>regarded as one of the best >complete and total fucking shit
Why does this movie get held up in such high regard, Sup Forums? Nothing about this movie is good. Marblown Rando hamms up his entire role and barely makes it bearable to watch, the pacing is fucking awful, and the movie is pretentious as fuck. If I wanna watch an actual good gangster movie, I'm watching Goodfellas.
Why exactly am I supposed to be impressed with that scene?
Jackson Long
It's not very invigorating I know. In 'Gangs of New York' we see newspapers with two narrators -- DiCaprio and an unidentified man -- who tell us who was shot and where everyone is running to, but nothing of the protagonists internal thoughts or the wider political situation. It's street-level activity, socially-oriented but not personal or broad.
In 'Goodfellas' there's a somewhat different scene where we see Polaroids of the guys hanging out. I think it's just as good as the scene posted but while they're comparable the context and aim are different.
>unrelated note, has Polanski ever made a formal mob film?
Jace Smith
>Nothing about this movie is good. Marblown Rando hamms up his entire role and barely makes it bearable to watch, the pacing is fucking awful, and the movie is pretentious as fuck. If I wanna watch an actual good gangster movie, I'm watching Goodfellas.
Julian Price
>>i sound like im 15 because i am
kys before trump drafts you and some chink kills you son
Andrew Gonzalez
So you're just going to make the same thread every day like that guy who also makes threads about space odyssey?
Aaron Jenkins
you can hate this movie and have bad taste,its not ofensive to me. and the movie is good.
Adrian Price
>The Godfather sucks! >2001 is boring EVERY SINGLE FUCKING WEEK
FOR YEARS
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU STUPID FAGGOT REDDITORS
Jaxon Gray
>talking about movies >brings up politics
Great argument faggot. Trip into a bear trap.
Charles Cruz
You need to have strong family ethics to enjoy these movies
Carter Hernandez
>judging anything
....
Ian Price
>pick very popular and universally acclaimed film >come to Sup Forums >say it sucks >reap the (You)'s >repeat
Lucas Ross
it's just old people liking it
honestly no one of those so called classics made before I was born turned out to be actually good
Joseph Taylor
I like the way Coppola sets up this giant family event, making it believable and interesting, but then makes the scene about Michael and Kay - their romance and their view of politics. Scorsese would make the scene about the wedding itself, which wouldn't have worked in that instance.
The Godfather is an intellectual problem, maybe a small-scale one like an afternoon game of 'Clue!' but you get a sense that this rogue agency has been penetrated by a rat like Tom Hagen.
On a subtextual level, we know Hagen's doing the right thing but we also know he's lying to the family. It messes with your head a bit...we started off by relating to Michael, and in Part II, we're tempted to care about the people around Michael -- the people who are apparently trying to do good things.
Christopher Wilson
HE WAS BANGING COCK TAIL WAITRESSES TWO AT A TIME
Ryan Rogers
>Sup Forums doesn't like good movie
What else is new?
Josiah Diaz
Old people say it's a masterpiece and young people buy it.
Carson Bennett
>you have shit taste >you want to be an edgy contrarian pick one. inB4 granpa detected.
Anthony Thompson
>Imagine if Coppola opened the movie with the wedding, but zoomed in on Tom Hagen instead of Michael and Kay.
>Maybe Michael is sitting just a few tables away from Tom, but we can't hear what he's saying.
Why didn't he do it, is it because we're supposed to identify with Michael, or would that have given Coppola's game away by asking us to relate to the one man who appears to be undercover?
Owen Price
The Godfather opens by having us relate to the villain. That changes by the end of the trilogy.
Here's a movie that opens by having us relate to the do-gooder but switches tack and eventually we end up cheering for the villain. youtu.be/6HBytoAJn0Y
Jackson Gonzalez
I mean it certainly isnt bad, fuck the performances and by all the legendary actors are great, but why is it always rank 1 on every list?
Jacob Reed
It shouldn't even be on the list at all
Angel Green
Yeah I also think it was shitty. Just a complete bore from beginning to end. And it's not a slow burn; there was no payoff.
Nicholas Garcia
You say it's boring to anyone and they immediately fly off the fucking handle, lobbing insults left and right.
Andrew Rodriguez
>honestly no one of those so called classics made before I was born turned out to be actually good
Nolan Stewart
>we end up cheering for the villain not even close
But outside of that context, you can read it differently.
Leo Wood
>honestly no one of those so called classics made before I was born turned out to be actually good this is why most people born after 1980 should be legally executed. i was born in 1991 btw.
Robert Young
This scene is absolute fucking kino, but it's a standout from the rest of this bore of a flick. If the entire movie could be as good as this part then it would deserve its reputation.
Aaron Cook
ITT: call OP an underage redditor without actually refuting any of his points or making any intellectual defense of the movie
Tyler Myers
>Marlon Brando hams it up and barely makes it bearable to watch no he doesn't >the pacing is fucking awful it actually isn't >the movie is pretentious as fuck no it isn't
None of his points are valid, he's just saying "This is bad because i say so". He doesn't bring any evidence that claims he is right, he's been doing the same thread for almost a week now and he gets BTFO everytime.
John Anderson
>replying to bait
cmon Sup Forums you're better than this
Thomas Mitchell
dude, it came out in like 1973.. at the time was VERY violent,controversial etc movies are way diff today,grasshopper