Ok guys. Since I'm catching some heat on the older movies comment, lol, let me better explain. First, I'm older than I look and what I consider to be an older movie to me starts in the 70's era but typically more the 60's and older. No, I don't just like movies with over the top CGI and no storyline. Yes I do enjoy older movies but personally find it harder to get MYSELF to watch. 9/10 times I am pleasantly surprised and usually sorry I didn't give an older movie a chance. That doesn't mean I hate older movies. I actually enjoy practical effects over CGI when done right. When done wrong though, if it feels so fake it gets me out of the movie experience I want to be immersed in and will ruin it for me. That's essentially what I was getting at and I should have better clarified. Sadly A LOT of the more modern movies have been crap lately. Regardless though, thank you all for watching and engaging whether or not you agree or disagree with me
Women and children can be careless because people will help them. When men are careless, well you see what happens over and over in the movie. The consequences end in blood.
@@OverandOutChief1 I don’t know how you came up with the idea that people will help women more than men. I certainly wish I could get more help. And women can’t afford to be careless either, especially those who have children to look after. The human race depends on it.
@@MsAppassionata I didn't come up with it; society did. The rules to the game slant towards women and children. Not complaining but thats the way it is.
The man at the hospital was Enzo, the baker. He was an Italian POW that was supposed to be repatriated at the end of WW2. The Don arranged for him to stay in the US after the war so he could marry the baker's daughter. That night he paid his debt to the Don.
If you consider so-called ‘old movies’ to be crap, then you must have been watching all the wrong ‘old movies’. In my opinion, there are more ‘modern’ movies that are crap than ‘old’ movies. The old classics are the best in many ways.
There are plenty of older movies that still stand the test of time and are great. A lot of modern cinema wouldn't exist today without them. 12 Angry Men did a phenomenal job hooking me in and the whole movie is essentially in one room. I prefer to get lost in the effects & the story where the older gen movies are mostly plot driven with no effects. I'm sure there are a lot of older movies I haven't seen that are amazing and that doesn't make them crap.
Michael's bruises did not heal properly because he left the United States immediately after the assassination of Solozzo and McCluskey. But later, when Fredo sees Michael after a long time, Fredo mentions how good Michael looked and that the doctor he saw when he returned to the states did a good job (ostensibly some type of reconstruction facial surgery).
The right partner for Michael was Apollonia. She´d have been the perfect sicilian wife: absolutely never asking Michael about his affairs, raising their children, supporting him over all... but Kay, on the other hand... was completely the other way around.
@@who-nobody-never You think that she was a major villain? Why? Because she refused to put up with the Family’s violence. She and her children almost got shot to death. She was an American, not a Sicilian and, as such, was raised in a totally different environment. I believe the mistake she made was in marrying Michael in the first place. She understood that he was a ruthless gangster, but she married him anyway, choosing to believe his lie about not having Carlo killed.
Kaye was absolutely a villain. She knew what Michael and his family were into but she wanted him. And getting an abortion because she "wouldn't bring another of his sons into the world"because "this must all end"??? He already had a son she was ending nothing. She killed their baby out of spite. Appalonia would have given the movie a whole different trajectory
Since you are a STAR WARS fan it may interest you to know that Francis Coppola was a mentor to George Lucas and produced Lucas's first two feature films.
34:39 in the book the cheek bone didn't heal properly. Michael had to have surgery after he returned to the states. He was actually in Sicily for almost 2 years.
You mentioned that the guy (beating up the pregnant Talia Shire) was a boyfriend or fiancé - but the film begins with a wedding, so it is clear he is a husband.
There have been lots of great films made since I was born, in 1953, but probably just as many before that too. As a child I wasn't interested in black and white films, but I grew up. Now Michael Curtiz's masterpiece Casablanca, which is in glorious b&w, might be my favourite film of all time.
@@jamesrowe3606 I’m really surprised that you didn’t like b&w movies, since you were born in 1953. I was born in 1952 and I used to love watching old movies, which we could see for free (with commercials, of course) on tv. I used to love watching Picture On A Sunday Afternoon in NYC. You could watch all the old classics on shows like the one I mentioned above. I loved watching the original “Godzilla” (Americanized version), “The Mark Of Zorro”, “A Take If Two Cities”, “Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde”(Fredric March version), “The Winslow Boy” (1948), as well as many other classic films.
@@jamesrowe3606 I just think it was a little odd, considering the fact that there were plenty of old b&w movies available for free (unlike now, where one usually has to pay) on standard TV. Most people didn’t even have color TVs until late in the 1960’s, at least in my neighborhood.
@MsAppassionata Well we're all individuals with different tastes. I don't consider people with different taste to me to be odd. I think it's odd that you do.
For Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando), they put a jaw prosthesis in his mouth and a gauze, to give him that particular face. Brando was relatively young in this film, and Coppola pretended to age him and also look more threatening.
11:29 That's a Lockheed Constellation - Luxury flying in 1945! 20:44 That nurse's hat coming into the frame is the greatest device. A non-threatening jump scare. 23:43 Michael learned alot about battle strategy being a Marine combat officer in the Pacific. Tom Hagen is played by Robert Duval. 46:00 Only youtube would stick a commercial right in the middle of The Godfather's most climactic scene.
Michael had a broken jaw which never received any medical treatment since he went into hiding. Later in the film, Fredo mentions the plastic surgery Michael had later to fix his jaw.
If you would like to see some spectacular films with 100% real special fx - I can strongly recommend: -Ben Hur (1959) especially for the 9 minute race scene which took a year to plan and 5 weeks to shoot. -Lawrence of Arabia (1962) which took over 19 months to film, mostly in Spain and Morocco, and has over 1000 extras. -Apocalypse Now (1979) also by Coppola and featuring Brando and Duvall, with The Philippines standing in for Vietnam, and plagued by innumerable disasters during production, but is an unforgettable cinematic experience. All these films are considered unequalled masterpieces especially for their photography, sound design, memorable music, unique editing, complex scripts, profound themes, impacts on subsequent films and creativity in combining historical elements with a fictional narrative.
If you haven’t seen the 1980 film The Blues Brothers, you will be completely blown away by this wild, over-the-top, powerhouse of action with all actual FX, nothing CGI, not to mention the phenomenal musical appearances. Production took over metro Chicago in 1979/80 and is filled with local references, jokes and physical car scenes which are hard to believe.
Love that movie! Yeah I heard hundreds of police cars were destroyed for filming in that final scene. Fun fact: back when I was a waiter I got to serve Dan Aykroyd and he signed my Blues Brothers DVD
Btw, the original book by Mario Puzo was wild. Completely different story lines take place that aren’t in the movie including heavy sex scenes. It makes me wonder if many of the wives and girlfriends who went to see the movie with their husbands and boyfriends left a bit disappointed 😂
If you want action, see the 1971 film: The French Connection, which has what is called the greatest car chase sequence in movie history. There were some accidents, which were left in the final cut.
Johnny Fontane is based on Frank Sinatra. Sinatra and top men did not want this movie made, check out the 10 part series The Offer, making of the Godfather
One of the parts of this movie that I think deserves more comment than it gets is when Woltz is ranting at Hagen and Tom's imperturbable demeanor just points up what a childish fool the movie big-shot is.
9:49 a lot of people miss the first time the Don offered $10,000.00 the guy refused so the second time he made him Sign for $ 1,000.00. In the second movie the same thing happens with the landlord.😂
"I'm with you now." And so it begins. Al Pacino is so masterful in his acting. Michael is rather awkward until this point and even up until the shooting of the Turk, then his demeanor immediately changes while in Sicily, and then after he comes back, Michael is the cold, don't mess with him, calculating bad ass. The studio execs wanted to replace Pacino after seeing the early scenes because they thought Pacino was so weak.
@RecliningCinema Coppola fought for him & kept him. So glad he did. He knew he was the right one, which becomes even more obvious in Part 2. Looking forward to your reaction to that masterpiece.✨️✨️
By limiting yourself to watching movies made within the last 25 years, you are missing out on many good movies. Pacino's best work was in the 1970s and 1980s. No, they didn't have over-the-top special effects.
How did you think all those men with machine guns knew Sonny was going to be at that toll booth? You think they were just hanging out.😂 And it was Sonny that I Carlo to Connie.😢
Michael needs Tom out of the family business because he'll be critical to their plans to go legitimate. In Part II you see that Michael has faith in Tom above all others. I like Part I more than Part II, but they're both fantastic - the second one has a hgher budget and no technical imperfections. I don't understand your comment about time jumps, but i liked your reaction.
Appreciate you. I know the time jumps were needed, just used to how more modern films make you aware of them while this film went fade to black and all of a sudden 1 1/2 years passed. I got it but it took me a sec lol
I postulate that without the lucrative opportunities that narcotics trafficking offered, the Mafia, Cosa Nostra, whatever, would never have been so ultimately shut down as they were.
Brando was only 47 years old when he made the movie and the only other actor they were considering for the role was Laurence Olivier who was widely regarded as the greatest (primarily stage) actor of his generation but he was too ill at the time.
@@vincentsaia6545 Wow! I never heard that one before. Somehow, I can’t picture Olivier playing that part, as great as he was. I’m glad that Brando got the role.
@@MsAppassionata One can say the same of Brando. Coppola reasoned that Olivier was the right age and did bare a physical resemblance to Vito Genevese, who the Godfather was partially based on.
It isn't in the movie, but in the book the Don and Clemenza(or one of the others, I forget) kill Tom's dad(I forget the exact reason why) and made him an orphan, and Sonny had snuck out and followed and seen it. So he took Tom and brought him home(Tom didn't know who killed him) and out of guilt the Don accepted bringing him in.
This is not true at all. You say it was in the book, but Puzo NEVER wrote that and it is CERTAINLY NOT in the original book AT ALL!!!!! This new "revelation" came about in the 2012 PREQUEL book, "The Family Corleone" by Ed Falco, which takes place in 1933-1934, BEFORE "The Godfather". At the time of the movie what you claim happened is not, in fact, part of the original canon, as such, it is totally false. Tom Hagen was found on the street....in the prequel he was made into a law student.
Bro, part 2 is up there on the top. Just as Star wars you can debate if V is better than IV but it's at least just as good. Godfather part 3 were sadly punished by alot of problems when they made it and you can see it while watching -but ignore the haters... It would be an insult to Michael to not watch it and see the end of the story... It is a triology and then you watch 3 not 2 movies. The end of part 3 is worth the effort.
@@RecliningCinema Hey sorry man. Didn't mean anything by it. I was genuinely expecting that native italian would be watching GF and give his perspective on the movie. Anyway good video. :)
@@antondzajajurca7797 Didn't think you did haha. I only specify I'm Italian since over the years friend sand family have commented on me never seeing this movie. Like just because I'm Italian I HAD to watch this or something. Appreciate you!
No not at all. I love practical effects and the older movies do that best. SOME older movies however do such a bad job that its just not believable to me and I enjoy it less.
In Godfather 2, Fredo will prove his incompetence even more. From then on, if a person is referred to as "Fredo", it means that person is incompetent but thinks they are smart.
lol sorry I'm not a professional movie critic with an extensive background in classic cinema. It's almost as if I said I've seen plenty of older movies but that they just aren't my go to watch
You were watching a remastered version. A number of years ago the versions being shown (pre-streaming) were really awful condition but they ended up getting cleaned and are-mastered print created (whatever the term is) and it’s made the whole movie a lot better to watch. Part 2 is even better than part 1 which is hard to believe. Part 3 is a hot piece of garbage and I would avoid it like the plague. Btw, the actor you said you thought you recognized is Robert Duvall. If you ever watched Apocalypse Now you’ll know recognize him.
I kind of figured it would be remastered. I was watching a digital copy I purchased and I know older films can go through several remasters and "Extended/Directors" cuts. Thanks for officially letting me know though
Part 2 is considered the greatest sequel ever. The “graininess” u referred to was an intentional choice to make the movie seem more period! Compare the amazing cinematography of 2001 which was done in the late 1960s. The 3rd one was, for me, a complete sell-out waste of time n effort n was only connected to the others by character names only. Try 2001, Rosemary’s Baby, n Chinatown
Ok guys. Since I'm catching some heat on the older movies comment, lol, let me better explain. First, I'm older than I look and what I consider to be an older movie to me starts in the 70's era but typically more the 60's and older. No, I don't just like movies with over the top CGI and no storyline. Yes I do enjoy older movies but personally find it harder to get MYSELF to watch. 9/10 times I am pleasantly surprised and usually sorry I didn't give an older movie a chance. That doesn't mean I hate older movies. I actually enjoy practical effects over CGI when done right. When done wrong though, if it feels so fake it gets me out of the movie experience I want to be immersed in and will ruin it for me. That's essentially what I was getting at and I should have better clarified. Sadly A LOT of the more modern movies have been crap lately. Regardless though, thank you all for watching and engaging whether or not you agree or disagree with me
Women and children can be careless because people will help them. When men are careless, well you see what happens over and over in the movie. The consequences end in blood.
You have got to watch Godfather 2
New to your channel. Good reaction but shoulda done in two parts. Way too much OV cut.
@@OverandOutChief1
I don’t know how you came up with the idea that people will help women more than men. I certainly wish I could get more help. And women can’t afford to be careless either, especially those who have children to look after. The human race depends on it.
@@MsAppassionata I didn't come up with it; society did. The rules to the game slant towards women and children. Not complaining but thats the way it is.
The man at the hospital was Enzo, the baker. He was an Italian POW that was supposed to be repatriated at the end of WW2. The Don arranged for him to stay in the US after the war so he could marry the baker's daughter. That night he paid his debt to the Don.
If you consider so-called ‘old movies’ to be crap, then you must have been watching all the wrong ‘old movies’. In my opinion, there are more ‘modern’ movies that are crap than ‘old’ movies. The old classics are the best in many ways.
There are plenty of older movies that still stand the test of time and are great. A lot of modern cinema wouldn't exist today without them. 12 Angry Men did a phenomenal job hooking me in and the whole movie is essentially in one room. I prefer to get lost in the effects & the story where the older gen movies are mostly plot driven with no effects. I'm sure there are a lot of older movies I haven't seen that are amazing and that doesn't make them crap.
There is definitely not a modern movie that can compare to this movie 😊
@@scottdarden3091Agreed, the only thing modern I have seen that compares is a great tv series like The Wire or Breaking Bad
@ednicholson7839 I prefer SOA
21:39 "I'm with you now Pop".
Michael Corleone crosses the line and joins the "Family Business".
Michael's bruises did not heal properly because he left the United States immediately after the assassination of Solozzo and McCluskey. But later, when Fredo sees Michael after a long time, Fredo mentions how good Michael looked and that the doctor he saw when he returned to the states did a good job (ostensibly some type of reconstruction facial surgery).
Yes. The novel explained his cheek bone was fractured and he only got it fixed after he got home.
The right partner for Michael was Apollonia. She´d have been the perfect sicilian wife: absolutely never asking Michael about his affairs, raising their children, supporting him over all... but Kay, on the other hand... was completely the other way around.
Yeah, I think Kay is one of the principal villains in the story, because she just doesn't care because she has no family loyalty so she does whatever.
@@who-nobody-never
You think that she was a major villain? Why? Because she refused to put up with the Family’s violence. She and her children almost got shot to death. She was an American, not a Sicilian and, as such, was raised in a totally different environment. I believe the mistake she made was in marrying Michael in the first place. She understood that he was a ruthless gangster, but she married him anyway, choosing to believe his lie about not having Carlo killed.
Kaye was absolutely a villain. She knew what Michael and his family were into but she wanted him. And getting an abortion because she "wouldn't bring another of his sons into the world"because "this must all end"??? He already had a son she was ending nothing. She killed their baby out of spite. Appalonia would have given the movie a whole different trajectory
It was a stray cat wandering around the set but it was the director who took it and gave it to Brando just before they started the scene.
Gotcha, wasnt sure the exact specifics but had heard that random fact at some point
Since you are a STAR WARS fan it may interest you to know that Francis Coppola was a mentor to George Lucas and produced Lucas's first two feature films.
Thats a cool fun fact!
34:39 in the book the cheek bone didn't heal properly. Michael had to have surgery after he returned to the states. He was actually in Sicily for almost 2 years.
Clemenza had the "honor" of killing Carlo, because Clemenza was Santino's godfather. Carlo set up Santino to be shot to death.
You mentioned that the guy (beating up the pregnant Talia Shire) was a boyfriend or fiancé - but the film begins with a wedding, so it is clear he is a husband.
Michael had more than a black eye - his cheek bone had been fractured. That's why it took so long to heal.
Yep, been there unfortunately.
Take advice from your followers about 'old' movies. Classic cinema is what built the films of today
There have been lots of great films made since I was born, in 1953, but probably just as many before that too. As a child I wasn't interested in black and white films, but I grew up. Now Michael Curtiz's masterpiece Casablanca, which is in glorious b&w, might be my favourite film of all time.
@@jamesrowe3606
I’m really surprised that you didn’t like b&w movies, since you were born in 1953. I was born in 1952 and I used to love watching old movies, which we could see for free (with commercials, of course) on tv. I used to love watching Picture On A Sunday Afternoon in NYC. You could watch all the old classics on shows like the one I mentioned above. I loved watching the original “Godzilla” (Americanized version), “The Mark Of Zorro”, “A Take If Two Cities”, “Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde”(Fredric March version), “The Winslow Boy” (1948), as well as many other classic films.
@MsAppassionata I came to them later than you. I was all about technicolor and cinerama action as a kid.
@@jamesrowe3606
I just think it was a little odd, considering the fact that there were plenty of old b&w movies available for free (unlike now, where one usually has to pay) on standard TV. Most people didn’t even have color TVs until late in the 1960’s, at least in my neighborhood.
@MsAppassionata Well we're all individuals with different tastes. I don't consider people with different taste to me to be odd. I think it's odd that you do.
Al Pacino was about 31 years old when they filmed the Godfather, and the actress that played Apollonia was just 17 year old.
Part 2 is just as good...probably even better
Will def be checking it out
I give the edge to pt2 tho both are amazing.
For Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando), they put a jaw prosthesis in his mouth and a gauze, to give him that particular face. Brando was relatively young in this film, and Coppola pretended to age him and also look more threatening.
Well regarded? This is the greatest movie ever made!
You are missing great old movies from 70s and older. Great actors, scripts and even effects.
11:29 That's a Lockheed Constellation - Luxury flying in 1945! 20:44 That nurse's hat coming into the frame is the greatest device. A non-threatening jump scare. 23:43 Michael learned alot about battle strategy being a Marine combat officer in the Pacific. Tom Hagen is played by Robert Duval. 46:00 Only youtube would stick a commercial right in the middle of The Godfather's most climactic scene.
lol that jump scare got me
35:51 Husband. They are the two that got married in the beginning of the movie.
Michael had a broken jaw which never received any medical treatment since he went into hiding. Later in the film, Fredo mentions the plastic surgery Michael had later to fix his jaw.
Yeah I kinda figured it was broken since he spoke through gritted teeth for a while. Just crazy he was already married still with the bruise
If you would like to see some spectacular films with 100% real special fx - I can strongly recommend:
-Ben Hur (1959) especially for the 9 minute race scene which took a year to plan and 5 weeks to shoot.
-Lawrence of Arabia (1962) which took over 19 months to film, mostly in Spain and Morocco, and has over 1000 extras.
-Apocalypse Now (1979) also by Coppola and featuring Brando and Duvall, with The Philippines standing in for Vietnam, and plagued by innumerable disasters during production, but is an unforgettable cinematic experience.
All these films are considered unequalled masterpieces especially for their photography, sound design, memorable music, unique editing, complex scripts, profound themes, impacts on subsequent films and creativity in combining historical elements with a fictional narrative.
I have heard good things about all those but have never seen them. I'll make sure to check them out
@ great!
I looked it up, the equivalent cash is about $700,000 or so today, depending on exactly when this took place.
Sheeeesh lol
If you haven’t seen the 1980 film The Blues Brothers, you will be completely blown away by this wild, over-the-top, powerhouse of action with all actual FX, nothing CGI, not to mention the phenomenal musical appearances. Production took over metro Chicago in 1979/80 and is filled with local references, jokes and physical car scenes which are hard to believe.
Love that movie! Yeah I heard hundreds of police cars were destroyed for filming in that final scene. Fun fact: back when I was a waiter I got to serve Dan Aykroyd and he signed my Blues Brothers DVD
@@RecliningCinema wow!
CGI still bores me because I know if it's not right the first time, they just go back an change a couple of keystrokes.
Btw, the original book by Mario Puzo was wild. Completely different story lines take place that aren’t in the movie including heavy sex scenes. It makes me wonder if many of the wives and girlfriends who went to see the movie with their husbands and boyfriends left a bit disappointed 😂
I think you would like the original "12 Angry Men".
I have seen it, I dont dislike all old movies, just not my go to. That movie was amazing especially for being in 1 room the whole movie lol
Can't wait till you do part two
It will be coming!
Michael wore his Class A uniform to the wedding. You never see any "fatigues" especially "army" ones lol
You know what I meant lol
If you want action, see the 1971 film: The French Connection, which has what is called the greatest car chase sequence in movie history. There were some accidents, which were left in the final cut.
I have heard that, but I've never seen it. I'll add it to the list to check out
A "orange smile." Oranges are VERY significant in this film series.
Johnny Fontane is based on Frank Sinatra. Sinatra and top men did not want this movie made, check out the 10 part series The Offer, making of the Godfather
Cool fun fact
One of the parts of this movie that I think deserves more comment than it gets is when Woltz is ranting at Hagen and Tom's imperturbable demeanor just points up what a childish fool the movie big-shot is.
I definitely felt what you meant about overhyped movies. It's hard to find a movie in the last 25 years that can touch this one. Maybe Shawshank....
Shawshank is amazing, a lot of Stephen King films are
Wow are you wrong about pre-1980s movies! You really ought to take a lesson from The Godfather and open your mind, man!
9:49 a lot of people miss the first time the Don offered $10,000.00 the guy refused so the second time he made him
Sign for $ 1,000.00. In the second movie the same thing happens with the landlord.😂
I am in my 60s this is not a theatrical film to me. It's a home movie of my youth! Lol
"I'm with you now." And so it begins. Al Pacino is so masterful in his acting. Michael is rather awkward until this point and even up until the shooting of the Turk, then his demeanor immediately changes while in Sicily, and then after he comes back, Michael is the cold, don't mess with him, calculating bad ass. The studio execs wanted to replace Pacino after seeing the early scenes because they thought Pacino was so weak.
Wouldn't think a studio would say that about him lol. Glad they didn't
@RecliningCinema
Coppola fought for him & kept him. So glad he did. He knew he was the right one, which becomes even more obvious in Part 2. Looking forward to your reaction to that masterpiece.✨️✨️
By limiting yourself to watching movies made within the last 25 years, you are missing out on many good movies. Pacino's best work was in the 1970s and 1980s. No, they didn't have over-the-top special effects.
Its not that I don't like them they just aren't my normal go to. I have seen plenty of older movies over the years.
How did you think all those men with machine guns knew Sonny was going to be at that toll booth? You think they were just hanging out.😂 And it was Sonny that I Carlo to Connie.😢
6:36 the plate on the car was 1945.
Michael needs Tom out of the family business because he'll be critical to their plans to go legitimate. In Part II you see that Michael has faith in Tom above all others. I like Part I more than Part II, but they're both fantastic - the second one has a hgher budget and no technical imperfections.
I don't understand your comment about time jumps, but i liked your reaction.
Appreciate you. I know the time jumps were needed, just used to how more modern films make you aware of them while this film went fade to black and all of a sudden 1 1/2 years passed. I got it but it took me a sec lol
I watch the godfather reactions and notice if the poisoning of neighborhoods with drugs would be addressed
Poisoning is an accurate descriptor.
I postulate that without the lucrative opportunities that narcotics trafficking offered, the Mafia, Cosa Nostra, whatever, would never have been so ultimately shut down as they were.
Brando was only 47 years old when he made the movie and the only other actor they were considering for the role was Laurence Olivier who was widely regarded as the greatest (primarily stage) actor of his generation but he was too ill at the time.
@@vincentsaia6545
Wow! I never heard that one before. Somehow, I can’t picture Olivier playing that part, as great as he was. I’m glad that Brando got the role.
@@MsAppassionata One can say the same of Brando. Coppola reasoned that Olivier was the right age and did bare a physical resemblance to Vito Genevese, who the Godfather was partially based on.
@@vincentsaia6545
I still loved Brando in the role, and find it difficult to picture anyone else playing that part.
@@MsAppassionata That's the point of good casting.
Johnny is a very thinly veiled Frank Sinatra
Johny Fontaine represented actor singer Frank Sinatra ..supposed to have had mafia connections
It isn't in the movie, but in the book the Don and Clemenza(or one of the others, I forget) kill Tom's dad(I forget the exact reason why) and made him an orphan, and Sonny had snuck out and followed and seen it. So he took Tom and brought him home(Tom didn't know who killed him) and out of guilt the Don accepted bringing him in.
This is not true at all. You say it was in the book, but Puzo NEVER wrote that and it is CERTAINLY NOT in the original book AT ALL!!!!!
This new "revelation" came about in the 2012 PREQUEL book, "The Family Corleone" by Ed Falco, which takes place in 1933-1934, BEFORE "The Godfather".
At the time of the movie what you claim happened is not, in fact, part of the original canon, as such, it is totally false.
Tom Hagen was found on the street....in the prequel he was made into a law student.
It takes place through the 40s and 50s
Got that later on when they referenced WWII
The amount of people that take things personally in the comments 🤦🏽♂️
Those comments FUEL ME lol
Bro, part 2 is up there on the top. Just as Star wars you can debate if V is better than IV but it's at least just as good. Godfather part 3 were sadly punished by alot of problems when they made it and you can see it while watching -but ignore the haters... It would be an insult to Michael to not watch it and see the end of the story... It is a triology and then you watch 3 not 2 movies. The end of part 3 is worth the effort.
Yeah I've heard the 3rd isn't on par but will def watch it to complete the trilogy
Never been in Italy?!? You are an american dude, regardless what your ancestors were :D
lol I never claimed its a birth right, just would be nice to go. Im not Greek but I would prefer to see Greece over Italy since I like Greek Mythology
@@RecliningCinema Hey sorry man. Didn't mean anything by it. I was genuinely expecting that native italian would be watching GF and give his perspective on the movie. Anyway good video. :)
@@antondzajajurca7797 Didn't think you did haha. I only specify I'm Italian since over the years friend sand family have commented on me never seeing this movie. Like just because I'm Italian I HAD to watch this or something. Appreciate you!
The film was first released in the spring of 1972. The setting is just after WW2 - 1946 or so. Michael is still wearing his Marine uniform.
To fine tune it the wedding takes place in late Summer of 1945 a couple of months after WWII and Don Vito was shot during Christmas 1945.
“News reporter”…??? Come on… he’s photographing cars, the FBI are there, couldn’t he by any chance be an FBI photographer? 🤷🏻♂️
Ok settle down lol....I made a mistake...that doesn't change the plot to the movie
So what's your definition of "not crap"???? If it has CGI and explosions and tits and ass everywhere???? Is that your idea of a good movie????
No not at all. I love practical effects and the older movies do that best. SOME older movies however do such a bad job that its just not believable to me and I enjoy it less.
Sorry this is my first time and last time watching you
Thanks for giving me a shot
Part 2 is a must-see. Don't wait too long to see it. I think you'll like it even more.
Def on the list
In Godfather 2, Fredo will prove his incompetence even more. From then on, if a person is referred to as "Fredo", it means that person is incompetent but thinks they are smart.
lol I have heard that before.
42:30 you didn't understand anything about the characters and this movie lol
Care to enlighten me then lol
Wow. Dude. There a TONS of movies "before 1980" that are incredible. Your film illiteracy is appalling. I don't know what to even tell you.
lol sorry I'm not a professional movie critic with an extensive background in classic cinema. It's almost as if I said I've seen plenty of older movies but that they just aren't my go to watch
You were watching a remastered version. A number of years ago the versions being shown (pre-streaming) were really awful condition but they ended up getting cleaned and are-mastered print created (whatever the term is) and it’s made the whole movie a lot better to watch. Part 2 is even better than part 1 which is hard to believe. Part 3 is a hot piece of garbage and I would avoid it like the plague.
Btw, the actor you said you thought you recognized is Robert Duvall. If you ever watched Apocalypse Now you’ll know recognize him.
I kind of figured it would be remastered. I was watching a digital copy I purchased and I know older films can go through several remasters and "Extended/Directors" cuts. Thanks for officially letting me know though
Hmm hmm
Part 2 is considered the greatest sequel ever.
The “graininess” u referred to was an intentional choice to make the movie seem more period!
Compare the amazing cinematography of 2001 which was done in the late 1960s.
The 3rd one was, for me, a complete sell-out waste of time n effort n was only connected to the others by character names only.
Try 2001, Rosemary’s Baby, n Chinatown