The Godfather Makes Me Crave Italian Food

Not that food is a prominent feature in the film but you just have to wash it down with a little pizza/pasta!

I went to see the movie on Saturday at the Film Forum which is showing the original film this week, Godfather Part II next week and then the combined double feature for the brave the following week. The Godfather is one of those films I know I've seen, one I can certainly quote but one I never feel like I truly paid attention to or experienced. The film always seemed to me to belong in the province of "straight-man" flicks (as Meg Ryan says in You've Got Mail, what is with men and the Godfather?) but I'm always game to check out a "classic." Seeing it in the movie theater where I really had to pay attention was an interesting treat. I certainly enjoyed the movie more than I ever have but I still wasn't carried away to Godfather worship. It is the quintessential, original mafia film but I think in the days of the Sopranos the message has been so saturated in our culture that it just can't have the same impact anymore. Al Pacino is pretty bad-ass though. And I do appreciate an excuse to eat Italian. Maybe I'll have to check out Part II as well.