A beautiful film

Rating: 10/10 (10 May 2008)

I have not watched this film since the 70's. But my 18 year old son kept on pestering me to watch it with him because it was the IMDb No1. The IMDb rating is our guide for watching any film and that infuriates my wife "Why can't you two just enjoy a film without checking if it's good or not on that website you go on?" I put off watching it with him for ages because it's about 3 hours long and I'm prone to falling asleep. But I watched the Godfather again tonight with my wife and son. We were silent from start to finish with the power and emotion of this film. I just love the way this the film portrays the mafia as an ordinary family that we begin to like. They have staunch religious beliefs in attending weddings, baptisms and funerals plus morals like we won't do narcotics. Yet they can murder somebody and it's just "business". The Godfather has no car chase, no gory violence and no idol threats like "I'm going to blow you away motherf*cker" It just makes you an offer that you can't refuse.