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I dunno, Uma Thurman in a cat suit tried to make up for Sean Connery dressed as an acid bear.

I’ve not read the book so that may be a fair representation. I know that Coppola credited Puzzo due to how true to the book the script ended up being. I went into the viewing under the best circumstances I could - uninterrupted, unedited and in a hotel with no outside distractions. It just wasn’t to my taste. That’s true of the majority of Coppola’s work. Apocalypse Now, which I quite like, is not going to pull me in spontaneously. I suppose it’s also possible that I just don’t like mob movies to the extent that I’ve never seen Casino or Goodfella’s in a single sitting and what I have seen doesn’t inspire me to. The Departed was OK. Carlito’s Way left me cold. Scarface was over the top. However, I’m a huge fan of Peaky Blinders, so it’s not that clear cut.

He takes a conservative dozen rounds of .45 into the upper torso before climbing out the passenger seat - into the fire, standing upright and doing his little dance. It's well above over the top. You are right though, it wasn't Caan's fault. It's a poorly constructed scene. Coppola was in over his depth.

Agreed about Sonny and Carlo. The amount of rounds fired was not the over the top part. The over the top part was the amount of lead thrown at Sonny BEFORE Jimmy Caan got it of the car to deliver his scene chewing death stagger/spasm.

I would be unrepentant regardless. Aside from the ponderous filming, the absurdly over the top, even by 1970’s standards, scene chewing by James Caan in the death of Sonny sequence was pretty unfortunate.

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Insistent upon itself is a fine way to describing it. Watched it beginning to end. Found it ponderous in the way I find much of American "classic" literature ponderous. Did it have excellent moments? Sure. I just think that it was overly slow and more than a bit dull. I will qualify that in reviewing the releases from 1972, it looks like that was a thing. Even so, I can find at least 5 movies from 1972 that have more draw to revisit. I don't regret rewatching it, but it's not something that I will go back to again, nor will I proceed in the series. I'll note that in looking at Coppola's filmography, there's not much there that I have much fondness for. I've seen most of it, but only a few movies there that I look back on fondly or have any desire to see again.

For the first time in my adult life, I watched the Godfather tonight. I’m confident that I saw it as a child. I’ll take the unpopular opinion and state that I think it could have done with a decent editor. It’s long and self indulgent with far too many long slow establishing pans and zooms. It’s not what I remembered.

I think it’s been brought back around pretty effectively.

I think that the characters are developing. I’ve watched the other playtones too many times to recall my first experience with either. I’d read Band prior. My recollection, though was that episode 1 developed Winters, Nixon and Sobel. Episode 2 improved on Guarniere, Popeye and Malarkey.

I think it very much depends on expectations and measuring stick. The cast is potentially more cohesive than The Pacific and there’s a lot of potential in the overall story. It does have a lot of ground to cover though some of which is going to feel formulaic after Band and Pacific (replacements, combat stress…) im enjoying it quite a bit but it pales in comparison to 12 O’ Clock High.

A - the thread title references taking the Ring to Mordor. B - I don’t think anyone here is using Chat GPT with possible exception of you. C - as has been established multiple times, the source material was pretty limited due to license restrictions. As such I believe it’s “read the appendices. You’ve also yet to explain what characteristics Galadriel exhibits that makes her a woke American political activist product. Regardless, I’m out. You’re either not willing or capable of providing examples.

Do you expect her to have been naturally wise? Isn’t wisdom something that comes with experience and, often times learning from mistakes? How is she a tomboy? The sword and armor? YMMV but she seems quite feminine and lovely to me.

So “woke American politics” is female empowerment and women having masculine traits like being a good soldier? Got it.

It is something they probably should reference more overtly. Fighter escorts had a much shorter operational range. Until newer, longer range fighters became available and until raids could be launched from closer to the target, much of each mission had no escort. This drove the necessity for close formations with interlocking fields of fire. Cleven joined up with another bomber group because he had lost his rear elements and needed that protective overlap.

Agreed.

I missed that but recall that there were similar issues going back to 12 O'Clock High where B-17G's were visible with the Cheyenne tail guns and chin turret in at least one of the formation shots.

2 episodes in. I’m quite enjoying it. As with Band and Pacific, I feel like they’re doing a nice job with the details. I’m watching with my daughters so much time spent explaining nuances (what do all of those crewmen do? Explanation of bomber groupings, German planes are fighters - lighter, faster, more agile) and some terminology (CAVU and Wilco being prime examples). I’ve picked up a copy of 12 O’Clock High for viewing between episodes. I think, being less read on the air war, I’m primed to enjoy this more. Certainly, I anticipate I’ll be reading more on the topic.

It does not stand out but that’s not surprising.

Honestly, I vaguely remember a shotgun, maybe in Tokyo? The whole scene with the heavies with plot unarmor?

Watched it not long ago. I remember very little about any of the series except that the action choreography while frenetic has no economy of motion or energy. Clearly no one in universe has heard the shooter mantra that slow is smooth and smooth is fast.

Wrapped up Echo tonight. I quite enjoyed it. Agree with preceding comments that some elements and characters clearly suffered from the way it was cut down but liked it enough to to call it an overall success.

There was a follow up article about this bill that made it seem that it was a genuine mistake and that he was actually attempting to address a serious issue in Kentucky. I could be giving way too much credit but it read as sincere.

Googling news articles for "Fargo man arrested flamethrower," it ties back to February of 2015.

The opening credits sequence for Masters of Air has been released. Given that it's not as visually iconic as the openings for Band of Brothers or The Pacific, this has done a nice job of managing my expectations. Will be interested in seeing if my appreciation of the opening score improves or not. It ended strong for me, but felt pretty week for the first minute or so.