If ony DeNiro weren't in it as the title character, I might want to see it. The cast and crew of thousands contains apparently every Italian-American male actor alive today. And probably a few who are dead.
It's a sin that in the U.S. media, the magnificent Italian culture is characterized mainly in terms of the small minority who are of the underworld.
You talkin' ta me...?
My wonderful paternal grandparents and extended family of that generation would never tell me why they left Sicily to risk starting over here with nothing around 1920. As I grew older I expected it had to do with "Cosa Nostra".
I am forever grateful that they came here LEGALLY and intentionally became part of the American culture. Their desire to be fully immersed in America led them to only speak English around us and never became part of any of the many Italian-American clubs that were in the city. They had become Americans and they loved it.