If you happened to make it more than five minutes in, I'm sure you realized that Al Pacino's character, Michael Corleone, was a complete rip-off of Jay Mohr's Tony Cortino. It's disgusting. I'm sure lawsuits were filed. Acting legend, Lloyd Bridges outshines Marlon Brando (The Island of Dr. Moreau), like a bucket of shoe polish at a Bostonian/Clarks outlet store.
I know there'll always be copycats, but I just wish they'd leave the classics alone. Don't waste your time with the knock-offs, do yourself the favor of watching Mafia!, the only mob movie with an exclamation point in it's title (until Coppola decides to rip that off as well).
The Godfather blows compared to The Happening.
*SPOILER ALERT*
The kids in House Arrest wrote the book on how to be successful criminals. Sure, racketeering and murder are nice, but these kids locked their parents in the basement! In the basement! That's below the house!
When Ned and Janet Beindorf tell their children that they'll be divorcing, these little sociopaths decide that they've had enough. Stacey and Grover get their angry friends together and start taking over, house by house. Sound familiar? The mafia might take over an entire borough, but these sicko will come in your home!
Plus, all those Godfather fogies are old! I'm sure it's easy to get away with crimes when you have 60+ years of experience and driver's licenses. I'd like to see Don Vito pull off a successful double kidnapping when he was in middle school. I truly, truly doubt he would have had the foresight to call in sick to his dad's office using his "deep voice" in order to avoid suspicion. I truly doubt it.
Coppola tries over and over again to keep a cohesive story going. If he knew anything about filmmaking, he would have just hired his friends to just sit around and have sex with underage teens. It worked for Roman Polanski.
A struggling carnival owner (Tom Arnold) decides to rob a gourmet grocery store to make some extra carny cash. When two other holdup men interrupt his robbery, Franklin Laszlo, is forced to take a hostage. Unfortunately for him, the hostage he chooses is in charge of his SON'S CARPOOL! The minivan filled with preteen rambunctiousness isn't heading to school today. It's actually heading on an action-packed afternoon which finds them being chased by an irate meter maid through a shopping mall.
Sounds better than some movie about an "aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfering control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son," doesn't it? Well, it is. Lots better. Also, did I mention that the irate meter maid is played by Rhea Perlman?
Where the first two movies fail (can you believe they made three of these???) the third succeeds. We're just lucky they didn't decide to let a sleeping dog lie. After the second one, I was pretty sure that sleeping dog was dead. I just wish that someone would get off their keister and make a third Chinatown movie. The movie world's aching for it. How could it not be fantastic.
Al Pacino and Diane Keaton dish out the performances of their lifetimes. Forget what you saw from them earlier, I'm telling you, everything falls into place in The Godfather: Part III. This is the Godfather movie everyone's going to be talking about! It's a lot like the third Ninja Turtles movie where they go back in time and help out a Japanese village. Or the third Back to the Future movie where they go back in time and help out a Western town. It's a lot like these movies, except that no one goes back in time and no one helps anyone out.
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I love, love, LOVE John Cusack! He has what I consider to be one of the world's sexiest voices. I watched Say Anything and Serendipity the other day. He amazes me.
Lol. I was so caught up in picturing John Cusack naked that I didn't even notice that you had Carpool on your blog too! That movie rocks. And yes, that did do it for me :)
You didn't really even need to describe anything about Mafia! - you could have just left it at that picture. Cinematic gold.
Every movie with David Paymer is better than The Godfather. Everyone knows this.
You forgot the obvious one ... The Godfather, Part II. :)
The gauntlet is not thrown.
http://sonofdoublefeature.blogspot.com/2008/06/remembered-filmography-tuesday.html
Surely, with M. Night Shamalamadingdong's continued refinement of his craft, you believe that his best is yet to come? While The Happening is easily his best work, topping even the heights of Lady in the Water, it's missing his most crucial element: The twist ending. If he can build on his past successes, add a twist, and then cast himself as the LEAD (not a mere supporting role), he could easily create the defining movie of the millennium.
It's about time somebody recognized the pathetic loser-ocity of the
Godfather part II. I would like to add 10,000 BC to the list of seven. I guess that would make nine, wouldn't it?
Only 7 movies? I would like a full effort next time you participate in my blog-a-thon.
What about Something's Gotta Give? Or Norbit? Or a handful of Julia Roberts movies?
The bar is set so low with The Godfather that literally hundreds of movies can be listed.
OK, I get it, it's a joke. But The Godfather is overrated. I'm not saying its bad, its just not the holy grail of cinema as people would believe. So I appreciate this post more than most. I think people love this movie because they think they are supposed to love this movie. Plus people feel like the best thing to do is fit in ...
Dude One: "The best movie in the world is the Godfather!"
Dude Two: "You love that movie, I love that movie too"
Dude One: "Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think Scarface is cool too."
Dude Two: "Really? Yeah I like that movie too."
... not forming an opinion of their own. I can't make it through this movie. People love it, and I just don't get it.
Scott, thanks for the a post that made me smile.
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