The Movie Review and Discussion Thread

[tbizzle]

Originally Posted by iam1bearcat

haha no biggie. i'll be looking forward to your review of Frozen. i'm gonna guess you enjoyed it. but we'll see soon enough

anywho blu-ray.commers, i'm off to bed
i see that Sin Nombre is on netflix demand. may have to add that to list of what to watch tomorrow. and just realized the last two - three days i've really plowed through a bunch of films!

[Show spoiler]The Thin Red Line 4/5
The New World 3/5
The Wrestler 5/5
Closely Watched Trains 5/5
Persona 4.5/5
Ponyo 3/5
The Shawkshank Redemption 4/5
Paranoid Park 1/5
Jacob's Ladder 4.5/5
Elite Squad 5/5
Hard Eight 5/5
Antichrist 3.5/5

Yeah I was noticing today, that's quite an impressive lineup! Btw Sin Nombre looks great in HD on Netflix! It's a great film too, I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

[Al_The_Strange]

Originally Posted by lDlisturb3d

I can tell that Jolie and the Police Captain are acting and not living their roles. Sorry kinda spoiled with GREAT ACTING.

By Jolie's standards, I actually thought this was her best role. Having spent so much time acting as a tough chick (like in "Gone in 60 Seconds," "Wanted," "Mr and Mrs Smith," etc), I barely recognized her in "Changeling." I thought it was brilliant!

Originally Posted by lDlisturb3d

I think i little more time should of been taking to build up the love she had for her son and i could of connected more with her acting once her son was taken. It just felt very fake. After watching the movie the acting warmed up and left me satisfied.

It's been a while since I saw this film, but I was just now wondering if this was done on purpose. Like, perhaps she didn't really care for her son all that much until he was taken away; could it have been a fake love?

But at any rate, glad you enjoyed the story. I remember it was fairly intense.

[Batman1980]

Originally Posted by Al_The_Strange

By Jolie's standards, I actually thought this was her best role. Having spent so much time acting as a tough chick (like in "Gone in 60 Seconds," "Wanted," "Mr and Mrs Smith," etc), I barely recognized her in "Changeling." I thought it was brilliant!



It's been a while since I saw this film, but I was just now wondering if this was done on purpose. Like, perhaps she didn't really care for her son all that much until he was taken away; could it have been a fake love?

But at any rate, glad you enjoyed the story. I remember it was fairly intense.

More like one of those situations where you don't know/appreciate what you had until it's gone and then it's too late.
Brothers and Avatar tomorrow, for certain.

[Al_The_Strange]

Originally Posted by surfdude12

who else watched it?? Anxiously awaiting the Squid review

My next greatest rental. Tonight, or tomorrow night, all things depending...

Originally Posted by iam1bearcat

Antichrist (netflix instant)

[Show spoiler]
Year: 2009
Director: Lars von Trier
Starring: Willem Dafoe (“he”) and Charlotte Gainsbourg (“she”)

I thought the film had a simple enough plot when I first read about it: a married couple dealing with the recent loss of their young child. But the film is much deeper than that. But I think it’s really up to the viewer to accept that there are themes here. Some, many, may just see this is as a film showcasing violence, smut and some major “WTF” make your skin crawl moments that would leave the Saw series in tears begging for the film to stop, while others will look at a more ‘artistic’ approach. So, what is it? Smutty violent nonsense or incredibly deep and darkly poetic? Um… I think deep and darkly poetic, but it took awhile to get there.

The film is really a tale of two halves. The first half is much slower paced. Learning a bit about these people and their troubled marriage and that “he” (Dafoe) - seriously they don’t have names, is a therapist, and that’s incredibly clear as he tries to help his wife get over the grief of their terrible tragedy. Of course everyone grieves in their own ways, and the film shows how different he and she deal with the situation. and how bad grief can push a person.

The second half is where the madness and wildness is on full display. For hearing rumblings about how freaky and brutal the film is in certain areas, I was a tad confused and thought I was watching the wrong movie. But nope, this was it. Just takes awhile to get going. But once it does it comes in waves and while there are only 6-7 MAJOR “WTF?!” moments that don’t last too long. They leave a much longer impression mentally than the scenes themselves. I could have done without some of the scenes being so vivid, I’m a big fan of “less is more” and I think Trier could have displayed this in a “less is more” way and have us understand exactly what’s happening, so be forewarned, are some scenes a bit “holy moly!” in nature? Yes. But they don’t stay for too long. Thankfully.

But I must say, for those who dislike animals in any sort of harm or danger, there are 3-4 scenes in Antichrist that have moments like this. Does this piss me off? Yeah. Because at least 2 of them seemed completely pointless. And I’ve stumbled across like 5 films in the last week or so that have this. I’ve got bad luck I guess. I didn’t downgrade the film however for having something I don’t like seeing, just stating for those who are in the same boat as me, you’ve been warned.

For the longest time I was gonna give Antichrist 2.5/5. I just didn’t get it and while I still don’t “get it” I think, completely (I have a ton of questions for tbizzle, surf and others who’ve seen it although if I didn’t get answers that’d be okay too) the last 40 minutes for as “whoa” as they are, really change the pace and “feel” of the film. And they are completely worth it and make the slower first hour much more satisfying when bananas really start to hit the fan (or acorns hit the roof ).

Individual merits for the film are all getting high praise from me.

Directing? I thought it was great. The first 10 minutes really had me hooked, and while after that I kind of fell “out” of the film, the directing was top notch and in the wrong hands this could have been a mess.

Cinematography? Awesome. Some very haunting, eerie images / feel. Not of the brutality, but of the woods, the fog, the cabin… it’s great stuff. Most full blown horror movies don’t get this right and drench the film in darkness. Not Antichrist. Very haunting feel. Loved it.

The performances. Dafoe was pretty good. I’m not a huge fan of him in anything he does. He seems to play the same role in everything I’ve seen him in, but good to great at times none the less. but man, Charlotte Gainsbourg was a beast here When she flips a switch halfway through the film, you really can sense that. Visually in her expressions, in her voice, her actions (of course) and just overall demeanor. If she doesn’t at least get nominated for some awards for “best female performance” that would be a crime imo. Honestly, as far as “women who portray a side of psychosis” Gainsbourg has to be in the discussion for top 5 and maybe even #1.

That all being said, this will more than likely (if I were to give percentages, I’d say 75/25) be a one time watch and be added to my “one and done” collection. Although, since for some reason, for as bizarre and wacky as the last 40+ minutes were, part of me thinks I may watch it again down the line (long, long, long down the line) which is odd. I also wasn’t exactly clear on the themes the film was presenting. The main one was obviously grief and dealing with grief and getting past it, but the whole

[Show spoiler]“beating women” deal and the devil

kind of went right over my head and the last image of

[Show spoiler]all the women (I think all were women) walking around the mountain…?

What did that mean? and how did it connect with the rest of the film? Maybe I missed some dialogue that explained this? I know

[Show spoiler]she was doing a thesis on it and there were pictures of women tied up during middle ages and whatnot,

but the lines did not connect for me there.

I’m surprised I’m rating it as highly as I do, but I’m gonna go with a 3.5/5. It may be bumped up once I understand what exactly some of the other themes were, and I still thought the first hour was a little slow and I was even bored at times, but some individual merits need to be recognized, so that added a point or so to the total and I’m not going to downgrade a well made film just because I didn’t personally like it or find it something I would want in my collection. There are hundreds of worse films, it’s just a matter of taste preference and how far you’re willing to give a film to tell you a story.

I don’t know if I would recommend it, per se, but for someone in to dark dramas that are able to look past what some might see as some unnecessary brutal moments, it can’t hurt to rent it / netflix it. Just be warned it isn’t as hardcore / brutal / gross as some make it out to be, but there are some moments I’m sure some won’t want to stomach or even hear about.

3.5/5

Hmm...

So far, everybody seems to have given this semi-warm receptions.

If you hate seeing animals tormented (who doesn't? ), stay far away from "Seed" and "The Butterfly Effect." The former has a very sick opening sequence, and the latter has a brutal dog-beating scene (not really shown, but it's enough to tick me off).

[tbizzle]

Frozen - 4/5

Ok it's been a few weeks so I hope I don't get any facts wrong.

This is a solid film with great tension and a pretty decent cast. The 3 young actors did a good job overall, at times performing excellently (especially Emma Bell). Dialogue was pretty legit overall and I really liked that they shot on location. However, I'm a realist (the guy who's always counting when someone's shooting, etc) so I found a lot of realism faults. They are plentiful, but they don't take away from the film too much.

[Show spoiler]When Parker loses her glove, she would have done everything she could have to keep her hand covered up, most likely tucking it in her jacket. When your hand is exposed in cold weather like that, it's not fun. I've been snow caving and if any one of your extremities are cold, even if you're in a 0° bag, it's hard to go to sleep. There's no way she would've left her hand out on a pole, this was just a way to throw in a gross, "shocking" moment. There's also no way that these people would have neglected to zip up their jackets all the way so that their faces were covered. But of course, you can't watch a film with a bunch of people that have their faces covered. Plus this gave the filmmakers one more opportunity to throw another cheap "shocking" frostbite part in there.

Now, being stuck on a ski lift just for a matter of hours while exposed to the elements, their dangling legs would've become extremely cold. I thought they were gonna be taking turns carefully standing up and moving their legs to get the blood flowing. But they just sat there the entire time! Their legs would've frozen, not to mention that without movement, your body's gonna freeze. Yet these people sat there for multiple days and were fine.

When the guy was shimmying on the cable, he had to turn around pretty quickly because his hands were getting torn up. Then when he tries again, he does the same thing! Wtf? The guy who can't even do a pull up could probably never have made it if his hands were that jacked up. There's no way that you're gonna be able to hold your entire body weight (plus gear) on hands that look like sushi. When he got up there and felt that amount of pain, he should've taken off his jacket, wrapped it around the cable, grabbed on, swung his feet up and over the pole (if he could, I know he's the weak one) and then shimmied on down. Simple. Done. No one needs to jump 40 feet to the ground. Btw, before jumping off of anything, you try to get to the ladder. I'll repeat that. Before jumping off of anything that's four or five stories high, you look for a way to get to the ladder. I don't know why the dude was so quick to jump, or why his friends were fine with letting him do it.

If that guy was gonna actually jump that far down, he probably should've gone for that tree right next to them. The top of evergreens like that are pretty flimsy, but if you grab on maybe ten feet from the top, the tree will bend a lot and severely slow your descent. Heck, it might not even break. Live trees bend a lot, so if he had a good enough grip, he might have touched down pretty nicely. Now, grabbing a tree while jumping from that far up is a lot easier said than done, but I'm just throwing that idea out there.

When the snow plow driver came up right behind them, they hardly put any effort into getting the attention of the driver. Before the driver was near them, it was really starting to look like an oh sh!t situation. Which means that they should've acted desperately, but of course the film can't end that early. So they resorted to yelling. They wasted too much time yelling... at a guy in a LOUD machine.... in a blizzard! Come on!

Now, the main thing that bugged me about this film was when their lift chair failed. As soon as they realized that the cable was the way to get to the ladder, I started to think "don't even tell me the cable is gonna break or something stupid like that". Yeah, 10 seconds later the bolt or coupling, bracket... whatever - had to break. Typical hollywood stuff Lastly, the score was a bit too dramatic at times, popping up in scenes that, for me, would have been more effective without it. Or if they were gonna keep the music for those shots, then they should've had the score build more gradually, because I thought it came on kind of abruptly at times. Like saying "hey, this is the dramatic part".

Having a lot of experience in the outdoors, it's kind of annoying watching these kinds of films because you can see everything that they're doing wrong in these survival situations. However, it's pretty realistic because they're obviously college kids who didn't know what they were doing, but it's still a bit... I don't know. I find myself wanting to yell at them... NO, don't do that!"

Lots of lame stuff in this one, but of course, it's a movie. Overall, I definitely enjoyed it but I was hoping for more.

[tbizzle]

Originally Posted by Al_The_Strange

Hmm...

So far, everybody seems to have given this semi-warm receptions.

If you hate seeing animals tormented (who doesn't? ), stay far away from "Seed" and "The Butterfly Effect." The former has a very sick opening sequence, and the latter has a brutal dog-beating scene (not really shown, but it's enough to tick me off).

Haven't seen Seed, but I hate that part in The Butterfly Effect

So far, 2 loved it, then surf and I both gave it a 4/5, Bearcat gave it a 3.5/5 and both Jhiggy and Romulus didn't care for it, though I think Jhiggy likes it the least.

Btw, the animal parts that bearcat mentioned were basically showing how brutal nature can be, it's not really animal torture or anything.

[tbizzle]

Originally Posted by jhiggy23

Gotta disagree. The entire film is meticulously put together. Not a scene or word is out of place. Your post has prompted me to finally get around to posting the excerpt from my thesis regarding the film that I had promised surf two weeks ago (sorry bud). Will do it tonite.

I can't wait to watch The Thin Red Line again. The local B&N has a copy reserved for me but their order hasn't come in yet, it's due anytime.

[tbizzle]

M - 4/5

Started off kinda slow, but I enjoyed this one. Peter Lorre was great. His eyes really accentuate his emotions! Can someone help me with the ending, Netflix shut the film off abruptly at the end. The last thing I saw was when he was in the chamber with all of those people. It's been a week since I watched it so I don't remember exactly what happened, but it was after his speech.

[Show spoiler]He tried to escape but was pulled back in, and then his eyes got really big when someone walks in through the door.

What happens after that?

[tbizzle]

Originally Posted by DjMethod

Big +1 for Departures and no shame about Room in Rome... that trailer/music video(?) higgy posted was jawdroppingly sexy.

Agreed

You're in for a treat!

Sweet!

Haven't seen that either . That's alright though. I think it's more interesting going into it "unprepared"

I agree. After all the negative hype about the film and Jhiggy's recommendation that I stay away from it, I had it in my head that it was gonna be some crazy evil film so I even prepared for it. I bumped Radio to the top of my Instant queue so I could watch something super happy afterwards However, I didn't need to do that. In fact, I think I might go watch Radio now because I never got around to that one

[tbizzle]

Originally Posted by iam1bearcat

you two are missing out on Adam Sandler's best performance. there's a scene where he's on the telephone for like a 10 minute scene and he should have won an award JUST for that scene alone. i didn't even know it was a PTA film until about a year ago i remember the first time i saw it i was like, "whoa, this is weirder than i expected" but then i watched it again and again and it was so brutally real and honest. ugh i loved it. hope it goes blu soon.

and since it isn't yet, and netflix has it on instant, no reason to delay

and tbizzle, get on Magnolia! Cruise's best performance (probably, i haven't seen them all) imo.

and just as a "reference" key, i would say Punch Drunk Love is more like There Will Be Blood in the sense that it's a smaller cast focusing on 1 main character unlike Boogie Nights, Magnolia and Hard Eight that have larger casts.

I've already seen PDL, just need to see Magnolia and Hard Eight, as well as revisit Boogie Nights.

[tbizzle]

Originally Posted by two40

I could recite the whole film for you. When I was young I watched this (and Dirty Dancing but let's not get into that right now) many times over until the VHS tapes were beyond watchable.

Haha I used to be able to do this as well, my VHS got a lot of use over the years.

[Al_The_Strange]

Originally Posted by tbizzle

M - 4/5

Started off kinda slow, but I enjoyed this one. Peter Lorre was great. His eyes really accentuate his emotions! Can someone help me with the ending, Netflix shut the film off abruptly at the end. The last thing I saw was when he was in the chamber with all of those people. It's been a week since I watched it so I don't remember exactly what happened, but it was after his speech. He tried to escape but was pulled back in, and then his eyes got really big when someone walks in through the door. What happens after that?

If I remember right

[Show spoiler]the people who nabbed him (all the gangstas in the town) performed a trial of sorts underground and sentenced him. I think they passed him off to the proper authorities for punishment. I remember the guy had a rather passionate speech at that point, in which he exclaims that he's only doing what he loves to do (or something to that effect; is that the speech you're talking about?), and the final shot is a hand holding a gavel and pounding it. It's a pretty abrupt ending, but justice is served

.

It's been a while since I saw it, but I remember loving the film and ranking it as one of my top favorite film-noir films. Fritz Lang was the man!

[Al_The_Strange]

Originally Posted by tbizzle

Haven't seen Seed, but I hate that part in The Butterfly Effect

Yep, it's some sad sick stuff.

I wouldn't reccomend "Seed" to anybody, not because of the violence, but because of the director. I made the mistake of letting a friend borrow it, and he came back and said it sucked.

Originally Posted by tbizzle

So far, 2 loved it, then surf and I both gave it a 4/5, Bearcat gave it a 3.5/5 and both Jhiggy and Romulus didn't care for it, though I think Jhiggy likes it the least.

Btw, the animal parts that bearcat mentioned were basically showing how brutal nature can be, it's not really animal torture or anything.

Right on! Those ratings actually are promising.

And the animal scenes sound like it's part of the themes/story, so that might be fitting (not like "Seed," where it's tacked on frivilously ).

[Diesel]

Originally Posted by jhiggy23

Jolie's performance is objectively fantastic.

I don't believe such a thing exists.

There's no explicit, objectively determined criteria which says, "Ok, this is good acting. This is bad acting."


Determining what is good, great, mediocre, or bad acting is all subjective. It's about how the performance resonates with a particular viewer of the film/play.
Now, of course some performances are usually widely agreed upon for being great or for being horrible.

But

Someone could win the Best Actor/Actress Oscar and many other awards and be universally praised by critics....does that mean that they were without a doubt, undeniably fantastic? Nope. It just means they were fantastic to all of those people based on what they consider great acting.
It doesn't make it a fact.





*PS -

[Show spoiler]Someone like myself doesn't give a rats *** what critics/the academy/other award giving groups think

[Steve46]

Strange that the latest review is for Amores Perros after we talked about it recently.

[Marcus Wright]

The Godfather




This is my reaction after seing The Godfather for the first time ever yesterday. I am mad at me for never being smart enough to see it before. I am not going to review this movie as it has been done so by million people million times before. So, I will stay short.

Movie: - 6/5
This is the definition of a masterpiece, a movieaking at it finest. Although people claim it defined gangster movies for decades to come, I still think that this is one of the most unique movies ever made. I was so emotionally invested throughout all the movie because it was so realistic.
Acting was the best I have ever seen by the two leading ones, cinematography one of the best ever and so on......

PQ: - 5/5
As for the techincal presentation itself, its mind blowing. The open scenes shine with colours with incredible details. The Blacks in this movie might be one of the best I have ever seen (thanks to the "Prince Of Darkness", the guy responsible for filming the dark scenes in the movie).

AQ: - 5/5
Very good, referance quality for a catalog title. Detail is extraordinary and what surprised me the most was the surround sound representation, which was almost always active, a very rare thing for older movies.

Overall - 5/5
I now understand why Godfather along with godfather 2 are the best movies ever made as aknowledged by the majority of public and critics. Add to that one of the best tecnical presenations I have ever seen for a catalog blu-ray release, and this set easily earns my highest recomendation ever. This is a set that must be owned and seen by each and every individual human being.

Gonna go and wach the second part now.

Question.
Now question to you guys. If I enjoyed The Godfather to such a big degree, should I also watch Coppolas other maserpiece, Apocalypse Now?
Is it recommended?

[Al_The_Strange]

Originally Posted by Marcus Wright

Question.
Now question to you guys. If I enjoyed The Godfather to such a big degree, should I also watch Coppolas other maserpiece, Apocalypse Now?
Is it recommended?

Can't say that I enjoyed "The Godfather" back when I saw it. I'm sure if I approached it with the right mindset and with some academic background on it, I'd find it mindblowing. But until then...

I did approach "Apocalypse Now" that way though, it was a mindblowing experience. Regardless of what one thought of "The Godfather" or any other Coppola movie, I think it's well worthwhile watching on its own merits. It's a phenomenal story with fanastic imagery; quite a freaky trip altogether. I'm sure my grade will be somewhere between 4.5/5 to 5/5.

[lDlisturb3d]

Originally Posted by tbizzle

M - 4/5

Started off kinda slow, but I enjoyed this one. Peter Lorre was great. His eyes really accentuate his emotions! Can someone help me with the ending, Netflix shut the film off abruptly at the end. The last thing I saw was when he was in the chamber with all of those people. It's been a week since I watched it so I don't remember exactly what happened, but it was after his speech.

[Show spoiler]He tried to escape but was pulled back in, and then his eyes got really big when someone walks in through the door.

What happens after that?

Dude you missed the BEST PART!!!!!

[Show spoiler]They lay into him for being a murderer and tell him that they are going to take justice into their own hands but he cry's out with an amazing performance on how sick he is in the head.

that honestly was the best part of the film. I gave it a easy 5/5 GREAT MOVIE.

[lDlisturb3d]

Originally Posted by tbizzle

Frozen - 4/5

Ok it's been a few weeks so I hope I don't get any facts wrong.

This is a solid film with great tension and a pretty decent cast. The 3 young actors did a good job overall, at times performing excellently (especially Emma Bell). Dialogue was pretty legit overall and I really liked that they shot on location. However, I'm a realist (the guy who's always counting when someone's shooting, etc) so I found a lot of realism faults. They are plentiful, but they don't take away from the film too much.

[Show spoiler]When Parker loses her glove, she would have done everything she could have to keep her hand covered up, most likely tucking it in her jacket. When your hand is exposed in cold weather like that, it's not fun. I've been snow caving and if any one of your extremities are cold, even if you're in a 0° bag, it's hard to go to sleep. There's no way she would've left her hand out on a pole, this was just a way to throw in a gross, "shocking" moment. There's also no way that these people would have neglected to zip up their jackets all the way so that their faces were covered. But of course, you can't watch a film with a bunch of people that have their faces covered. Plus this gave the filmmakers one more opportunity to throw another cheap "shocking" frostbite part in there.

Now, being stuck on a ski lift just for a matter of hours while exposed to the elements, their dangling legs would've become extremely cold. I thought they were gonna be taking turns carefully standing up and moving their legs to get the blood flowing. But they just sat there the entire time! Their legs would've frozen, not to mention that without movement, your body's gonna freeze. Yet these people sat there for multiple days and were fine.

When the guy was shimmying on the cable, he had to turn around pretty quickly because his hands were getting torn up. Then when he tries again, he does the same thing! Wtf? The guy who can't even do a pull up could probably never have made it if his hands were that jacked up. There's no way that you're gonna be able to hold your entire body weight (plus gear) on hands that look like sushi. When he got up there and felt that amount of pain, he should've taken off his jacket, wrapped it around the cable, grabbed on, swung his feet up and over the pole (if he could, I know he's the weak one) and then shimmied on down. Simple. Done. No one needs to jump 40 feet to the ground. Btw, before jumping off of anything, you try to get to the ladder. I'll repeat that. Before jumping off of anything that's four or five stories high, you look for a way to get to the ladder. I don't know why the dude was so quick to jump, or why his friends were fine with letting him do it.

If that guy was gonna actually jump that far down, he probably should've gone for that tree right next to them. The top of evergreens like that are pretty flimsy, but if you grab on maybe ten feet from the top, the tree will bend a lot and severely slow your descent. Heck, it might not even break. Live trees bend a lot, so if he had a good enough grip, he might have touched down pretty nicely. Now, grabbing a tree while jumping from that far up is a lot easier said than done, but I'm just throwing that idea out there.

When the snow plow driver came up right behind them, they hardly put any effort into getting the attention of the driver. Before the driver was near them, it was really starting to look like an oh sh!t situation. Which means that they should've acted desperately, but of course the film can't end that early. So they resorted to yelling. They wasted too much time yelling... at a guy in a LOUD machine.... in a blizzard! Come on!

Now, the main thing that bugged me about this film was when their lift chair failed. As soon as they realized that the cable was the way to get to the ladder, I started to think "don't even tell me the cable is gonna break or something stupid like that". Yeah, 10 seconds later the bolt or coupling, bracket... whatever - had to break. Typical hollywood stuff Lastly, the score was a bit too dramatic at times, popping up in scenes that, for me, would have been more effective without it. Or if they were gonna keep the music for those shots, then they should've had the score build more gradually, because I thought it came on kind of abruptly at times. Like saying "hey, this is the dramatic part".

Having a lot of experience in the outdoors, it's kind of annoying watching these kinds of films because you can see everything that they're doing wrong in these survival situations. However, it's pretty realistic because they're obviously college kids who didn't know what they were doing, but it's still a bit... I don't know. I find myself wanting to yell at them... NO, don't do that!"

Lots of lame stuff in this one, but of course, it's a movie. Overall, I definitely enjoyed it but I was hoping for more.

Yes yes yes! You hit allot of key points! All my friends pointed out the same things. It was a fun movie but it felt fake. Granted you do crazy things when you are in shock but come on........ Anyway at the end of the day its a good movie so i can live with that.

[lDlisturb3d]

Originally Posted by Marcus Wright

The Godfather

[Show spoiler]


This is my reaction after seing The Godfather for the first time ever yesterday. I am mad at me for never being smart enough to see it before. I am not going to review this movie as it has been done so by million people million times before. So, I will stay short.

Movie: - 6/5
This is the definition of a masterpiece, a movieaking at it finest. Although people claim it defined gangster movies for decades to come, I still think that this is one of the most unique movies ever made. I was so emotionally invested throughout all the movie because it was so realistic.
Acting was the best I have ever seen by the two leading ones, cinematography one of the best ever and so on......

PQ: - 5/5
As for the techincal presentation itself, its mind blowing. The open scenes shine with colours with incredible details. The Blacks in this movie might be one of the best I have ever seen (thanks to the "Prince Of Darkness", the guy responsible for filming the dark scenes in the movie).

AQ: - 5/5
Very good, referance quality for a catalog title. Detail is extraordinary and what surprised me the most was the surround sound representation, which was almost always active, a very rare thing for older movies.

Overall - 5/5
I now understand why Godfather along with godfather 2 are the best movies ever made as aknowledged by the majority of public and critics. Add to that one of the best tecnical presenations I have ever seen for a catalog blu-ray release, and this set easily earns my highest recomendation ever. This is a set that must be owned and seen by each and every individual human being.

Gonna go and wach the second part now.

Question.
Now question to you guys. If I enjoyed The Godfather to such a big degree, should I also watch Coppolas other maserpiece, Apocalypse Now?
Is it recommended?

Dude you didnt even have to write a review for this Great Classic. Maybe 1% of movie lovers dont like it but to each its own. Watch Patton i think that another great one by Coppola.