...been able to turn one of your friends into a bonafide Godfather freak like yourself? After I watched the movies for the first time back in 1997, I got the VHS collection that May and instantly tried to turn my friends onto the movies, all of whom had never seen any of them before.

They were slow to watch them, and I actually made one of my friends finish Part III while I was at his house, but I don't think any of them really "got it" the way I did... the acting, the storytelling, the direction, the cinematography, the editing, the backstories, the novel, everything you can dive into in this trilogy. They remained on the surface while I was scuba diving the Godfather ocean.

A few of them quote the movies every now and then and talk about them, mostly the first one, but overall I think they just like the movies and don't love them the way I do.

Are they crazy? Or am I wrong to think that they should appreciate the movie as I do? I can honestly say that these movies are the best movies ever made (especially I & II) and we'll never see a movie or trilogy as flawless and rich as this ever again.