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I haven't seen them either. Only bits and pieces. I don't know why.
But there are a lot of movies members recommended that I haven't seen. It's a good list too.

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Originally posted by hjs157:

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
Any of them.

Discuss.

How is that even possible? On the other hand, I have a girlfriend who has never seen Animal House.

It's possible... I haven't seen The Godfather either.
I did see Animal House, though, good gracious!

For me, the great performance of Godfather II was John Cazale as poor Fredo. The scenes in Cuba he had with Pacino in which he knew he had betrayed the family yet still had to play the act of a loving brother are great.

What a film, the second one was superior to me because of what is not said about the betrayal and how it leaves it up to your imagination.

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
Any of them.

Discuss.

Neither have I. Discussion over.

Regarding 3 -

By the time I got around to watching III my expectations were quite low because I had already been quite prejudiced against it based on conversation and threads like this.

My only problem with the film was the helicopter scene where they fired the machine guns into the meeting. It felt like a forced influence of the 80’s action flicks of the time.

I watched it twice, the first to ‘get through it’, then again to attempt to appreciate it. Much of what I think has been discussed here already, (seeing Michael confess the murder of his brother being amongst the most important).

What struck me, and I don’t think has been discussed in this thread yet:

I always believed that at some point Michael would reconcile with Kay and have at least a ‘friendly’ relationship with her. I enjoyed that.

Him experiencing the death of his daughter, because of the lifestyle he continued to live, reminded me of the pain The Don felt when Sonny was murdered. Michael’s pain had to have been worse though, as he cried out in anguish I choose to believe it was so much more than over the death of his daughter. He was overcome by the choices he made in his life. Michael wailed in pain for the loss of his brother Sonny, his father, Apalonia, Tom, Fredo’s betrayal, Fredo’s murder and of course his daughter. He realized at that very moment any future relationship with Kay was over as well. He would now forever be alone.

It was such a well acted scene, so powerful when you really think about what he was releasing in that moment.

I have not seen the trilogy either, only bits and pieces over the years. No immediate plans to change that fact. Italian mafia movies or mafia anything is not really in my wheelhouse.

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Originally posted by Ke Bo Li:
These things happen
I myself have never seen any of the Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings movies.

This is me too!

I don't consider these movies to be mob movies. They are movies about family. The family business just happens to be the mob.

True character development. This is now a lost art in Hollywood.

Yes, I and II are probably my favorite movies.

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They are movies about family. The family business just happens to be the mob.

I would say that they are about family-- and corruption. After Vito kills Don Ciccio, he then goes home, picks up his baby son Michael, and tells him "Michael, your father loves you... loves you so much." So, it's all for family, all for love.

But it changes. Before long it becomes, "This is not personal. It's just business."

All for family-- and the great irony is that the loving family-- pursuing business with the cold ethic of the American corporation-- "It's not personal"-- is destroyed.

Everything is personal. Just look at that clip of Michael at the end of the movie, that suffocated scream.

It's all personal.