Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Bad plot logistics, ridiculous physicality in the assassination scenes, lack of humour, boringly long, dumb character motivations. The Godfather has enough of these elements that I've never found the film particularly enjoyable to watch nor intellectually credible. And yet, film critics in 1972 persuaded the world they were looking at a masterpiece. In this video I break down the many flaws of the film - it's about time somebody did it.

Peter Griffin in Family Guy was right. The film does insist upon itself.

#thegodfather #familyguy #overrated

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00:00 Intro / context
03:58 Plot stupidity: Horse's head
10:28 Logistical writing: better examples
15:43 Deleted scene shenanigans
17:16 Death of Sonny
20:43 Restaurant assassination
22:49 Vito survives 5 bullets
23:28 Carlo's death
25:06 Character assassinations
27:54 Acting
30:07 Not so original
32:58 Protagonist journey
38:28 Not so subtle
39:23 Lack of humour / satire
41:36 The ego factor
42:49 Coppola's motive
45:04 Reasons for overrating?
47:48 Final thoughts