Marlon Brando’s 1972 Mafia Epic The Godfather Is Greatest Movie of All Time, Say 20,000 Film Fans

The Sun ^ | 9th June 2017 | Simon Boyle

[T-Bone Texan]

Pan’s Labyrinth, while a competent movie, was made by an America-hating commie, So I drop it from contention.

[T-Bone Texan]

I posit that it was Ernest Borgnine who made Airwolf what it was: pretty darn awesome.

To a 12 year old at least, which I was at the time.

[dfwgator]

The best part of Brando’s character was the costume and makeup. He was only 47 at the time but a still photograph would never indicate it. Other than that it was all mumbling, cotton, and cue cards.

Hard to believe that same year he did "Last Tango in Paris."

[dfwgator]

Ernest Borgnine will always be "Mermaid Man"....

[T-Bone Texan]

Wasn’t Last Tango in Paris the one where he put a stick of butter of some chick’s butt?

[wally_bert]

Rifftracks thought otherwise.

They skewer it rather well.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Other than that it was all mumbling, cotton, ***

Why pick on THE GODFATHER! Brando mumbled and sounded like he had cotton in his mouth in ALL his movies! Some were still good.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Ernest Borgnine MURDERER!

He killed that poor little rat in WILLARD!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

How did FELLINI-SATRYCON miss the list! It has everything the modern fag liberals love. Fagotry, gluttony, Pederasty, homo marriage, occultism, cannibalism...

Ain't he/she cute!

[Moonman62]

Why pick on THE GODFATHER! Brando mumbled and sounded like he had cotton in his mouth in ALL his movies! Some were still good.

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Because Brando gets way too much credit for the success of The Godfather.

[central_va]

Brando, thankfully, had very little to do with the film, and it would have been significantly improved had someone else been cast in his role.

Did you know they cast Brando as the Don before the script was written. The part was written for him with him in mind.

The only mis cast person was Sonny, James Caan did not do a great job IMO.

[central_va]

Good, the Bad and the Ugly not on there? How about Titanic? Chicks loved that flick.

[ek_hornbeck]

I suppose there's no arguing over taste, but it's hard to take seriously any listing where Batman movies and other comic book adaptations rank alongside substantive films like The Godfather. Do they even make any films today that aren't based on video games or comic books? Could a major film studio provide the funding these days to make character-driven, dialog-intensive films like The Godfather today? Probably not.

[FredZarguna]

The script is almost a complete mirror of Mario Puzo's novel, which was most certainly not written with Marlon Brando in mind.

As for the rest, he sucked in The Godfather and he sucked in pretty much everything he did after 1962. What he did before 1962 was spotty, at best; have a look at Viva Zapata! sometime if you want to see some of the most howlingly bad acting. EVER.

[ek_hornbeck]

Did you know they cast Brando as the Don before the script was written. The part was written for him with him in mind.

I don't think that's true. Laurence Olivier was originally cast in the part, he even learned to mimic the speech patterns of Italian-American ghetto English quite well to do the role. I don't remember the details of why he was replaced by Brando, but Olivier was Coppola's first choice.

[central_va]

The cast was great with three weak points IMO Talia Shire(Coppola’s sister),Diane Keaton and James Caan.

[Albion Wilde]

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