Your thoughts on the movie "Godfather"

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I feel that way about movies starring politicians.

You either like it or you don't (or you're ready for it, or not).

If you're bored after 20 minutes. Turn it off, maybe try again in 10 years - or not at all. There's no point in sitting through 3 hours of material that you don't like.

I like that movie too.

I had the exact same problem! It's supposed to be one of the greatest films ever made, but it completely failed to interest me in any way. However, it may have been because I also have an extreme aversion to and lack of respect/tolerance for organizations that adhere mindlessly to tradition, so all the mafia as*holes triumphantly failed to impress me.

I never walk out of or turn off a movie. You never know when a show will do a complete 180 and blow you out of your seat. "The Usual Suspects," for example, started losing me early in the show but really picked up in the last half.

Funny you should mention it...

I never made it through "The Usual Suspects" but I'll try again in about 5-10 years time.

It's rare that I ever walk out of a movie but it's been known to happen.

Here's the Complete? list (I think).

Boomerang (a plodder)
Lost in Translation (what was the fuss about ?)
The Usual Suspects (didn't understand what they were saying most of the time)
Life Aquatic (pretty dull and a poor dvd).
Dark Portals (and I was keen on that one too - it just turned brown as I watched it).
Faust (some crap recent remake)
Father and Son (a yawnfest which never turned around)

i love it....i love those kinds of movies or tv shows

I liked it.

It was a journey into what "normal people" have to do in this "normal world".

I don't know if I would have enjoyed the movie if I didn't love the book so much. I mean, the movie was good I'm sure, but it may not have caught my attention if I didn't already know the story. The book is so, so much better.

I read the book, but I didn't watch the movie.

Speaking of "Usual Suspects", I didn't quite get what was happening through most of it, but the ending is really what makes it. I love movies with twist endings, which is why I liked watching most of M. Night Shyamalan movies. "Magnolia", however, was one movie that I truly hated because I expected a twist ending but there isn't one.

I watched it in Film Lit; missed the middle two days (I rented it later to see them, because I needed to write a paper on it). I don't know. I understood it, and parts of it were cool, but I wasn't blown away in admiration. Same with "Apocayplse Now"; I so don't see the fuss about that movie.

I first saw Godfather 1 and 2 on TV when I was 19 and loved them both. I have seen them a few times since and always notice more in the story when I watch them. I like how the second film is set in Cuba and it all unravels for Michael on the night of the revolution, and I loved the descriptions in the novel of how Vito arranges his law and order. Part 3 I found hard to understand what was going on.

I do not get how someone could find the first 20 mins confusing. I have not seen it for years, but here is what I remember.
Vito is a powerful mob boss who does lots of things like forcing a studio to give his nephew a movie role and bribing immigration judges to let his friends stay, in return for them all "oweing him favors", he runs a strong community ruthlessly with that. The other bosses want to get rid of him because he is too old fasioned and won't work with drug dealing. His son is sensitive and non-violent and does not want to get involved in crime, but after being beaten up in an assasination attempt on Vito in which corrupt police were involved, he turns bad and kills the rival boss himself. That is the first hour before it gets complicated as i can remember.

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I got bored with it, didn't finish it.

I saw all 3 of them but barely understood a word - just people mumbling depressively to each other and then getting shot. I don't know how anybody could understand the plot, if there was one.

I do get the same trouble with a lot of films. My (autistic) father used to say the film makers just can't be bothered with clarity any more......the confusion of subtle films (if that's what they are) used to annoy him as much as it annoys me.

Read the book, it's great.

I agree it is great, I might read some other of Puzos novels to see if theyre as good. I like how it shows Vito as bringing law and order and describes how he runs things.