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Jose Oquendo posted:Brando was totally slumming it in Superman but still loving killed it. That's how good he is. I will never get over finding out he read his lines off of the baby's diaper. AstroWhale posted:A shame that the Fredo fucks a lot in Vegas sideplot from the book is not in the movie. They briefly mention it in the movie, as I recall, when Michael moves in on casino territory. John Cazale's delivery of "I'm gonna be in the casino business!" will never not be great. The parallels between him and Buster Bluth are fantastic. Grape posted:He's just overthinking it. I mean, it was pretty natural for Michael to turn like that, given he was a soldier during wartime. Except instead of doing things because his country asked, he did them because his family asked. Unfortunately, peace is harder to achieve in the mob world without being the one on top, so he had to keep going. Kay's a textbook mangia-cake.
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ProperCoochie posted:Part III isn't awful, it's just not good. I like when Michael tells his kids about his first wife, and I like Michael's ending scene. Yeah, I finally watched it earlier this year. Like you said, it's not awful, and there are a lot of good moments and ideas, but the few bad things like Sofia Coppola's acting really do drag it down. It's just one of those movies where another rewrite or two to tighten things up and edit out the dumb parts would've made it great. Those scenes you mentioned really are good, as is the theme of Michael coming to terms with his own mortality, and giving up his last few chances for peace with his family. Michael Corleone dies alone, unceremoniously, with no one left to mourn him.
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FuhrerHat posted:this is the best scene in the movie It really, really is.
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Grape posted:I remember as a little kid staring at the cannolis at the pizza place down the street and wondering what they were. Always wondering. They had them behind a glass display up front. The local supermarket subsidiary's bakery section advertises a giant cannoli stuffed with regular cannoli. I'm almost tempted to host a Godfather night where friends sit and devour this thing while watching the movie.  Almost. Jose Oquendo posted:He did 4 films in a row that are classics, like, literally perfect movies in every way, and then he nose dived off a cliff. It wasn't a gradual decline, just a straight drop off. I watched a Siskel & Ebert review of Jack, and Gene Siskel implied it was because he's been spending more time on his vineyard instead. "He bought some acreage, we got stuck with the pictures."
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JK Fresco posted:Cannoli is plural. One of them is a cannolo Perfectly acceptable new world Italian to add an 's' to pluralize something. "Grill up some paninis," "order some biscottis with your expresso," and so on.
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DB Pooper posted:Have lasagna in the fridge, but would rather eat leftover Chinese food while watching Godfather part 3 The true American dream 
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:BTW Ebert ended up including Godfather Part II in his retrospective "Great Movies" series of reviews which all automatically get 4 stars while simultaneously insisting he hasn't really changed his mind about it - his justification is (in not so many words) that the movie is the second half of a single great piece of work known as The Godfather. 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. He always did say that he judged a movie based on how well it did what it was trying to do, and I think in that vein, even a very flawed movie can succeed. That, to me, is what separates the first two from Part III: the first two are great at what they do, so we forgive the flaws. 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.
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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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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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