Sitting here watching The Godfather for the 1400th time....

[Robbie3000]

I fukking love the Godfather epic on HBO. They cut out so many great scenes in the first one, but it's still so classic.

I was reading the Godfather wiki and didn't know Sonny was a beast on the streets. Apparently he was quite the field general on the streets.

Makes sense why he went to the mattresses so quick.

One thing I didn't get is why Solatzo thought he could murk Vito and then get Sonny to work with him.

 

[mastermind]

Another book tidbit: Mike gets back at the guard who betrayed him as well

It's in the book and you only see this in the Epic.

 

[Suspicious Dingo]

Random shyt but my first exposure to message boards was a Godfather fan site. I was shocked as a lil kid that you could get so many new talking points from 2 movies and a book.

I really think I should find time to read that book finally.

Don't breh, it's ... one of the few instances where the movie is (vastly) better than the book.

 

[TheNig]

You can read his eyes the whole time and even in that scene where dumbass Fredo said he Johnny Ola took him a place

I remember watching that part and softly saying, "Fredo, you fukkin idiot "

 

[LevelUp]

 

[Barney Rubble]

It's impossible to get sick of this movie. Absolute GOAT shyt.

 

[TheNig]

 

[the cac mamba]

It's impossible to get sick of this movie. Absolute GOAT shyt.

if you're a big movie fan, you gotta read the book. GOAT novel. and you catch some lines that they changed for the worse for the movie

like in the Moe Greene scene, when he says "i made my bones when you were going out with cheerleaders". the book is "i killed more men than you before i could jerk off"

 

[Barney Rubble]

if you're a big movie fan, you gotta read the book. GOAT novel. and you catch some lines that they changed for the worse for the movie

like in the Moe Greene scene, when he says "i made my bones when you were going out with cheerleaders". the book is "i killed more men than you before i could jerk off"

Oh I've read it, I'm a stan. Woltz being a pedo

 

[the cac mamba]

Oh I've read it, I'm a stan. Woltz being a pedo

yeah, crazy how they were exposing hollywood even then

they also got into california with more of johnny fontane's story. tryna remember what else is different.

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

yeah, crazy how they were exposing hollywood even then

they also got into california with more of johnny fontane's story. tryna remember what else is different.

Been a while but the beatdown of the guys who assaulted the daughter of the mortician from the beginning was described rather brutally.

 

[Ahmen]

Me too, on a redeye flight from LAX to O'Hare.
There's ALWAYS a new sublety discovered that I previously missed.

 

[GOATpernick]

The foreshadowing of what was to come in Part 2

Michael: Fredo, you're my older brother, and I love you. But don't ever take sides with anyone against the Family again.

 

[HipHopStan]

I really wish they had kept that scene in The Godfather: Part II. It’s one of the final glimpses of a more “human” Michael. By that point, he’s already well into his transformation—colder, more isolated, more calculating. But this blessing scene offers a brief flash of the man he might have been: the dutiful son, the protective brother, the person who still saw family as something tender rather than transactional. The scene is only two minutes and fifty-five seconds, but it feels like it goes on for five or six minutes and I mean that in a good way too.

Great, great scene. I’m sorry that it got cut.

EDIT - Anyone catch when Fredo barges in like a total nuisance, they hit him with a brutal "Not now, Fredo — family matter," and he’s just standing there confused as they shut the door on him. It’s hilarious and heartbreaking at the same time. Poor little runt. lol

 

[Diunx]

I wonder if the cops ate the Cannolies