The godfather III

What went wrong?
>inb4 Sophia Coppola
I know that even Tommy Wiseau has more emotional range but the issues with the film, ignoring her, doesnt seem to end here.

It was a sequel to a story that was already definitively concluded, made for no other reason than Coppola needed money after all of his flops in the 80s. No one had their heart in the movie.

poor cinematography and shitty actors that couldn't elevate puzzo's hackery

also nepotism

This is a valid point but you can say the same for almost any movie that had a sequel back in those days.

critics hated because of the wincest

I'm a latino and the wincest isn't shoking as anglos said it is. That's true for any descendent of the more calid parts of europe.
The movie is awful anyways. Michael was a whiny kid.

Just when I thought I was out...

>I'm latino
>my opinion matters

pick one, Miguel

Sophia Coppola was not the problem. She took the blame for cuban playing an Italian - Andrew Garcia, who was the worst part of the movie.

>after all of his flops in the 80s.
it was pretty impressive desu. pretty sure there were literal murders involved with some of his box office flops too

quite the career that coppola guy

I pick two, DeShawn.

You shut your whore mouth. Sophia great director horrible actress. Andy Garcia is a sweet angel.

Strayed too far from the original.

A billionaire global investor involved in Vatican conspiracies is not what someone goes to see a Godfather movie for.

you're talking about cotton club
>Coppola accepted the jobs as screenwriter and then director because he needed the money – he was deeply in debt from making One from the Heart with his own money.[5] By the time Evans decided not to direct and brought in Coppola, at least $13 million had already been committed.[4] Las Vegas casino owners Edward and Fred Doumani put $30 million into the film. Other financial backers included Arab arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, and vaudeville promoter Roy Radin, who was eventually murdered. According to William Kennedy in an interview with Vanity Fair, the budget of the film was $47 million. However, Coppola told the head of Gaumont, Europe's largest distribution and production company, that he thought the film might cost $65 million

they were flops, but he did made good films other than godfather, apocalypse now and conversation though

Godfather II ended it, perfectly. BUT, if there had to have been a continuation, the only story to tell was Michael vs. Tom Hagen, ultimately exploring what it meant to be 'true' Corleone. (The Andy Garcia Sonny bastardy could have been played against/parallel with that drama).

The fact that the film instead focused on Michael and Diane Keaton's pointless, lame reconciliation (e.g. the cringe-inducing scene in which Michael acts wacky and plays chauffeur to her!) -- Kay's story was done in II (and was sort of pushing it then, with Keaton's performance starting to waver).

The studio apparently demanded that Keaton be a focus due to her bigger star power than Duvall (which is ridiculous, considering Duvall's body of work). Duvall was offered substantially, insultingly, less than Pacino and Keaton, hated the original script, and when he tried to talk to Coppola about it, found that Coppola was more interested in getting a sauce recipe from him than in persuading him to be involved in the movie.

This was the heart of everything that went wrong -- and there was plenty -- All other problems with the film are rooted in that fatal flaw of the wrong characters focused on.

Sofia Coppola gets too much blame: her part was so poorly written, and pointless, that even if Winona Ryder had played the role and not quit/was fired at the last minute, it probably wouldn't have made much of a difference.

It's such a waste and a tragedy about Godfather III -- if any film should have a remake (well, a 'do-over) it should have been this one.

And my God, that last shot of old Michael falling out of the chair!

- Some shitty actors
- Pacino was past his prime
- Robert Duvall dropped out which ruined the story

I don't hate it though, I think it's an ok movie.

yeah thats the one

it went from two brilliant character studies to, "Hey look! A gangster movie!"

Al Pacino stopped playing Michael Corleon and started playing Colonel Frank Slade... how does he go from a barely talking, broody, ice cold patron to a short tempered old fuck? Complete botch of his own character.

The whole Sicily setting was absolute shit.... this was a movie about an American crime family and we spend half of it on gabagool island.

Stupid shit.

I can watch I and II, over and over and every time they're amazing.

I saw III many years ago, and that was enough. It was horrible on so many levels. Pure garbage.
But that last scene of Micheal, dying alone alone in the chair, was pure kino.