Monday, March 27, 2006
Hello!
Long time no blog.. again. Haha.
Anyway, ive been real busy lately. Busy with work, the house and all. But managed to squeeze time to watch this timeless classic. And the movie is....
Staring Al Pacino, Marlon Brando and Robert Duball, this movie is universally regarded as the definitive Mafia film. It is consistently ranked amongst the finest movies of all time and has repeatedly been voted as the greatest movie ever made by users at the Internet Movie Database Top 250 Movies of All Time.
From left to right: Al Pacino (Michael), Marlon Brando (Don Vito), James Caan (Santino), John Cazale (Fredo).
The story is about how a Mafia family run and how the system works.
The film is greatly respected among international critics and the public. It was voted greatest film of all time by Entertainment Weekly, and #3 of all time by the American Film Institute. It is consistently ranked #1 on IMDB's Top 250. In the 2002 Sight & Sound poll of international critics, it was ranked as the 4th best film of all time.
The soundtrack's main theme by Nino Rota was also critically acclaimed; the main theme is well-known and widely-used.
The film was an enormous box-office hit, smashing previous records to become the highest-grossing film of all time (until that record was surpassed by Jaws in 1975). It made USD $5,264,402 in its opening weekend and went on to gross $81,500,000 in its initial run; re-releases boosted its North American total to $134 million.
The sequel The Godfather Part II also won an Academy Award for Best Picture, making the Godfather trilogy the only series of films to date to win multiple Oscars in this field. It was also the only sequel ever to win an Academy Award for Best Picture, until The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King won the Best Picture award in 2003 (IMDb.com.) The Godfather Part III was nominated for seven Oscars.
Well, despite being released in 1972, i feel that it's a must-watch for all. Very exciting and interesting.
*soundpunk jammed @ 3:20 PM
