Could someone who has seen The Godfather please explain to me why it is all that? I got it from Netflix because, hey, cultural history, I figure I ought to see it. I was sort of into it for the first hour or so. Assassinations, horses' heads, Marlon Brando - good stuff. But by an hour and a half in, I was getting bored, and by two hours and fifteen minutes in, I was *so* over it. People were getting whacked left and right and not only did I not know who was being killed by whom or why, I also no longer cared.
UPDATE AFTER SEVEN COMMENTS: It turns out no one has actually seen the Godfather. Which makes me wonder how it got to be so overrated in the first place. Is it all some big Coppola conspiracy? Coppospiracy?
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I wish I could. But I haven't seen it.
For this, some would say I am missing a huge aspect of life as we know it. But somehow I still keep functioning. Go figure.
I haven't seen it, either.
Wow, so this is really like, "The Godfather: I Watch So You Don't Have To." Now I feel like my watching it really served a purpose. It's a cautionary tale: don't watch the Godfather, because you can never get that three hours back.
Also haven't seen it - also can't help - also have no desire to see it.
ELF's husband convinced a bunch of us to watch some Godfather-esque movie (possibly Goodfellas) at their cabin - I fell asleep and I don't feel bad about that.
It was Goodfellas. And I actually liked that, so there's some hope that I'd enjoy The Godfather. But I just don't feel like investing the 3+ hours. Father K keeps saying that we should have a big Godfather fest with authentic foods and all the films (or at least the first two parts), but the birth of EQK has delayed that...thankfully?
But how weird is it that none of us have seen it?
Yeah, I thought for sure I'd be the only one who'd never seen it. This is weird.
When I was in high school I got into gangster movies and I saw everything that I could get my hands on relating to this theme. (Really, I just wanted to be a torch singer in a 40's nightclub with a fancy dress in smoky lighting.) I have this habit of forgetting books and movies very soon after reading/viewing them and this was no exception. Mostly I think there were a lot of snappy one-liners and affected performances that people like to emulate from this movie, even those who haven't seen it, and that is the part of this trilogy that is memorable.
Oh Hi, I somehow missed this post. I did see the Godfather and the Godfather II a long, long time ago. I thought it was OK, but the violence was a bit mindnumbing after a while, especially that whole gunning everyone down at the toll plaza thing.
But all in all I thought it was a pretty interesting portrait of Michael Corleone (was that Al Pacino's character's name?) and his initially unwillingness to turn to a life of brutal organized crime. Or wait, was that Godfather II? I can't remember! I did think the story was compelling, but the violence was brutal enough that I was just desensitized. Much like when I watched Sin City and fell asleep.
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