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msfbgraves · 16 days

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What do you think of The Godfather Part 3? I honestly hate most of it, it just feels like poorly written fanfiction lol. I can't decide what's the worst bit: Mary, Mary and Vincent's incestuous relationship (WHY!!), Michael and Kay, Michael being totally OOC (smiling, being jovial), Michael's truly horrible haircut (might be the single worst offender for me OMG)...just a bad film in my opinion. I like to pretend it doesn't exist.

I personally really like Sherlock series 1 and 2, and ignore the existence of the rest of it, pretty much. That works fine. But if you don't mind me feeling differently while understanding where you're coming from, Nonnie - I really like the Godfather Coda, the Death of Michael Corleone. Part III, the first cut, nah, I think we can put that aside. And yes, the difference in Michael is too jarring for the most part. I've watched Pacino in different things, and he seems to prefer playing more extrovert men, and seems to have decided playing Michael that way was what felt best to him. And I could see it - there are some hints of that Michael very early in film 1 with Kay - but they'd need to do a better job bridging that gap visually. I can forgive it, because I do see this film as Don Corleone desperately trying to go back to being a man, Michael Andolini if you will, the man he would have been had he not picked up the mantle of Don, the man he can't ever be. Vito saw the tragedy in his son picking up that mantle, he almost apologised: "There wasn't enough time, Michael." Michael now sees Vincent being hungry for it while he cannot escape how his own choices are eating at him. When he wants his son to join him, he is rebuffed. When he forbids his daughter to join him through Vincent,he is rebuffed. I think the figure of Mary shows very clearly how he has lost all the loves of his life to this crime, in the dancing scenes: Apollonia, Kay, yes, Kay, people, and now the one who yet loves him as a man first - Mary. Connie, too, has been entirely corrupted.

The third Godfather gives us a whole film about this stage of alienation and power slipping from us, while framing the rise of Vincent not as a triumph but as a horror. Vito's rising was mostly triumphant, as he honoured his relationships. Michael's rising was terrible on everyone he loved... and Vincent's rising through Michael's eyes is sleazy. A rotten thing that Michael can't escape.

But most gangster films give that a couple of scenes at most, indeed a coda... but Coppola was like: if you insist on milking this, I refuse to go easy on you. I will not do it, I will give you the wreckage I spent two films building up.

Artistically brave, but a genre break, and a sad thing too that these men can't figure out a way to include a young woman in this action other than through love. Cousins marrying was not totally unheard of in the Sicilian old world, though, I don't think. Small island, few newcomers. These things die out hard. Just another way to show how this old world clashes with the life Michael chases and can never reach - through his own choices! It's a true tragedy! Could he have done differently? Yes, but also no, he is Michael. Who bears the emotional fallout of this, and this I love - the women! The ones who are supposedly so cutoff from all this! Connie gets abused, widowed, and has to submit to her own brother in an effort to save the other and herself. Again, she's lost two siblings and a husband to this violence! Kay lives in terror and still loses a daughter. Mary - poorly acted Mary, I'm sorry, even recut the others outshine her too much - killed by a bullet meant for Michael, and Michael, forced to live with his failure exiled in the Sicily he tried all his life to leave behind... it's tonally a break and not at all what a lot of fans of the first two would have come to the cinema for. But what do I think?

I think despite its flaws it's brave and necessary.

I mean I love that Michael ends this film alone, ashamed and cursedly alive.

#The godfather part iii #The godfather coda #the godfather #The death of michael corleone

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anywaythewindblows19 · 7 months

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Last night I watched The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone. I can’t believe how much better it is than the original cut of the movie. I actually want to watch it again, unlike the first time I watched Part III. Sophia Coppola is not nearly as bad as I remember. She did pretty good for someone who was thrown into the role at the last minute and constantly ridiculed by the press. I love the new ending too, Michael all alone in his old age consumed by guilt and grief.

#chef’s kiss #the godfather #the godfather part 3 #the godfather coda the death of Michael Corleone #michael corleone #mary corleone #sophia coppola #al pacino #.txt post #.mine

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notahorseindisguise · 4 months

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also im gonna level with you. godfather part III is kinda bad man. like. number one it isnt based on the source material it was essentially a cash-grab because paramount was in a terrible financial state.

it's not the worst film but its definitely not up to par with the first 2.

HOWEVER (although i havent seen it yet) francis ford coppola did release a recut version called The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone, which apparently fixed a lot of issues with the original cut.

I'd recommend checking any version of the film out anyway, but like, you don't NEED to watch it immediately if you don't want to lmao.

i saw the godfather coda ! its on the streaming service i watched 1 and 2 on. should i watch 3 and then coda? ir should i skip straight to coda

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tilbageidanmark · 1 year

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Movies I watched this Week #120 (Year 3/Week 16):

“Give up my daughter. That’s the price you pay. For the life you choose.”

First watch: Coda, The death of Michael Corleone, Coppola’s 2020 (minimal) re-cut of his 1990 masterpiece ‘The Godfather Part 3′. I never understood the haters. (And the misogyny against Sofia Coppola as Mary was completely misplaced.) Even though part 3 is obviously not as perfect as the first two, it’s still a superb and subtle work. A Shakespearean tragedy, operatic and expansive, it resonates with me deeply. 10/10.

I love how symmetric it is: The “Just when I thought I was out” scene clocks in exactly on the 1:00 hour mark, the Sicily first introduction exactly at the half-movie mark (1:17), and the Cavalleria Rusticana concert start exactly on the 2:00 hour mark..

It’s also a parallel Coppola Family Saga, with sister Talia Shire as Connie, daughter Sofia as Mary, father Carmine composing, nephew Nicolas Cage producing, his parents and a bunch of other family members in the background. Also, Martin Scorsese's mother.

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3 by Irish John Michael McDonagh, Martin’s older brother:

🍿 'I can't tell if you're really motherfuckin' dumb, or really motherfuckin' smart'.

His brilliant feature directorial debut, the perfectly calibrated buddy cop thriller, The Guard. A philosophical comedy of manners featuring Brendan Gleeson’s and Don Cheadle‘s best roles. Foul mouthed but duty-bound Sergeant Gerry Boyle of the Irish Garda is a character that will not soon be forgotten. It was so good that the moment I finished it, I wanted to see it again. 10/10

🍿 His next film Calvary was completely different and still tremendous. An exceptional examination of abandonment, troubled faith and broken parenthood, it opens with honest village priest Brendan Gleeson who hears a confession by a man who was horribly abused during his childhood. The unseen man promises to kill the priest next Sunday, in order to avenge his own suffering, so the priest knows he has only one week to put his house in order. A profound play with a transcendental finale. 10/10.

🍿 I was excited to continue with McDonagh’s next two movies, but War on Everyone was so horribly disappointing, that his last one, ‘The Forgiven’, will now have to wait. ‘War on Everyone’ was as if a second-rated hack was assigned to remake ‘The Guard’ in a Hollywood Mold, but was ordered to mix it with elements from ‘Lethal Weapon’ and ‘Rush hour’. 2/10.

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Sweet Land, an independent art-film from Minnesota, about a 1920′s mail-order emigrant-bride who arrives at a farm with the wrong paperwork. Very much reminiscent of ‘Days of Heaven’ lyrical landscapes. It was the only film directed by otherwise-successful TV-director Ali Selim. It opens with a stirring scene of an old woman dying, told in a unique way, realistic and poetic at the same time.

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2 more with Jacques Demy:

🍿 Jacquot de Nantes, My 10th film by Agnès Varda. In 1991, Just before her husband Jacques Demy's death, Varda created this bio-docudrama as a dramatisation of his early life. From his happy childhood in the Loire, discovering his love for film-making, under the German occupation and up until he left for Paris to study cinema. The nostalgic fictional recreations are the most French evocations I ever saw. And then, because she’s a great documentarian, she mixes them up with frequent comments by the dying Demy himself, as well as clips from his movies corresponding to these memories.

This is a heartfelt love letter from one great artist to another - Absolutely fantastic! 9/10.

🍿 My 4th by Jacques Demy himself, his 2nd, the extraordinary Bay of Angels. A doomed romance and the allure of gambling never seen so glamorous and so hopeless. 9/10.

I really must sit through his complete “Oeuvre”!

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Masaan (”Crematorium”) is a realistic art film about suffering and loss, an unusual and uncomfortable Hindi film, which won various accolades. It takes place in Varanasi, among the ‘ghats’, body-burners on the banks of the Ganges. It tells two separate stories that do not converge until the final scene. The more compelling one is about an ordinary young woman, who’s caught having sex in a hotel room. A cruel policeman (An hateful character if I ever saw one on film), blackmails her father and threatens him that he will “tell” about his daughter, if not paid an absorbent amount of money. 5/10.

(Incidentally, before the opening title, there was a lengthy anti-smoking PSA, and when somebody in the movie lighted a cigarette, a small message appeared at the bottom of the screen: ‘Smoking is injurious to health’.)

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2 about Father & Daughter Reunion:

🍿 Acidman, another new drama about a fraught relationship between estranged father and his grown-up daughter. He’s a recluse who lives alone “out in the middle of nowhere”, and she tracks him down to the forests of the NW, after having lost contact with him for 10 years. Meanwhile he had became distant and disoriented and is only interested in UFO’s.

It’s a story that is resonant with me, but it was poorly made, all atmosphere, and without a point. 2/10.

🍿 Wild Roots, another excellent feature debut by a young woman director, this one from Hungary. 12-year-old “wild” girl who lives with her grandparents forms a new, complicated relationship with her tough father who was just released from prison after 7 years. You wouldn’t guess that both actors were amateurs. 8/10. (Photo Above).

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Tom McCarthy is one of my favorite minor directors, and by now I’ve seen all 9 of his movies. He wrote and directed The Visitor after his terrific debut ‘The Station Agent’, and before writing the script for ‘Up’. A tender and humane story about cold and lonely widower Richard Jenkins who discovers an illegal immigrant couple living in his empty NYC apartment, when he shows up unannounced one night. Made in 2007, it dealt with the painful realities of life after 9/11. Sad and nuanced. With Succession’s Hiam Abbass. 8/10. 🍿

3 more films from the “100% score on Rotten Tomatoes” list:

🍿 Pinocchio, Walt Disney’s 2nd feature (after ‘Snow White'), and one of at least 23 adaptations to the story. Cuckoo clocks, Tyrolean hats, cigar smoking bad boys, Monstro the sperm whale, they are all there. Conveying to children the "middle-class virtues of deferred gratification, self-denial, thrift, and perseverance, naturalized as the experience of the most average American".

🍿 Polanski’s favorite film, Carol Reed’s morality tale Odd man out; The last hours of injured IRA leader James Mason. Exquisite black and white German Expressionist Noir style cinematography, which Reed later repeated in ‘The third man’.

🍿 Jonah Hill’s 2nd directorial feature, the documentary Stutz, about his therapist. His coming-of-age debut film, ‘Mid90s’ was terrific. This one is OK; Partially-meta, a bit too self-indulgent and self-centered. Robert Downey Jr.’ similar project ‘Sr.’, also from 2022, was better.

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Grizzly Man, the Werner Herzog documentary about bear enthusiast Timothy Treadwell who lived out among ferocious Alaskan brown bears for 13 summers - until he was eaten by one. Herzog used some of the 100 hours of video tapes that Treadwell himself recorded.

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“Give my love to Tabboulah”

The Castle, the 1997 feel-good low-brow comedy, considered to be “One of the greatest Australian films ever made”. A story about a simple, low-middle-class family who are fighting (and winning) en eviction forced upon them by Eminent Domain, there called ‘Compulsory acquisition’. With Bryan Dawe, the ‘Front Fell Off’ guy as a lawyer.

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Between 1909-1914 Denmark was the most prosperous film center in Europe. The 1910 erotic melodrama The Abyss ("Afgrunden”) launched the career of Asta Nielsen, Europe's first great female film star. It’s about a piano teacher who destroys her life by running away with a circus performer she became sexually obsessed with.

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Riotsville, USA is a new documentary about a little known fact from the turbulent Civil Right Struggle of the 60′s. After the Watts Riots, a report from a government panel recommended a massive infrastructure changes to address poverty and inequality. But the only steps taken were funneling of resources into more militarization of the police to combat “race riots” and “street violence”, both of anti-war and black protesters. A fake ‘War Game’ town called Riotsville was build to train cops from all over the country in how to suppress demonstrations.

America is a deeply, fundamentally racist society, and its history comes down to race; from Slavery to Jim Craw to the civil rights of the 60′s up to today’s GOP. However, this badly-put-together film was weak, arbitrary and meandering. 2/10.

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2 George Carlin evergreens:

🍿 His perfect 1999 Special You Are All Diseased. There never was, and never will be, a deeper, funnier and more insightful comedian than St. George. Also, nobody understood America better. It includes such classics as American Bullshit and When it comes to bullshit, big time, major league bullshit, you have to stand in awe, in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims… religion.

The full transcript is worth a read: ...Living in this country, you’re bound to know... that America’s leading industry, America’s most profitable business is still the manufacture, packaging, distribution, and marketing of bullshit… high quality, grade-A, prime cut, pure American bullshit.

🍿 Complaints and Grievance, released on December 11, 2001. Originally named ‘I Kinda Like It When a Lot of People Die’, he had to change the name of it. Still hilarious. This copy is sound only.

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I’ve seen Black Mirror’s USS Callister many times, even though I never saw any episodes of the space operas on which it is based (Star Trek, Star Wars, etc.). It’s because of the rebelliously-cute Nanette Cole fighting (and winning over) the male abuser. Funny, that Jesse Pinkman joined Jesse Plemons in this episode. 9/10.

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4 shorts:

🍿 For the 1999 MTV Movie Awards, Wes Anderson created three promo spots, each one a staged re-creation of a nominated movie in the style of the Hollywood-inspired Rushmore plays (Serpico & the Vietnam War one). All three shorts (Armageddon, Out of Sight, The Truman Show) star Jason Schwartzman as Max Fisher, along with the rest of the Max Fischer Players.

🍿 Chuck Jones - The Evolution of an Artist, an old ‘Every frame a painting’ episode by fantastic editor Tony Zhou, about how a good artist became a great one.

Extra: How Kurosawa composed movement. Damn! I need to stop bullshitting and start watching every one of his 31 movies again!

🍿 A History Of The World According To Getty Images is a short documentary about property, profit, and power, made out of archive footage sourced from the online catalogue of Getty Images. It forms a historical journey through some of the most significant moments of change caught on camera, while at the same time reflecting on archive images’ own histories as commodities and on their exploitation as ‘intellectual property’.

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(My complete movie list is here)

#movies

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theflapperdamefilm · 1 year

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couples that need to re-unite on screen

As of 2022 (and into early 2023), I think genuine on screen chemistry is dead. We need something comforting in this crazy world we live in.

1: Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet: Most recent on screen pairing: Revolutionary Road 2008. Please put them back together for their third movie! AND THIS TIME NO ONE DIES. PLEASE! WE ALL NEED THIS!

2: Al Pacino and Diane Keaton: Most recent on screen pairing: The Godfather Part III / The Godfather Coda: the death of Michael Corleone 1990. Put them back together for their 4th movie/ first non -Godfather movie. I want them in a rom com or something, something that allows them to build off their chemistry and the knowledge of the fact they've known each other for over 50 years. I think we all need this.

3: Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle: Most recent on screen pairing: The King's Speech 2010 (not as romantic interests however). Whenever Colin does something with Jennifer, good things happen to him: Pride and Prejudice he shoots to superstardom, The King's Speech he gets the Oscar. Jennifer Ehle may just be his best on screen partner! ! Time for them to reunite!!!!

4: Dan Stevens and Michelle Dockery: Most recent on screen pairing: Season 3 Of Downton Abbey (2012). We need this! Dan and Michelle are naturals for each other and it would be so amazing to see them together in a movie!!!

#kate winslet #leonardo dicaprio #Al pacino #Diane keaton #Colin firth #Jennifer ehle #Dan stevens #Michelle dockery

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lascenizas · 1 year

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The Last Movie I Watched...

The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone (1990/2020, Dir.: Francis Ford Coppola)

#the godfather part III #the godfather coda #i watched #al pacino

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weareonlyspiritswhotrytobealive · 2 years

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Movies watched in April, 2022

FIRST VISIONS:

Banzai (1997). Directed by Carlo Vanzina

Don Camillo e i giovani d'oggi (1972). Directed by Mario Camerini

The A-Team (2010). Directed by Joe Carnahan

Doomsday (2008). Directed by Neil Marshall

Little Fockers (2010).Directed by Paul Weitz

Snakes on a Plane (2006). Directed by David R. Ellis

The Innkeepers (2011). Directed by Ti West

Land of the Dead (2005). Directed by George A. Romero

Lightning Strikes (2009). Directed by Gary Jones

The Void (2016). Directed by Jeremy Gillespie & Steven Kostanski

Seattle Superstorm (2012). Directed by Jason Bourque

Asteroid: Final Impact (2015). Directed by Jason Bourque

Dahmer (2002). Directed by David Jacobson

The Passion of the Christ (2004). Directed by Mel Gibson

Tropic Thunder (2008). Directed by Ben Stiller

What Dreams May Come (1998). Directed by Vincent Ward

Fauve (2018). Directed by Jeremy Comte

Tiger Boy (2012). Directed by Gabriele Mainetti

Until the End (2018). Directed by Giovanni Dota

Blended (2014). Directed by Frank Coraci

The Cobbler (2014). Directed by Tom McCarthy

Tunnel Rats (2008). Directed by Uwe Boll

The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone (Director's Cut, 2020). Directed by F. F. Coppola

Intouchables (2011). Directed by Oliver Nakache & Éric Toledano

Peninsula (2020). Directed by Sang-ho Yeon

Pig (2021). Directed by Michael Sarnoski

REWATCHED:

The Visit (2015). Directed by M. Night Shyamalan

Nosferatu: Eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922). Directed by F. W. Murnau

The Strangers (2008).Directed by Bryan Bertino

Event Horizon (1997). Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson

A Few Good Men (1992). Directed by Rob Reiner

Train to Busan (2016). Directed by Sang-ho Yeon

D-Tox (2002). Directed by Jim Gillespie

The Exorciccio (1975). Directed by Ciccio Ingrassia

SPORT:

WrestleMania 38 (2022)

NWA/WCW - The Great American Bash (1986)

NWA Championship Wrestling - The Jim Crockett Promotions

TV SERIES:

The A-Team (1983 - 1987)

Battlestar Galactica (2004 - 2009)

#2022 #movies watched in 2022 #april #april 2022 #first visions #rewatched #sport #tv series

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