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^^^ this dude is really hot btw, this is not the poll question though. anyway pick a movie blah blabbbbity blah.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Dog Day Afternoon	28
The Godfather	10
Scarface	7
Glengarry Glen Ross	7
The Godfather: Part II	6
Serpico	5
Any Given Sunday	2
S1m0ne	2
Dick Tracy	2
The Godfather: Part III	2
The Devil's Advocate	2
Carlito's Way	1
Frankie and Johnny	1
Heat	1
City Hall	1
Sea of Love	1
Scarecrow	0
The Insider	0
The Recruit	0
...And Justice for All.	0
Donnie Brasco	0
Insomnia	0
Scent of a Woman	0
The Merchant of Venice	0

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 6 April 2007 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

Dick Tracy!

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

I thought this said "Al Pacino Doll" and I was expecting to pull the string on his back and get an assortment of quotes;

"HOO HA!"

"Every time I try to get out they keep PULLING ME BACK IN!"

"Fly, pelican, fly!"

― Oilyrags, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

She's got a great ass and you got your head etc.

― milo z, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

no PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK, no credibility

― gershy, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

if the godfather I or II wins i'm going to really be so angry

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 6 April 2007 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

it's your poll, next time fix it the way you like it....

― gershy, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:41 (eighteen years ago)

well i'm not gonna leave out the fucking godfather in an al pacino poll, what the hell? i'm just saying, i will be angry at mankind in the event of such an occurance.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 6 April 2007 18:41 (eighteen years ago)

SERPICO for sure

my dad met the real serpico

― deej, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:42 (eighteen years ago)

he was the hottest in the godfather movies, though, Crazy Ally!

I voted dog day afternoon.

― horseshoe, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:42 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, but if "Scent Of A Woman" wins that's awesome????

― HI DERE, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:42 (eighteen years ago)

dog day afternoon x10000000

― and what, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

I can't decide between Dog Day Afternoon and the Godfather and (seriously maybe) Insomnia

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

i saw insomnia in the theater and really liked it but pacino is kinda the worst actor in it

― and what, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, it's difficult to evaluate latter-day Al Pacino because he's such a ham on rye and it's not really like our earth acting.

― horseshoe, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:48 (eighteen years ago)

i seriously considered dick tracy & the devils advocate, in which his performances have made me laugh more than any other performances ever

― and what, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:49 (eighteen years ago)

uggggh so hard

― ghost rider, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:49 (eighteen years ago)

srsly i just remember being really drunk during the speech at the end of devils advocate and, like, crying

― and what, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:49 (eighteen years ago)

i'd kinda like to be the one vote for any given sunday tho

― ghost rider, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:50 (eighteen years ago)

yeah i was actually really tempted to vote for the devil's advocate because that and the butterfly effect are basically the two funniest films i've ever, ever seen.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 6 April 2007 18:50 (eighteen years ago)

John Milton: Why not? I'm here on the ground with my nose in it since the whole thing began. I've nurtured every sensation man's been inspired to have. I cared about what he wanted and I never judged him. Why? Because I never rejected him. In spite of all his imperfections, I'm a fan of man!

^^^ that was basically what did it

― and what, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:50 (eighteen years ago)

http://catholic-resources.org/Millennium/ApocFilm90s/Advocate_files/image002.jpg
I'M A FAN OF MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!

― and what, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:51 (eighteen years ago)

i saw insomnia in the theater and really liked it but pacino is kinda the worst actor in it

uh Hillary Swank?!?!

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:51 (eighteen years ago)

also, WTF?? no CRUISING??????

http://www.xenon-kino.de/Medaia/cruising04.JPG

― gershy, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:52 (eighteen years ago)

I've only seen Glengarry Glenross off that list, hence my vote.

― Laurel, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:52 (eighteen years ago)

ALTHO HEY HEY

― Laurel, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:52 (eighteen years ago)

hillary swank is great in that

i think we can all agree that every one of these films is worth watching, even s1m0n3

― and what, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:52 (eighteen years ago)

I look around and I see these young faces, and I think, I mean... I made every wrong choice a middle age man could make. I uh.... I pissed away all my money, believe it or not. I chased off anyone who has ever loved me. And lately, I can't even stand the face I see in the mirror.

― ghost rider, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:52 (eighteen years ago)

is the 'fan of man' line a ref to his role in cruising?

― and what, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:53 (eighteen years ago)

John Milton: I'm the hand up Mona Lisa's skirt. I'm a surprise, Kevin. They don't see me coming: that's what you're missing.

― and what, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:53 (eighteen years ago)

dear gershy:

i was writing the poll quickly while inbetween doing two different things at work. EXCUSE ME FOR NOT INCLUDING ALL YR FAVORITES BUT VOTE FOR WHAT YOU HAVE AT HAND PLZ.

sincerely yrs,
shut up!

(jfk but srsly)

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 6 April 2007 18:54 (eighteen years ago)

haha, guess i should put in the winkies, cuz my objections aren't serious (but cruising is amazing on so many levels, most of them bad)

― gershy, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

John Milton: And as we're straddling from one deal to the next, who's got his eye on the planet, as the air thickens, the water sours, and even the bees' honey takes on the metallic taste of radioactivity? And it just keeps coming, faster and faster. There's no chance to think, to prepare; it's buy futures, sell futures, when there is no future.

― and what, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:57 (eighteen years ago)

Nancy Gates: Why don't you want me anymore?
Steve Burns: What I'm doing is affecting me.

― gershy, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:59 (eighteen years ago)

Tony D'Amato: It's TV, it changed everything, changed the way we think forever. I mean the first time they stopped the game to cut away to some fucking commercial that was the end of it. Because it was our concentration that mattered, not theirs, not some fruitcake selling cereal.

― ghost rider, Friday, 6 April 2007 19:01 (eighteen years ago)

gershy srsly i am just kidding too :D

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 6 April 2007 19:02 (eighteen years ago)

any given sunday memorable quotes page inexplicably missing EVERY SINGLE LINE PACINO SAYS IN THE MOVIE

― ghost rider, Friday, 6 April 2007 19:02 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.pikespeakphoto.com/images/animals/alpaca.jpg

https://www.proidee.co.uk/pimgs/323/c7/323_c763227a.jpg

― Oilyrags, Friday, 6 April 2007 19:06 (eighteen years ago)

there aren't any memorable quotes besides his though. i mean who are they quoting, matthew modine???

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 6 April 2007 19:10 (eighteen years ago)

On this team, we fight for that inch
On this team, we tear ourselves, and everyone around us
to pieces for that inch.
We CLAW with our finger nails for that inch.
Cause we know
when we add up all those inches
that's going to make the fucking difference
between WINNING and LOSING
between LIVING and DYING.

I'll tell you this
in any fight
it is the guy who is willing to die
who is going to win that inch.
And I know
if I am going to have any life anymore
it is because, I am still willing to fight, and die for that inch
because that is what LIVING is.
The six inches in front of your face.

Now I can't make you do it.
You gotta look at the guy next to you.
Look into his eyes.
Now I think you are going to see a guy who will go that inch with you.
You are going to see a guy
who will sacrifice himself for this team
because he knows when it comes down to it,
you are gonna do the same thing for him.

That's a team, gentlemen
and either we heal now, as a team,
or we will die as individuals.
That's football guys.
That's all it is.
Now, whattaya gonna do?

― milo z, Friday, 6 April 2007 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

The six inches of space in front of my face at the moment consists of air.

Is Pacino saying life is empty and formless?

― milo z, Friday, 6 April 2007 19:13 (eighteen years ago)

i mean that's the basic theme of the first half of the speech!

― ghost rider, Friday, 6 April 2007 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

i want to start a DeNiro poll but the only option will be "The King of Comedy"

― ghost rider, Friday, 6 April 2007 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

so go do it

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 6 April 2007 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

The King of Comedy
Hide and Seek
Meet the Fockers

― milo z, Friday, 6 April 2007 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

well milo has the right idea too

― ghost rider, Friday, 6 April 2007 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

i saw that deniro movie on tv, the one where hes the crazy doctor and greg kinnear and rebecca STAMOS want their dead kid back... i guess i was out of the country when it was first released because i had never heard of it and just watching it was the most confusing terrible shit ever

― and what, Friday, 6 April 2007 19:21 (eighteen years ago)

i can hear pacino giving an awesome reading to the phrase "greg kinnear and rebecca STAMOS want their dead kid back"

― ghost rider, Friday, 6 April 2007 19:21 (eighteen years ago)

like, oh hey greg kinnear this must be good, oh ha ha hes getting mugged by his old student, i bet this is funny, oh hey its some dramady about 35 yr old hipster parents on the lower east side... oh wtf wtf wtf

― and what, Friday, 6 April 2007 19:22 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha that wouldve been about 1000000000000000000% better if it featured pacino as the devil offering them the soul of their dead child

― and what, Friday, 6 April 2007 19:22 (eighteen years ago)

I loved the Al Pacino soundboard that was on the net years and years ago because almost all of the lines were from Glengarry Glen Ross (instead of something more obvious like Scent Of A Woman or Scarface), and there were a bunch of hilarious mp3s of prank calls people did to a Cracker Barrell with it. I didn't even see GGR until years later, consequently I can't even see Al Pacino anymore without thinking of him yelling "you FAIRY, you COMPANY MAN" to some hapless Cracker Barrell employee.

― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 6 April 2007 19:25 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, the correct emphasis on that line is, "YOU fairy."

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 6 April 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

oh, WHAT A BIG MAN YOU ARE, lemme buy you a pack of gum, I'll show ya how to chew it.

― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 6 April 2007 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

I voted for City Hall. It was like Annie Hall, but about a city.

"YOU CAN'T FIGHT CITY HALL!!!"

― brownie, Friday, 6 April 2007 19:33 (eighteen years ago)

how FUCKED UP you are

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 6 April 2007 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

hahahaha lk! but City Hall is so boring, I can't approve.

― horseshoe, Friday, 6 April 2007 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

You know, you can BALL my wife if she wants you to. You can LOOUNGE around ... But you do NOT GET to WATCH my FUCKING. TELEVISION. SET!

― rps, Friday, 6 April 2007 19:35 (eighteen years ago)

Ralph. SITDOWN!

― rps, Friday, 6 April 2007 19:35 (eighteen years ago)

You know, you can BALL my wife if she wants you to. You can LOOUNGE around ... But you do NOT GET to WATCH my FUCKING. TELEVISION. SET!

-- rps, Friday, April 6, 2007 3:35 PM (3 minutes ago)

^^^ loounge around my POST MODERNISTIC BULLSHIT HOUSE!!!

― and what, Friday, 6 April 2007 19:39 (eighteen years ago)

im a FAN OF MAN

― and what, Friday, 6 April 2007 19:42 (eighteen years ago)

sorry

― and what, Friday, 6 April 2007 19:42 (eighteen years ago)

HOOO gimme a sticka gum I'll show ya howta chewit

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 6 April 2007 19:44 (eighteen years ago)

HOOO gimme a STEEN of gum

― and what, Friday, 6 April 2007 19:44 (eighteen years ago)

oh man Cruising is such a fucked up movie

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 6 April 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

oh Cruising, how FUCKED UP you are

WHAT...am I gonna DO...THIS MONTH?

― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 6 April 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

missing gigli

― A B C, Friday, 6 April 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

dog day afternoon because he is not al pacino

― deeznuts, Friday, 6 April 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

believe it or not, i did NOT vote scarface.

― Eisbaer, Friday, 6 April 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

so forgive me a retarded question but theres no way to see the votes until the poll ends?

― deeznuts, Friday, 6 April 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

i mean i guess that makes a lot of sense but i am something of a message board expert & in my experience usually the results are live

― deeznuts, Friday, 6 April 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

I'm sorry, I can't ever get past the "Push It to the Limit" sequence in Scarface without laughing. Still a good movie, but not the one I checked off up there.

― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 6 April 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

HEllO I AM ANAL PACINO

― gabbneb, Friday, 6 April 2007 21:02 (eighteen years ago)

i have seen too many of this movies

― gabbneb, Friday, 6 April 2007 21:59 (eighteen years ago)

b/w scarface having become "iconic" -- read, OVERPLAYED and INESCAPABLE -- not to mention the fact that pacino really is quite ridiculous in that film (haha, where to paraphrase something mark s. once said about him -- that pacino had become "high-octane rubbish") -- it's not surprising that some aren't going to vote for it.

― Eisbaer, Friday, 6 April 2007 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

lemme rephrase somewhat -- scarface is kinda where pacino really began his high-octane schtick in earnest.

― Eisbaer, Friday, 6 April 2007 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

which is actually is exactly what makes it a respectable vote despite my earlier post!

― deeznuts, Friday, 6 April 2007 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

Great ass!
-Heat

― calstars, Friday, 6 April 2007 22:36 (eighteen years ago)

HOW CAN YOU VOTE FOR ONE. this is so so so hard.

― the table is the table, Friday, 6 April 2007 22:43 (eighteen years ago)

So good in Raging Bull.

― aimurchie, Friday, 6 April 2007 23:39 (eighteen years ago)

Ethan totally OTM abt Devil's Advocate.

It ate my other post. Maybe I'm not allowed to agree with him :/

― Trayce, Friday, 6 April 2007 23:42 (eighteen years ago)

But even better in The 400 Blows.

xp

― Oilyrags, Friday, 6 April 2007 23:43 (eighteen years ago)

and what would you believe i have performed the "i am fan of man" monologue live on stage more than once

― s1ocki, Saturday, 7 April 2007 00:17 (eighteen years ago)

Pls to tell me that is true!!

― Trayce, Saturday, 7 April 2007 01:55 (eighteen years ago)

i've seen all those movies and for me it's really between godfather/serpico/dog day. it's tough.

― scott seward, Saturday, 7 April 2007 01:58 (eighteen years ago)

it is true.

― s1ocki, Saturday, 7 April 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

his teeth really bother me for some reason.

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 7 April 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

i'm a fan of monologue

― and what, Saturday, 7 April 2007 18:14 (eighteen years ago)

youtube video plz ala nintendo slocki

― and what, Saturday, 7 April 2007 18:14 (eighteen years ago)

Michael Corleone shd be one vote.

― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 7 April 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

v0ted 4 S1m0ne

― iiiijjjj, Saturday, 7 April 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

ugh sim0ne

i'm really a big fan of latter-day pacino notwithstanding.

"i FOUGHT for YOU and i'm STILL fighting for YOU!" - the insider

― s1ocki, Saturday, 7 April 2007 20:15 (eighteen years ago)

morbs, i considered combining the films but thought better of it due to past vitriolic fights on previous pacino threads regarding the merits of the various episodes. meh.

also the poll is missing gigli for a reason which is that i refuse to acknowledge the existence of that movie.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Sunday, 8 April 2007 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

it's "dead-tech, post-modernistic house".

wtf does 'dead-tech' even mean?

nb 'GREAT ASS' wins.

― That one guy that quit, Sunday, 8 April 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

also the poll is missing gigli for a reason which is that i refuse to acknowledge the existence of that movie.

OMG that's right -- i'd forgotten that al was in that one ...

― Eisbaer, Sunday, 8 April 2007 19:43 (eighteen years ago)

The best film missing from that list is Looking for Richard, I suspect.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

ooh yeah that one slipped my mind

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Monday, 9 April 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

lol @ "dead tech"

― and what, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

hmmm, Dick Tracy is the only one I've seen! Dude needs to be in more teen comedies, maybe he could be a mafia teacher in the hood, who has to coach a girls softball team, with hilarious results? I'd see that!

― jel --, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

well, christ, so would i.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Monday, 9 April 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

POST MODERNISTIC BULLSHIT HOUSE!!!

-- and what

o shit i forgot that part ;_;

― rps, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:50 (eighteen years ago)

Who wouldn't?

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:52 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.stevvia.demon.co.uk/zing1.jpg

― rps, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

dead-tech

― and what, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

hahahahahaha who is the second person who voted for any given sunday

― ghost rider, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

that's hahahaier than The Devil's Advocate?

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

S1m0ne is the biggest wtf actually

― ghost rider, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

every time i see this thread title i can't help reading it as if jim thome is saying it. i.e. http://dugout.progressiveboink.com

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

ok who the hell voted for frankie and johnny

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

SHOW YOURSELVES

― ghost rider, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

i kinda like the "frankie and johnny" and "S1m0ne" votes, just out of sheer perversity.

― Eisbaer, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 22:42 (eighteen years ago)

I voted for Any Given Sunday. I love that movie! Heat would be second choice

― Dan I., Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:05 (eighteen years ago)

Waitwaitwait I just noticed: Revolution ain't on the list. RECOUNT.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:26 (eighteen years ago)

why does GF outpace GF2 by such a margin?

― wanko ergo sum, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 00:48 (eighteen years ago)

I rally should have voted for "Scent of a Woman" just to be contrary. ;_;

― HI DERE, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 01:53 (eighteen years ago)

why does GF outpace GF2 by such a margin?

they made a girlfriend 2??

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 02:15 (eighteen years ago)

I liked the first one better because Michael undergoes a broader transformation. Also, gun-in-toilet scene.

― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 02:31 (eighteen years ago)

high five dan i

― ghost rider, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 03:56 (eighteen years ago)

URGENT AND SO FUCKING KEY (& NSFW)

― David R., Wednesday, 11 April 2007 05:15 (eighteen years ago)

they made a girlfriend 2??

in other words, BROS BEFORE HOS?!?

― Eisbaer, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 05:55 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Tuesday, 19 June 2007 18:52 (eighteen years ago)

He drives me crazy more than half the time, the big scene chewing ham, but he was really quite good in the HBO production of 'Angels in America'. With a well enough written script, he plays a tolerably watchable asshole.

― Michael White, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

is this already posted on the thread? i'm too lazy to look. i basically love the fact that his recent stated reason for his shouty overacting is that he did it one time and no one told him to stop acting like an ass, so he just is going to keep doing it until some director finally tells him to reign it in a little. i like that kind of thing, it's like a marlon brando "fuck you i will do what i want" that really doesn't actually make for, like, quality family entertainment always but it's kind of hilarious nonetheless.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Tuesday, 19 June 2007 19:06 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not sure he ever shouts in Ocean's 13.

― milo z, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, he's pretty restrained

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

I guess Mike Newell told him to can it on Donnie Brasco then (a sterling perf that gets no poll love).

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

guys, i'm just quoting the man, y'all can feel free to take your counterexamples to 1-800-AL-PACINOS-PHONE

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Tuesday, 19 June 2007 19:21 (eighteen years ago)

and yeah, Angels in America is in his top 5 or 6 for sure. "NOWWWW you can have some pills!"

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 19:21 (eighteen years ago)

shit how did i miss this poll. no love for Brasco?

― Ste, Thursday, 21 June 2007 09:00 (eighteen years ago)

Thank fuck no-one voted for "Scent of a Woman"

― Tom D., Thursday, 21 June 2007 09:03 (eighteen years ago)

that would mean the lurker is either blind or misunderstood poll question.

― nathalie, Thursday, 21 June 2007 09:11 (eighteen years ago)

Then again, blind? No way.

― nathalie, Thursday, 21 June 2007 09:11 (eighteen years ago)

wait so this is "name movie Pacino is hottest in?" or just "best pacino movie" ? question ain't clear.

― Ste, Thursday, 21 June 2007 10:20 (eighteen years ago)

i can't believe i never saw this poll, i would have voted serpico in a trice.

― stevie, Thursday, 21 June 2007 10:26 (eighteen years ago)

The best film missing from that list is Looking for Richard, I suspect.
-- Dr Morbius, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:48 (2 months ago) Bookmark Link

This is correct, I love that film. It has some of my favourite ever bits of filmic fun esp. when they are in Stratford upon Avon and the fire brigade turn up because iirc the film lights have set off the fire alarms at Shakespeares house and when they at a castle and comedy Englisher people are trying to look around while he's filming.

I also missed this poll and also would have voted Serpico. It's clearly a conspiracy.

― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 21 June 2007 10:46 (eighteen years ago)

You people must be shittin' me. Any Given Sunday???

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 21 June 2007 13:07 (eighteen years ago)

four months pass...

I finally just saw Dog Day Afternoon, and it was fantastic. I am a huge fan of movies that take place in one small setting; I even tend to like not-so-good movies that use a small amount of space to good use (se: Panic Room, Phonebooth... embarrassing!). Also, that was the first I've seen Durning in any other role than Tommy's dad on Rescue Me, and I was so proud that I recognized him! HE looks completely different now! I have a newfound level of appreciation for Pacino.

― Will M., Thursday, 15 November 2007 19:21 (eighteen years ago)

Also, that was the first I've seen Durning in any other role than Tommy's dad on Rescue Me

waht

― and what, Thursday, 15 November 2007 19:26 (eighteen years ago)

sorry, rephrase... first i've recognized him. i have probably seen him in other stuff. but also i don't see many movies.

― Will M., Thursday, 15 November 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

although, after going through his huge number of movies, i've only seen like one of those! and i don't even remember him in the one i have seen... o brother. or maybe i do, now that i think about it. i forget.

― Will M., Thursday, 15 November 2007 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

Turned 70 yesterday, btw (didn't see the 60Mins interview, or the HBO Kevorkian pic).

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 April 2010 17:59 (fifteen years ago)

"THIS WHOLE POLL IS OUT OF ORDER!!!"

http://kcinvestmentproperty.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/al-pacino.jpg

― This display name has been removed by the user. (KMS), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 18:03 (fifteen years ago)

Loved him in To Kill A Mockingbird.

― Blecch Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 19:21 (fifteen years ago)

Atticus! Atticus!

― Blecch Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 19:21 (fifteen years ago)

(Sorry)

― Blecch Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 19:21 (fifteen years ago)

Pac' goin' ham

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoyxeaBguTk

― creating rap music cus i never dug dipset (zvookster), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 19:38 (fifteen years ago)

i will not go down... that way!

― creating rap music cus i never dug dipset (zvookster), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 19:39 (fifteen years ago)

UNTIL THIS CITY! YOUR CITY! OUR CITY! HIS CITY! IS A PALACE AGAIN! IS A PALACE AGAIN!

― creating rap music cus i never dug dipset (zvookster), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 19:40 (fifteen years ago)

HELLO I AM ANAL PACINO POLL

― Marriage, that's where I'm a Viking! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 19:42 (fifteen years ago)

Atticus! Atticus!

uh...

― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 20:32 (fifteen years ago)

dan

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 27 April 2010 20:35 (fifteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attica_Prison_riot

― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 20:36 (fifteen years ago)

Please see post before and after, Shakey.

― Blecch Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 20:38 (fifteen years ago)

lol sorry, that is what I initially thought the thread title was

basically I am trying to avoid work

― Marriage, that's where I'm a Viking! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 20:38 (fifteen years ago)

hahaha I R dum

― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 20:42 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

ahaha holy shit. yes. YES.

http://i.imgur.com/iXanu.jpg

hes playing phil spector

― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 4 August 2011 01:41 (fourteen years ago)

six months pass...

i didn't vote for it ... but ... and justice for all is one of the all-time best lawyer movies and it's a little sad that it got no votes at all (while tripe like frankie and johnny and dick tracy did).

― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Thursday, 1 March 2012 06:17 (thirteen years ago)

lol @ powers boothe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ok_SM-aSb4

― buzza, Thursday, 1 March 2012 07:38 (thirteen years ago)

He's so fuckin ham going ham in Devil's Avocate, it is the best thing to watch.

― Lindsay NAGL (Trayce), Thursday, 1 March 2012 11:21 (thirteen years ago)

ten months pass...

http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/al-pacino-phil-spector-hbo.jpg

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 January 2013 18:22 (twelve years ago)

i will watch the shit out of this

― If I was a carpenter, and you were a douchebag (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 7 January 2013 18:25 (twelve years ago)

same

― turds (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 7 January 2013 20:15 (twelve years ago)

you didn't see Spencer Tracy playing Joe Meek when he was Al's age.

(in part cuz he was already dead)

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 January 2013 20:19 (twelve years ago)

seven months pass...

People I Know wisely left off the list. Quote from Ebert on the DVD case: "One of Al Pacino's best performances." Not sure what Roger was thinking--whatever Kael said about later Jack Lemmon is in full effect here. Pacino's exhausting to watch.

― clemenza, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 04:34 (twelve years ago)

Stephen Holden: "Eli is the latest flaming creature to be posted in Mr. Pacino's vivid gallery of driven, bleary-eyed maniacs operating in a twilight zone of harried agitation where terminal exhaustion threatens to tumble into madness."

That pretty much nails it. ("Vivid" notwithstanding, he didn't intend that as praise.)

― clemenza, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 05:00 (twelve years ago)

http://www.evilchili.com/videos/7511/

― balls, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 07:04 (twelve years ago)

four months pass...

On set:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bb0CFicCcAAKPKD.jpg

― tbd (Eazy), Monday, 23 December 2013 21:41 (eleven years ago)

I always forget that it's Pacino in the first two Godfather movies. Like that photo, I'm like Oh! Michael! and then wait, I mean, Pacino. Everything about him just screams Michael Corleone. You know? That sounds kinda silly now that I say it out loud...hmph

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 December 2013 22:31 (eleven years ago)

I understand that perfectly. He plays characters before 1975, and you remember the characters. After that, it's an endless procession of bleary-eyed maniacs operating in a twilight zone of harried agitation where terminal exhaustion threatens to tumble into madness.

― clemenza, Tuesday, 24 December 2013 13:44 (eleven years ago)

one month passes...

Not sure why The Panic in Needle Park was omitted here. No story to speak of--not even an attempt--and if you're as squeamish as I am when it comes to needles, you'll spend five minutes looking away from the screen. Holds up pretty well. Pacino has almost nothing in common with bug-eyed late Pacino, but I can see where the early version has his own set of mannerisms (there are little inflections here that are identical to what he does as Michael Corleone). Kitty Wynn is memorably bedraggled--had to be reminded, when I checked her IMDB page, that she was also in The Exorcist. One-minute part for Paul Sorvino, plus a character actor, Sully Boyar, I recognize from various films (Dog Day Afternoon most prominently). There's another kid who I could have sworn was Bud Cort, but no.

http://image1.findagrave.com/photos/2010/219/11368041_128126184771.jpg

― clemenza, Monday, 17 February 2014 21:20 (eleven years ago)

six months pass...

Good long profile:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/15/caught-act

― the man with the black wigs (Eazy), Friday, 12 September 2014 00:11 (eleven years ago)

The birthday girl, Kam, in blue satin shorts and a diamanté tiara, waved Pacino and Sola over to the leather banquette where her posse of svelte girlfriends and their men were huddled. While Sola plunged into the crowd of chatty celebrants, Pacino took a barstool at a table behind them and ordered a plate of barbecued chicken. As he ate, the standup comedian Billy Bellamy, who is credited with coining the phrase “booty call,” appeared. “We’re blessed, man,” Bellamy said. “I’m blessed. You killed in that Liberace shit, man.”
“That was Michael Douglas,” Pacino said, wiping barbecue sauce off his fingers.

― the man with the black wigs (Eazy), Friday, 12 September 2014 00:29 (eleven years ago)

the whole segment in the bowling alley is so classic, recreate and film it stat

― johnny crunch, Friday, 12 September 2014 01:05 (eleven years ago)

stopped reading it because it was all acting is when i feel most real and that is my depth and purpose, and like, my muse and shit

also the children are our future

― mookieproof, Friday, 12 September 2014 01:12 (eleven years ago)

Big takeaway from this: no need to meet him in person; best self is in performance.

― the man with the black wigs (Eazy), Friday, 12 September 2014 18:54 (eleven years ago)

one year passes...

Problems with the mostly-monologue two-character Mamet play China Doll in previews on Broadway:

http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.php?thread=1087651&page=7

http://nypost.com/2015/10/29/al-pacino-totally-lost-over-his-terrible-new-broadway-play/

― I know some Civil War re-enactors you might want to talk to (Eazy), Monday, 2 November 2015 05:43 (ten years ago)

two years pass...

He would take long walks (he could do that then) through Manhattan plotting out Michael’s transformation from an open-faced war hero to someone darker, more inward, more intense. “I remember not being able to articulate [that arc], even to Francis,” he says. “For the first couple weeks of filming, they were going to let me go.” Coppola saved him, Pacino insists, by moving up the shooting of a key scene — Michael’s killing of Sollozzo and McCluskey at an Italian restaurant: “When they saw that scene, they kept me.”

The weird thing is that the inward Michael Corleone — the role that turned Pacino into a star in one of the greatest films ever made — is the one that’s least emblematic of his work. It’s not how he ever was again! He says it gives him pleasure when I say that, though it touches on the charge that he has often strayed into ham territory, distending and syncopating syllables like a demented bebop artist. Michael consumed him, put him in a kind of straitjacket, forced him to take some of the music out of his voice. And he thinks of his acting as musical. “I’m a tenor,” he says, “and tenors sometimes like to hit the high note.”

He was happy, he says, to make the leaps to Serpico and Dog Day Afternoon: “I didn’t have to see Michael Corleone. I was flying.”

...Here’s what Pacino wants you to take away from the retrospective, especially if you think he’s often the same in every role onscreen — if you always say, “Oh, that’s Al”: “It’s an overview of an acting artist from the Village, really,” he says, and suggests looking at his four gangsters, Michael Corleone, Tony Montana in Scarface, Carlito from Carlito’s Way, and Lefty Ruggiero in Donnie Brasco. They couldn’t be more different. Pacino’s Montana is huge and burns like a filament, a purposely two-dimensional character in a film that the director, Brian De Palma, called a “Brechtian opera” — and Pacino loves how Tony became a cultural icon, however cataclysmic the trajectory. Carlito, on the other hand, is a man who gets out of prison and wants to put his life in order — the opposite of Montana, who manufactures chaos. Lefty is a Mafia middleman, a second-rater striving to rise in the ranks but brought down by a surrogate son who turns out to be an undercover FBI agent.

Sometimes, Pacino says, he goes overboard, sometimes underboard.

“But as Lee Strasberg used to say, ‘Don’t do what you can do. Do what you can’t do. That’s how you learn.’ ”

http://www.vulture.com/2018/03/al-pacino-pacinos-way-retrospective.html

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 18:45 (seven years ago)

I didn't know he roomed with Martin Sheen!

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 8 March 2018 01:10 (seven years ago)

what a great piece. I love that eternal student quality he has, at least when he talks about acting, the 'I don't know anything about acting' heart of Pacino is what really appeals to me.

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 8 March 2018 01:19 (seven years ago)

I saw Pacino play Marc Antony to Sheen's Brutus in Julius Caesar at the Public Theatre, 1988. It was... not a great production. (Richard Dreyfuss played Cassius.) I did see Pacino in two different stagings of Mamet's American Buffalo, '81 and '83 I think.

He'll be doing a few appearances at the NYC retro, which is unprecedented I think.

https://quadcinema.com/program/pacinos-way/

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 March 2018 17:53 (seven years ago)

*You know, I was conflating two different JC productions -- Edward Herrmann played Cassius at the Public Theatre in '88.

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 March 2018 17:56 (seven years ago)

For a while, he worked as a messenger at Commentary magazine for the likes of Norman Podhoretz and Susan Sontag. “They just thought I was an energetic, crazy kid, which was great.” he says. “I loved being there, I must say. One of the few places I wasn’t fired from.”

listen, he survived contact with these two – he's a legend.

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 March 2018 17:59 (seven years ago)

...And Justice for All is quite entertaining for a film that doesn't work at all, and has several flat-out bad sequences. Jeffrey Tambor with hair! Christine Lahti's film debut (she has no chemistry with Al).

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 14:47 (seven years ago)

I’m puzzled at how this new Paterno thing was greenlit. Who’s looking for this

― big C (calstars), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 14:48 (seven years ago)

Important Issues always get the treatment, especially if they have a Tragic [sic] Hero

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 14:59 (seven years ago)

one month passes...

Took me a couple of nights to get through Paterno one-and-a-half times, and I still probably drifted through a couple of parts twice. Pacino gives one of his better performances of the past decade-plus. He basically plays Paterno as being in a fog the whole time, mumbling about staying focused on Nebraska next week, and only gradually realizing his complicity in what everyone's trying to get him to pay attention to. Or not--he may realize it from the start, and the fog is just a convenient way to mask that, from others and from himself. Elvis's granddaughter from American Honey is very good too.

― clemenza, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 01:11 (seven years ago)

one year passes...

Watching Dick Tracy for the first time since the 90s.

Kinda fun but it should have been called Prosthesis: The Movie.

Pacino puts in an inspired performance as The Elephant Man.

― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 05:36 (six years ago)

five months pass...

80 today! Have a sundae, Al.

― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 25 April 2020 15:05 (five years ago)

read this as HELLO I AM ANAL PACINO POLL

― genital giant (Neanderthal), Saturday, 25 April 2020 15:09 (five years ago)

if his name were dunk, wouldn't he be dunkpacino, not dunkacino?

― wasdnous (abanana), Saturday, 25 April 2020 15:18 (five years ago)

ok wtf is dunkaccino

― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 25 April 2020 21:38 (five years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeLuQQH1OHA

― He is married to Brogmus, Linda. (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 25 April 2020 22:00 (five years ago)

one of robert smigel's best

― wasdnous (abanana), Sunday, 26 April 2020 00:24 (five years ago)

one year passes...

PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK is a good film and as clemenza says, intriguingly outside pacino’s usual MO

― mens rea activist (k3vin k.), Sunday, 17 October 2021 22:42 (four years ago)

Yes, it's an interesting low-key performance; I don't remember anything else about the film except that a dog comes to a bad fate on a ferry.
Last night I made a comment on the William Friedkin thread about another Pacino film omitted from this list, Cruising, quoting a review in a book called Movies on TV from 1981:

The basic narrative idea is that our growing discomfort with Pacino's convincing integration into his new environment and our growing fear that he may be developing some homicidal impulses of his own -- both are inextricably linked to our growing exhilaration of our release from fear as Pacino's savvy and power increase. Lurid, brutal, dehumanizing, but it does succeed in searing the audience.

I found Pacino a complete alien presence through the whole film, I certainly wasn't exhilarated at any point (and I don't really think he became savvy at any point either - desensitized, perhaps.

― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 17 October 2021 22:53 (four years ago)

one month passes...

Looking at my Gucci, it's about that time: off to see whether Lady Gaga can chew scenery as voraciously as the master this afternoon.

― clemenza, Saturday, 27 November 2021 15:43 (four years ago)

Not nearly as campy as I was hoping: Jared Leto's performance (felt like I was watching Jeffrey Tambor the whole time) and Gaga/Driver's first sex scene are about it. Just very long and not all that interesting. Pacino's actually pretty good. Except for a vintage Italian cover of "I'm a Believer" by Caterina Caselli, the soundtrack is thoroughly unimaginative (and, when Driver and Gaga get married in 1972, laughingly arbitrary as to placement: "Faith").

― clemenza, Saturday, 27 November 2021 21:59 (four years ago)

one year passes...

83 years old today

― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 12:58 (two years ago)

LOL at this thread for including S1m0ne and Insomnia but not Cruising, Panic in Needle Park, and Looking for Richard.

Carlito's Way obv should've won.

― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 13:03 (two years ago)

Getting the shakes now, last call for drinks, bars closing down... Sun's out, where are we going for breakfast? Don't wanna go far. Rough night, tired baby... Tired...

― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 13:31 (two years ago)

one year passes...

I was flipping through a sale rack of DVDs and came across this from 2014:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1568343/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_14_act

Never heard of it. Pacino, Greta Gerwig, Barry Levinson, Buck Henry...no doubt terrible. It was $5, and I did consider buying it for the sheer weirdness of its existence (and for the brilliantly awkward title, too); didn't, then had second thoughts, then spent the next five minutes trying to find it again and couldn't. Which was pretty weird in itself--there were only about 100 DVDs on the rack.

― clemenza, Friday, 3 May 2024 21:47 (one year ago)

(The title is not Levinson's--Philip Roth! I have just personally been subjected to the humbling.)

― clemenza, Friday, 3 May 2024 21:58 (one year ago)

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