I JUST PURCHESD DVD AND WATCHED ONE GODFATHER PER NIGHT AND I LIKED 3 ,NO 1 DOES BUT I DO , IT SHOWS ON HOW MIKE WANTS TO LEAVE HIS PAST BEHIND HIM AND START OVER AND HOW HIS NEPHEW WANTS TO TAKE ON WHAT MIKE LEFT BEHIND. It shoWs how someone can never leave the past. i think any one have similar feelings AND if you dont like GF3 POST WHY NOT PLEASE

I personally really liked it. It's a good film. But no where near in the same league as the predecessors. Otherwise it is good. To me, anyway. Glad to hear you enjoyed it and it's cool you had to shout about it.

Horrible.....,

is what i think it is, maybe i'm one of the only ppl here who thinks so but just thought i'd give my opinion since you asked for it.

Godfather 3 is the first of the three parts that i saw first and find it good. i think one of the reasons why some people dont like this is Sophia Coppola. they hate her acting and find her too amateur in the ranks of Mr Al Pacino. Godfather 3 is one of my favorites. the part i like most is when Mary was shot, that acting of Al Pacino was el perfecto!

GoodFella

Well you are the third person who says it. Only I, you and another person prefer GF 3 above the other 2.

Because it's BORING, MISCAST, and much of the plot is CONTRIVED. Despite the well-concieved message of "...someone can never leave the past...", it was poorly presented. Like serving a filet mignon dinner on a garbage can cover.

And THAT'S why I don't like GF3.

Apple

i love it too!! I mean it doesn't have the darkness of the first one but it's still a part of their lives, I think it would be a good idea to either make a GF4 with darker themes and with Vicent as don, with flash backs of something, or to go into the past of Vito cuz in the book it sounds really interesting how he made it to don etc.

but I love GF3 too!

Becka

EWWWWWWWW.

Right on Apple .. and it's pathetic as well.

GFress what did you think of the first 2?

I cant beleive most of you like the third one best? I personally loike the first 2 best but I still think the 3rd one is awesome. Its just that I like alot of thecharacters in the first 2 and arn'tinthe 3rd. Also the first 2 are just classic!

I like it but it's no way near the greatness of the first two. The story in the third movie seems unimportand to me. They should have add middle age Vito's story to make the movie much more interesting.

Only one person has mentioned to like GFIII above any other. Other than that I have never heard one person mention that GFIII is better than any other part of the trilogy. Where is eveyone getting there demographics from? Certainly not this thread.

And no one has edited their message apart from Pinche, but that was well before I even replied to it.

Popular opinion is....

GFI and II are amazing, GFIII is simply just an ok film.

I really like III, although, many times I have admitted that it isn't in the same league as the predecessors.

And others just don't like III - fair do's. To each their own. I still have not heard anyone prefer III to any other yet.

I like GF3, if on a scale of 1-10 GF and GF2 are 10s-and they are-then I would give GF3 an 8. The story of Vincent Mancini is weak, and the acting by Sofia Coppola and Talia Shire is not that good. And there's two big a gap between the Mary shooting scene and Michael's death. But I still like it, especially the return to Sicily.

Gotta' go with Turi. There are a few of us who like GF III ( very few! ). But out of those few, one would be hard pressed to find one who likes the third one over the other two. I like it, but it's not in the same league...and it's a totally different theme.

I dont know about great,but I do enjoy it.It also has in my opinion the most emotional scene of the all the Godfathers.

A good movie in the best way possible.

TheGodfatheress, the only reason you like it is because you love Andy Garcia. You told me yourself you haven't even seen part I or II.

The Godfather Part III is a disappointment and in some ways, pathetic but, I loves seeing the Corleone saga carry on, very entertaining, although it is incredibly inferior to its masterpiece predessesors. Pacino was brilliant, Garcia was fair, and of course Sofia Coppola was crap. Still, maybe we should cut her some slack, The Virgin Suicides was good....eugH, it's good, but nothing to Part I and II.

Anton

Godfather 1 is the best of the trilogy,
i tend to find that godfather 2 tends 2 drag on, a bit to long if you ask me,

Godfather 3 is simply a summary of whats happened in the other 2 films, and an ending to the trilogy.

the only godfather 3 part that is better then the other 2 is the DVD, the picture is clearer, colours are better

otherwise sorry, but godfather 3 pails in comparassen to the other 2, maybe because of the bad actors although pacino is still present, actos like sofia coppola really just put the film down.

Godfather 3 COULD have been better than the other 2 if it actually HAD a storyline and possibly a better cast.

But anyway, 2 each his own,

Last Don

The more I watch GF3 the more I like it,but maybe thats just familiarity !!!

Anyway, I agree with MFM about the emotional scenes. By that I mean when Michael dies at the end, not when Mary dies tho that is sad too.
I could cry at the end with the flashbacks and everything, and the music just finishes me off.

FH

i love the first one! I'm saying that it's a different kinda movie cuz it's not as violent, but I haven't as yet seen the second and it's supposed to be the best, which I think it probably will be but I don't hate gf3 like most of ya seem to

Becka

AND, yes I do like andy garcia BUT, I still think it's a good part, it may be a little underwritten but I reckon that's cuz there isn't a book for it like there was for part one. and I have Seen part one, so there ! lol!

Becka

p.s I think sofia was a little wooden but the script wasn't too good and I don't think it gave even pacino enough to work with, maybe they should have waited until there was enough funding etc....*thinks*

Uhmmmmm I don't but i don't think that anything can beat one with all the boys no matter what story line they gave 3 it just wasn't needed FFC:"To me that last scene of Micheal in GF2 was the end" Two was incredible as well but one is still my favorite.

I think the most emotional part is at the end of the second after micheal has freydo whacked and he has the flashback when they were all together happy and how buissness could just tear apart that family.

he whacks his own bro??

Becka

Oh my, we're gonna need spoiler warnings for the Godfather soon.

I agree with the whole deal of the miscasts. Yes it was contrived but at least it was better than most movies with a similar genre. How could you have created the plot? If you were given a chance. By the way, was there a time you were served a fillet mignon on a garbage can cover?

In my opinion GF III was the weakest of the trilogy because its predecessors were more realistic and well casted. A regards to comparing the Godfather III to other films, I am sure it can hold up by itself.

It's a new day, brother!

The only thing that supposedly makes it 'better' than movies with 'similar genre', it that it had the advantage of being a Godfather sequel, made by the origingal GF writers/director and starring some of the original GF cast. Without these connections it would've probably been a dismal failure. How would I have created the plot? For one thing I've stated here before that either of Connie's children could've easily been utilized as Michael's potential successor, as opposed to the ridiculousness of creating Santino's illegitimate son. I would probably have not included the absurd story of Mary falling in love with her own cousin.

As for the 'garbage can lid', no I've never been served a dinner that way. It was a fabulous analagy used on The Cosby Show, when one of the daughter's abruptly announces she's engaged to a man her parents had never met and didn't even know she was dating. When she brings him over to meet them, despite his being a very nice young man, they do not appreciate the manner in which he was introduced. Cosby tells him that he has just been presented to them like a steak dinner on a garbage can lid.

You got any more questions for me, Daniel Corleone?

Apple

No need to argue.... GF3 was better not made it wasn't needed, Cappola pulled it off most likely because he needed money to too add to the trilogy. i read it in the June edition of Newsweek that Pacino initially asked for 7 million, which enraged Francis so much that he threatened to write a script that started with Micheal Corleone's Funeral, so there going as far as to even write a Godfather without Micheal to me just in a way hints it.

One of the things that made the original two so great was the cast. Not to mention there was more concistancy to the plot. The third one was alright but the first was and always will be the best. Not that it could have been helped much. It's hard to make a descent sequel 16 years after the last one. Most of the original cast was dead. Only seven people were in all three.

The only thing that supposedly makes it 'better' than movies with 'similar genre', it that it had the advantage of being a Godfather sequel, made by the origingal GF writers/director and starring some of the original GF cast. Without these connections it would've probably been a dismal failure. How would I have created the plot? For one thing I've stated here before that either of Connie's children could've easily been utilized as Michael's potential successor, as opposed to the ridiculousness of creating Santino's illegitimate son. I would probably have not included the absurd story of Mary falling in love with her own cousin.

As for the 'garbage can lid', no I've never been served a dinner that way. It was a fabulous analagy used on The Cosby Show, when one of the daughter's abruptly announces she's engaged to a man her parents had never met and didn't even know she was dating. When she brings him over to meet them, despite his being a very nice young man, they do not appreciate the manner in which he was introduced. Cosby tells him that he has just been presented to them like a steak dinner on a garbage can lid.

You got any more questions for me, Daniel Corleone?

Apple[/QB][/QUOTE]

So which one are you talking about? You don't think Vincent was a good character? I agree on your opinion about the cousin thing (just gross). Just thougt you experienced it, good thing you saw it on a tv show.