O/T Another film you just cannot turn off

[caytonmiller]

I'm afraid I seem to be very much in the minority.
After years of hearing how good they were, the first two particularly, I finally got round to starting watching The Godfather, earlier this year.
Unlike you Brin, I did manage to turn it off. I just couldn't get into it at all and found it quite ponderous.
I never bothered with any of the others.

Coincidentally, during this festive period, I did catch the start of the second one while flicking through the channels.
That did seem much better, but it was very late, so again turned it off, but will try to catch that again.

Talking of gangster films, I happened to notice The Long Good Friday on 4 player last week and thoroughly enjoyed watching that again.
Marvelous film, brilliant actors and a wonderful score to match.

Agree with this. Tried to watch original twice to the end but not managed it. Not my type of film

[MagyarMiller]

Agree entirely on the LGF

I was down that way back in October, the locations for the film are quite literally unrecognisable now

I've been sort of in the area recently, and it is a bit different alright.

Is that St Katherine's Dock, recognised that pub, The Dickens, is it ?
Not been there for years.
Is it still going?

[mellowmiller]

I must also be in the minority.
I read the Godfather book then saw the film later and was really disappointed.
I guess when you read something your imagination views things in a particular way and films can often take a different perspective that you don't connect with.
One film I really did like and have watched a couple of times was Papillon starring Dustin Hoffman and Steve McQueen. Brilliant stuff.

[ragingpup]

Big Boobs Armageddon.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

I've been sort of in the area recently, and it is a bit different alright.

Is that St Katherine's Dock, recognised that pub, The Dickens, is it ?
Not been there for years.
Is it still going?

Don't know about the Dickens, I always thought that the pub they blew up was a film prop

[MagyarMiller]

Don't know about the Dickens, I always thought that the pub they blew up was a film prop

I think the one they blew was an old derelict pub they found, could be wrong

The one I mean is in the aerial shot of the marina.
The exterior was often cover in flowers

[Scum-Triumphant]

Always found the end scene of LGF in the car goes on far too long.
It’s really distracting and weird.

[animallittle3]

Some of the stuff in Long Good Friday was really bang on the money regarding the future UK to say it came out in 1980 .

The future Docklands was one and the hosting of the Olympic Games where regeneration of the old industrial areas in London was another .

I'm sure I read there was a follow up to LGF which blobbed , anyway as Hoskins is driven to his death the follow up film begins .

He's rescued by our Special Forces but that's all I can remember from the article .

Saying that with my memory these days it may have just been an idea of a follow up and it never got made that I read .

[CAMiller]

Some of the stuff in Long Good Friday was really bang on the money regarding the future UK to say it came out in 1980 .

The future Docklands was one and the hosting of the Olympic Games where regeneration of the old industrial areas in London was another .

I'm sure I read there was a follow up to LGF which blobbed , anyway as Hoskins is driven to his death the follow up film begins .

He's rescued by our Special Forces but that's all I can remember from the article .

Saying that with my memory these days it may have just been an idea of a follow up and it never got made that I read .

From Wikipedia

Barrie Keeffe wrote a sequel, Black Easter Monday, set 20 years after the events of the first film. It opened with Bob Hoskins's character; Harold Shand, escaping from the IRA after the car was pulled over by police. Shand would retire to Jamaica, then return to stop the East End being taken over by the Yardies.[10] However, the film was never made. In one of his last interviews, Keeffe seemed unconcerned by the lack of development: "In some ways, I’m glad we didn’t because sequels are usually diminishing returns. To put it up there with Casablanca, no one wants Casablanca II."

[animallittle3]

From Wikipedia

Barrie Keeffe wrote a sequel, Black Easter Monday, set 20 years after the events of the first film. It opened with Bob Hoskins's character; Harold Shand, escaping from the IRA after the car was pulled over by police. Shand would retire to Jamaica, then return to stop the East End being taken over by the Yardies.[10] However, the film was never made. In one of his last interviews, Keeffe seemed unconcerned by the lack of development: "In some ways, I’m glad we didn’t because sequels are usually diminishing returns. To put it up there with Casablanca, no one wants Casablanca II."

Thanks for that , I knew I read summat about a sequel a while back .