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Philthy posted:No. I refuse. You can't make me. I'll make you an offer you can't refuse.
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mojo1701a posted:It's one of the reasons why I always loved his reviews, and you could miss a lot if you only went by the star rating. For instance, he also gave 3 stars to The Big Lebowski, and included it as a "great movie" about 10 years later, and Goldfinger is on that list, too. there are no flaws in one and two
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# ? Aug 24, 2019 05:03 |
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mojo1701a posted:It's one of the reasons why I always loved his reviews, and you could miss a lot if you only went by the star rating. For instance, he also gave 3 stars to The Big Lebowski, and included it as a "great movie" about 10 years later, and Goldfinger is on that list, too. Yeah it's always something when someone complains about "he gave THAT movie a higher rating than THIS movie, what an idiot!" Let's see how well that argument flies when you're complaining how your C+ Calculus exam should be graded higher than a 6th grader's A- book report. mojo1701a posted:Having said that, if you've seen the first two, you really should watch III. It's not great, but it's decent enough if you treat it as more like an appendix to a book. Are you still talking to me? 'Cause I'm way ahead of you, my mang.
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# ? Aug 24, 2019 07:05 |
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Nearly all the retrospectives on Godfather III are of the "you know if you pretend that the other two never existed and overlook that a pivotal role is played by what may as well be a random person they grabbed on her way to Taco Bell it's an interesting movie!" variety. And I suppose that's fair because "it sucks" isn't really a new perspective and the movie isn't, like, The Room bad, but man some of the contemporaneous reviews are loving deliciously savage.quote:`GODFATHER III`: AN OFFER WE CAN REFUSE quote:As a nice little film about a bunch of hoods and their involvement in some complicated conspiracy involving the Vatican, The Godfather Part III works just fine, boasting first-rate performances from its two leading men and displaying enough clever directorial touches to suggest that this Francis Ford Coppola chap is a name to look out for. As the slavishly-awaited sequel to two of the finest films of the last 30 years, however, as the third episode in what may well be the Greatest Movie Story Ever Told, The Godfather Part III is, frankly, a dreadful disappointment. The Washington Post saw fit to give it two bad reviews! quote:It's hard to tell if this thing's serious or parody and, if it is parody, whether or not it's intentional. Is it a winky joke, for instance, to have lightweight performer George Hamilton as Pacino's business attorney, or just ridiculous casting? Hamilton's performance points to the latter. quote:Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather Part III" isn't just a disappointment, it's a failure of heartbreaking proportions. quote:But in supplying the final chapter of the saga, it also sullies what came before. It makes you wish it had never been made. quote:{Coppola's} talent for filmmaking is eclipsed now by his gift for self-destruction. If that great earlier artist ever had a chance of resurfacing, it was here. But he didn't and you can't help but see "The Godfather Part III" as his headstone.
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# ? Aug 24, 2019 08:12 |
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It's shocking how much Talia Shire's performance improves from the first to the second movie.
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# ? Aug 24, 2019 09:06 |
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Jack takes place in the Godfather Cinematic Universe and if you disagree well then buddy I dont know what to tell you
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# ? Aug 24, 2019 12:56 |
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For whatever reason the very first thing that comes to mind about Godfather Part II for me is that professional dancing couple at the beginning. I guess it's because the dude is pretty old but can still cha cha with the best of them and deep down I hope that when I hit that age I'm still smooth enough to do something like that.
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# ? Aug 25, 2019 02:42 |
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You know, it didn't even occur to me that in the past month two Godfather references (and kind of specific to Godfather Part II, at that) actually made national news.NY Daily News posted:The Godfather: A political primer quote:Lesson One: Who was “Fredo” and why did CNN host Chris Cuomo howl and squeal when being compared to this fictional character from “The Godfather” saga? quote:Lesson Two: Who was Frank Pentangeli? And why is he dominating news stories about disgraced political operative Roger Stone? Dat relevance.
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# ? Aug 25, 2019 21:33 |
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In other news, the guy who played Carlo, Gianni Russo, just released his autobiography, apparently here are the highlights:quote:
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# ? Aug 25, 2019 22:23 |
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:In other news, the guy who played Carlo, Gianni Russo, just released his autobiography, apparently here are the highlights: Sounds like a crock of poo poo from someone who suffers from borderline personality disorder.
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# ? Aug 25, 2019 22:27 |
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Poasty posted:It's shocking how much Talia Shire's performance improves from the first to the second movie. She has more of a role is all I think. She's barely a character at all in the first one.
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# ? Aug 25, 2019 22:58 |
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I think the way she delivers the line "Why don't you get your WHORE to do it for you" while breaking dishes was really authentic considering how many times I've seen women do that IRL
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# ? Aug 25, 2019 23:13 |
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:I think the way she delivers the line "Why don't you get your WHORE to do it for you" while breaking dishes was really authentic considering how many times I've seen women do that IRL "Babe, for the last time, that's my mother and could you please stop calling her that?"
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# ? Aug 25, 2019 23:25 |
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Paramount wanted The Godfather to appeal to a wide audience and threatened Coppola with a "violence coach" to make the film more exciting. Coppola added a few more violent scenes to keep the studio happy. The scene in which Connie smashes crockery after finding out Carlo has been cheating was added for this reason.
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# ? Aug 26, 2019 02:00 |
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The crockery was a stray found on the studio set
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# ? Aug 26, 2019 02:08 |
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But it was authentic, i agree
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# ? Aug 26, 2019 02:20 |
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The studio also didn't like Al Pacino partly because he was too unknown, but also because he was too actually Italian looking for a leading man (swarthy and scary looking). And wanted Ryan O'Neal instead. This is Ryan O'Neal. Imagine that if you will.
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# ? Aug 26, 2019 02:45 |
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Mr Coppola, I admire your pictures very much.
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# ? Aug 26, 2019 02:52 |
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Imagine the Nevada senator from II doing his racist "oily hair" bit, except it's aimed at Dirtyblonde McPinkerson. Also imagine him being movie brothers with John Cazale lol.
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# ? Aug 26, 2019 02:58 |
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Somebody explain the tiny drinking glasses thing. It’s oddly distracting to me while watching the movies. Is it just an old school thing people used to do, or is it an Italian thing to drink out of small glasses?
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# ? Aug 26, 2019 06:48 |
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Grape posted:This is Ryan O'Neal. Ah, the best comedy ever made, and strong contender for my favourite movie.
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# ? Aug 26, 2019 07:54 |
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Grape posted:The studio also didn't like Al Pacino partly because he was too unknown, but also because he was too actually Italian looking for a leading man (swarthy and scary looking). And wanted Ryan O'Neal instead. Oh poo poo its Barry Lyndon
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# ? Aug 26, 2019 13:10 |
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Romes128 posted:Somebody explain the tiny drinking glasses thing. It’s oddly distracting to me while watching the movies. The noble Italian needs only 1/5th the water that degenerate northern races need. Any more and they would fall apart, like putting a saltwater fish in a freshwater tank.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:A better appendix would be to have Michael Corleone die on the way back to his home planet. I have been told by multiple Italians that Sicily qualifies as such. Grape posted:Imagine the Nevada senator from II doing his racist "oily hair" bit, except it's aimed at Dirtyblonde McPinkerson. Somehow I'm not sure that '70s Hollywood would have been above hair dye and a large amount of tanning spray.
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# ? Aug 26, 2019 14:47 |
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Romes128 posted:Somebody explain the tiny drinking glasses thing. It’s oddly distracting to me while watching the movies. That's just what normal drinking glasses were sized like back then. Same with coffee cups - a "cup" of coffee is supposed to be about 6 ounces. Not coincidentally, a lot fewer people were enormously fat back in the 40s
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# ? Aug 26, 2019 23:50 |
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mojo1701a posted:I have been told by multiple Italians that Sicily qualifies as such. They didn't bother with James Caan, and he was supposed to be brothers with Pacino and Cazale. Apparently they even considered Robert Redford (!).
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# ? Aug 27, 2019 04:16 |
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JK Fresco posted:Not coincidentally, a lot fewer people were enormously fat back in the 40s The somethingawful.com forums had not been invented yet
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# ? Aug 27, 2019 07:45 |
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:They didn't bother with James Caan, and he was supposed to be brothers with Pacino and Cazale. Apparently they even considered Robert Redford (!). Hey Hollywood turns the ancient Romans and Greeks into blonde blue eyed Aryans with British accents, why not for modern Italians and Greeks?
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# ? Aug 27, 2019 17:54 |
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I guy the oranges = death thing, but who on Earth taught Michael how to eat an orange? I've never ever seen anyone else eat an orange like that.
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# ? Aug 27, 2019 19:17 |
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WILDTURKEY101 posted:I guy the oranges = death thing, but who on Earth taught Michael how to eat an orange? I've never ever seen anyone else eat an orange like that. Dude eats them like an apple it's insane
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# ? Aug 27, 2019 19:29 |
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The other day I saw A Most Violent Year and I bring it up here in The Godfather thread for a couple reasons:
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# ? Aug 30, 2019 23:30 |
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Does anyone think that Marlon Brando was playing Vito to Old in The Godfather? He is supposed to be 54 at the start of the first movie but he always seems a lot older.
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# ? Sep 8, 2019 03:23 |
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SimonCat posted:Does anyone think that Marlon Brando was playing Vito to Old in The Godfather? He is supposed to be 54 at the start of the first movie but he always seems a lot older. He plays him more feebly after the shooting mostly, which is kinda plausible?
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# ? Sep 8, 2019 03:38 |
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Grape posted:He plays him more feebly after the shooting mostly, which is kinda plausible? That makes sense but it also seems like he had Sonny when he was 15 years old. Edit: James Caan was 32 when they made The Godfather. I'm just bad at guessing actors ages. SimonCat fucked around with this message at 04:02 on Sep 8, 2019 |
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SimonCat posted:That makes sense but it also seems like he had Sonny when he was 15 years old. People in old movies seem older to us partially because of fashion and hair styles and what not.
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According to this thing the first movie takes place over like 10 years so it checks out I guess. https://godfather.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline
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