They're not comparable films. You might as well compare Rashomon with Kill Bill.

I enjoy Scarface more. Over the top? Of course it's over the top! It is intentional.

The bath scene where Pacino espouses his views on capitalism and pelicans (or is it flamingoes?) is hilarious. And, to be frank, I prefer the ostentatious simplicity of Scarface's immigrant violent rise to wealth and descent into decadence than the dubious values that The Godfather hints at with the nostalgia around Brando. (Coppola did seem himself as Michael, after all - he felt he was selling out by making the film. The ending, which is great, seems to affirm this.)

I still love The Godfather, I just don't feel a need to denigrate the trashier film to bolster my appreciation.

On the dubious values thing (they're criminals, extortionists and murders, but at least they have code, so it's sort of ok...).The Godfather Part II is one of my all-time favourites. It loses the sentimentality that the first one occasionally fell into.

Cast another vote for Godfather without more than a second's thought.

Have any of you seen the Scarface T-shirt with the really 'gangsta' styled $ as the first letter? Hilarious.

Schadenfreude wrote:I can't believe how trendy Scarface has become the past few years. Doesn't anyone remember that movie.......sucked?


Godfather.

I don't think the two are even comparable in terms of plot and premise really.

The first Godfather movie was ok, the other two were worse and wurst respectively. Scarface on the other hand was just a silly, over-the-top movie that...well...happened to appeal to young, underpriviledged and often undercivilized black males in the United States in the past several years and thus has made its way into the forefront of popular culture....methinks the reason that this has come to pass is that the said segment of the American population seems to think that the life that Tony Montana lives in the film is both realistic and, well, kinda cool!

I don't really enjoy either.

Scarface is retarded, and Godfather is boring. Way too much man-stink in both movies.

My wife gave me a copy of Scarface on DVD a few years ago. Why would she do that? Weird.

CRAP.

matthew wrote:The first Godfather movie was ok, the other two were worse and wurst respectively.

Have you even seen these movies?

Describing The Godfather as "ok," and The Godfather: Part II as anything less than brilliant, makes me think you couldnt possibly have.

Both are on the short list of finest feature films ever made, and Part II is one of the few sequels that can be arguably said to exceed the original. I am of this opinion.

Of course, Part III doesnt exist in my world.