'The Godfather' to Return to Theaters for 50th Anniversary

UPI ^ | JAN. 13, 2022 | Annie Martin

[Yardstick]

Somehow I’ve managed to never see The Godfather despite knowing it’s a classic. Turns to it’ll be playing at a theater near me starting the 22nd. So I’ll get to see it for the first time on the big screen. Woohoo!

[Joe 6-pack]

"It doesn’t seem like it’s been fifty years since it first came out..."

This film was released the same year Brandon was first elected to the Senate.

It was apparently a good year for organized crime.

[Aut Pax Aut Bellum]

Not going to a noisy cramped movie theater for something I can watch at home for free.

[Glad2bnuts]

When it played on TV for the first time, a bunch of my friends and a few wives got together to watch it. Every eye and ear was transfixed with the story, on a 27 inch set. Every eye except one. A very gorgeous young lady got tired of the attention the idiot box was getting and took off her top. The girls noticed, the guys heard about it on the way home from the “party”. It was that engrossing to 25 year old males, 5 years after release.

[Dr. Sivana]

in chronological order instead of bouncing between 1900 Sicily and 1950s Lake Tahoe.

If you saw Godfather I first, Godfather II works extremely well. They are juxtaposing Don Vito Corleone's struggles and success with Michael's attempts to recreate it in Las Vegas and Cuba, and failing miserably. If you stick Godfather I in the middle, you would have forgotten about Hyman Roth by the time he is central in the 1950s.

I think the original editing was masterful. When I first saw Godfather II, I was afraid that it was starting out like Star Wars VII, another day, another Death Star destroyed. But scenes like the First Communion Party were not simply reprises of the wedding in Godfather I. It was the wedding gone sideways. By the wedding in Godfather I, the Corleone's had universal prestige and a form of respect. In Vegas, the ethnic struggles started all over again (though not in utter crushing poverty) and all the good will that Vito built up in corners of the city were inaccessible.

[21twelve]

My wife and I watched the Godfather for the first time a few months ago! It was good.

I was just working on a project and the company used to be mob. An older guy was saying how you didn’t want to get on the bad side of the owner (now deceased). “But on the other hand, he paid for a bunch of people’s cancer medical bills and other stuff.”

I thought to myself “Just like in the movie!”

[Clemenza]

Saw on the big screen for the 40th anniversary in Queens at the MOMI. Will check it out again. Note: the movie came out four years before I was born.

[Clemenza]

Horrible! The San Gennaro shoot out alone made me want to vomit. I still think Sofia Coppola was a babe though.

[nickcarraway]

Note: the movie came out four years before I was born.

And that's your excuse for not seeing it when it came out? Weak.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I’ve seen that movie at least 20 times. What a cast!

[Spacetrucker]

Joey Gallo is the one that most readily comes to mind. Amongst psychopath gangsters he was feared as a psychopath. He was also responsible for the hit on Joe Colombo.

[Captain Peter Blood]

He was a good friend of Jerry Orbach’s, Lenny from Law & Order.

[Spacetrucker]

Sammy deserves to be with his long-gone compatriots, though since our legal system works the way it does he gets to tell his tales.

[Captain Peter Blood]

I have the saga, where everything is in chronological order and has lots of stuff not in the originals. I have it on VHS, not available on DVD for some reason.

[Captain Peter Blood]

I like that film

[Captain Peter Blood]

I have it on VHS and you can probably find that on Ebay

[Captain Peter Blood]

Godfather Epic VHS

https://www.ebay.com/itm/265496328627?epid=3081743&hash=item3dd0d079b3:g:seQAAOSwwNJh1MW9