The Godfather

[chickenfeet]

Somehow I made it to the age of fifty without ever having seen The Godfather. This regrettable lapse (and fine shot of winning at Humiliation) has now been remedied. I now see what all the fuss is about. It really is a remarkably fine film and the nods to Visconti's Il Gattopardo are nicely done. I thought the baptism sequence was one of the most compelling bits of cinema I've seen in a while.

Comments

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Wow, it's almost surprising that you'd managed *not* to see it. :-) I'm glad that the fuss now makes sense: that's not always guaranteed to happen with 'classics'.

[stephiekeke.livejournal.com]

I've never seen it, either, I'll be 39 in a few weeks. My husband has never seen either The Yellow Submarine or The Wizard of Oz. Both of those surprise me, as they were staples of holiday TV in the 70s, when we were children. I've never seen Casablanca. I have seen most of Denmark's classic films, though, so go figure. Try Stalingrad, that's one of my favorite movies. Long, but intense.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I've seen Stalingrad five or six times.

[psychochicken.livejournal.com]

Perhaps I am a phillistine but I thought it was overhyped and really nothing special at all. I felt like there was about half-an-hour missing from the middle and didn't really find the transformation of the main character convincing at all.