Al Pacino knows conflict resolution~Asshole-Style.

Al Pacino one immediately came across as the Cookie Monster for me.

The sound quality is never that great in his videos

...trying to turn comedians into "serious" actors... With Hanks, it was A League of Thier Own


Yes, anyone would look superb in serious, melodramatic Oscar bait like "A Leauge fo Thier Onw". Why did they think a comedian could summon the requisite gravitas for such a serious subject? Were they trying to make fun of women's sports? Is there no crying in baseball?

Castaway.. That movie sucked. Five minutes of movie 'packed' into two hours.


Yes, if only he did better at acting there would have been more plot. Maybe he could have acted out some lasers and explosions for you. I don't think Tom Hanks is super amazing - and certainly not always - but he did a good job with a hard role in Castaway. I mean, sure, obviously you could just drop Forrest Gump in there and it's the same film, but what can you do. He's only one man.

Why don't you tell us who the great, currently active actors are, friendo? I've heard people (seriously) suggest scenery-chewers like Pacino or Denzellle. Sean bloody full-retard Penn? Jack Nicholson? OK. I like Jack Nicholson. But he's one dude and he's just barely still alive let alone active.

For my money, the best performance of the last decade was Matthew Lillard in the Scooby Doo movie (whatever the Hell it was called). Not gonna lie: it wasn't a great film. But flawless performance by Lillard. He was Shaggy. What else can you ask for in an actor than completely inhabiting a difficult role like that? Drop frickin' Sidney Poitier or Orson Welles in that movie and sure maybe it becomes watchable, but I doubt they nail the role like Lillard did.

Wow, after writing that last night I went looking for more Bill Hader stuff and there really isnt that much on youtube....

BUT

there is this bit of stand up which I thought was hilarious. His Al Pacino is really incredible, and how he deftly deals with the heckler is nothing short of awesome.

Considering in this routine he's a guy pretending to be a guy, pretending to be other guys, it's pretty impressive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZLava9q_Qw

Bill Hader is awesome

Check out his al pacino and alan alda impressions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHRIx0fbBSo

He also does a crazy good John Malkovich impression, which I can't really find any examples of, but he does do a little bit of it when playing an italian talk show host whose interviewing John Malkovich in this, kind of insane, clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0A3kAm6FLQ

Come on of course Cowboys and Aliens was going to terrible. They took a funny story and tried to make a serious movie out of it and that's why it fails on so many fronts. Plus Ford is phoning in everything now just like Pacino and De Niro.

Hanna was good but disappointing mostly of what Blankfist mentioned already. She takes out a whole base and suddenly shes scared of 3 guys and 1 woman in the finale? Ninja please.

Hanna with its fairytale bullshit was really weak as well. I was hoping it would have more of a Bourne Identity feel about it. Am not 5 give me complex storylines not rooted in fairytale bullshit. By the 3rd act all I wanted to do is fucking leave because the story started to fall apart and retcon everything they built up in act 1 and 2. Still good but it's not Leon or Nikita.

Overall this whole summer has been shit for movies.

Totally not what I was expecting--great story.

I could see this being a very good movie. A lawyer fighting a corrupt system--only to be ruined by that system. I see Al Pacino as the lead.

If I could promote this one I would.

Absolutely made Pacino's career. Just look at those eyes. Caaraaazzy eyes, mang.

@NetRunner,

Pro Tip #1: Know your law: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00001960----000-.html

Pro Tip #2: [hint: starts at 2:30]

He forgot to repeat everything "for emphasis". Anyone else notice Pacino always does this now?

It's true Al Pacino has some serious issues.

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God I love his Pacino *promote

In case anyone thinks this is a shocking case of casual domestic violence in 1930s America, I think you almost got the point of the scene. Tom Powers (played by Jimmy) is a sadistic gang leader that isn't just running bootleg alcohol - he's demanding booze for breakfast. He would eventually be gunned down by police in a similar 'Rise and Fall' as Pacino went through in Scarface.

So if you thought Cagney was being an asshole - that's because that was precisely what he was being directed to be and precisely why the film was regarded so highly (since previous Tough Guys/criminals had all been portrayed by attractive, well-spoken Thespians!).

>> ^westy:

The title makes no sence
this is not a Live video
and if anything surly any recordings of spacial fanomanon were live at the time they happend and were recorded.


No i think that's what al pacino says in Devil's Advocate - I'M A FAN O' MAN!

Westy your comments really drag me down. This is such a vacuous point but overshadowed by your spelling - which would make david mitchell cry - i hope you don't suffer from some condition which causes it, i wouldn't want to be like that, but it looks like a lack of effort. Sometimes you make posts which i genuinely can't understand.

Anyway - in your eyes, NOTHING is live, because light will ALWAYS take time to reflect from something happening and reach your eyes, or the camera, or whatever else. Even if it's a billionth of a billionth of a second, that's still a delay. 8 microseconds, 8 minutes, is anything live? Even your senses aren't live, they take time to fire electrical impulses around your body.

This IS live. But before i got on my rant-horse, i was about to say i know 12 year old whizz kids who could manufacture a more realistic looking impact than this real impact