Finally got around to watching this 1974 classic last night and I gotta say it was a very well done movie. The scene with the knife and the nose was pretty brutal to watch for the times. It also had one of the best lines I've heard in a good long while "Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown". The plot did get a little hard to follow at times, but that's more due to the fact that I was on this site. Overall if I can find it on sale then I will definitely buy it because it's something I'd want to watch more than once.
I love the manga but the anime has yet to really thrill me in the way that the manga has. I do like how they make Scar out to be a bit more human than the manga did which was pretty cool.