Gone With The Wind Or Godfather I And Ii

[Guest mia 1]

This will separate the boys from the girls..what's your pick..manly angry violent revengeful Godfather or mushy, sentimental, women in charge Gone With The Wind..this is a binary question...no grey area..pick one or the other......no equivicating......

[Sally]

While I know that it has been said (by Tom Hanks in "You've Got Mail") "It is the source of all knowledge, the E Ching, the Godfather has all you need to know what to pack the gun or the Cannoli - leave the gun, take the Cannoli." I still found it to be a little bit of story and a lot of violence.

Gone With the Wind has enough action to keep you watching in the first half while the second half becomes more of a soap opera - it does have Clark Gable and in a small role Superman himself (George Reeves) so it can't be all bad.

I tend to lean more towards a film that is a bit more to the middle - I'm surprised Mia didn't think of this one.

Casablanca!

Love ya,

Sally

[Guest mia 1]

Darn it Sally. Greatest low budget movie ever made. And here is the website so you can quote all day long.. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034583/quotes

[Guest Donna Jean]

Most certainly GWTW for me, Mia!

It has just the right amount of action, drama, love interest...etc...

I really don't like people getting shot between the eyes of having their hand stuck to a bar with a knife! YUCK!

And I use imdb all the time!

We'll be watching a DVD and say "Who is that?"

So I'll run into the bedroom and pull up imdb and see who is in the cast! Lots of great info!

HUGGS!

Donna Jean

[Sally]

Mia, thanks for the link - I don't know whether to say, "Here's Looking at you.kid" or "This could be the start of a beautiful friendship."

Love ya,

Sally

[Guest Elizabeth K]

GWTW!

What are you thinking! I LIVE that life here and now - fifth generation. HONEY, it was a beautifully crafted epic about howa we survived the War of Northern Aggression! We hearah in the South lost the world as it should have been.

Godfather? WAAAAAY down the line.

My next was Casablanca of course - and 'We will always have Paris!'

Maybe the Tom Hanks movies - Sleepless in Seatle at the top - I cry at the end when he takes her hand!

Fargo for the skewed humor and 'apathy in the snow presentation.' Isn't Fargo consistantly the coldest place in the lower 48 states?

Maybe Fantasia next - for the audacity of combining animation with beauty in music, resulting in a EARLY animated masterpiece

Alice in Wonderland (first movie I ever saw)

And the usual Juila Roberts - once Pretty Woman was my favotite but now I like Erica Braunovich (sp?)

And then anything sci-fi - even the cheezy stuff - but the horror story 'Alien!'

And Kevin Bacon stuff, and Johnny Depp, and Catherine Zetta Jones (I identify with her - Weslh roots) and Angeline Joule (audacity of that woman is amazing!) and my birthday mate - Judy Garland in - of course - Wizard of Oz.

Then maybe the violent stuff - especially the three Spegetti Weasterns of Clint Easterwood.

OH OH OH - Robin Williams in What Dreams May Come? is that right... oh my

Anyway - Godfather was great - just not me.

Lizzy

[Carolyn Marie]

Frankly, my dear (Mia), I don't give a d*mn!

I love the first Godfather movie, the second not so much, the third...boorrring.

GWTW, its a great story, but a little overlong for me. Love the costumes, though!

Every time I see that scene where she makes a dress out of the drapes, I start

laughing thinking about Carol Burnett;s hilarious parody. If it's on Youtube,

I hope someone posts a link. Its a comedy classic.

Thanks for the post Mia!

Carolyn Marie

[Guest Nigh]

Maybe Fantasia next - for the audacity of combining animation with beauty in music, resulting in a EARLY animated masterpiece

The part with all the dancing hippos and ostriches scared me half to death as a child. I had nightmares for years afterwords.

And GWTW is the single greatest movie in cinematic history. Clark Gable- so awesome.

Never saw Godfather though.

[Guest jaymie]

Frankly, my dear (Mia), I don't give a d*mn!

I love the first Godfather movie, the second not so much, the third...boorrring.

GWTW, its a great story, but a little overlong for me. Love the costumes, though!

Every time I see that scene where she makes a dress out of the drapes, I start

laughing thinking about Carol Burnett;s hilarious parody. If it's on Youtube,

I hope someone posts a link. Its a comedy classic.

Thanks for the post Mia!

Carolyn Marie

My pick...hands down is GWTW...I LOVE that movie!

I love the Carol Burnett sketch too...so here it is...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6bOpJ5elW8&feature=related

Hugs

Jaymie

[Guest AllisonD]

Well, it turns out I am different once again. I picked Godfather. I liked the whole trilogy, and I never did like Gone With the Wind. Casablanca takes both of them easily tho. My favorite is Love Actually. Pretty Woman and The American President remain two of my very favorites, also Dave. Donna has ~700 published DVDs and countless movies burned off the satellite service. Out of all of them, I have perhaps 30 that I really like and will watch repeatedly in our theatre. My choices are almost all romantic comedies (e.g. Two Weeks Notice, and several other Hugh Grant vehicles, Cary Grant, Doris Day, Renee Zellwegger...) I just never did like GWTW.

The comment about Clark Gable? Never did it for me, but I tease Donna that Pierce Brosnan could turn me straight, and she doesn't comment, knowing it could be true!

Allison

[Guest Lizzie McTrucker]

I voted for Gone with the Wind because I haven't seen it yet.

[Guest Joanna Phipps]

Frankly my dear I don't give a dam... actually depending on my mood I would watch either of them hence my comment

@Sally you mean it is walk softly and carry a big Cannoli?

Play it again Sam.. this time we vote on it

[Guest viv]

This will separate the boys from the girls..what's your pick..manly angry violent revengeful Godfather or mushy, sentimental, women in charge Gone With The Wind..this is a binary question...no grey area..pick one or the other......no equivicating......

Oh Mia,

I really do love girly movies but the Godfather really is a classic I

would bring with me to my" desert island". I really am an odd one

I suppose , Luv, viv

[Guest SusanKG]

Since it's one or the other, Gone With the Wind. The first Godfather was the best of that franchise, and probably the best gangster movie. GWTW has it's flaws, the happy dedicated blacks, the mostly upstanding plantation owners (and slave owners remember). And certainly Scarlet turned into a tough broad when the need arose, but frankly, my dear whomever, (could't resist, everyone else used it) not at all a likeable person. Rhett was about the only one I could like; ahh, Clark Gable, the oldies are the goodies. No one in the Godfather was worth a dang, and I cleaned that up for the filters. I need one or persons to care about, good story line or not.

SusanKG