like GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS and right after it SCENT OF A WOMAN. Although GGR is too much on the stage, as it is a play, in the end, I think I would have opened it up a bit more so we don't get claustrophobic watching many of these guys rip their chops. They were all, good, but in the end, you come out feeling like ... that was exhausting!

SOAW is more interesting, and in my mind a better challenge for Al, and I think he did it well. Too many of the other films are him grandstanding, and looking like previous stuff, and looking like he was acting. But doing a blind person, he can't cheat! And did it well!

My thoughts are that Al is better suited for the stage than he is for the cinema, unless he has a very good director making things work. The G3 film was almost a waste for me. It has fine performances, but I think they were milking the story as much as they could for the studio.

Al, for me, is like Dustin Hoffman ... good one film, and you don't care about him in the next film. I never looked at it as good or bad, and there are many reasons why such a thing could happen, when a director is not as well focused.

Sadly, this was the time of the "star" and the end of the "director" in film, specially American film ... the studio machinery didn't care about directors and just went for the money in my book ... and a lot of film stuff, with great actors, ends up getting hurt ... and I think that some of Al's material fits in this area.

A very good American actor, and I would have liked to see him stretch his abilities in Europe with some other folks ... but I'm not sure that his "method' (just like D. Hoffman) is a good match for the free'r form (less studio money also) of film done in Europe, which allows for directors to move a lot better.
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A lot of great performances... I vote for Carlitos Way
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For me, it's a three way tie. 
The Godfather Part III
The Devil's Advocate
Any Given Sunday.
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Originally posted by omphaloskepsis omphaloskepsis wrote:

For me, it's a three way tie. 
The Godfather Part III
The Devil's Advocate
Any Given Sunday.
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The Godfather Part III
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GGR... a masterpiece and superb ensemble cast

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There are some great films on this. I plumped for Scent of a Woman, which I absolutely love. An honorable mention for the paeon to unrestrained capitalism, Gelngarry Glen Ross.

As regards Godfather III, a flawed masterpiece born of financial as opposed to artistic need.
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Heat. Masterpiece.
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The underrated Glengarry Glen Ross over Donnie Brasco. :)
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Heat (again), but I also like Carlito's Way a lot. And Scent of a Woman. And Glengarry Glen Ross (but that's an ensemble film, he doesn't really carry it).
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The Devil's Advocate
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Carlito's Way but there are some truly great films in that list for sure. What a decade for Pacino!
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Heat, just as in the De Niro poll. 
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