nick_beatrice

Awesome movie to take a great trilogy to a close. Excellent acting, excellent directing, and themes, motifs, and symbols that are really intriguing. (Look in the Godfathers for murder directly following the scenes of someone eating an orange- it foreshadows death) And in the Godfather III, it shows Michael being served OJ which displays the fact that Michael is having other people taking care of his problems because he is slowly breaking down.

Anyway plenty of people will go into great detail with movies like this so ill just say this:

The women in this one tick me off. Talia Shire. She's innocent, soft spoken, and angelic in both Godfathers 1 and 2. Not only that but she's always a very strongly against the family business. All of a sudden she's making hits and acting like a big shot in this cosa nostra. Talia, go back inside and come back out when you need one of your brothers to beat some culo.

And for the other one, Sonny's daughter, get off your cousin! I'm Italian your disgracing the family values here come on. You know why I really didn't like her though? Because Godfather to me is set in a generation that I link to the traditional Italian-American family values. Sonny's daughter is a more modern generation breed and I don't like the new generation mixed in with the old, it seems too...too..today. Kids are much more free these days and don't really place their family first. When i was a kid it was always Sundays with the family, pasta and meatballs from 2 till everyones done talking. And if i argued i got a smack. Granted, I'm 19, but i grew up in East Boston. Kids today suck which is why i didn't like her.

ANYWAY, still, needed to the collection to show Micheal's decline and still an instant classic.

For real. Have a little sense of humor about this one. Obviously it does not contain realistic elements and the acting of some of the characters didn't give their brightest performances but it's more a show than a movie. I classify movies as films that are to be taken seriously precluding to aspects like acting, filming, dialogue, original comedy, killer special effects..etc whatever it may be because the people affiliated with the making are striving to find a way to discover the next best flick. I classify shows as films that are made strictly just to entertain us. The Super is a comedy and it made me laugh hysterically just watching Pesci's physical acting. The dad was hilarious. A lot of people say he did terrible. Why? He was an arrogant slumlord and a big old asshole that had mercy for not a soul. Reminds me of my Uncle Jimmy from Boston. His angry bantering and selfish statements were so funny and in my mind authentic. The main actress? Eh whatever were watchin Pesci just to belly laugh.

So don't pay attention the shitty elements that most critics cap on but just sit down, hit the bong, and see if you don't pee in your pants laughing at the awesome talents of Joe Pesci. GIMME THE RENT!