Best Godfather film in the Godfather franchise

[Tg11]

If anything in your opinion the best Godfather film out of the trilogy in your honest opinion especially if you have watched all 3, for me personally nothing beats the original Godfather

 

[Fallen Angel]

Surely the search function work's? and no in there right minds' would pick Part 3 over the first two.

 

[The Joker]

The original. Brando is magnificent.

 

[Tg11]

Brando as Don Vito, now he was the best Don out of the whole Corleone family, now Sonny in my opinion was a bad Don but with Michael he was more the Don who would take the family into the future but with Vito though he was old school

 

[spider-neil]

Bear in mind that I am not a 'gangster lover' (my favourite is the Untouchables).

Godfather is called 'the greatest movie of all time' so my expectations were probably unfairly ridiculously high. Arms crossed 'impress me'. Suffice to say I was 'meh' on The Godfather'. However, I thought Godfather II was fantastic so it's an easy choice between the two movies for me.

 

[Octoberist]

The third one is hard to watch but it has some moments of greatness.

But I think the bad outweighs the bad: Sofia Coppola is probably one of the worst things about the movie. Like, Hayden Christiansen bad or maybe worse. Plus there's no Robert Duvall, and while Pacino does his best in the role, this is the stage when Pacino changed his acting style. Not the 'Scent of a Woman' stage yet, but his subtle, smooth talking was fading away.


Also, it has the famous line of 'Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in."

 

[Tg11]

If anything Vincent, Sonny's son Michael's nephew he was the one that should have taken the Corleone family into the future so they got that right when they made Vincent the new Don in Part 3 but also what they shouldn't have done is have Vincent fall in love with his own cousin Mary, I mean the incest factor is another thing which was a huge mistake

Now Bridget Fonda her character should have been Vincent's "Kay" to Vincent's "Michael" if that makes any sense

 

[Octoberist]

Yeah i just wish they worked on the script a bit more.

 

[Warhammer]

It depresses me on what the third film ended up being versus what it was supposed to be. If they just could have gotten Robert Duvall back, this trilogy may have been the greatest of all-time. However, Francis Ford Coppola was also slippin' as a director by this time.

 

[Tg11]

But if Tom Hagen had been in Part 3 what would his role have been in all honesty? I mean Michael was an aging Don and his nephew Vincent was essentially going to take over as Don and I don't know how Tom would have fit in especially if his son Andrew the priest was going to the Vatican

 

[Wildcard]

Part I and II are almost neck and neck for me but I'd pick part II any day. Michael's story is just so fascinating to me and I love the way he maneuvers and carries himself as the Don.

 

[Bruce Malone]

It depresses me on what the third film ended up being versus what it was supposed to be. If they just could have gotten Robert Duvall back, this trilogy may have been the greatest of all-time. However, Francis Ford Coppola was also slippin' as a director by this time.

Wasn't the third film not supposed to exist at all? Pretty sure Copolla just did it due to running into some studio debts or something? Didn't even want to give it "The Godfather" title if he had his way.

 

[Wildcard]

^ That's pretty much correct.

And I don't think it's as bad as some protest. Could it have been better? Sure. Does it surpass the first two? Of course not, but it's not unbelievably terrible in any way.

 

[Bruce Malone]

I'm sure it coming out the same year as the faaar superior Goodfellas didn't help its case.

P.S.

Even though many don't consider it as good as the first two Godfather films Goodfellas is my all-time favorite mob film.