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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes pic!
This is the second Godfather image I’ve run and it was almost the first before someone sent in that badass picture of James Caan with all the bullet-holes in his face. If you want to see that one (or any other previous BtSPotD image for that matter) check out the bottom of ever BTS article. I have a list of every single image posted. Scan and click!
There are many different categories for these images… some are candid moments, some are insights into the technical side of filmmaking and some are like the below… a moment from an iconic scene caught in a still.
Here we have the great Marlon Brando with the real Godfather standing over him, Mr. Francis Ford Coppola. Enjoy!
If you have a pic you think should be included email me. I’m looking for the iconic, the rare or the just plain cool behind the scenes shots to feature here.
Tomorrow’s Behind the Scenes Pic is not a poet, it’s an ophiologist.
-Quint
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Previous Behind the Scenes pics:
- Alien
- Big Trouble In Little China
- Clash of the Titans
- Dr. Strangelove
- Sesame Street
- The Birds
- The Dark Knight
- Batman (1989)
- Batman: The TV Series
- Stephen King’s IT
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Superman
- The French Connection
- Tron
- The Road Warrior
- Ghostbusters
- King Kong (’33)
- The Empire Strikes Back (Luke with Slate)
- Rebel Without A Cause
- Taxi Driver
- Metropolis
- The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
- Tommy Chong Meets The Blues Brothers
- The Empire Strikes Back (Filming the Crawl)
- John Carpenter’s The Thing
- Jaws
- Die Hard
- Aliens
- Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man
- The Howling
- Revenge of the Creature
- The Empire Strikes Back (Vader & Luke Duel)
- The Godfather
- Rambo III
- Vertigo
- Planet of the Apes
- Pan’s Labyrinth
- Labyrinth
- RoboCop
- The Adventures of Robin Hood
- Marathon Man
- Young Frankenstein
- Viva Las Vegas
- The Empire Strikes Back (Han driving a snow cat)
- Rio Bravo
- Giant
- Back to the Future
- The Time Machine
- War of the Worlds (1953)
- Alien (Chestburster)
- On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
- Dr. No
- The Twilight Zone
- Once Upon A Time In The West
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Star Trek: The Original Series
- The Empire Strikes Back (Luke in Wampa Cave)
- Edward Scissorhands
- The Warriors
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Requiem for a Dream
- The Princess Bride
- Hard Boiled
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
- They Live
- The Empire Strikes Back (Tippet with Wampa)
- Dirty Harry
- Stark Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
- Blade Runner
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (Periscope Ride)
- 1941
Readers Talkback
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Never seen this one.
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It's what all the cool people do. He should just try to top himself. I give him credit for his small art movies like Tetro but man I miss old Coppola. I know he did Godfather for the money but damn..he has never come close, not even close with Apocolypse Now.
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and then they would fear you! awesome pic.
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Brando is so iconic and images from that part of the film so recognizable that Coppola looks like he's been shopped in. Or just visiting Madame tussauds.
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Boring. Snooze. Watch dvds. Much better pictures and footage.
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i'm not sure which one would make me more nervous. i mean look at coppola in that picture- tell me he doesn't look alittle serial killerish. "Either they will accept my offer, or Geico here will eat their brains."
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....dirty hippy.
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Coppola just wanted to do his thing. Everyone loved it and worshiped it. Like a pimp, he agreed to do another one. IF they would finance the movie he wanted to do. So can we get some behind the scenes action from THE CONVERSATION?
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It just seemed very meandering to me. I remember at several moments in the movie when major characters died, I was like "Why's this randomly happening now? It could've been anytime." It all felt very arbitrary. That drives me crazy in movies, when you could rearrange the main events in any order and it wouldn't make any difference. The story loses momentum, and I get bored. So it was with THE GODFATHER.
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You got bored because, as you say, the story lost momentum for you. I appreciate that peoples tastes differ and that not everyone is going to be drawn to the same thing. But I hardly think that the millions of Godfather fans agree with you. I being one of them. Critiqueing a movie with the calibre of The Godfather by questioning their editing and momentum sounds more arbitrary than your complaints.
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Love this column.
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haha!!good one! Don Vito frowns on hippies..
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..looks more meneacing than the Don..
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i find GF1 a bit boring too and a girlfriend of mine (she is a professional film editor)has never managed to keep watching the movie after the first 30m,simply because she finds it extremely boring. <p>imho GF1 is overrated,it is brilliantly made i dont argue that,but i think as a story it lacks while it gets more praise than it deserves mainly because of Brando's phenomenal performance. <p>on the other hand GF2,now that is a brilliant masterpiece.
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he just sits there with that creepy,emotionless face until Corleone whispers to his ear whom he wants to sleep with the fishes. <p>then he leaves the room to kill the target he is ordered to. <p>or he is just the boy whom he sends out to get him his favorite pasta dish.
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..this is one of the best brother.
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"It INSISTS upon itself" - Peter Griffin
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You will get rolli-polli and a nice and a-big like your cousin Luigi.... luigi, luigi, capiche pisan? capiche pisan, capiche pisan....
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come on, it's funny- sweet pic.
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Where's Cheech at you pot smokin' motherfucker!
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You sound like the kid down the street from me who often bragged how he'd never read a book...
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But I would never call The Godfather boring.
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I like more movies here than most people do.
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Sept. 19, 2010, 9:39 p.m. CST
Godfather 1 and 2..an observation on likeing them or not...
by conspiracy
if a person is an art lover, or a book reader..they will love these films as the works of art they are. Deliberate, sometimes slow moving...but amazingly scripted and shot.</p><p>Now...if someone is not a reader but rather a TV watcher; or has never sat and pondered the brilliance of Monet..they find them boring. And it has nothing to do with generational issues either...I know a guy, 50...watches all kinds of film, but has never read a serious book and can't make it through 15 minutes of Godfather; have a friend who is 25, she is an Art major and a reader; she thinks the first two films are perfection. Maybe it has to do with attention span issues...or a desire to get to the "action" right away....but those are things I have observed about people and these films.
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or whatever, you get branded as someone who is clueless about movies. The Godfather is on TV nearly every month. At this point, who HASN'T seen it?
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Sept. 19, 2010, 9:51 p.m. CST
Coppola is wearing his pedophile beard and glasses
by Jehovahs_Witness
All we need is a pic of Coppola with Lucas and Spielberg, and the trifecta of pedo look wearing motherfuckers will be complete.
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Sept. 19, 2010, 9:51 p.m. CST
Remember when Coppola made films that were great popcorn movies.
by Nasty In The Pasty
...AND great art? Neither do I.
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dumbass
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http://tinyurl.com/324qbsk <p> Oh wait, one of those pedos is wrong.
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The Godfather and Part II are pretty much one movie that were done in two parts but I have to admit that I'm more partial to Part II even though it wouldn't work without Part I. GD is a great movie but Part II is perfection. The decent of a good man (Michael) into evil is done so well, so slowly and played with such subtlety by Pacino (a subtlety that he has lacked since Scarface) that it is so amazing to watch! The second storyline about his father Vito running parallel with Michael's is brilliant! The final scene with Michael and his family around the dinner table is so wonderful and builds to such a sad moment with Michael sitting by himself...just simply the best sequel to a movie ever made.
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all filmmakers that wear glasses and have beards are peodos? Isn't that pretty much all of them?
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If you say so. Although, while I know the first two Godfather films are pitch perfect and works of art, they never seem to connect with me. Guess what, I'm an art lover and don't watch tv. How do you explain that? The Coppola films that do connect with me in a big way are Apocalypse Now and The Conversation.
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should sue Jehovahs_Witness for copyright or trademark infringement or possibly defamation of character...
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And he deserves to burn in hell.
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Sept. 19, 2010, 10:46 p.m. CST
Brando's Vito would look iconic getting a rusty trombone
by Anything But Tangerines
Cinematic perfection
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that counts the future. I have doubts it will ever be topped
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Wtf happened??
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Have had many laughs reading the talkbacks. But RPLocke's "I like more movies here than most people do" sentence is the one that compelled me to register. So, without further ado... Locke, are you retarded? Are you a retarded person?
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Coppolla needed sum start-up money for his wine label...duh!!
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You just registered here? Get used to a lot of people making dumb comments.
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Sept. 19, 2010, 11:57 p.m. CST
...that is, to echo what Jehovah's Witness iterated earlier.
by Tigger Tales
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He lived on the edge, mortgaging everything to make his films. "Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse" shows the extent to which The Godfather films and Apocalypse Now drove him to the edge and then finally over it. Coppola was at his best when he had everything to lose.
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....of Milton from Office Space.
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...about something I read where it was said Jabba the Hutt's nostrils were designed to look like Don Vito's 'stache.
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But do I like part 2 better than the first.
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Sept. 20, 2010, 2:02 a.m. CST
Not a rare picture, its from Vanity Fair i believe.
by dailysportspages
I have an old copy of VF from like a year or two ago sitting in my bathroom... and it has this nice article on the actual mob involvement in the Godfather movie. <br> This picture is one of the many pictures in the article.
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Marlon Brando has a freaking black outline around him, and his left shoulder has polygons to it as if someones used the polygon lasso tool lol. Come on, you gotta spot these...the lighting on Brando and Coppola isn't even the same..how can you not spot these????
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Coppla is totally wearing a modern shirt. The hand is also fake on the chair.
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a Pic of The Day column, get somebody who has an eye to spot blatant fakes like this. It just makes this site look stupid.
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..makes a great drinks coaster or if you get bored with that, try using it as a frisbee.
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and how is that a modern shirt? Copploa look his usual 1970's creepy self<P>Why did all the directors in the 70's look so pederast?
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...and have no desire to either.<p> Much for the same reason I haven't seen 'Goodfellas', 'Casino', 'Scarface', or any other Holy Grail of mafia/gangster films. Simply because I have no interest in them whatsoever.<p> If anyone would like to wibble some bullshit about 'transcending genres' then please feel free, but mafia/gangster films bore me to fucking death.<p> Oh, and to head off any predictable, arrogant rants about 'lack of attention span', or 'watching brainless summer films', etc, I count 'Blade Runner' among one of my favourite films of all time.
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I seem to recall that Robert Duvall turned it down over money or something. Apparently they planned for his character Tom Hagen to have some kind of falling out with Michael. If that is true, it would have made for a much more interesting story to tell IMHO. Instead it seems they had to elevate that romance sub-plot between Sofia's Mary character and Andy Garcia's Vincent to a much more prominent position in the storyline, one that it unfortunately could not sustain. Not to mention that Sofia's acting was utterly atrocious. You can blame that on Winona Ryder and her "getting sick" or maybe stage fright right as they were about to start filming.
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I am--long time reader of said dumb comments. It provides me hours of hilarity whilst dreading the hour that the old lady gets home from work. Carry on, I've got 6 more hours to go!
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Sept. 20, 2010, 8:54 a.m. CST
Some sick shit going on in here...
by ohsostupidlongassfuckingscreennames
I've detected a pattern, (aside from every BTSPOTD drawing a batshit comment from the photoshop conspiracy nut cadre): Jehovahs = Tigger = Nasty = Redbull. <p> Look sharp friends and neighbors monstrous fraud being perpetrated right under your noses. <p> Tell me Redbull, how do pederasts look? And where does the stereotype come from? We wonders, aye, we wonders... <p> Where the fuck did they stash the banhammer? Anything goes on this wretched site nowadays. It's getting to where it's not worth wading through the shit to find the occasional pearl anymore. The pearls are fewer and farther between, and the shit just keeps getting more and more foul. I mean there's 'shit' and then there's "oh my god I'm gonna barf! SHIT". It's shame really...
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Sept. 20, 2010, 8:56 a.m. CST
Oh and Locke? How long are you going to stay 13 years old?
by ohsostupidlongassfuckingscreennames
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AICN STILL doesn't have an edit function.
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Just be glad you're not a 10 year old boy (You're 14 right? Too old for me) And that I don't know where you live. Yet.
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But the pedo-smile.<p> http://tinyurl.com/dqc4w
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Sept. 20, 2010, 9:18 a.m. CST
Wait I get it! You're a card carrying NAMBLA member
by ohsostupidlongassfuckingscreennames
Right Jehovahs? Trying to drum up a few new dues paying members eh? Well count me out ya butt fuckin' bastard. I'm a lone wolf. Yarrooop Yarrooooo!
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bitch about cgi. You can't even tell reality. Right now Brando is wispering up at him that he should make Dracula." Yew shud maake Dracala"
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But the beards still play into it. It's multifactorial. The whole salami slapped together, and the vibe given out, but can't argue with the pedophile beard: <p> http://tinyurl.com/c9pn3t <p> And the pedophile beards out on the town: <p> http://tinyurl.com/366nemk
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Sept. 20, 2010, 9:53 a.m. CST
You guys know the Beard wanted Indy to be a pedophile.....
by Jehovahs_Witness
....right? Here's the transcript from an early story meeting between the beards: <p> GL: I was thinking that this old guy could have been his mentor. He could have known this little girl when she was just a kid. Had an affair with her when she was eleven. <p> LK: And he was forty-two. <p> GL: He hasn’t seen her in twelve years. Now she’s twenty-two. It’s a real strange relationship. <p> SS: She had better be older than twenty-two. <p> GL: He’s thirty-five, and he knew her ten years ago when he was twenty-five and she was only twelve. It would be amusing to make her slightly young at the time. <p> SS: And promiscuous. She came onto him. <p> GL: Fifteen is right on the edge. I know it’s an outrageous idea, but it is interesting. Once she’s sixteen or seventeen it’s not interesting anymore. But if she was fifteen and he was twenty-five and they actually had an affair the last time they met. And she was madly in love with him and he … <p> The rest of the story can be found at cinematical: http://tinyurl.com/352luhg
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Are you aware that there are some very effective medications to treat your condition out there these days?
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...and only posts when I post. AICN parasites...uninteresting people with nothing to say who follow others around on AICN.
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You are beyond redemption! That is all!
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I know some of you guys don't like him, but I consider The Choppah a good (albeit bugnuts) friend. <BR><BR> And TB seems so empty without him.
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... as uninteresting and dull as I am, I keep elliciting a response, you KEEP replying! And, you just keep slobbering on and on and on and on about "the pedophile look". Were *you* molested by a bespectacled bearded man JW? Poor thing. Just can't seem to focus on anything else the past couple of years? Tch tch. This boy is a mess... You know what? I think you *liked* it. Try not to give into those urges now sickboy. They'll lock your ass up. You do realize it's wrong don't you?
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He said "tell fishsticks to grow a pair and go fuck himself", then he went off on some long incoherent cut and paste Battleship Yamamoto review tangent. Then his head exploded, apparently... finally got a laugh outta me.
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Sept. 20, 2010, 11:18 a.m. CST
When Skyway Moaters stalks girls outside the schoolyard....
by Jehovahs_Witness
...and they tell him, "Get lost, freak," Skyway tells himself that they're interested in him because they keep responding to him.
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A truly great movie. I revisit it every year. Before on VHS, now on DVD. A movie that has it all. Pure genius.
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say GF1 is boring. it deserves every bit of praise is gets.the best directed film i v ever seen.the more i learn about the craft of film making the better this film gets. best yet its the peoples film not like citizen kane which is just for film buff at this stage.
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Creepy picture. I want to see them remake the Godfather but the whole time theres a serical killer side plot going along with the the rest of the movie.
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So, someone married you?
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As long as you keep posting here shit head.
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Sept. 20, 2010, 3:03 p.m. CST
And you will continue being ridiculed, BOY.
by ohsostupidlongassfuckingscreennames
Wait, what you said doesn't even make sense... are you on the pot RP? 'Cause you sure sound like you're on the pot...
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Sept. 20, 2010, 3:42 p.m. CST
COPPOLA, GET OUT OF THE FUCKING SHOT! WE'RE SHOOTING!!!
by JonChambers
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Always the charmer. <BR><BR>You've certainly gotten more crotchety over the past decade, haven't you?
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'nuff said.
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Bug fucking nuts more like...
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the flashbacks bored the shit out of me...i dont care about the backstory of a dude who's already dead and knowing that none of this fucking backstory makes a bit of difference for the ending of the film.
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Sept. 20, 2010, 5:26 p.m. CST
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
by CAPTAIN_AMERICAS_COCK_SHAPED_HELMET
overrated long winded soap opera
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You're a better man than me, gunga din. Because I DO fault anyone who thinks THE GODFATHER is "boring". I think you really have to be stone cold idiot to not get one of the greatest stories ever put on film. It's fucking classic scene after classic scene - how could you possibly get bored?? I'm afraid that the kids coming up today have no idea what a good story is - just ADD editing and special effects overload. It's fuckin' sad. It really is. Actually, any time someone uses the word "boring" to describe ANY film, I think they're probably an idiot. If you're not engaged by the film, think and figure out specifically why, what your criticism is; and then ask yourself if you gave it a fair viewing, or if you're prone to be contrarian because it's a classic, was made before you were born, or you like to change channels after ten minutes. In fact, I'd bet most of these "boring" people haven't even sat down to watch the whole film properly, but have just seen bits and pieces. But to say something is boring says you're lazy, stupid, or both. Period.
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Just tons and tons of idiots on AICN these days. Maybe anybody serious about film should not come here.
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Sept. 20, 2010, 6:59 p.m. CST
MAYBE YOU SHOULD STOP COMING HERE
by CAPTAIN_AMERICAS_COCK_SHAPED_HELMET
GO FUCK YOURSELF REBECK2 YOU SMELL LIKE CAT SHIT
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I agree. Most people here HATE every movie that comes out, except for some behind the scenes pic of an old movie from the 40s.
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Ever since I found out there is nothing but a perfectly blank white screen behind the window blinds, I am distracted by that fact. Never mind that a real window would appear identical when the camera iris is wide open to film in a dim interior.
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I have never even heard of you, let alone stalked you. I have never noticed your posts in my life, let alone read, or replied, to any of them. I don't have any idea who in the hell you are. Although, I do post "GAY" a lot, so I could see where you would think I was referring to you.
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Sept. 20, 2010, 11:22 p.m. CST
the best SHOP i've seen since Lohan's dad at the synogogue
by Tigger Tales
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But if your opinion is that The Godfather sucks..then you are wrong.Its jst that simple. Either that or you are trolling.
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