re: Discussion: Top 200 Movies We Agree Don't Suck - 2.0

I think you can since the third was made almost 20 years after the first two. It was a cash grab. Actually, it was a prestige grab, given Coppola's career since 1980. Has any director done more to harm his reputation than Coppola? I mean, we forgive Polanski for being a horrible person, but Coppola just started making bad movies.

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You know, I want to make the Godfather folks accept Godfather 1-3. You just can't leave off a film in the trilogy and get the two best ones, that's crazy.

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I don't hate GF III the way a lot of folks do, but I'll disagree because it came out 16 years later so it was not made in combo with the other 2 in the same way that LOTR and Kill Bill were basically filmed as 1. Parts of GF I and II over lap and basically overlap and continue the same story, but are split into 2 films for time considerations.

The Godfather Saga (parts I and II edited together) predated GF III by many years.