Last movie saw.... The Godfather.
Yup, I did it! and I liked it. Yeah it was long but not unbearable long, and the immersion in the atmosphere of the movie was good.
Some random comments:
- After hearing it for so many times, actually witnessing the "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse" line was a bit underwhelming. I guess it happens with every super famous thing you know from pop culture since your childhood.
- When I was watching the negotiation with the movie producer and I saw the horse I was "is that THE horse?".... and then he rudely refused to let that guy have the part.... and I was "yeah, that must be THE horse". Yup, it was THE horse, one of the few things I knew about the movie.
- The movie is old enough for me to have missed the time frame. I thought it was contemporary, but it's actually set after WWII. That's why they say that Al Pacino was in the war
- Speaking of Al Pacino, he was young enough to be almost unrecognizable, only in his final scenes I could recognize the face that I associate so well with him. I didn't really expect him to be, if not the actual protagonist of the movie, such an impoprtant character, I thought this was the Marlon Brando show but Michael Corleone's journey in the movie is what holds the narrative together.
- Didn't really know the rest of the plot so the whole Sicily trip came as a complete surprise.
- Didn't also expect Michael Corleone to go all Walter White vs Fring's men in jail (everyone taken care of at the same time), that was so intense especially coming from a guy that started out being late to a family wedding because he was more interested in his girlfriend!
- If anyone cares about these things, it was so blatantly clear for the italian speaking scenes when the american actors tried to speak italian, and when they used actual italian people
off the top of my head Al Pacino was the worst at it, but generally they were all understandable.
So, all in all it was an interesting experience that I don't regret at all, of course seeing a movie almost 50 years after its release you lose a bit of the perspective but the time difference didn't really hamper my enjoyment. Will watch part II definitively, sooner or later.