Sorry for my rambling, had a lot of things in this post I wanted to comment on.

To comment on the Immobiliare plot line:
I do think it is very boring, I always found that sort of annoying when people did movies about big deals that the viewers never really knew all the details of. Although it was true, that doesn't make it interesting.

I personally hated Kay in this movie. I didnt think Diane Keaton had anything to do with that, Kay was just given such little to do and I found her and her plotlines (visiting Sicily, yea!!! ) very boring.

It seems to me like FFC just had a bunch of ideas concerning the Godfather that he wanted to use, and just sort of fabricated this story as an excuse to string them all togethor.

I do agree that this movie, while not nearly as good as the first two, is pretty good. despite all my complaints .

And I feel like the best thing about this movie is the ending. From the point where the film fades into the big Opera gateway in Sicily at night until the end, is, in my mind, one of the greatest film sequences ever created. In my mind, this film cannot compare to either of the other GF's, but the Opera Massacre sequence alone stands right along side the Baptism Murders sequence and the Hail Mary sequence at the end of GF I and II. FFC has a knack for wrapping things up quite nicely.

Although I feel like a better GFIII could have been made in the late 70's or early 80's as mentioned, this film is sufficient enough to appease my Godfather appetite.

And one question...

Is there any identifiable point in time in which Al Pacino switched from quiet-whispery guy to shouting, hoarse-voiced guy? I can't quite pinpoint the year or the film where this strange transition occured. The last Pacino film i've seen where he's still quiet is Scarface (1983), and then by GFIII (1990) he seems to have completely changed. anyone know the first film where he really seemed to have attained that raspy, guttural voice?