Leaves Modern movies for dead

Rating: Null/10 (19 July 2002)

I have JUST finished watching Godfather Part I & II and I am completely blown away. I had always seen them near or at the top of various 'greatest movie of all time' lists and have been meaning to watch them for a long time.
Now that I have all I can say is that Part I & II are probably the best movies I think I have ever seen (and I've seen just about everything!). The movies draw you into the family so much that you start to feel like you're right there with them. There are so many great characters aside from Marlon Brando and Pacino (that goes without saying). I especially liked Tom Hagen and was so glad to see him feature in Part II as well as I. I could go on but everyone else on here has said it already...
What can I say but that they just don't make movies of this calibre any more. We're living in an age of mediocrity and our cinema screens reflect this.
If you REALLY want to watch quality movies with no explosions, overswearing, girls put in for no reason but to have a girl in the movie, mindless violence and so on... go back to the glory days of the movies - the black and whites through to the late 70's.
You wont be dissappointed - and the Godfather I & II stand out in that time as the rule that all the others can be measured by.
AWESOME film making.