YOUR top 10 movies.

It usually includes certain deleted scenes. Fabrizio getting his comeuppance, more young Vito revenge murders in Sicily, a visit to Abbandando's deathbed, etc.

Well worth watching.

 

Interesting. I love the Michael/Vito parallels in the sequel. I would think the back third of that version would feel more like a by-the-numbers mafia movie, a la Casino, without the cuts.

 

I actually don't prefer either version. Depends on my mood.

But the lack of fabrizio's comeuppance was a mistake to cut from Godfather II.

 

Give "Dances With Wolves" this ... it finished second in using two-note music riffs in the soundtrack. Can't beat "Jaws" but what can in the category?

 

The Godfather
The Godfather II
Tombstone
The Usual Suspects
The Shawshank Redemption
Field of Dreams
Dumb and Dumber
Good Will Hunting
Jurassic Park
Anchorman

 

Diner
Breakfast Club
Platoon
Star Wars
Alien
Pulp Fiction
Top Gun
Do the Right Thing
A Christmas Story

 

Rushmore
The Limey
Goodfellas
Reservoir Dogs
The Straight Story
Carlito's Way
No Country for Old Men
The Empire Strikes Back
Fargo
The Big Lebowski

 

Then why is SOB missing from your list?

 

OK, I'll just say it: I liked Dances With Wolves. It by no means comes near my Top 10, but I was very pleased with my viewing experience after seeing it.

And, like Coldcat, I likewise don't get all the grief and ridicule it takes today. I think part of that just comes from this deal where it's become cool to rag on everything associated with Kevin Costner (which I also don't fully get), and I'd bet a lot of people who now mock the film were praising it two decades ago.

It did not deserve the BP Oscar over Goodfellas--because Goodfellas was frickin incredible--but it was a worthy nominee. There certainly have been worse BP selections.

 

Never saw Dances With Wolves, but I like Costner, too.

And he comes across as more genuine, and more likable, than Tom Cruise.

 

Kevin Costner is fine, but Dances With Wolves was so preachy and shallow. I would take Forrest Gump over Dances With Wolves any day.