The Godfather reviewed by Mark Kermode 

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Hahaha!!

He broke his heart

So funny. I mean Mark mentioned Brits and guns earlier. Using a real gun for a movie in the US more than 50 years ago? Ridiculous.

Simon "Snubnose" Mayo just killed Kermode.

It ain't a Kermode review if he's not referencing The Exorcist or toying with his water cup.

its like the Kevin Bacon thing that all movies relate to the Exorcist

Yes and he says that people complained that the Exorcist is slow. It's not (not that it would bother me) it's ridiculous faux religious schlock, far from being the best horror movie ever, let alone the best movie ever. Sorry Mark, somebody has to tell you.

It’s almost a guarantee that Mark references either The Exorcist or William Friedkin or both in every Film Review show

It's true though what he said

The little guy still has some sense of humor left it him. Why don’t they hire him to write some good comedies?? I mean directors like Judd Aptow , Adam McKay , Ben Stiller kind of directors

How’s that even an actual name

I am not a fan of Mayo

@@Dionysos640Brown sauce myself

First time viewing, he just seems like an idiot offering nothing other than "errrr" "ummmm" or totally misunderstanding easy things and stories

I absolutely agree. It felt like i was watching it for the first time despite having seen it so many times before. Your so right about the heat coming off the screen i felt that too.

It's impressive to look back how it functioned so effectively as both a sequel and a prequel at the same time.

Nah it wasn't as good.

I think it's better. That's not a point of contention, just my opinion.

@@r4h4al You're right. It was better.

@@agi2160 Nah the first one set the whole thing up.

That would be 2001

I hope not, the version with Peter Beardsley was definitive.

I like the prior scene wherein Michael cuts in and takes charge of the preparatory discussion. He has clearly been thinking and waiting for his moment, amongst men of apparently greater expertise and experience. He describes what the whole plan is going to be, his tone and face completely change for the first time in the film, and the camera slowly zooms in on him as he blossoms in genius and grows in malevolence. And everybody immediately sits up and listens. It’s like Michael is embracing his cursed destiny for the first time and beginning to become “Don Corleone” in that moment. Beautiful! And having written about it I am now going to seek out a clip of this great scene and watch it! :)

i have no interest in ever watching it honestly

It feels like a Disney movie.

You are in the minority according to the polls

@@Mattventuring That is basically what I said. Thank you for pointing it out to me. Fantastic.

Shawshank Doesn’t belong in the Top 50 Films of All Time

I think you’d probably need to set aside a whole day for that…

Also, if anything is stuck or accidentally jammed in the barrel, those blanks can be lethal.

@@SaintDomingo1 Yes, absolutely - the deaths of Halyna Hutchins and Brandon Lee show that if you get it wrong there can be devastating consequences

I wanna see a modern action movie where they just do finger guns and make “pew pew” noises. We’ve watched enough action films, our brains will just fill it in

@@connorveach5986 with airsoft guns and decent vfx there is literally no reason for blank firing weapons to be on set anymore.

@@connorveach5986 Gene Wilder in Blazing Saddles..

Is that a metaphor?

He meant the sex scenes of Sonny

Fun fact. Every film that won Best Picture in the 70's is on the National Film Registry.

Sadly probably won't be the original version.

Even more amazing than that is that in 6 years time it will be the 60th anniversary of 2001 : A Space Odyssey. Considering the tools at film maker's disposal nowadays, the special effects remain amazing.

@@EmissaryofYogSothoth It's Disney, they're probably going to replace all the guns with walkie talkies for the 50th anniversary...

He made a documentary about it. That might give you what you're after.

Dude just type in “Mark Kermode the exorcist” on RU-vid, there are multiple video where he talk about it. Plus yeah, he made a documentary about it.

@@EmissaryofYogSothoth thanks Jerry. Was that Fear of God? If so..I did see it many years ago when the film came back to cinemas .. I was searching for a simple review like he done here. 🤔🤔

@@whisperinstorytellerASMR there is a podcast called “The Evolution of Horror” and it has an episode with Mark talking about it. It was around the beginning of 2020. I also, think there is a RU-vid Video about “Films we love” where Marks goes into it further. I don’t think you’ll get a review in the same way we got one for a currently weekly release though.

@@Fed804 thanks!!!!! I'll look those up 👍👍👍

No - people should regrow their attention spans.

I tell you what's better; a lot of people are shocked when I say this... the camera angles.

@@SaintDomingo1 Might have to watch again now.

The sequel is arguably better

@@SaintDomingo1 I'm joking Lynn, enjoy me

...the end!

Probably not as good as real cinema like any comic book movie from the past decade

I think you're probably right

Eh not really, the missions where you are involved in the movie scenes are jarring to say the least, should of been more of its own thing. I'd say the first Mafia is a better godfather game than the actual Godfather game (Like how Vice City is a better Scarface game than the Scarface game)

I think he was trolling Mark!

Maybe they should bother creating and using props so that an actor would not end up killing a director of photography

@@kz.irudimen .....or another actor like it happened to Brandon Lee.

Guns for show, knives for a pro.