How many times have you seen the Godfather?

[EachandEveryone]

I just turned it on halfway through and realised I practically know it word for word and I haven’t seen it for a few years. I must’ve watched it from being a child and seen It numerous times. Goodness they were all so handsome. I only saw Janes Caan in Elf the other day😀 I will stay up and watch the end. He’s just got married 😞

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I've never seen it all the way through just snippets when other people have been watching.

More times than I can count. Beautiful photography, wonderful acting. The last scene is like a painting by Caravaggio

I've put the film on to watch many times it sends me to sleep every time so I've never actually seen it!

I am having exactly the same thought of you including re James Caan. He is so towering and hot headed in this and looks so Italian. Can’t believe it is the same ‘on the naughty list’ actor.

Each scene is so beautifully done. Some bits as I get older are more poignant.

Presuming this means Part II on over the Christmas period too which I slightly prefer (we want talk about Pt III).

edit - watched too many times to count.

Too many times to count, but I was mad for James Caan as a teen. Glad to hear that others are appreciating him, they don’t make them like that any more!.

Apart from seeing snippets I watched it this year. I agree the acting and cinematography are fantastic.

Watched it all twice, and bits of it a few times.

I think it's incredibly boring and overrated and have never got the hype.

(Sorry.)

DH favourite film
i dont like it

I spotted that Part II is on NYE earlier.

I was watching this (for the umpteenth time) with my DS2 tonight.I mentioned to him that it was made the year he was born 1972.

And I’m trying to think about how I watched it with my father as a child!!! Would it have been on the tv in the 70’s? We never had a video player til the 80’s. I only just clicked that the whole Connie thing was a set up by the vike husband. When push comes to shove Pacino or DeNiro? That whole era for films was incredible really.

@getthosetitsup well that’s NYE sorted! (Turns to camera ‘I know it was you, Fredo,
you broke my heart’).

Watching this now, I find the acting and atmosphere memorising. Not a wasted word.

Leave the guns. Take the cannoli.

It came out in theaters in 72 I think.

No idea but we are watching it again and discussing whether Michael really loved Apollonia (he did)

At least 100 times, a true masterpiece. I watch it all the way through whenever it’s on, no matter what point it’s at when I tune in.
It does insist upon itself but it deserves to.

Find it mesmerising ever single time. Read the book before I saw the film and have re-read it several times since. Love watching Pacino's evolution into the Don from the scene outside the hospital onwards. Cringe at Fredo's subservient behaviour, he's so out of his depth with the lethal people he's trying to suck up to. And Pacino all the way, stunning man to watch.

I think I’ve watched it 20-30 times
, Godfather 2 is better though …

Ha ha! I love that Peter Griffin quote.

Last year I went through a phase of watching both one and two at least once a month, with The Sopranos inbetween. I loved the fact that it irked them that James Caan wasn't Italian. 😅

I also annoyed DS everyday on holiday in Italy buying and consuming my own body weight of "Gabagool!"

Did you see the recent interview with Pacino on the bbc? He comes accross as a lovely guy. Another one who was nearly bankrupted by his staff. Like Leonard Cohen who he definitely has a look off. I’ve put the subtitles on as I’m tired. I don’t know if I will watch Part2 live as the ads are so annoying.

Part of it. Most of it I had my hands over my eyes or in my ears.

It was on on a coach and I had no choice about it being on.

Absolutely hated it. I abhor violent programs or films.

Poor Kay.

I don’t mind the violence so much in this but from GoodFellas onwards it gets abit too much.

Never. I can't watch violent films. There's enough horrible stuff going on in real life, so when I watch a film I want it to be feel-good, not feel-bad.