The Reel Rejects - THE GODFATHER PART 2 (1974) MOVIE REVIEW!! First Time Watching

Starting point is 00:00:00 And so let's dive in without further ado into the Godfather part two. Man, who that was the Godfather part two. We have just finished the Godfather part two. What an experience, what emotion picture. I want to thank I'm going to try to There we go I want to thank the fine folks

Starting point is 00:00:33 A Prepper for Aetton is down This is quite the film Not sure the runtime It's gonna come down to But it is a thick boy Of three and a half hours Appreciate you joining us For this full experience

Starting point is 00:00:43 Whether it was on Patreon Or here Aaron How'd you how'd you feel? I felt great I mean this was a A movie that's just awesome And then epic

Starting point is 00:00:55 Like the first one I don't know if awesome is the right word but yeah it was full of awe i suppose you know so some awe i would say yeah uh but no it was it was still just as interesting as the first one sadder in in a way you know we were all alone now we don't have any family we can't trust anybody all over enemies are taken out but at what cost you know it's lonely at the top but yeah i thought this movie did a really great job of showcasing both you know the the rise of veto and the fall or at least the beginning of the fall of of michael here and yeah maintaining it's uh it's themes but also keeping it

Starting point is 00:01:39 endlessly interesting over the course of it and the way was shot just just just so beautiful okay it's auto playing godfather three we got to get out here stop it get out of here we're going to the to the patriot there we are there we are we here we live there we go get that there it is all the tools but yeah i uh thoroughly enjoyed it and yeah the it's deliberate pace never became boring or or tedious every shot had intention and yeah it was just very very well-made film what about you man uh i think i'd heard godfather too is so much better than the first i think it's on par with excellence like i'd say they're they're both like nice four and a half star quality films but going into it

Starting point is 00:02:27 you know so blind it was really interesting to see uh how melancholy it is um i talk a lot about how a lot of times crime films don't have enough about the consequences like i grew up on lethal weapon i grew up on um like the fun side of these uh you know crime movies um but a lot of that when it's on the cop side is like copaganda and a lot of that when it's on the cop side is like copaganda and a of that when it's on the crime side is like oh it's fun to be scarface and then you don't think of the second act and third act of that film you think of the beginning so um you know i really like that this whole movie is cautionary like this is an entire film of it ain't fun um so i really like you know compared to a lot of the fun of people with jordan belfort um posters on their walls or scarface like

Starting point is 00:03:17 this is just hey you'll be alone uh you can have everything you want but you won't have have people and i really like that it juxtaposes his father having loyalty having people the first movie celebrates the don's arc this one celebrates uh not even this one this one witnesses the fall um it never has a heyday uh so i i like that as far as it like a narrative choice to like let it be an inherent negative let it be um something that isn't it was it's all cautionary like it's like the third act of any other crime film it's all uh bad news news bears so um yeah i really enjoyed it uh i really like that um it's very intentional i really think it's incredible performances so good um de nero and patino you know obviously as a heat

Starting point is 00:04:05 fan it was cool to see them across time playing father and son in their own way but yeah really really good stuff yeah no i thought it was very well done and i look there's a lot to you to really unpack and examine here and i'm sure there's like video essays about oh i can't even imagine like we all the questions we had about like whether that was shot for this film whether uh you know certain things are probably overly dissected i can't imagine the legend of this this whole movie so yeah yeah so it does look like we have at least four questions here all right um so yeah these two are not on patreon or are not on our list of how we segment them after patreon but uh yeah let's let's let's get us started all right first up we got captain fernandez

Starting point is 00:04:52 thank you captain fernandez this is one of those rare sequels that is widely considered better than the original do you agree and can you think of other sequels that are also better than the first film uh i almost just answered that so by all means um that's tough i feel like the first film for me is still just slightly better but i do like that this is two stories and i would have liked more of the rise of a veto story to be a fleshed out fuller experience though we did get some great stuff and I feel like the intention of that was juxtapose between Michael's experience and where he's at now being the head of the family. But I would have to say just ever so slightly I like the first one a little more, but this film is still phenomenal. Yeah, I think they're about

Starting point is 00:05:37 the same level for me, if not the first slightly edging out this one just because of the awe of the world building and the wonder and the performances in both are great. But the first one, there's just such a, it's so one of one. And I love this. But yeah, maybe it's because it was the first one I saw. Like, maybe if I'd seen Godfather 2 first, but like that, that world that Coppola built here is just so special. And as far as sequel is better than the first, I like Empire more than New Hope. I like, I liked Five Nights at Freddy's 2 more than five nights at Freddy's 1. By the time this video plays, the movie will be out.

Starting point is 00:06:13 I liked Finnaf 2 more than the first. Dark Night. Dark Knight. Terminator 2. Yeah. It's classic. I liked Terminator 1 more than a lot of people, but I think, it does edge it out um

Starting point is 00:06:25 fast five but that's a fifth one that's like not a sequel i think they're thinking about just twos i'm in the rare camp that likes tasm two more than tasm one i think there are elements of tazin two that are stronger the relationship the yeah i think i'm with you i think i'm with you i think tazm two is but i ran into mark web two days ago no way yeah just i got to i got to thank him for all this hard spider work uh literally like in a parking lot ran into mark webb really Yeah. It was crazy. It was after a party. It was after a premiere party. Mark Webb was like coming down an escalator. And I like, I think it's fucking Mark Webb. And then we both got in the escalator together. So I was like, I'm going to thank him. Like, I feel like this is a perfectly appropriate. So I had to like shake his hand and I thanked him for all of his work. We talked a little bit about it. It was a nice little 10 minute talk.

Starting point is 00:07:11 A delightful fellow. He doesn't get enough credit. You know, Sony really messed with those films. And he really, uh, he doesn't. I told them as much. And 500 days of summer is the shit. Yes. One of my favorites of all time. What else is the sequels that are better than that. There's got to be like 100. of lists but like oh yeah that's that's those are like the big ones I guess I like infinity war and end game more than original Avengers oh yeah winter soldier over cap one yeah you know

Starting point is 00:07:34 for just in the the comic book genre do I like aliens more than alien they're so different for me they're very very like if I'm in the mood for horror I'm going alien if I want to actually like those I can't yeah so yeah those are those are some

Starting point is 00:07:50 some off the dome but I think I slightly prefer the first one along with Aaron here on the godfathers yeah let us know your guys's favorites uh next up j rushton uh question will you guys watch the godfather part three and more importantly will spider cat ever be in a movie a reaction uh we are planning to watch the godfather part three this is true uh i held off this entire film because of its pedigree not calling it godfather part two electric bugaloo but i hear godfather three is a little less illustrious so maybe we'll get some three jokes in there but uh spidey cat is a very territorial of his home he doesn't like to leave it uh spidey cat has been on videos on my channel spidey cat was just in my five nights at freddy review

Starting point is 00:08:32 he like was meowing for attention up until i filmed and then he would like lived on my shoulder the whole review he like wouldn't leave my side so spidey's in half that review uh he's a very snugly boy um but he likes being home so i don't know if spidey cat will make it here to reject hq out of him just being a homeboy. And I also don't where he'd go. He'd just like wandering. He'd be on the desk. I brought him a Marvel movie news once. And he got on the desk and just stared at the cameras. There's like, he looks

Starting point is 00:08:59 like a Muppet. He looks like a fake cat. He's just staring. So good. Maybe one day. I love that boy. Love that boy. Maybe one day. And we have a couple that are on a different list here. These two right here. Yeah, Cody Price. I think you just asked the same question.

Starting point is 00:09:15 Oh yeah. So just for Cody Price, Godfather Part 2, which one do you think is the better film godfather or godfather part two part one by it like we're talking like uh a 97 versus 98 like we're talking like for me anyway yeah no i'd agree with you on that on that front you know you got marlin brando he's not into much but he is ended and he's very powerful with his presence in there so we need a little bit more brando in here but that said um roberton arrow was great loved him as well and like like i said so close yeah all right last one jaden roads thank you the godfather part two this is a very long movie but it flies by for me it doesn't

Starting point is 00:09:51 feel like it drags at all every single frame matters could be just overhyping the movies is probably one of the best movies of all time i've curious of all degree which version of the carriage you don't prefer marlin brando or robert de nero that's tough because you can't have denarro's version yeah he's playing off of brando yeah i'm gonna go brando uh i think brando's got one of those all-time performances i think teneiro's sensational here um but just like edging out the first one I think they had the first edge out second by like 97% versus 98% I'm going the same denaro 97 like if we're doing that kind of but yeah it's slightly better for me yeah I would have to agree just because you know with robertono he's obviously young he's doing something very

Starting point is 00:10:31 different that we're accustomed to in his career this in spite of the fact that he's he's very diverse actor in his own right but yeah marital brando really just disappears behind that makeup and end in that role and I think he's just phenomenal so I would have to go brando and there's stuff like the cat like the cat wasn't even in the script like the cat was just on set apparently he picked up the cat and that became so iconic like i read about it after we watched it and i was like that's such a good actor if you're like oh cat like that's crazy yeah and just so many movies have kind of like played off of the fact that you know he is so powerful in that performing yeah so yeah uh really enjoyed both um it's hard because these movies are so long

Starting point is 00:11:09 i feel like there's not a lot of stakes we're talking about it's a wonder during it but uh i really you know this legendary for reason the pain you feel for Michael the loss the the melancholy the emptiness all that man it's it is a powerful film yeah yeah the the betrayal and how he deals with with power and disrespect as opposed to how his father dealt with it because yeah loyalty yeah loyalty one of my favorite scenes in the first one was before uh before veto died how he went to the five families and he was like listen we don't want to get involved with the narcotic stuff yeah want to want to keep it clean i know there's a betrayal that happened but i don't know my son die my my they killed my son but we just need

Starting point is 00:11:52 peace i'm gonna set the example that peace is is now and i thought that was very admirable of him and and foregoing revenge in order to maintain a sense of of leveling and power and whatnot i'm also curious if the third movie undermines this next sentence but i really like the fall of rome metaphor because a position of power like any superpower can't last And so I loved the Roman paralleling of Capo and all the things that the Italian crime era did take, right? Like, but the mafia and mob are different in present day, like 2025, like that era of the mafia has shifted and changed like just like Rome, like the rise and fall of that empire. So to the Corleone family, I'm really curious what a deemal feels like. What a part three could feel like with this so clearly being a movie.

Starting point is 00:12:41 The second one is about the rise of Dito and Vito, the second. movies but the rise of veto into the first movies veto into the fall of his son i don't even know what a third movie would tell other than a denouement like a like a post script so uh i hope it doesn't undermine that uh fall of rome feeling yeah so we'll see yeah that i have to agree i hope it's good i know the reputation that it has i don't know why it has that reputation either but i'm hoping that it's still good i think no matter what it's going to be watchful because it's going to be Pacino and Coppola. So, like, I'm excited no matter what. Yeah. So, uh, tune in for part three. Hopefully it is, uh, I mean, it's got to be at least watchable, but hopefully it's on some par with

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The Reel Rejects - THE GODFATHER PART 2 (1974) MOVIE REVIEW!! First Time Watching

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