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I was never a Brando fan finding most of his films full of affectations and false notes. His work in "The Godfather" is overrated

Yet his performance in "On the Waterfront" almost makes up for all the crap he did.

Yeah, he wasn't bad in STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, either. I also wanted to really like him in his last film DON JUAN DE MARCO with Johnny Depp and Faye Dunaway, a film that should have been better than it was.

He might not be as left wing as one would think. He did his best work with two ex commies, Budd Schulberg (WATERFRONT) and Elia Kazan (STREETCAR and VIVA ZAPATA). But then again most people don't know what a flaming Marxist Coppola really is.

Wish he would lose the weight and get back to work -- in anything. But I guess when your son murders someone and your daughter hangs herself, you'd be chaining up your frig and isolating from the world, too. (BTW, I've heard the frig story since highschool, a prep school Christian Brando attended before my time, so Brando's been depressed and fighting fat forever.) Sad, sad, sad.