First off, let me just construct my little flame-proof shield around myself here...there we go, nice and safe.
Now then, the question is pretty much in the title. Everybody I've spoken to, and every review I've seen, praises the living fuck out of the Godfather for every single aspect of it. Nobody can seem to find anything wrong with it at all.
But I've found one problem with it: It's BORING!
I can handle boredom in films no problem. Hell, if I can sit through 'Alien' and 'Jaws' without going mad and having to entertain myself I can sit through anything. But sitting through 'the Godfather' I was going insane with boredom. It can't just be me to find this film duller than watching a giant sack of potatoes roll around in the back of a truck.
Admittedly I only saw this film last night, so one could argue that I'm "of the wrong generation to understand it" or some shit like that. But even people of my own age range and attitude seem all too willing to lovingly tongue-bathe the balls of this film, and I just don't get it.
I mean...any other film that spend the first half an hour just showing guys talking in a room, then cutting to a wedding, would be considered bullshit boring and slow-as-fuck in its setup of the plot, but somehow this film gets glorious praise for this slow-as-fuck unfolding.
P.S: This criticism kind of goes for 'Scarface' too. That's not given SUCH a perfect score all the time, but it's still loved and adored by almost everyone while it makes me want to kill myself with boredom.
I have a feeling this is going to turn out like my 'anti-Beetles' thread with people just claiming it's "influence" as a defence for it being boring as hell, but I reckon I'm entitled to criticise any film that I can't stand but my boyfriend would willingly pass up sex just to watch. (Yes, he actually did. I was pissed off.)
Now then, the question is pretty much in the title. Everybody I've spoken to, and every review I've seen, praises the living fuck out of the Godfather for every single aspect of it. Nobody can seem to find anything wrong with it at all.
But I've found one problem with it: It's BORING!
I can handle boredom in films no problem. Hell, if I can sit through 'Alien' and 'Jaws' without going mad and having to entertain myself I can sit through anything. But sitting through 'the Godfather' I was going insane with boredom. It can't just be me to find this film duller than watching a giant sack of potatoes roll around in the back of a truck.
Admittedly I only saw this film last night, so one could argue that I'm "of the wrong generation to understand it" or some shit like that. But even people of my own age range and attitude seem all too willing to lovingly tongue-bathe the balls of this film, and I just don't get it.
I mean...any other film that spend the first half an hour just showing guys talking in a room, then cutting to a wedding, would be considered bullshit boring and slow-as-fuck in its setup of the plot, but somehow this film gets glorious praise for this slow-as-fuck unfolding.
P.S: This criticism kind of goes for 'Scarface' too. That's not given SUCH a perfect score all the time, but it's still loved and adored by almost everyone while it makes me want to kill myself with boredom.
I have a feeling this is going to turn out like my 'anti-Beetles' thread with people just claiming it's "influence" as a defence for it being boring as hell, but I reckon I'm entitled to criticise any film that I can't stand but my boyfriend would willingly pass up sex just to watch. (Yes, he actually did. I was pissed off.)