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Someone actually made Portnoy speechless.

sardis wrote: ↑Mon Aug 29, 2022 9:22 pm Someone actually made Portnoy speechless.

I don’t give a fuck if it’s Kobe’s birthday and that Kobe died. A self respecting Celtics fan should never wear any Lakers crap.

No idea who that is.

watching the Godfather. I watch it probably once a year.

this is a question I ask of many people of power over the years

who in their right fucking mind would marry the daughter of the godfather?

you know your gonna get shot in the head at some point. You step out of line once, have a woman at work flirt with you, whatever

boom...eCat sleeps with the fishes

sardis wrote: ↑Mon Aug 29, 2022 9:22 pm Someone actually made Portnoy speechless.

also I thought he prided himself on eating good pizza

that looks like shit

"watching the Godfather. I watch it probably once a year."

My favorite scene is when Michael is floating his idea to kill McClusky and the Turk. Here he was, determined to stay out of the family business, but after his dad got popped, that was out the window. He's all in now. He's clearly smarter than anybody else in the room, came up with the idea himself, and is willing to make the hit himself. The camera slowly (very slowly) starts to come closer to him until finally it's just his face in the camera when he says "and then I kill them both." Everybody else gets a good laugh out of it, says you can't kill a cop, but Michael has that figured out too. Who says you can't kill a cop, this is a dirty cop, a cop that got caught up in the rackets and got what he deserved. Tom, we've got people on the payroll at the papers, I bet they'd like a story like that. Only Tom realizes what's happening and what a genius move it is and that Michael, not Sonny or anybody else in the room, is really is the man. "Yeah, they might, they just might"...

Well, that scene and the scene where Don Corleone goes to the undertaker and tells him "I want you to use all your powers... and all your skills..."

eCat wrote: ↑Tue Aug 30, 2022 11:56 am watching the Godfather. I watch it probably once a year.

this is a question I ask of many people of power over the years

who in their right fucking mind would marry the daughter of the godfather?

you know your gonna get shot in the head at some point. You step out of line once, have a woman at work flirt with you, whatever

boom...eCat sleeps with the fishes

"C'mon, you'd think i'd make my sister a widow?"

Offing all the other family heads while renouncing Satan during his nephew's baptism was the best scene.

you'll really have more appreciation for those scenes if you watch that series I talked about earlier on Paramount called the Offer.

They break down that scene and talk about how important it is for Michael to suffer a loss in Sicily on order to be all in on taking over the family , its broken down by the actor playing Coppola

Also, they told James Caan to really beat the shit out of the guy playing the BIL because he hit Talia in a scene the day before.

also I didn't know they used a real horses head in that scene.

good god

you know I'm thinking that would be a pretty good movie about the Son In Law

instead of him being a dumbass, make him like Michael, knowing what he is marrying into, but loves the daughter anyways, who hid what her family really did from him when he was falling in love.

so in marrying the daughter and asking the godfather for her hand in marriage, he tells the godfather he will never disrespect his daughter or harm her, nor will he ever show any disloyalty to the family but, they can never ask him to do things that put him or his family in jeopardy.

Then as the movie progresses, he has to decide to kill someone in retaliation and ends up being the most ruthless son of a bitch of the entire family until one of the sons decides that he is a threat to father choosing him over one of his sons and decides to kill him, and it comes to a head when a hitman makes an attempt on his life

to spice it up, I'd have one brother married to a midget and they have sex scene

damn, I should write this screen play while its still fresh in my mind

also maybe one of his friends from childhood owes money to a brother and can't pay it, the friend asks him to get him out of a jam but he doesn't knowing full well the friend is going to get the shit beat out of him because he feels he has to be loyal to the family.

that would be the midget fucking brother who beats his friends ass of course.

The Offer was excellent.

Reading all of this reminded me of something I read about John Cazale a week or so ago…

Cazale, who played Fredo in both of the first two Godfather films, made only 5 movies in his short career.

The Godfather
The Conversation
The Godfather Part II
Dog Day Afternoon
The Deer Hunter

All 5 of these films were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.

So many schmucks out there now who haven’t approached making 1 film as good as any of these 5, and he was knocking them out left and right.

Lung cancer is a motherfucker.

It ain't the way I wanted it!!!

Impressive

You're the Fredo of these boards.

I'll take it. ESFP is fun.

They'll never find Chuckie Cunninghams body. Sad.