I don’t like mafia stories in general so that probably goes a long way to explaining it.
Fervent organisational/inherited loyalty doesn’t make sense to me ,so anything based upon that ruins my immersion.
To be clear, I understand that it’s a thing and why it happens, it’s just so ridiculous as a concept I can’t usually suspend my disbelief enough to enjoy the media.
Goodfellas, I could get through, godfather was a bridge too far.
Agreed, godfather is the reason I started saying I don’t like mob movies but that turned out not true . Goodfellas, casino, the departed. Must just be the godfather that’s bad
Goodfellas i could do, has been a while though, might have to go for a rewatch.
The departed was stellar, if you can deal with subtitles(or terrible dubbing, if that’s your thing), i would recommend the original movie on which it’s based, Infernal Affairs.
Just an FYI, the trilogy is the story of how much of a mistake the grandfather made. It takes three generations for them to be able to get back out of the crime business, and get back to legitimate businesses. By the end of part 3 Micheal Corleone isn’t a happy guy. He managed to legitimize the businesses, and lost his entire family in the process.
The godfather.
Tried multiple times, couldn’t get in to it.
I don’t like mafia stories in general so that probably goes a long way to explaining it.
Fervent organisational/inherited loyalty doesn’t make sense to me ,so anything based upon that ruins my immersion.
To be clear, I understand that it’s a thing and why it happens, it’s just so ridiculous as a concept I can’t usually suspend my disbelief enough to enjoy the media.
Goodfellas, I could get through, godfather was a bridge too far.
Agreed, godfather is the reason I started saying I don’t like mob movies but that turned out not true . Goodfellas, casino, the departed. Must just be the godfather that’s bad
Goodfellas i could do, has been a while though, might have to go for a rewatch.
The departed was stellar, if you can deal with subtitles(or terrible dubbing, if that’s your thing), i would recommend the original movie on which it’s based, Infernal Affairs.
Just an FYI, the trilogy is the story of how much of a mistake the grandfather made. It takes three generations for them to be able to get back out of the crime business, and get back to legitimate businesses. By the end of part 3 Micheal Corleone isn’t a happy guy. He managed to legitimize the businesses, and lost his entire family in the process.
It sounds like an interesting story
The actual story was never the issue, what i saw of the acting, directing and production values was good as well