Happy New Year, north!

I haven't watched this movie in 5 or so years (originally saw it, in a theatre, when it first came out), but recently purchased the DVDs of #1, #2, and #3, so look forward to rewatching them all at some point.

We'll get to rediscover them again together, genplant29!

I am glad to see you again active on the regular boards-- I hadn't seen you in awhile, and was getting worried. Perhaps as a MOD you were busy on the Support boards/forum (which I seldom frequent) . . . anyway, glad to see you back!

Thanks, north!

I've had a full-time paying management job since mid-2020, that's been the reason for my reduced TMDb Movie/TV/Celebrity Discussions visibility. I've all along continued to be on TMDb daily, multiple times per day, but usually behind the scenes in Mod mode.

I miss often creating threads and responding to threads, tho was on 2-1/2 weeks vacation til yesterday so did quite a bit of posting during that wonderful break.

Regarding The Godfather movies, it's been decades since I watched either #2 or #3. I consider 1 and 2 to be total perfection, tho #3 not on the same level.

@northcoast said:

Watched this last night, for the first time since at least 2019.

That would have been the last time I was able to watch this masterful piece of art-- the furthest thing from a movie that a film can be --in an actual theater.

As someone who enjoys seeing films in a theater, and then re-watching my favorites on DVD or Blu-Ray again at home, I had made a special exception for The Godfather:

After, years ago, catching it on television from time to time, I vowed that thenceforward, I would only ever watch The Godfather in a theater, on the big screen. Thankfully, a theater in my area was part of a program that screened older movies (going back to the 1930s) from time to time, usually on Sundays and Wednesdays. So, once every other year, I could see The Godfather. On the alternating year, it was The Godfather Part II, which I would also view.

That's awesome seeing it in the theatre.

I have to be in the right mind-space to watch this film, it is for me like preparing to eat an uncommonly rich mousse. It simply cannot be consumed often.

This is the kind of film, where, when I catch a glimpse of it, I always think: "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!"

@northcoast said:

Again, the furthest from a movie that a film can be.

? After all you wrote, I still feel that I could use some explanation of this lead statement.

Uh, Happy New Year, north.

Happy New Year to you, too, Celluloid Fan!

Movies:

Terminator 3: Judgement Day (2003)

The Dictator (2012)

All of the Transformer movies.

Most (but not all) Superhero movies.

Really, probably now more than ever (let's say it's been getting progressively worse since 2000, largely, I am convinced, due to the enamoring effect of modern technology and the resultant decrease in the attention span of society in general) about 75% of most of the stuff that gets released, theatrically or via streaming. I don't mean a decrease in attention span just of the passive consumer, but also among the creators, especially when it comes to the historically time-consuming process of deep thought and writing.

Films:

The Godfather

The Godfather Part II

Both Blade Runner films

2001: A Space Odyssey

Arrival (2016)

Straw Dogs (1971)

Nosferatu (1922)

And many others . . . but, far outnumbered by the oceans of pabulum.

Which does not mean that pabulum cannot, at times, be enjoyable.

As when one does not wish to think;)

The Godfather really is as outstanding (while also being thoroughly engrossing) as people say it is. Is pretty much faultless.

Check it out, and you'll be likely to readily agree on all counts.