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...inspirational locker room speech in “Any Given Sunday,” Al Pacino??s character Tony D’Amato, coach of the fictional Miami Sharks, states, “The inches we need are everywhere around...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Title Hopes Dashed | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

...course, for Pacino??s Michael Corleone, the line was uttered in frustration over the Don’s inability to legitimize his mob empire and escape a life of crime. If Ho–a junior running back–were to make the same statement, it would probably carry with it a tone of joy and redemption...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AROUND THE IVIES: Ho Back To Lead Crimson Attack | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...complexity or implied action. Soon you realize that these movie legends are being paid millions to pull a simple trick on you. But at that point, your ten dollars are already spent. Immerse yourself in canned, simplistic dialogue and predictable plot twists, then marvel at De Niro and Pacino??s flabby, AARP exteriors and the hot forensic scientist babes who are inexplicably attracted to them! The problem is that “Righteous Kill” relies upon clichés instead of taking time to actually develop. The audience is deprived of smart, realistic dialogue that does...

Author: By Alec E Jones, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Righteous Kill | 9/19/2008 | See Source »

...intents and purposes, shows Lucas and his mentor dousing a man with gasoline, lighting him on fire, and then shooting him in the head three times after they watch him writhe and scream. Scenes such as these paint Lucas as far more hotheaded and ferocious than Al Pacino??s Michael Corleone; he rarely spares anyone (whether family or stranger) his physical wrath or his ultra-focused coldness. Even on his wedding night, he ignores his wife, burning an innocent gift from her that jeopardized his drug-lord identity.Nevertheless, the spurts of violence and the explicit examples of drug...

Author: By Erin A. May, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: American Gangster | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...that we’ll just be so horny to see Brad and George that we’ll want to look at them in static shots for seconds at a time. Oooh! Look, it’s Al Pacino! He is an eminent actor, right? Yeah, well, Al Pacino??s in a lot of stuff. Remember 2004’s “People I Know?” No, nobody does. Pacino does not a good movie make. At least Bernie Mac’s in this one. That guy’s hilarious...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Trailer Roundup, Round Six | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

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