Does Godfather III deserve the hate?

[Jiren]

I've seen Godfather III many times and each time I view it I enjoy it, I will admit Sofia Coppolla is atrocious & the story is a little hard to follow at times but other than that I have no issues with it.

Anyone else?

[DiBiase is Good]

No.

It just wasn't a patch on the first two films but it's still a good film.
Unfortunately, "good" doesn't cut it when you consider the first 2 are "masterpieces".

[darthalexander]

Godfather 3 just felt "wrong". It felt like a tv movie version of the Godfather films. It's not a terrible movie and it doesn't really deserve all the hate it gets. I just feel it's the "Phantom Menace" of the Godfather films. Kind of ok to watch but more wrong with it than good.

[Mr. Emoticon Man, TF Fan]

I don't think so. It's largely forgettable, particularly when compared to the first two, but it isn't really bad. Like many sequels, it just suffers for not matching up to what came before.

[erisi236]

Yeah that's just it, it's a pretty good movie on its own, if it was called anything it would probably be remembered fondly like Goodfellas or something.

Coming off (arguably) the best two films ever "good" just isn't good enough.

[itputsthelotion]

NO

Yes it has flaws and we know what they are. One problem is that people misinterpreted the first two and viewed Pacino's character as a cool antihero when he is not. Coppola's commentary is very enlightening and you'll know what I'm talking about.

[SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts]

Yes, I don't think it's just good next to great films. It's a bad next to great films. The story was difficult to follow and when it finally made some sense to me I just had a big "so what." The acting is bad all around, most center on Sofia Coppola but it's not as though Winona Ryder would have made it much better. Andy Garcia deserves a nod for bad acting too. And then there's cousins falling in love. This ain't Shelbyville.

[biafra]

Not at all. It was a great movie.

[Muskrat]

Like everyone's saying, it's a pretty good movie but nowhere near being on the level of Parts I and II. That, and there's a reason Sofia Coppola stopped acting.

["Playboy" Don Douglas]

I've always enjoyed it and felt it has a bad rap.

Michael Corleone in III is incredibly interesting to me.

[Bob Schlapowitz]

I hate the "It's not as good as I and II" argument. How many movies ARE as good as the first two? People who hate it "because it's not as good as the first two" must hate almost every other movie ever made.

[MDH1980]

Does anyone else think it suffers from the absence of Robert Duvall?

[Welfare Willis]

I think the film might have worked better if A) Winona Ryder hadn't dropped out and B) it was called "The Death of Michael Corleone" like Coppola wanted.


Also I missed Robert Duvall.

[DiBiase is Good]

Jun 19, 2010 9:46:52 GMT -5 MDH1980 said:

Does anyone else think it suffers from the absence of Robert Duvall?

No doubt in my mind.

He's actually my favourite character from the first two films. Instead we get George Hamilton.

[Spankymac is sick of the swiss]

On it's own merits, seperate from the other two in the series, it's a solid, if very forgettable, movie. Stand it up against Godfather's I and II, however, and it's garbage.

[I Like Your Poetry]

The ending always makes me cry. Every single f***ing time.

["American Cream" Dusty Loads]

It sucks. It's barely decent on it's own and Al Pacino is in full on "I'm gonna scream EVERY SINGLE LINE" mode.

It's not the worst film ever as some people make it out to be, maybe just the biggest disappointment.

[The Line]

It gets a lot of hate just because it felt/feels unnecessary. I mean, the Godfather pt. II was a fine , if open-ended, ending for the Corleones. Anything beyond that point probably was best left for books. Couple that with a lot of older characters being more or less replaced with worse actors & characters, an average plot, and the fact that so much time had passed, the Godfather pt III looked like(and was) a very unneeded film.

[Joe Galt]

I loved the movie,but I have some nitpicks.The main one that is rarely discussed is Michael Corleone was NOTHING like how he was in the first two movies.Hey,I know that he was older and all of that,but I could not find any of the same characteristics between the older and the younger versions of the character.

With that said,the ending was exactly how it should have ended for Michael.One of the best endings in movie history.

["American Cream" Dusty Loads]

As much as I don't like the movie, Joe Mantegna was awesome in it.