The Godfather Part III (1990)

The Franchisees

The Franchisees wrap up another series with the final film in the Godfather trilogy, The Godfather Part III. Is it the worst in the series? Yes. But is it a "bad" film overall? No! Part III has a bit of a stink on it and Alex and Ben talk about why that might be. Ben had never seen this movie before, his many attempts thwarted throughout the years for all sorts of reasons (laziness). Alex revisited the film this week and was also able to check out Coppola's recent re-edit The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone. Of course the most exciting part of this film for the boys was another appearance by Franco Citti, patron saint of The Franchisees. What a treat! This is a flawed and compromised film to be sure, but we found many things to like about it, in particular the perfect, tragic fate of Michael Corleone.
Also we didn't realize this until just now but TODAY is Sofia Coppola's birthday, happy birthday Sofia we love you and you're really not that bad in this movie!