Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by RGA (A) on March 31, 2005 at 19:47:14

In Reply to: Superb entertainment but it fails the greatness test: posted by tinear on March 3, 2005 at 16:44:36:

The Mafia was a major influence on America culture and certainly on Nevada, the film industry, entertainment, prohibition, and probably the drug industry. Burying one's head in the sand to it and saying well these people are meanies so not worth making a film about it makes as much as sense as Wordsworth and Dickens for writing about their day's social plight.

One can argue about the merits of the Godfather films -- I personally view them as Mob Soap Operas - but the subject matter is irrelevant for the msot part to whether a film can be a great movie or not. Goodfellas tackled the mob better and I could make a case for this opinion and others would no doubt disagree.

The film business allows the audience to see the "other" at a safe distance and who knows you might learn something or feel something about the subject matter. If a film is not about something of importance then I might agree with you. A lot of ARTHOUSE films for example are about their own self-absorbed vanity -- which of course speak to like minded target audiences.