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  • Carlitos Way (1993)
    Sorry boys, all the stitches in the world can't sew me together again. Lay down... lay down
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  • @OuterGalaxyLounge
    @OuterGalaxyLounge 2 місяці тому +61

    Those of us who've been singing the praises of Carlito's Way for years thank you for this.

  • @gregwodzynski941
    @gregwodzynski941 2 місяці тому +142

    Thank you to everyone who voted for this movie. My favorite Pacino role. Benny Blanco from the Bronx is a great character. Awesome reaction, glad you enjoyed this masterpiece.

    • @bigj5880
      @bigj5880 2 місяці тому +6

      It was a battle bruh, it wasn't only me but a lot of my fellow patrons suggesting this film to Dan and Sam for months, and to their credit they did put this film in polls but Carlitos way always lost but not by drastic votes it always came in second 🤦 and this final fourth poll that it was in it finally won! I even commented to them saying "I hope you don't give up on Carlitos Way it's very much worth it!" So at the end of the day I'm happy they experienced this film 🙏

    • @Astuga
      @Astuga 2 місяці тому +3

      Great movie, also one of my favorites with Pacino.
      And so nice to see Sean Penn basically playing himself.

    • @AbrahamdeLacy-xm8sb
      @AbrahamdeLacy-xm8sb 2 місяці тому +5

      Yes! Brian de Palma is awesome. This is one of his high watermarks. He's made a couple of bummers too during his career, but he's still a genius filmmaker. Can't remember who said this, perhaps it was Pauline Kael, that the mark of a great filmmaker is that even when they fail, they fail in interesting ways (*cough* Bonfire of the Vanities *cough*).
      I love the old man, he's one of the most talented to ever work in Hollywood. No one, exactly no one, can match him in the technically complex suspenseful cat and mouse chases he likes to create. It is visual ballet. His film photography is stellar virtuosity that make one start giggling with goosebumps galore.
      Cheers 🍺

    • @gregwodzynski941
      @gregwodzynski941 2 місяці тому +4

      @@AbrahamdeLacy-xm8sb he's the reason I love the original Mission Impossible

    • @drlee2
      @drlee2 2 місяці тому +4

      Yeah, Carlito Brigante is also my favorite character that Pacino played. He should have at least gotten an Oscar nomination.

  • @Cadinho93
    @Cadinho93 2 місяці тому +118

    I wish more reactors reacted to this movie because it's amazing, it tends to get overshadowed by "Scarface" and it being the more mainstream pop cultural known.
    Also, this will always be a criminally underrated movie. Al Pacino and Sean Penn are off the charts.

    • @gregwodzynski941
      @gregwodzynski941 2 місяці тому +13

      F scarface, Charlie Brigante forever

    • @BDogg2023
      @BDogg2023 2 місяці тому +6

      I used to request this movie so much a couple years ago, when reaction videos started to blow up, and everyone was watching Scarface. I gave up a long time ago, almost forgot! Lol. Stoked to see it now.

    • @tucko11
      @tucko11 Місяць тому +3

      Agreed . Same director , and you can recognize a couple of the actors from Scarface. I personally like Carlitos storyline better than Tony Montanas

    • @gregwodzynski941
      @gregwodzynski941 Місяць тому

      Adios counselor

    • @Corn_Pone_Flicks
      @Corn_Pone_Flicks Місяць тому +1

      It is NOT underrated, it's overlooked. For a film to be underrated it would have to have bad ratings. It doesn't...it's got a critics' score of 84% and an audience score of a whopping 91%. That's an incredibly high rating.

  • @gutz1981
    @gutz1981 2 місяці тому +38

    If you watch until the end of the credits, you will see Gail embrace a small child that walks up to her, implying she did indeed keep the baby and went down to the Bahamas.

  • @jp3813
    @jp3813 Місяць тому +17

    Sean Penn in this film is yet another reminder that supporting actor performances in 1993 were incredibly stacked: Tommy Lee Jones (The Fugitive); Ralph Fiennes & Ben Kingsley (Schindler's List); Val Kilmer (Tombstone); Gary Oldman, Christopher Walken, & Dennis Hopper (True Romance); John Malkovich (In the Line of Fire); Leonardo DiCaprio (What's Eating Gilbert Grape); Pete Postlethwaite (In the Name of the Father), etc...

  • @cashflowhustles
    @cashflowhustles 2 місяці тому +19

    FINALLY!!!! Somebody actually did Carlito's Way? I'm SHOCKED! 😂

  • @NimpanZ
    @NimpanZ 2 місяці тому +84

    Donnie Brasco is another one that probably scores pretty high on polls. Pacino and Depp gives some of their best performances in that one. It's a must watch.

    • @michaeljames6817
      @michaeljames6817 2 місяці тому +9

      My favorite mob movie.

    • @jpa5038
      @jpa5038 2 місяці тому +9

      Oh man they gotta watch this one. It's one of my favorite roles from Pacino.

    • @youteo3596
      @youteo3596 2 місяці тому +2

      "You lost the screwdriver in my fn stereo? It's down there you'll find it" bust up laughing everytime

    • @gustonzimasheen
      @gustonzimasheen 2 місяці тому

      Will have to add that to the Monthly Schmitthead draw

  • @indridcold3762
    @indridcold3762 2 місяці тому +66

    This is my favorite Brian De Palma movie. You can't go wrong with 90's Pacino.

    • @strawdawgs78
      @strawdawgs78 2 місяці тому

      ​@@M3g4tr0nExcept for Righteous Kill.

    • @ayearinthelifeofanxietyjoe4413
      @ayearinthelifeofanxietyjoe4413 2 місяці тому +6

      Here come da pain!!!

    • @rxtsec1
      @rxtsec1 2 місяці тому +2

      For me it's Casualties of war & then the Untouchables. But this is good too

    • @rxtsec1
      @rxtsec1 2 місяці тому +4

      I forgot Scarface also

    • @drlee2
      @drlee2 2 місяці тому +3

      Carlito's Way might actually be DePalma's best film. It's definitely in my top 3 favorite DePalma movies along with Mission Impossible and The Untouchables. Also, honorable mention to Blow Out.

  • @nickthepeasant
    @nickthepeasant 2 місяці тому +16

    'You think you're big time? You're gonna f***ing die big time! Here comes the pain!'
    Srill my favourite line for some reason.

  • @confucius12012
    @confucius12012 2 місяці тому +44

    Wow, I think this is the first time seeing people react to this movie. Crazy. Was my favorite movie at one time. BTW, Sean Penn's performance is off the charts.

    • @drlee2
      @drlee2 2 місяці тому +1

      Same here, I've been waiting a long time for someone to finally react to this film. Yeah, Penn should have gotten a Best Supporting Actor nomination. Personally, it's my favorite supporting performance of 1993 and I know that was a very competitive year in film.

    • @tucko11
      @tucko11 Місяць тому +1

      “Casualties of war”he was sick with it . Michael J Fox too . Same director

  • @CharlesDunkley
    @CharlesDunkley 2 місяці тому +48

    "Here comes the pain!", what Carlito says in the bathroom early in the film when his gun is empty, is a line of dialogue DePalma reuses later in his 1998 film SNAKE EYES.

    • @VonPunk
      @VonPunk 2 місяці тому +4

      Also sampled in the Slipknot song '(sic)'. 😁

    • @BigBoss-zi5ss
      @BigBoss-zi5ss Місяць тому +3

      Also sampled/impersonated on the track Brooklyn's finest by Biggie and Jay-Z

    • @BigBoss-zi5ss
      @BigBoss-zi5ss Місяць тому +2

      Btw @ 19:10 an unknown Big Pus from Sopranos makes a brief appearance ( guy with a mustache)

    • @Corn_Pone_Flicks
      @Corn_Pone_Flicks Місяць тому +2

      The two films had the same screenwriter, so that's part of it, but De Palma loves to quote his own older films, sometimes literally, sometimes with reused shots and the like.

    • @charlesderosas5577
      @charlesderosas5577 27 днів тому

      ​@@BigBoss-zi5ss Exactly

  • @MichaelBalchaitis
    @MichaelBalchaitis 2 місяці тому +64

    The guy that whacked the lawyer is Tony Soprano's father in the flashback scenes.

    • @Michael15_25
      @Michael15_25 2 місяці тому

      19:10 also, there’s Big Pussy!

    • @juangreyson3660
      @juangreyson3660 2 місяці тому +12

      he never had the makings of a varsity athlete!

    • @Protoman85
      @Protoman85 2 місяці тому +9

      He was a saint

    • @mondegreen9709
      @mondegreen9709 2 місяці тому +2

      Nonstop! Don't you get sick of yourself?

    • @VonPunk
      @VonPunk 2 місяці тому +1

      And his associate Manzanero was Tony Soprano's stunt double. ☺

  • @JordanCesaroni93
    @JordanCesaroni93 2 місяці тому +42

    De Palma making a movie about a gangster involving Pacino would normally be the headline act, but Pean is the one who steals the show here.

    • @JordanCesaroni93
      @JordanCesaroni93 2 місяці тому +8

      *Penn

    • @xbulelo
      @xbulelo Місяць тому +1

      @@JordanCesaroni93 This is how weird my brain is. Pean made me think of ‘Bean.’ I then imagined Mr. Bean, played by Rowan Atkinson, as the lawyer in Carlito’s Way (& chuckled at how ridiculous that is).

    • @nrgmanifest
      @nrgmanifest Місяць тому +1

      I actually disagree. I didn't like his acting at all in this movie...hated the character but that's writing... Imo Pacino did waaaaay better

    • @user-be7tc2bd6e
      @user-be7tc2bd6e Місяць тому +1

      AGREED. Penn is-AWESOME-in this film,one of his best roles too.

  • @Whitebrowpriest
    @Whitebrowpriest 2 місяці тому +6

    4:00 - This lady here, she's actress Sandra Santiago, who played Detective Gina Calabrese on the hit 80s cop show, "Miami Vice", alongside Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Olivia Brown, and Edward James Olmos. She also had a key role in the cult classic breakdancing and Hip-Hop film, "Beat Street" (1984).

  • @orlandoruizjr3834
    @orlandoruizjr3834 2 місяці тому +21

    I saw this in a theater with my dad and older sister. I was only ten. Absolutely loved this then, and it's my favorite Pacino flick to this day.

  • @chrismais
    @chrismais 2 місяці тому +46

    Glen Garry Glenn Ross. Four words. That movie with him in it. GOLD. And I am not forgetting the others IN THAT FILM. Ed Harris, Alec Baldwin, Kevin Spacey, Alan Arkin, and Jack Lemmon...

    • @zmani4379
      @zmani4379 2 місяці тому +4

      Great film

    • @charliegrifo9668
      @charliegrifo9668 2 місяці тому +6

      Glengarry is one word

    • @isaaccrist8642
      @isaaccrist8642 2 місяці тому +6

      Where did ya learn ur trade!? Whoever told you ya could work with men!?

    • @TimMcKnight
      @TimMcKnight 2 місяці тому +7

      Amazing movie. Jack Lemmon was amazing in that flic 👌🏾

    • @stefanconradsson
      @stefanconradsson 2 місяці тому +1

      Agreed, that is a great film. Jack Lemmon is off the charts good in it. He's got a stressed out nervous energy … a phenomenal actor.
      Cheers 🍺

  • @carlossaraiva8213
    @carlossaraiva8213 2 місяці тому +11

    You guys need to do a Brian De Palma marathon. His career is made of some amazing movies. He is a one of a kind director.

  • @tylerkeenan4390
    @tylerkeenan4390 2 місяці тому +16

    That poll at the beginning had some seriously great movies. Dog day afternoon, the French connection, and lock stock and two smoking barrels are masterpieces.

    • @Mr.Goodkat
      @Mr.Goodkat 2 місяці тому

      French connection is so boring, nothing happens in it until the very end and all the posters and dvd covers spoil the end.

    • @tylerkeenan4390
      @tylerkeenan4390 2 місяці тому +1

      @@Mr.Goodkat I thought it was boring the first time I watched it too, but I saw it again recently and it was way better than I remembered. I don’t have the dvd so I don’t have anything to say about that. Sorry the movie was spoiled for you.

    • @Mr.Goodkat
      @Mr.Goodkat 2 місяці тому

      @@tylerkeenan4390 It's over all the posters so you don't have to see the dvd cover to get it spoiled, that being said not sure I even did get it spoiled, I never felt like I did.

  • @CarolinaCharles777
    @CarolinaCharles777 2 місяці тому +20

    Great reaction, guys! You've done De Palma's 3 "gangster" films, as well as Carrie. He's got a whole bunch more suspense thrillers: Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, Body Double, Raising Cain, Snake Eyes. Plus a great, but disturbing Vietnam War film Casualties of War.

    • @marcus_ohreallyus
      @marcus_ohreallyus 2 місяці тому +3

      Body Double is amazing

    • @stefanconradsson
      @stefanconradsson 2 місяці тому +4

      @@marcus_ohreallyus Body Double and Blow Out are both astonishing, clever, beautiful and engaging films. De Palma is one of the best filmmakers of all time. If you compare him to his close friend Steven Spielberg, de Palma has made more bummers, and less money than him. Spielberg is a more emotional filmmaker, and he never makes bummers. He's technically proficient to the nth degree, but lacks the creative eye that de Palma has. Visually, de Palma has no current equal (Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick and Orson Welles also had that flair). Blow Out and Body Double are two examples of this.
      Cheers 🍺

  • @jjdiaz5304
    @jjdiaz5304 2 місяці тому +32

    Next recommended movies: Serpico, Body Double, Blow Out and Dressed to Kill.

    • @philipdavidson8420
      @philipdavidson8420 2 місяці тому

      I see Blow Out is still available on UA-cam - - love it when I can see a really good "oldie" for free 😊

    • @Divamarja_CA
      @Divamarja_CA Місяць тому +1

      I’d add Sea of Love to the mix!

    • @philipdavidson8420
      @philipdavidson8420 Місяць тому

      @@Divamarja_CA Good suggestion - - Ellen Barkin young and hot :)

  • @panicoestatico9260
    @panicoestatico9260 2 місяці тому +7

    That lawyer was the worst friend ever.

  • @2GunRock
    @2GunRock 2 місяці тому +5

    Just for the record, this movie was taken from a book with a different name (After Hours), but it was written by a Judge (Edwin Torres) who grew up in Spanish Harlem during this era (70's) and a lot of it is taken from a true story, only the names had been changed so they couldn't be libel for lawsuits. IMO this is Al Pacino's most underrated movie and one of the most underrated gangster films too.

  • @paulymar5996
    @paulymar5996 2 місяці тому +16

    One of the two women Carlito and Kleinfeld are with at the bar, in the very beginning of the movie is Tony Soprano's neighbor, Jeannie Cusamano.

    • @gutz1981
      @gutz1981 2 місяці тому +7

      "Well we're doing it dogie style...."

    • @noskoolikeoldskool
      @noskoolikeoldskool 2 місяці тому +1

      Tall one or short one???

    • @paulymar5996
      @paulymar5996 2 місяці тому +2

      The one in the leopard print outfit.

    • @noskoolikeoldskool
      @noskoolikeoldskool Місяць тому +3

      @@paulymar5996 Saundra Santiago, got her early start in Miami Vice.

  • @monsterkhan3414
    @monsterkhan3414 2 місяці тому +6

    One of the most suspenseful chase scenes ever! Great movie! Great reaction!

  • @ljay79
    @ljay79 2 місяці тому +46

    That ending...that damn ending. Every f****** time man. This is one of Al's best performances. It's a better film than Scarface and I will die on that hill.

    • @jjkcharlie
      @jjkcharlie 2 місяці тому +6

      I agree.

    • @nathanblack7772
      @nathanblack7772 2 місяці тому +6

      Love both but yea this one better imo

    • @xbulelo
      @xbulelo 2 місяці тому +8

      Me too. I used to think that I didn’t like Scarface but now I realise me not liking it means that it did its job. Tony Montana is repulsive. I prefer Carlito’s Way because I think it is shot better, structured in a way that maintains suspense & you root for the main character.
      Also, the lawyer from GTA Vice City was based on the lawyer from this movie.

    • @Henry-fn1zw
      @Henry-fn1zw 2 місяці тому +2

      blow out is better too

    • @cashflowhustles
      @cashflowhustles 2 місяці тому +4

      I concur. As great as Scarface is this is a superior film.

  • @krono5el
    @krono5el 2 місяці тому +10

    So many techno and house music mix tapes in the mid 90s had that sound bite of "you're gonna die big time, here comes the pain!" such fun times : D

    • @cashflowhustles
      @cashflowhustles 2 місяці тому +2

      Don't forget about Jay-Z on The Reasonable Doubt album. That's where I heard that same line. 😊

  • @guitarman8462
    @guitarman8462 2 місяці тому +13

    Try " Dog Day Afternoon " with Al Pacino

  • @russellhall1195
    @russellhall1195 2 місяці тому +5

    Right up the beach from Gale & Carlito's kid are Clarence & Alabama from True Romance with their kid named after Elvis.😊

  • @johnsteward9137
    @johnsteward9137 2 місяці тому +16

    This is my favorite Al Pacino movie! The performances are great, De Palma really knows how to hold the suspense and make you want Carlito to escape in the end! A quick note, this is based on a pair of Novels. While this movie is titled "Carlito's Way", the movie is actually based primarily on the sequel book "After Hours (1979)" as the original novel is titled "Carlito's Way (1975)" and is based on Carlito's rise and fall for what he was in prison for in the beginning of the movie. The Sequel movie "Carlito's Way: Rise to Power" is based on the original novel, but is nowhere near as good as this movie! Some day, I do have to read both the books!

  • @CineRam
    @CineRam 2 місяці тому +4

    Sean Penn had previously appeared in Brian De Palma's Vietnam war movie "Casualties of War". He has one of my favorite lines in that one, sort of a revision of a famous quote. Whenever I come across the original quote, I can't help but remember the way Penn said it.
    I saw "Carlito's Way" twice in the theater...I can't believe it's been 30 years since then already! I love De Palma's widescreen camerawork. I feel like every possible shot you could come up with for widescreen is in this movie. I'm also a big fan of the score by Patrick Doyle. Doyle also did the music for "Donnie Brasco" (Pacino again) and "Rise of the Planet of the Apes".

  • @Whitebrowpriest
    @Whitebrowpriest 2 місяці тому +2

    7:08 - This is the scene where they got the shot for the main movie cover art, btw. :)

  • @davidfausel9029
    @davidfausel9029 2 місяці тому +6

    Always loved this movie. My best friend from high school, when he was trying to get into acting, was actually an extra on the subway for that subway scene. Looking at your patereon poll list, I saw RONIN in there. You guys HAVE to do Ronin 🙂.

  • @drlee2
    @drlee2 2 місяці тому +14

    I’ve been waiting for someone to finally react to this masterpiece! lol Pacino and Penn deliver two of their best film performances. In my top 10 movies of the 90s. Also, this might actually be Brian DePalma’s best film.

    • @Corn_Pone_Flicks
      @Corn_Pone_Flicks Місяць тому +1

      He thinks it is, from his own words.

    • @drlee2
      @drlee2 Місяць тому

      @@Corn_Pone_Flicks This feels like a movie that should have been nominated for a ton of Oscars, but a few things worked against it with '93 being an extremely competitive year and also Pacino had just won Best Actor the year before for Scent of a Woman. I remember that both Sean Penn and Penelope Ann Miller actually got Golden Globe nods, for whatever that's worth.

  • @yournamehere6002
    @yournamehere6002 2 місяці тому +4

    Screenplay by David Koepp, who also wrote SPIDERMAN, JURASSIC PARK and PANIC ROOM

  • @talesfromthehoodtv503
    @talesfromthehoodtv503 2 місяці тому +3

    I saw this in theaters when i was 9 with my dad, being Hispanic and living in new York at the time this film was a big deal when it came out,love seeing the story of a man trying to escape the life,great film,alot of great quote's

  • @sabalos
    @sabalos 2 місяці тому +3

    Brian De Palma is the master of the set piece, and the entire last 40 minutes of this is like one big extended set piece, it's just awesome.
    Do Blow Out (1981)! Brian De Palma directing John Travolta in an investigative paranoid thriller! Sam at least would love it

  • @anrun
    @anrun 2 місяці тому +7

    A great film. I think De Palma did his best to try to get people to forget that Carlito gets shot and was hoping people would forget it until the final reveal or at least until the shot of Benny running alongside Carlito to the train door. It is a testament to the film's quality that even if you remember throughout the film what will happen to Carlito at some point, as the Schmitts did, the film still works. I also think Benny running alongside Carlito to the train door was a master stroke; you can't outrun your mistakes, your past or your fate.

    • @davidking498
      @davidking498 2 місяці тому +2

      Still such a poor decision of how to open this film. What was he thinking?
      I have probably shown a Baker's dozen people this film and I always start it with carlitos monolog in the courtroom and every viewer has set an afterwards they thanked me for the change and are dumbfounded at the original opening

    • @anrun
      @anrun 2 місяці тому +2

      @@davidking498 I think it was a great decision. The story of Carlito's Way (a gangster wanting to change his ways) is a cliche; one that has been told many times before. If Benny were to pop out of nowhere at the end (without or even with his running alongside left in) it would feel cheap and cliched. De Palma's telling us at the start what will happen helped raise this film above that and made it into something more elemental or myth-like. You and your friends are entitled to your opinions but, obviously, this movie has attained a high status now with that opening.

  • @MrDeadstu
    @MrDeadstu 2 місяці тому +7

    A under-rated GEM. In a twisted way this is a horror movie.
    Pacino is always perfect, Penn is super-aggravating, and a great supporting cast. It feels like proto-The Sopranos somehow.
    I would suggest either HEAT or Donnie Brasco for other great Pacino films.

    • @Corn_Pone_Flicks
      @Corn_Pone_Flicks Місяць тому

      It's rated incredibly highly. It's just less well-known.

  • @user-iq4yf6jh7x
    @user-iq4yf6jh7x 2 місяці тому +4

    What a treat to see you Two React to this Classic.
    Not many people are.

  • @anrun
    @anrun 2 місяці тому +4

    Regarding Benny at the end, if you listen closely, you can hear the footsteps of his running away.

  • @Tr0nzoid
    @Tr0nzoid 2 місяці тому +3

    "Carlito's Way" was Pacino's first movie after winning the Oscar for "Scent of a Woman" and the marketing emphasized Pacino's career as a legend. The trailer opened with a few quotes from his notable movies before revealing Pacino's face. It was definitely his and Brian De Palma's return to "Scarface" territory. Critics and audiences weren't too kind but I was really a fan of the 1975 setting and soundtrack at the time.

  • @luvaboy772
    @luvaboy772 2 місяці тому +4

    There's a prequel to this, 'Carlito's Way: Rise To Power' with Jay Hernandez playing young Carlito. And P. Diddy plays a gangster in it. 🤷🏿‍♂️😂🤣

    • @bluemagic80
      @bluemagic80 2 місяці тому +3

      The prequel was so bad

    • @user-yn1sf9mq3z
      @user-yn1sf9mq3z 2 місяці тому +1

      @@bluemagic80 yeah, it was disappointing

    • @luvaboy772
      @luvaboy772 2 місяці тому +1

      @bluemagic80 I've never seen it before. But if P. Diddy is in it, then it probably is. lol

    • @babygeneral1985
      @babygeneral1985 Місяць тому

      I liked it

  • @lukeharbolt7681
    @lukeharbolt7681 2 місяці тому +6

    I miss you guys. Hell yeah. That one face that didn't change. "Here comes the pain!"

  • @romeroflores7576
    @romeroflores7576 2 місяці тому +10

    CARLITO's WAY 🩸YES!!! Finally!!! 😀

  • @zmani4379
    @zmani4379 2 місяці тому +9

    Nice reaction - this film makes me wonder how far we insist on flirting w our own mortality - Carlito has this voice in his head that keeps talking him into some form of self-sabotage, and DePalma teases us thruout w this awareness - in classic myth, the hero gets a way out, as long as he doesn't look back, and he always fails that test - my favorite part is Sean Penn - he had a run of great roles: Casualties of War; Carlito's Way; Dead Man Walking; Sweet and Lowdown - all totally different, and he does each so brilliantly you can't imagine anyone else doing it - during that time IMO Penn was the best American actor, tho there was a lot of competition
    - re DePalma, he plays these Hitchcock mind-games w the audience, toying w our expectations - for me, Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, and Casualties of War are his vintage films - this strikes me as one of his less personal vehicles, just expert genre films w an eye to the mechanics - but something resonates about how Carlito keeps shooting himself in the foot, over and over

    • @user-yn1sf9mq3z
      @user-yn1sf9mq3z 2 місяці тому +1

      sean penn is one of my favorite actors, but he turned into a fucking whack job. my favorite movie of his is bad boys (1983).

    • @zmani4379
      @zmani4379 2 місяці тому

      @@user-yn1sf9mq3zBad Boys was a strong role for him

  • @chrisf_yt
    @chrisf_yt 2 місяці тому +9

    Cool suprise! Great underrated classic, just like Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead (Andy Garcia, Christopher Walken, Christopher Lloyd, Steve Buscemi, they're actually very similar movies). Sean Penn in particular is amazing in this. Looking forward to the video!

  • @chadwickvon8019
    @chadwickvon8019 2 місяці тому +12

    This is such a great movie. Hope y'all liked it too.

  • @gregorygant4242
    @gregorygant4242 2 місяці тому +3

    One of Pacino's best performances IMHO after Scarface .
    The end scene gets me every time ,beautiful scene !

  • @Whitebrowpriest
    @Whitebrowpriest 2 місяці тому +3

    Another great Pacino crime film is #title "Donnie Brasco" (1997). Brilliant performance by Pacino. And it is an all-star studded cast: Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen, Anne Heche, James Russo, Bruno Kirby, and Terry Serpico.

  • @danrumble74
    @danrumble74 2 місяці тому +5

    I DO NOT like gangster movies as a genre, but i love this one 🙂👍

  • @slowerthinker
    @slowerthinker 2 місяці тому +12

    Woooo, the inspiration for Ken Rosenberg - my favourite GTA NPC!

    • @xbulelo
      @xbulelo 2 місяці тому +3

      Hahaha, yes! I LOVED Vice City & him as a character. The soundtrack is unreal. I still listen to some music from that like “Act Like You Know” by Fat Parry’s Band. Absolute banger. In fact, in my city, a local bar had a one-off karaoke night where people would sing songs from the soundtrack but they were supported by an actual band behind them. Rockstar should remake that game for current generation consoles / computers.

    • @MrChatsarecool
      @MrChatsarecool 2 місяці тому +3

      Fever 105, what a radio station!@@xbulelo

    • @xbulelo
      @xbulelo 2 місяці тому +2

      @@MrChatsarecool Yes! Legendary station!

    • @SoaringTrumpet
      @SoaringTrumpet Місяць тому +2

      I was looking for the Vice City shoutouts! Ken was a such a good character, and so obviously based on Sean Penn's role in this film.
      I love it when art inspires art. If it works, imitate it!

  • @AbeVicious
    @AbeVicious 2 місяці тому +3

    This movie is the epitome of the "just when i thought i was out, they pull me back in" line from The Godfather 3

    • @loluk867
      @loluk867 2 місяці тому

      And an infinitely better film that TGF3.

  • @AmIDeadYet
    @AmIDeadYet 2 місяці тому +6

    Funny enough you mentioned Tony Soprano, the guy who killed Sean Penn, was Tonys dad Johnny in The Sopranos.

    • @zmani4379
      @zmani4379 2 місяці тому +4

      "Johnny Boy" - named after DeNiro's famous breakout role in Mean Streets

    • @ghostofyourmom
      @ghostofyourmom 2 місяці тому +2

      ​@@zmani4379 Have they watched Mean Streets? I'd love to see their reaction.

    • @zmani4379
      @zmani4379 2 місяці тому

      @@ghostofyourmomI don't think they've watched that one yet

  • @tomfrankiewicz4030
    @tomfrankiewicz4030 2 місяці тому +3

    I saw this movie in the theater a couple of times when it came out. Great movie. Great performances. And Justice For All is another great Pacino movie

  • @72isb
    @72isb 2 місяці тому +2

    When i watched this in 94 i was also blown away by Sean Penn did not know it was him till credits at the end a great movie great acting by Penn , Pacino and Leguizamo as Benny Blanco loved this movie great reaction to a great movie.

  • @jas137
    @jas137 2 місяці тому +6

    It's interesting that it seems that everything is out of control and the people around him are all out of control, but, actually, what finally got him was something 100% his own fault and own making. Can't really blame all the other factors in the end- in this story, it was the one thing that was totally his own fault that brought him down.

  • @theusernameistheuser
    @theusernameistheuser 2 місяці тому +6

    Now you gotta do, State of Grace.
    Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, and Ed Harris. Irish gangsters in Hell's Kitchen.

  • @chongsfury4358
    @chongsfury4358 2 місяці тому +3

    Y'all should give "Fatal Attraction" 1987 with Michael Douglas and Glenn Close a watch down the road

  • @russellhall1195
    @russellhall1195 2 місяці тому +3

    A film with a similar feel to this that has Sean Penn in the starring role is "State of Grace" about the Irish mob, the cast is amazing and Gary Oldman steals the show as an Irish/American young punk thug gangster. With a watch.

  • @jeffgray7922
    @jeffgray7922 Місяць тому

    "Adios, counsellor." Probably my favorite Al Pacino movie.

  • @Bronxnative74
    @Bronxnative74 2 місяці тому +6

    This is my favorite gangster movie I've been waiting for you guys to react to it.

  • @kontrolbug392
    @kontrolbug392 2 місяці тому +9

    Since we're talking De Palma you guys should definitely watch Blow Out one of these days.

    • @Corn_Pone_Flicks
      @Corn_Pone_Flicks Місяць тому +2

      I'll second that. I think it's tied with this one for his best.

  • @jacob33filmguy73
    @jacob33filmguy73 2 місяці тому +3

    This is my second favorite Al Pacino film of 1993 behind his 1993 Oscar winning role in Scent Of A Woman another great Al Pacino film is 1989 Sea Of Love with John Goodman great reaction guys keep up the great work

  • @EddieHenderson92
    @EddieHenderson92 2 місяці тому +9

    Great movie that gets overlooked at times for whatever reason, Pacino was awesome here, you're really wanting this guy to get away from the bad s@@t with his woman and the ending is tragic but it's a great message that it's pretty tough to get yourself out of that crime life. Sean Penn is also great here.

  • @ftrevino4493
    @ftrevino4493 2 місяці тому +2

    Benny Blanco from the Bronx. I say that to my wife all the time.😆

  • @loluk867
    @loluk867 2 місяці тому

    One of my favourite films growing up! Haven't seen it in years. Gonna watch it tonight because of this reaction! Thanks for bringing back so many good memories.

  • @peteyn.y.7960
    @peteyn.y.7960 Місяць тому +4

    - “DONNIE BRASCO” - (1997) 😎

  • @bighuge1060
    @bighuge1060 2 місяці тому +1

    This movie has a tremendous score by Patrick Doyle. The end chase is especially unique and energetic.

  • @SamM_Scot
    @SamM_Scot Місяць тому

    The vast amount of movies for adult audiences from Hollywood during the 90s was insane compared to today. Not only that, but also many considered now all-time cinema masterpieces :-)

  • @nathanblack7772
    @nathanblack7772 2 місяці тому +4

    Great reaction as always!! Love this movie, Pacino at his best its so great 🫶🫶

  • @joeyrogers7017
    @joeyrogers7017 2 місяці тому +7

    HERE COME THE PAIN! I love this movie and it still gets me in the end. I think Sean Penn gives Al a run for his money.

    • @nrgmanifest
      @nrgmanifest Місяць тому

      Penn's performance is overrated imo...thought Pacino ran circles around him

    • @joeyrogers7017
      @joeyrogers7017 Місяць тому

      To each their own.

  • @hulkhatepunybanner
    @hulkhatepunybanner 2 місяці тому +6

    *The message of this film is that crime doesn't pay.*

  • @momalwayssaiddontplayballi3973
    @momalwayssaiddontplayballi3973 2 місяці тому +6

    omg love you guys love this movie i saw it in the Theaters thank you for this . TBR might be the first to react to this movie

  • @Whitebrowpriest
    @Whitebrowpriest 2 місяці тому +2

    20:35 - Just some perspective.., 100 yards is the length of a football field. That's a long ways to have to swim in cold water at night.

  • @jjmalaprop9968
    @jjmalaprop9968 2 місяці тому +4

    I’ve always felt this movie gets overlooked among the great crime films of cinema. DePalma, Pacino, Penn and a slew of great character actors. Love it!

  • @terryhughes7349
    @terryhughes7349 2 місяці тому +6

    the gangster scene at the club is the best. typical DePalma

  • @luvaboy772
    @luvaboy772 2 місяці тому +5

    'Carlito's Way' might low-key be better than 'Scarface'. After this you two gotta see 'Donnie Brasco' With Johnny Depp and Al Pacino. Al Pacino pretty much plays a Tony Montana who never made it big in the criminal world. That movie is dope.

    • @Corn_Pone_Flicks
      @Corn_Pone_Flicks Місяць тому

      What is "low-key" better? Does that mean it's not really better, or that it is but only barely?

    • @luvaboy772
      @luvaboy772 Місяць тому

      @Corn_Pone_Flicks I said that because 'Scarface' is such a beloved film. And 'Carlito's Way' doesn't get the recognition it deserves, I didn't achieve the audience 'Scarface' did.

  • @Whitebrowpriest
    @Whitebrowpriest 2 місяці тому +4

    16:37 - First rule of leaving your old criminal life behind, is leaving the people you rolled with behind. They are like crabs in a barrel who don't care about you wanting to turn your life around, they will keep dragging you back into the dirty barrel, over and over, and over; especially if you let them. You really gotta excommunicate yourself from those folks who use to roll with you when you did dirt; I've seen this happen all too many times to far too many people. You don't owe any of those people anything. All they did was add to your criminality and grief.

  • @chrismais
    @chrismais 2 місяці тому +11

    Gayle was pregnant and had their child, a son without him in Miami..he wouldn't make it but it was a fresh start for her and a new life for a son a part of him he would never know. Which was the sequence we saw of her silhouette dancing with a child. Carlito is one of nicer characters Pacino plays with a honor code similar to Ned Stark from Game of Thrones around villains where a code means nothing. His honor was his Achilles Heel.
    Carlito is the polar opposite of Scarface.

  • @danrumble74
    @danrumble74 2 місяці тому +3

    You guys never knew Sean Penn played Mort Goldstein in this? 😄

  • @steve2070
    @steve2070 2 місяці тому +10

    dude one of my favorite movies watched by my favorite reactors instant click

  • @Kaitschi
    @Kaitschi 2 місяці тому +3

    One of many dePalma-Masterpieces.

  • @jinchoung
    @jinchoung 2 місяці тому +2

    hey nice! one of my favorite movies. and yes, the mrs. is right! that IS gale dancing on the beach with her child. watch closely and you can totally tell that's gale. the twist there is that that was the image on the poster but we don't realize that's what it is until it comes to life at the end.
    oh and in case, you didn't imdb it, that is indeed tony soprano. this is when he really started to make inroads in his acting career both here and in true romance and terminal velocity.
    yeah and you're completely right that the movie is structured like a tragedy. basically a train wreck that you know is going to happen, you're powerless to stop, AND you can't look away. carlito's personal code made the tragedy inevitable... blanco seems like an exception but even there, it's his personal code of human mercy that prevented him from doing what was prudent and killing off a dangerous enemy.
    really great movie and depalma at his absolute peak. he also did an amazing job with mission impossible... but after that, it's all downhill from there. but he had an amazing run.

  • @mitchyd6086
    @mitchyd6086 2 місяці тому +3

    We need more De Palma reactions!!!

  • @stsolomon618
    @stsolomon618 2 місяці тому +8

    This is an underatted film. Another great Brian De Palma films I recommend is Blow out and Dressed to kill.

  • @jamalbryant8099
    @jamalbryant8099 2 місяці тому +4

    Brian de palma is a best director ( he did CARRIE, SCARFACE, UNTOUCHABLES)

  • @Mickey-1994
    @Mickey-1994 2 місяці тому +13

    One of Pacino's best movies and Brian De Palma directed some great movies in his prime. Raising Cain is a very cool movie from the early 90's directed by De Palma.

    • @xbulelo
      @xbulelo 2 місяці тому +4

      I wanna see Blow Out by De Palma … it looks very tense. I think it was an ‘80s one though.

    • @Mickey-1994
      @Mickey-1994 2 місяці тому +3

      @@xbulelo Great movie and met be Travolta's best performance.

    • @xbulelo
      @xbulelo 2 місяці тому +3

      @@Mickey-1994 class! I am watching this as soon as I can!

  • @marcuscato9083
    @marcuscato9083 2 місяці тому +5

    I look forward to the Taking of Pelham 123 at some point.

  • @BattleMatt
    @BattleMatt 2 місяці тому

    This is one of those films you can go back to time after time and it always feels fresh. Another great crime movie, American Gangster.

  • @VonPunk
    @VonPunk 2 місяці тому

    One of my fave movies, once I'd finally convinced a drinking buddy to watch it, every time we went out drinking after that, once we were drunk and one of us suggested moving elsewhere, the other would turn and say "Nah, you stay here" and fake shoot the other. Drunk movie nerds to the end.
    Thanks for doing the reaction to a movie that gets over looked way too much, I loved it. 😀❤

  • @CarolinaCharles777
    @CarolinaCharles777 2 місяці тому

    I can't believe I never realized...Carlito visiting Kleinfeld at the hospital is VERY similar to the mistake De Niro makes in HEAT!
    BTW, I hope y'all stuck around to see the little child join Gail dancing on the beach during the credits. Poignant moment.

  • @barn_ninny
    @barn_ninny Місяць тому

    The thing about Carlito is things didn't keep pulling him in. Who he was kept pulling him in. That was his way. That was Carlito's way. He couldn't escape himself.

  • @sdkelmaruecan2907
    @sdkelmaruecan2907 2 місяці тому

    You recently watched "A Bronx Tale" and this one was released the same year, it's kind of cool that the two legendary gangster actors Pacino and De Niro played the same year roles that subverted their usual gangster archetypes, Pacino as an ex-criminal trying to start a new life and De Niro as a worker teaching his son that gangsters aren't that tough.

  • @grendelz
    @grendelz 2 місяці тому +7

    This is my all-time favorite Pacino movie. So good.

  • @claudios5007
    @claudios5007 Місяць тому

    There is a cool story about the actor playing character "Sasso" aka Ron in this movie and Al Pacino. The character was played by the argentine actor-comedian Jorge Porcel who did not know any English, so he was actually just "mimicking" the phonetics of his lines of dialogue. Al Pacino found out more about Porcel's acting career in Argentina and he was really impressed. So he pushed De Palma and the screenwriter for another scenes where Porcel could drop a little monologue in Spanish to shine up next to Al Pacino. And he did.

  • @jacklemonfizz6898
    @jacklemonfizz6898 Місяць тому

    I don't think it was only him fantasy in the end, because in scene u see Gail dancing for a long time, but after a while the baby also appears... in my opinion that's how it ends, with her looking for her happiness on another island with son.
    Carlito's message that you say, a new better Carlito will be born, this makes you thinking about a transitory phase, a hope for the future even if things didn't go your way.

  • @kidd72bc
    @kidd72bc 2 місяці тому +1

    my favorite Sean Penn performance

  • @jenspfennig9226
    @jenspfennig9226 2 місяці тому +1

    My favorite Al Pacino character and thank you for your reaction to this masterpiece.

  • @Tigermania
    @Tigermania 2 місяці тому +2

    Carlitos way and Scarface along with MANY GTA missions which took a whole lot of inspiration from these movies mean my memory of all of these is mixed to hell :)

  • @Planet_Robot
    @Planet_Robot 2 місяці тому

    This is such an underrated movie. So tense, so enthralling. I think you guys are one of the first ones to react to it! John Leguizamo and Sean Penn steal the whole film :)