Godfather 1 and 2 on AMC right fucking now

[sniffa]

I've never seen both in their entirety, and I only missed the first 50 minutes of the first one (started at 4).

No MSNBC tonight it looks like.

[bicentennial_baby]

1. So I leave, and NOW you voluntarily watch movies?!

:rofl:

:hi:

[sniffa]

3. Hey, you didn't offer to watch the Godfather

:loveya:

[Tangerine LaBamba]

2. Oh, OH!!!!!!!!!

It's on now, thank you very much.

I'm so twisted about these movies that, even though I have both DVDs sitting here and could watch them anytime, I am transfixed every time they show up on AMC.

They've been showing these two - along with Caddyshack and Blazing Saddles - a lot recently.

Makes for better mental health around here.

Thank you for making an offer I can't refuse ...................

[sniffa]

4. I'm hating the commercials though

and the fact that they didn't subtitle the Italian. :eyes:

[Tangerine LaBamba]

5. He told him to settle down

and understand that this is how business is done, has always been done. That he knows the cop is a thug, but he's THEIR thug, and Michael must get Santino to understand that and go along with it. The hit on Don Corleone was a big mistake, everybody knows that, but Don Corleone left them no choice. Now, Michael's job is to explain to the others that the power is not only Don Corleone's any more.

OK? I grew up speaking Italian.

The commercials are when I'm getting laundry done.......................

[Aristus]

6. The movie kind of glossed over the fact that the film mogul was a child molester.

Puzo made that pretty clear in the book. Considering what happens to Jack Whathisname later, and the general tone of the film, why do you suppose Coppola held back on that little detail?

[Tangerine LaBamba]

7. Because it didn't advance the story -

don't forget that Puzo AND Coppola did the screenplay. If Puzo had thought that it enhanced the narrative arc, it would have been in there. But, the point was that the Family was always going to get what it wanted, and the movie guy didn't necessarily have to be a bad guy. It made the Family so much more vicious if they did this to a regular guy.

See?

There was a line in the movie about the young actress being the "sweetest piece of ass" the mogul had ever had. That was enough to make him look like enough of a scumbag.

[Aristus]

10. I agree. That's a good way to look at it.

Although one can at least assume that the starlet Johnny Fontana liked and Woltz (I remembered his name...) took for himself was an adult.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

13. I didn't assume that -

back then, don't forget, young girls were trundled off to Hollywood by ambitious mothers, and they knew to bed down with the powers-that-be, so if banging a fourteen- or fifteen-year-old girl can be called child molesting - and I think it can - then that's as much of it as they used to keep the character's - yes, Woltz! - backstory intact.

People think writing novels and screenplays is easy. They have no idea how complicated it is. You raised a really good point, and it was fun to consider something in a movie I've probably seen 50 times since it opened in 1972. The I and II still utterly captivate me.

Of course, being Italian-American and having grown up in that world might have something to do with it, but, really, they're just brilliant.

(My all-Italian father refused ever to see the movie when it came out, deciding it was just another affront to his people. But, one day, when we were alone, he sort of whispered to me, "So, was it true, that part about the horse's head?"

He loved it when I told him it was. But he never saw any of the movies. Wouldn't have anything to do with the glorification of gangsters......)

[MrCoffee]

8. Are they synching Dark Side of the Moon on SAP?

You'll never be the same after watching the baptism scene while listening to Brain Damage

[sniffa]

9. The restaurant scene just happened.

Go Michael! :woohoo:

[madinmaryland]

11. Sorry, but I have to call my congressman, and then join a conference call

in 15 minutes.

[bigwillq]

12. Two of the best movies ever.

Enjoy! :toast:

[sniffa]

14. Sonny's dead

[CBGLuthier]

15. no, no, no, they edit

You should not see these great films bowdlerized and sanitized for your protection. Please rent the DVDs and ignore this airing I beg you.