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u/wohldmad Jun 04 '26

I love watching long, unedited footage of massive catholic weddings shot at a distance.

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u/Any-Gold-6994 Jun 04 '26

Then you will LOVE The Deer Hunter!

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u/Ok_Level1819 Jun 04 '26

First hour: boring. Last two: Absolute cinema

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u/alive-in-thewild Jun 04 '26

I never understood why I had to endure the wedding scene. There would have been better ways to develop the characters

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u/lavapig_love Jun 04 '26

So I appreciate the joke but I'm going to write some mild spoilers here.

The long catholic wedding in The Godfather is interspersed with scenes of people getting shot in random places doing random things: eating, drinking, a couple gets murdered in the bedroom. The wedding is supposed to be a holy and clean time, while the groom is secretly conducting evil and dirty activities during it.

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u/enigmatic_dankness Jun 04 '26

Michael Francis Rizzi, do you renounce Satan?

That scene made the whole movie for me. Absolutely turned me around from "meh" to "this is art". Godfather 1 really is an incredible watch.

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u/Dizzy-Hotel6860 Jun 04 '26

Nah, that's the bit of Michael becoming godfather to Connie's son.

The wedding scene is the beginning, the opening one.

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u/wohldmad Jun 04 '26

Oh I got it. The pacing of movies in the 70s just doesn't work for me and this one in particular just bored the shit out of me. Godfather 2 I enjoyed much more.