[nickcarraway]

Yes, The Godfather may be popular among people who pick My Way every time they do karaoke, but it is popular among a lot of people. I know my mother watches it every time it's on TV, several times a year.

I think Kay has agency. She looked the other way when she wanted to, then she didn't when she stopped wanting to. Connie had the freedom to marry that bum, even when everyone knew it was a bad idea.

[nickcarraway]

Weren’t you just saying this?

[AnotherUnixGeek]

The Godfather was a fine movie, but it came out in a decade filled with great movies. I don’t consider it the best movie of the decade - it may not even be in the top 10 for the ‘70s.

[Fledermaus]

Women don’t get it.

I worked with a young woman who had never watched it.

I loaned her my DVD box of all 3.

She gave them back and said, “must be a men’s thing”.

[Tell It Right]

IMHO, the problem can be expectations.

If you're watching The Godfather for the first time, contemporary expectations of a mafia movie might make you let down if you expect it to have wall-to-wall gunslinging drive-by's up and down main street every 5 or 10 minutes. It's not the persistent adrenaline rush that Hollywood has portrayed the mafia like in movies since The Godfather.

[BenLurkin]

This has got to be some kind of joke.

Nobody could be that stupid.

[Mean Daddy]

I’ve watched the Godfather I & II probably several times and every time, noticed something new. I finally purchase the book and that helped fill a lot of gaps in the movie. I would recommend anyone who has never seen it to read the book first and either rent it or watch whenever its on TV uncut, uninterrupted.

Regarding Diane Keaton, easily the most overrated actor in the movie. I cringe every time her character appears on screen.

[Sirius Lee]

As if I care what a woman thinks - go make me a sammich.

[FLT-bird]

This review reeks of toxic femininity.

[BenLurkin]

Miss Wu, this buds for yu

[simpson96]

The author actually put a lot of time (and effort?) into writing a silly article.

And it was published.

Things ain't what they used to be.

[TalBlack]

Marissa Wu writes here like every mother who just watched her teenage son’s favorite movie. Her piece is unintentionally funny. I was literally chuckling as I read. Miss Wu demonstrates yet again that Feminists can’t see past themselves.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

I didn't read past "I'll admit that I'm often the first to roll my eyes and say, ugh, men.

[JBW1949]

I watch a movie purely for entertainment...I do not try to interpret and analyze the film....

[Hot Tabasco]

This broad finally doing a review on a movie that came out 53 years ago???

Give me a Frickin' break........Sheesh!

[logi_cal869]

Durn it. Now you’ve done it.

Fine.

I’ll make a point of watching it during my vacation this week and reply back here. Call it ‘research’.

(subtext: I’m Italian. I have no desire to watch such movies, but I did thoroughly enjoy The Sopranos, mostly due to James Gandolfini).

[DeplorablePaul]

She's a child. It's ridiculous they let a two year old to write a film critique of Godfather. She knows nothing. She has no depth. I bet she loves the remake of Snow White. Snow White has "agency" whatever that means. Wu should be banned from watching Godfather and stick to the Joy Luck Club. Bring back hetero white male writers please.

[DesertRhino]

“ This Italian wife’s only credit is that she’s beautiful. This girl manages to be captivating without uttering a single word...and she remains silent for the duration of their relationship”

Think that one all the way through sweetheart

[Big Red Badger]

‘Car Wash” was my choice.

[stylin19a]

do any women like the GF ?

[alternatives?]

Young females seem to approach life only from a female perspective. Makes them boring as heck.