How many times have you seen the Godfather?

[EachandEveryone]

I didn’t realise it was on so that was a nice surprise. I’m quite shocked to think I was only a child when I first saw it 🤔 what were my parents thinking? It must’ve been on video. This must be my tenth time although this time I’ve put subtitles on

Did Kay know about his first marriage I wonder?

Never, just never got round to it and I'm nearly 60. There are so many classic films I've never seen, never been a big film watcher.

I think she does in the book, but Kay was changed (for the worse imo) in the film. Not Diane Keaton's fault (I love her)

ETA: the book would've passed the Bechdel test fwiw. Kay and Michael's mum have an actual friendship and I think the girl Santino has an affair with at the wedding has some conversations with friends, but I couldn't swear to it, as I've only read it once

Never

I only discovered last night that the actress who played Apollonia was only 16 at the time of filming. There's a topless scene with Al Pacino.

I love it and have watched it many times. I’m not a man. The final scene of part 2, when Michael has achieved it all and is totally alone when life could have gone so differently is tragic.

Never.

Yes, he tells her when he seeks her out about a year after he gets back from Sicily.

I’ve seen them both many times, I adore those films.

Once. I find it one of those films that has been given classic status and thus (most) people harp on about it because of the social expectation to.

<hides behind her cushion>

Are you saying...it insists upon itself?

I watched it for the first time last night, but I much prefer goodfellas

😂

I rarely mention it to anyone else, I just love it.

A few years ago, I went to a showing of both films on the big screen followed by a discussion with Coppola and the remaining cast members afterwards. Only time I’ve ever been truly starstruck.

Well, quite.

I am amazed that anybody could find it boring. I can't take my eyes off it from the first scene on. It's beautifully filmed, impeccably acted and the score is brilliant. It's about families and loyalties, about how love and the ties of blood and tradition get in the way of doing the right thing. About the dangers of compromising and stepping onto the slippery slope from doing something that seems justified or at least not too bad to doing some unimaginably awful things.

Michael Corleone starts by wanting to turn his back on his father's business and go legit, but when his father's life is in danger that all goes out of the window. It's not one of those films where you know unquestionably who's good and who's bad and the baddies are irredeemably bad, i.e. just 2-dimensional characters. In the opening scene the undertaker says 'I believe in America' but as the film goes on we see that the institutions of America are just as corrupt as the mafia. In part 3 we see that the church is no better.

I wish Part 3 was up to the stratospherically high standards of parts 1 and 2. I saw it a few years ago in the re-edited version and it was much better than I remembered. It's not my favourite but it's needed in a way to show what the events of parts 1 and 2 and the choices Michael has made inexorably bring about.

You've missed nothing there. Tiresome film! Not in the same league as The Godfather.

Yes! I'm not a man either.

I never set out to watch it last night as it was so late but it’s true you can’t take your eyes off it.of just watched elf over Xmas it was funny seeing James Caan in his beautiful peak. Gosh I get confused with all the family names

Probably 4 or 5 times, one of my mum’s favourite films, after she had a terrible stroke in her late 80s we had many film /tv nights watching on my laptop with her in bed. She became the most brutal critic in that anything less than very good she would fall asleep during. One time we watched all 3 Godfather films over 3 nights. Pleased to say she kept awake and engaged through all 3. They really don’t make films like the Godfather anymore.

Never

Never.

Must be at least 25. My favourite film.
The book is utterly shite though

The book is not great, no. Still read it though

I’m watching Part 2. Robert de Niro was beautiful.

Countless times 😀

Just watched it again on Christmas Eve. Godfather Part I is the best film of all time no question. It's perfection from beginning to end and that music!

Loads of times! I also went to see the opera house from the end of no.3 when I was a teenager on holiday in Sicily.

I have never met another female my age (30s) IRL who has seen it though!