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While I still get caught up in the mafia politics, the character interactions and immaculate story construction, these last few watches I have thought more about the thematic element of America in these movies.
Of course it starts with the big speech, but I like how the theme of the Corleone’s assimilation into the country is woven in in subtle ways, with Kay, and Michael’s admission to her in the quote above, as…
Watched as a lead up to Coppola’s new cut of III (which @mods should be on LB) and damn, what a picture.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: absolutely nothing beats a death montage.
This movie gives me everything I need as a film fan.
The Godfather is a full course, 5-star meal of immaculate filmmaking. Right now I have it as my second favoite movie ever, and it’ll stay there for a very, very long time.
Seeing one of my all time favorite movies on the big screen in my favorite city in the world is the best birthday gift I could ask for.
I really can't put myself in the mindset to say The Godfather is anything less than a perfect film.
Yeah it's a cliche to have this as one of your favorite movies but sometimes cliches can work. Like the millions of cliches this movie began.
Sorry gang, I had to drop this a half star. Every time I watch this I become more and more baffled at how far this goes off the rails with the Falcone/Renewal Project stuff that gets pushed to the forefront in the second hour. It’s overwrough, obvious and egregiously “tell don’t show.”
And yet, the build up to it is masterful, and the film’s final sequence is some of the most horrifying, riveting and inspiring filmmaking I’ve ever seen in…
Might not ever get over that Falcone reveal and how clunky and lame it is in a movie that is otherwise perfect.
Part II soon, please!
I love every thing about this… except the script.
Over two hours of mystery, creepy clues and suspicion and the big reveal is that the most famous mafioso in Batman lore is… exactly who he was in Batman Begins and The Long Halloween, his two most famous appearances.
I’m just confused about how Reeves expected us to react to all of this, and viewing it through the lens of someone not as plugged into the Batman lore, is a mafia…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Too lazy to write a big essay so here are some random thoughts.
- First, an observation. In the establishing shot right before Batman stalks Catwoman home, you can see Riddler watching them from his apartment. I love little touches like that.
- The only thing keeping this from 5-star territory (for now at least) is the story. I guess I just don’t love using the Long Halloween framework to tell a corruption story instead of a murder mystery. As…
✅ Godfather reference
✅ Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy reference
✅ Made by a real director of sight and sound with narrative focus to the story and not a million set ups for movies being pre-vis’d to death 3 years before a single crew member is hired.
The narrative might not have the payoffs Reeves thinks it does, but literally everything else about The Batman is done to perfection, unrivaled in this subgenre since the caped crusader’s spiritual predecessor of Bale…
Rain. Fire. An old, decaying Gotham City?
I am 1,000,000% fucking in on this.
Robert Pattinson (Patman? Battinson?) is gonna kill it.
Stoked for this!!! Only thing that could make this better is if Mr Freeze is the main villain.