re: The Godfather returning to AMC theaters tomorrow

Fun fact: In the Canadian power struggle of the mob in the 70s/80s Paulo Violi's consigliere was Pietro Sciara and was murdered in front of his wife coming out of the theater after seeing The Godfather 2. This lead to like decades of tit for tat murders and the ultimate rise of Vito Rizzuto and power struggle murders still going on today in Canada, Italy/Europe, and South America.

All about the heroin trade through Canada and cartels trading coke for heroin to Italy. Oddly ironic, as the entire Godfather is set on the patriarch refusing to go into drugs.

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Is there a way to search for theaters that carry it? None of the AMC theaters near me have it listed for this weekend.

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Fandango is probably easier to search than the AMC site.

My preferred AMC has it for a few days, gonna try to get over.

I saw it tonight, it's a bit brighter(not by much). The sound quality has improved immensely,I heard things in the background i haven't heard before. The scene where Vito feeds the fish in the aquarium. You can hear the bubbles in the back ground from the fish tank. They do leave the bad over dub of Moe Green in. If anyone is a fan of this movie, it's a must see in the theater

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They do leave the bad over dub of Moe Green i

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What’s the story behind that? Always bothered me

I am pissed as frick that no theater in Alabama appears to be showing it. Closest one I can find is in Atlanta.

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The tense scenes had a greater impact this time around. Michael screwing up his nerve to shoot Solozzo and McKlusky was intense as frick.

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I was wondering about that scene. Even on the original version, the Italian part and switch to English, the sound of the restaurant and the train coming right up until the shot. In the book they describe the shooting from Michael's perspective and it being different than the military and pink mist in the air and they def included that part in the movie, from the book. One of the best scenes ever, imo.

I understand how any movie might be considered better on the big screen. After all, most were shot to be seen that way. Some of the movies Turner Classic Movies and Fathom Events have put in theaters are ones that everyone should try to catch on the big screen.

All of the Sci-fi pictures need to be seen on a big screen.

Close Encounters would have been worth it, just to see the last part of it. The part where they play the tones, and get the language down would also sound great in a Dolby theater.

The Wrath of Khan needs to be up there on the big screen too.

Just about any musical is better up there. Fiddler on the Roof has some great scenes that would be enhanced by a big screen.

Seeing, and hearing the musical performances in The Blues Brothers on a big screen with Dolby sound would be great.

Who wouldn't want to see Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron dancing in An American In Paris? I'm not a big musical fan, but I can see how seeing this movie on the big screen might enhance my appreciation of the dancing.

Same with Cabaret.

Watching Burt Reynolds, Sally Field and Jerry Reed run from Jackie Gleason on a big screen was quite an experience everyone should have had.

If it still scares people as much as it did 40 years ago, seeing Poltergeist with a theater audience would be 10 times better than watching it at home, unless the theater audience was full of ruffians playing with their phones.

The court scenes, and most of the story, of To Kill a Mockingbird don't require the big screen. Although I think the kids out playing in the neighborhood would be great up there.

I guess seeing how a theater audience would react to a couple of In the Heat of the Night scenes might be interesting, but the story doesn't require it.

Maybe the violence in some of The Godfather scenes would seem more brutal on a big screen, but the movie is a story that can be told without it.

Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed's lives in It's a Wonderful Life might be better on the big screen, but it doesn't need it.

From the 2021 offerings, The Maltese Falcon and probably Fried Green Tomatoes, are the only two that would not be super enhanced by the big screen and big sound.

Boyz n the Hood needs to be seen, and heard up there, as do The Ten Commandments, La Bamba, The African Queen, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, West Side Story, The Silence of the Lambs and the lake scenes of On Golden Pond.

They showed Lawrence of Arabia a few years back. It definitely deserves the big screen, along with Gone With the Wind.

Most period pieces would be great watches on the big screen, as well as most Westerns, war movies, action movies, animated movies, Sci-fi, Fantasy, and maybe most sports movies.

Many romance movies, unless they have lots of great landscapes, like The Bridges of Madison County, Titanic, Doctor Zhivago, The English Patient, The Princess Bride, The Last of the Mohicans, Romancing The Stone, or Out of Africa, don't need it.