The Godfather
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge. From TMDB
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Many viewers consider The Godfather a cinematic masterpiece and one of the greatest films ever made. [1][2][3] Some posters praise the performances, especially Marlon Brando and Al Pacino. [2][4][5] A few reviewers criticize the film for glorifying mobsters or being dull. [6][7]
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While I'm writing this, The Godfather is still beloved by people who love it simply because they are told they have to love it. It's written by a mobster with the sole intention of depicting the lead mobsters as demi gods. Every line and every scene in the movie and the book is meant to intimidate people into thinking the "Mafia" and really any mob, is a supernatural force. This is a movie glorifying control freaks, …
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The Godfather Review by Al Carlson The Godfather is a film considered by most to be one of the greatest ever made. From The American Film Institute to as voted by users on the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) it is consider to be one of the best. As a film that ranks as high as other masterpieces including Citizen Kane, Pulp Fiction and 12 Angry Men, The Godfather is an exceptional piece of cinema excellence that is …
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The Godfather (1972), directed by the legendary Francis Ford Coppola, is nothing short of a cinematic masterpiece that redefined storytelling in film. Based on Mario Puzo’s bestselling novel, the movie seamlessly blends crime drama with an epic exploration of power, loyalty, and family. Every frame is a testament to Coppola’s brilliance, as he transforms a gripping tale into a timeless work of art. At the center of …
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When you get a story written quite this magnificently it would take an extreme amateur to screw it up - and Francis Ford Coppola is no amateur. Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan and Robert Duvall represent the epitome of guile, sophistication, loyalty, honour and brutality in this self-adapted Mario Puzo story of the unambiguously ambitious "Corleone" family - they start with nothing and so the only way is up; …
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The best movie ever... A masterpiece by the young and talented Francis Ford Coppola, about a Mob family and their drama, the story telling is perfect, the acting good, sometimes a little over the top in the case of Thalia Shire (the sister of the director) The 70's were the best years for Hollywood.
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The Godfather was a blockbuster, breaking many box office records to become the highest-grossing film of 1972. The film's opening day gross from five theaters was $57,829 with ticket prices increased from $3 to $3.50. Prices in New York increased further at the weekend to $4, and the number of showings increased from four times a day to seven times a day. The film grossed $61,615 in Toronto for the weekend and $240,780 in New York, for an opening weekend gross of $302,395. The film grossed $454,000 for the week in New York and $115,000 in Toronto for a first week gross of $568,800, which made it number one at the U.S. box office for the week. In its first five days of national release, it…
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60 of 393 · most liked firstThe Godfather Part II is a New Year’s Eve movie
neutral · AI labelView post →A giant loss: Robert Duvall is gone. An extraordinary artist who was fluent in every dialect of film acting, from ice-cold underplayer (The Godfather) to expert naturalist (Tender Mercies, The Apostle) to balls-to-the-wall maniac (Apocalypse Now). One of our all-timers. Plunge into that filmography.
neutral · AI labelView post →Mario Puzo, the author of The Godfather books who’d also adapted them to film, had no idea what he was doing as he’d never written a screenplay before. After winning two Oscars, he decided to buy a book on screenwriting to learn how. In the first chapter, it said, 'Study Godfather I.'
neutral · AI labelView post →Any movie over 3 hours long is a holiday season movie. Andrei Rublev, Seven Samurai, The Godfather, Jeanne Dielman, Fellowship of the Ring. Maybe go watch The Brutalist. Whatever. Sit down and enrich your life. You've probably got nothing going on today anyway.
neutral · AI labelView post →Diane Keaton, Oscar-winning star of Annie Hall and The Godfather, dies aged 79
neutral · AI labelView post →Robert Duvall was a giant. He's known for being in blockbusters like "The Godfather" and "Apocalypse Now." But he was so good, period. He got an Oscar for best actor in "Tender Mercies," a terrific smaller movie. Oh, he was so good in "Network."
neutral · AI labelView post →the ending of THE GODFATHER, the best american movie ever made, doesn't work without diane keaton's final look --- at the realization of who she's married and what her life is going to become and what corruption lurks behind closed doors. unforgettable, inimitable work. RIP.
neutral · AI labelView post →Robert Duvall, the seven-time Oscar nominee and a winner for 'Tender Mercies,' who is also known for 'The Godfather,' 'Apocalypse Now,' and 'To Kill a Mockingbird' has died, he was 95. Duvall died Sunday at home, his wife, Luciana, announced this morning. variety.com/2026/film/ne...
neutral · AI labelView post →uma musume career scenes are either easy as shit to guess like choice A: "Keep training." -> [Trained stat up] choice B: "Rest is important." -> [Energy up] or choice A: "Baby driver is the worst movie I've ever seen" -> [Stamina up⁉️] choice B: "I did not care for the Godfather." -> [Speed up⁉️]
neutral · AI labelView post →Hold up…is The Godfather a Christmas movie?
neutral · AI labelView post →10 Billion Dollar Movie Concept: Make a Jabba the Hutt movie. And don't make clear until it's too late, and people have bought tickets, that it's a shot for shot remake of The Godfather, only in the Star Wars universe.
neutral · AI labelView post →This is the same reason why The Godfather sucks as a movie: The characters all talk about being honorable family men but they don't act that way. Total failure.
negative · AI labelView post →I am so fortunate the vast majority of my college paper movie reviews are lost to history. I said Traffic was the best American movie since The Godfather in one with absolute and complete confidence!!! This was not true!!! Did I know any better? No!
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched The Godfather again. Turns out it's a very good film. One thing I never noticed before is how the door close on Kay is an echo in reverse of Michael's slow opening of Vito's hospital-room door the night he says "I'm with you now" and commits to the life
positive · AI labelView post →A movie performance I grew up accepting was absolutely amazing but couldn’t really tell you why is Marlon Brando in the Godfather because you can really argue that it’s goofy as fuck
neutral · AI labelView post →this guy's only other major credit is playing Al Pacino in "The Offer," the miniseries about the making of "The Godfather." I demand he also play Travolta in the "Saturday Night Fever" movie for the trifecta of '70s Italian movie stars
neutral · AI labelView post →Robert Duvall, who as an actor transformed himself into a business-focused Mafia lawyer in "The Godfather," a surfing-obsessed Vietnam commander in "Apocalypse Now" and scores of other film, stage and television characters, died on Sunday. He was 95. nyti.ms/4qJbrM3
neutral · AI labelView post →Impressive that they did not mention The Godfather, a pulpy novel that became a transcendent work of art as a film www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
neutral · AI labelView post →Last night I went to watch Gangs Of New York on amazon and it played The Godfather instead, which is also a movie about gangs of New York.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Godfather is a Christmas movie because it’s all about family and leaving surprises for people to wake up to.
neutral · AI labelView post →Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse references a scene from the movie 'The Godfather' to describe how he envisions the Trump administration's meetings with Ghislaine Maxwell.
neutral · AI labelView post →Yeah, let's nominate The Godfather Trilogy Blu-ray Anniversary Box for Best Movie at the Oscars
neutral · AI labelView post →Donald Trump: I love the Godfather. Best movie ever. Watched it again last night. Those are the kind of guys you want on your security detail. What did you say your name was? <Guy who's name is really Dave Wilson>: uh Matthew Calamari
neutral · AI labelView post →Check out this hand painted movie poster for the Godfather from Ghana
neutral · AI labelView post →the Godfather was on the NYT bestseller list for two years and sold nine million copies *before* the movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy Thanksgiving! The Danger Corps Feeding America fundraiser raised $13,104. That’s 131,040 meals you helped provide. We’re so grateful for this community. Cheers to friendship, gratitude, and Democracy. 💙🇺🇸 And yes, The Godfather is on. Your go-to movie? 🍿
neutral · AI labelView post →"Look how they massacred my boy" is an iconic line spoken by Vito Corleone (played by Marlon Brando) in the 1972 crime film The Godfather. He says it while grieving over the bullet-riddled body of his oldest son, Sonny Corleone and asks the mortician to make him look presentable for his mother.
neutral · AI labelView post →Iconic movie locations 🎬🍷 The church from The Godfather where Michael married Apollonia ⛪ Savoca, Sicily 🌅🇮🇹✨ #BlueSkyMonday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekIforIconic maybe #MountainMonday
neutral · AI labelView post →movies i have used paramount+ to watch: - The Godfather parts I and II - Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Wrath of Khan - The Big Short - Michael Clayton movies paramount+ thinks i want to watch: - Paw Patrol: The Movie - Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie - six more Paw Patrol tv specials
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie night at my dad's and my daughter chose the film. This will be her third John Cazale film, after The Godfather & The Conversation.
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m not a film guy by any stretch of the imagination (haven’t seen Titanic or The Godfather, for example) so if anyone has any suggestions for actually good trans films pls reply to this skeet so anyone looking to watch a good one can find some suggestions
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching The Godfather (1972) Dir: Francis Ford Coppola “I believe in America”
neutral · AI labelView post →Okay, which one of you complained that my GDC talk didn’t have a spoiler warning for The Godfather? That film was released in 1972! 1972!!!
neutral · AI labelView post →Started watching The Godfather for the first time ever (I have some weird holes in my movie watching history) and I'm already hootin and hollerin. Like a cinematic Big Bang
neutral · AI labelView post →What happens when a movie becomes such an institution that people forget it is also just a movie? Can it be watched as... just a movie? I tackle this question in my essay about today's December Comfort Watch: The Godfather. whatever.scalzi.com/2023/12/08/t...
neutral · AI labelView post →Fun fact: the Oscar on the night table of film producer Jack Woltz in the horse’s head scene in “The Godfather” is the one Coppola won for the “Patton” screenplay.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Godfather Part 2, Aliens, or The Empire Strike Back are often cited as the best movie sequels of all time... Addams Family Values: "Hold my drink"
neutral · AI labelView post →Released #OTD in 1974 #filmsky Francis Ford Coppola had written the outline in 1966, but couldn't get financing until The Godfather (1972) became a success. Gene Hackman learned to play the saxophone especially for the film Gene Hackman & Teri Garr also appeared in Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein
neutral · AI labelView post →Everyone has an iconic movie that they have never seen. Mine is The Godfather; what’s yours?
neutral · AI labelView post →The literal first thing I learned in film school was that the lighting in the opening scene in THE GODFATHER was diegetically impossible. The second thing I learned was that it didn’t matter.
neutral · AI labelView post →A legend…. So many extraordinary performances. From The Great Santini to the Godfather The Paper and on and on. He also directed one of my favorite movies, “Angelo My Love” Thank you! May his memory be a blessing… #RobertDuvall age 95 variety.com/2026/film/ne...
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie marquee for The Godfather (1972)
neutral · AI labelView post →What a complex film. Leone at times, the Godfather at times, Coutinho at times, but so its own wide-screen, super saturated, slow burn delight. The Secret Agent.
positive · AI labelView post →Marlon Brando didn’t want to memorize lines in The Godfather, so whoever he was speaking to in the film held up his lines while he spoke!
neutral · AI labelView post →The Godfather (1972) Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
neutral · AI labelView post →More than 50 years after the release of "The Godfather", Savoca — the Sicilian village where fewer than 100 people live — remains closely tied to the film. https://cnn.it/4901gMO
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s heeeeeere! The first episode of GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC is up on the @ohmpods.bsky.social feed! The great @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social joins @fifthcolumnfilms.bsky.social and I to talk about THE GODFATHER PART II! Listen, like, subscribe, etc! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Godfather is a Christmas movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Rewatched some of THE GODFATHER last night. The funniest line reading in film history is inarguably when Jack Woltz says “Let me tell you something my kraut, mick friend”
neutral · AI labelView post →If you're trying to refute widespread claims that you're horribly corrupt, you probably shouldn't film yourself quoting Vito Corleone from The Godfather.
neutral · AI labelView post →Love this film. Had a moment 10 minutes in where I was, like, “Oh I am watching The Godfather.” Only time will tell if that thought was right (and this is a less immediately approachable film than Coppola’s ultimately), but I had the thought!
positive · AI labelView post →ME: The Godfather and The Godfather Part II are a coppola great movies FILM CRITIC: holy shit
positive · AI labelView post →This was the highest-grossing film of all time until The Godfather in 1972. #SummerUnderTheStars #TCMParty #TheSoundOfMusic ^JW (1/2)
neutral · AI labelView post →I had to look up the guy who plays Sylvester Stallone in this movie about the making of Rocky and apparently he also played Al Pacino in the tv show about the making of The Godfather
neutral · AI labelView post →Step Up 2: The Streets i am 100% serious it’s the Godfather II of dance movie sequels
neutral · AI labelView post →yeah I was going to say, "he's been doing the Godfather, a movie he didn't make"??
neutral · AI labelView post →The Godfather Part II is a New Year's movie
neutral · AI labelView post →"MILLER'S CROSSING is a tribute film, a mafia movie made of noir’s most elegant frames: Scarface, The Conformist, Le Samourai, and The Godfather refashioned in the brothers’ comically bloody hand."
neutral · AI labelView post →I love in the movie "The Godfather" when James Caan says "The offer I make will be hard to turn down."
positive · AI labelView post →I saw The Godfather that day at a movie theater and they held a moment of silence for Kobe. Fuck this!
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