Short Movie Review Assault

Random opinions for filler content which may or may not be worth your time. Woo.

Been catching up on some essential and not so essential movies recently with Netflix, mainly keeping in line for inspiration with a crime-based world for Escape.

The Godfather - The only thing I really didn't like about this movie was that it kind of just suddenly ends, as if there were plans for a sequel, which there weren't at the time. I prefer my movies to be self-encompassing really, but eh. Drags a little, but that might be my modern attention span acting up. 8/10

The Godfather Part II - I liked this one a bit more than the first. Darker in the main plot, but I really preferred the subplot of the flashbacks of Don Vito coming to America and getting started through it all. Non-Ending with a purpose since you can assume everything that's implied to happen happens. 9/10

The Godfather Part III - As expected, always viewed as the weakest of the series and my opinion isn't much different. The higher production values of years later kind of kill the immersion of the jump between the first two. I saw no point in the Cousincest subplot, and damn you need to review the first two if you want to know what's going on here or you'd be clueless. I don't like movies that can't stand alone. 6/10

Casino - Joe Pesci must be typecast as a psychopath because he plays another one here. I will say alot of these movies could be made better by cutting em down more, but I'll give this one a pass because it's another 'might be a true story' thing and they want to show all the details. 7/10

Scarface - A movie with a bastard as a protagonist. Only difference is, that unlike most stories where the protagonist is a bastard, the protagonist is actually far more bastardy than most of the people he's in conflict with. He only does one redeeming thing in about the whole movie that goes beyond the call of duty - and then immediately invalidates that by killing his sister's husband. I can see where this movie gets it's cult like following. 8/10

Taxi Driver - This actually isn't a crime drama at all. It got tossed in the spree, probably because of DeNiro. Very weird but intriguing movie. Travis Bickle is a great character with radically different yet all the same believable motivations for his actions, one of those characters who could buy a modern day psychiatrist a house with all the therapy he'd need. Probably my favorite drama of all of them I've watched. 10/10

I think I would of enjoyed the lot of them a lot more if I didn't watch them one after another. I started to really get burned out on the genre once I was getting to Scarface. My attention was really getting killed. After Taxi Driver(although I wouldn't count it as a Crime Drama) I'm sure as hell going to take a break from the genre. Which is fine since Escape is more or less done barring any serious rewrites suggested or requested. Tomorrow I'll add a few more reviews(more of my favored genre of Comedy) but I got some SAT stuff to read up on instead of writing for an audience of one. (Hi M.)