Movie Review - Godfather Trilogy

By request, some thoughts on two of the best movies ever made, and an abortion that was named the third film in the series.

THE GODFATHER

This film should be seen by all adults at least once.
Most will like it.

Plot Holes:
Minor Hollywood inconsistencies.

Comments:
This is a very intricate movie, focusing on human interaction. One can learn a lot from it.
This is one of those movies that must be seen several times before one picks up all of it.
I like the new version, interwoven with the second film, in chronological order.
This film has many good quotes. Many of them have made mainstream America.
Lots of old-fashioned guns. I am a rifle-lover, and there are few rifles in the movie. But the pistols and shotguns are in force and are time-period accurate. 
This movie ranks very high on most top 100 lists, and for good reason.

THE GODFATHER II

This film should also be seen by all adults at least once.
Again, most will like it.
I think it is one of the very few sequels to actually surpass the original in quality.

Plot Holes:
Again, minor Hollywood inconsistencies.

Comments:
Much like the first, this film has some very good quotes, and very useful information on life in general.
The film focuses on things beyond just mafia interactions.
Again, there is a version out that interweaves the stories from this film and the first and places scenes in chronological order. I like that version a lot. I like the originals a lot, too.
A lot of guns in this one. And a really good knife scene.
This movie ranks very high on most top 100 lists, and for good reason.

THE GODFATHER III

This movie exists.
I have yet to meet a person that enjoyed it.

Plot Holes:
A movie must have a plot for there to be holes.

Comments:
In case you can't tell, I didn't care for this movie. Made 16 years after the sequel, I cannot honestly believe the same folks made this movie. Puzo should have been ashamed that his name was associated with it.
In an interesting spin, Sophia Coppola (daughter of Francis Ford Coppola - Director of all three films) had appeared in the original Godfather film, as a baby being christened. She returns in this movie as a more central character. This provided the only upside - as a teen, when I first saw the movie, she provided the "eye-candy."
There were guns in the film, but they were misrepresented in several instances.
There exists a "Godfather Saga" where all three movies are presented with scenes all in chronological order. I haven't seen that version. Probably won't - it's over 9 hours long.