The complete saga of the Mafia Corleone family, from Don Corleone’s childhood in Sicily, his son Michael Corleone’s rise to power and finally the struggle to succeed him. Contains, as originally released, the 3 Godfather films.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 2-MAY-2006
Media Type: DVDThroughout his long, wandering, often distinguished career Francis Ford Coppola has made many films that are good and fine, many more that are flawed but undeniably interesting, and a handful of duds that are worth viewing if only because his personality is so flagrantly absent. Yet he is and always shall be known as the man who directed the Godfather films, a series that has dominated and defined their creator in a way perhaps no other director can understand. Coppola has never been able to leave them alone, whether returning after 15 years to make a trilogy of the diptych, or re-editing the first two films into chronological order for a separate video release as The Godfather Saga. The films are our very own Shakespearean cycle: they tell a tale of a vicious mobster and his extended personal and professional families (once the stuff of righteous moral comeuppance), and they dared to present themselves with an epic sweep and an unapologetically tragic tone. Murder, it turned out, was a serious business. The first film remains a towering achievement, brilliantly cast and conceived. The entry of Michael Corleone into the family business, the transition of power from his father, the ruthless dispatch of his enemies–all this is told with an assurance that is breathtaking to behold. And it turned out to be merely prologue; two years later The Godfather, Part II balanced Michael’s ever-greater acquisition of power and influence during the fall of Cuba with the story of his father’s own youthful rise from immigrant slums. The stakes were higher, the story’s construction more elaborate, and the isolated despair at the end wholly earned. (Has there ever been a cinematic performance greater than Al Pacino’s Michael, so smart and ambitious, marching through the years into what he knows is his own doom with eyes open and hungry?) The Godfather, Part III was mostly written off as an attempted cash-in, but it is a wholly worthy conclusion, less slow than autumnally patient and almost merciless in the way it brings Michael’s past sins crashing down around him even as he tries to redeem himself. –Bruce Reid
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March 30, 2008
#1
I’m not sure there has ever been a good “gangster” movie, these films included. Why? Because gangster movies are more focused on nothing but glorifying crime and the criminal lifestyle, and that’s dangerous.
So while the “Godfather” films sit at or near the top of many a crtic’s “favorite movie” lists, I encourage you to think about what you’re watching.
As for the movies themselves, they’re nothing special.
March 30, 2008
#2
This is a boy movie and I ain’t a boy.
March 30, 2008
#3
So, a bunch of mafia gangsters come over and shoot each other up, then they go out west and shoot each other up there, including one particular scene in which a bunch of people all get shot up together as part of a sort of montage. Woo hoo. How brilliant. I’ll never forget this movie. NOT.
March 30, 2008
#4
O.K, before you look at the score I gave this and go scrolling down to the next hight flyer, give me a chance, and hear me out.
I am a huge movie fan. Any type of movie I generally enjoy. (Of course modern hollywood get’s a little tedious).
Anyway I had heard so mucha bout the Godfather (As had anyone else) that when I finally got a hold of the first one I couldn’t wait to jam it in.
Now I’ve seen Apocolypse Now and quite frankly I think it’s amazing. Despite the fact that I feel the end is something to be desired, I still love the movie and can see why Copella is so highly acclaimed.
But let’s face it people, the Godfather is tedious and boring.
Now for all I know I will watch it again, change my mind and forever regret writing this, but not yet.
I thought it was too long and slow, Al Pacino was highly over-rated as always (Don’t get me wrong I still like him) and the film didn’t really go anywhere.
The only reason that I can imagine people falling to there knees over it, is that it’s a film about the mafia. Since it was on eof the first that really took the whole thing seriously people enjoyed it because they thought that what they were watching was real.
I don’t know.
I asked someone recently why they thought it was the best film ever made and he couldn’t say. It looked to me like he was repeating his fathers words, as I’m sure so many others are.
Basically, I don’t want to put you off it, I f you like it, and you know you like it then by all means buy it. But you have to admit it’s over rated.
The best film ever made? Come on people, Reservoir Dogs strangles this film and Pulp Fiction kills it.
It’s boring and you know it. But if you can sit through nice cinematography for hours on end, time after time without anything happening, then feel free.
P.S
Keep posted for when I see it again. You may see my stars racking up.
But probobaly not.
March 30, 2008
#5
As you can tell from my other reviews, I usually give great reviews. But these movies deserve ZERO STARS!! The Godfather films … big time. I day dreamed during the first two. I didn’t watch the third one. I only watched the first two because of Cinema class I had my senior year during high school. Don’t waste your time on this piece of garbage. It’s not worth it. I would not recomend watching this movie even if it was for free. Find another movie to watch you will be glad that you did. The Godfather … big time. I did not find any enjoyment out of the first two movies, except for when they were over. I wanted to jump up and down when they were over. I have seen tons of movies and there are only three movies that I do not like. I don’t like the first two Godfather movies, and a horror movie that I can’t remember the name of. In other words stay as far away as you can from the Godfather movies. You will be glad that you did.