RESULT & WINNER ANNOUNCED!! 50/50 FOH's Weekly Poll Comp: #3

[MoeFOH]

A classic film is the subject matter being hoist up the flag poll, this week... 

All about 50/50...

50/50 is a weekly poll where we find out whether or not some serious bones of contention questions can be finally be buried or will instead remain above ground as a fleshy 50/50 debate... you know, such weighty issues as these...

If given no other option:

are you a Cohiba or Monte person? 

do you prefer Hunnicutt or Trapper in M*A*S*H? 

Connery or Moore as Bond?

Apple or PC?

Smooth or Crunchy peanut butter? 

do you prefer wearing men's or women's underwear?

Sacrificing chickens or virgins?

...that sort of standard fare. 

Vote in the poll and further bolster your standpoint in the thread below if you wish. Poll Votes are public and there's a couple of sticks up for grabs for participants. 

Also, PM me Polls that you'd like me to conduct on 50/50 and there'll be a prize for those we decide to use. 

[Burningman]

It's a tough call but I have to say #1. Such a shame they made part 3...

[inter4alia]

Part 1 but it's really a flip of the coin with these two. Number 3 doesn't exist to me. Blocked it out. 

[Jal154]

Both films are amazing. This is a tough one. What I love about 2 is the the background on the characters from the first film. Both done so well.

[MoeFOH]

6 minutes ago, Burningman said:

It's a tough call but I have to say #1. Such a shame they made part 3...

I know. I think it all comes down to Fredo: in #1 he's bangin' cocktail waitresses two at a time, in #2 he's breaking Michael's heart. He's definitely the key. 

And, yes, #3 does not exist for me. 

[Markspring1978]

One could argue that these are collectively one film. My nod is to #1 because Brando is iconic in that role. 

[MD Puffer]

Part I.

Not even close (in my mind).  Not even close...

[Habana Mike]

There was a #3?

[Astar20]

The 1st is much better than the 2nd sure the 2nd is the back story but it is easy to get bored and tune out. 

[alloy]

Definitely Pt. 1.

 

[Cigar_83]

Part 1 was amazing, but I enjoyed the rise of Micheal in part 2

[JoeyBones777]

1 hour ago, Markspring1978 said:

My nod is to #1 because Brando is iconic in that role. 

So. Much. This.☝️ 

Both movies are great but for me Vito is Brando not DeNiro.

[mtd057]

Part 1 is hands down the best, part 2 is ok.  Part 3 is just so bad.

[Fuzz]

I picked The Godfather for 2 reasons; it is the only one I watched all the way through, and secondly... this scene...

 

 

[Philc2001]

Tough call for me. Two iconic actors, two legendary films, one really great story. The nostalgic setting and Brando's masterful and intense acting in Pt.1, versus Michael Corleone's ascension to power and the more complex and intriguing plot in Pt. 2. They were both equally entertaining, even though for different reasons. To me it seemed more like one movie divided into two parts, rather than two separate movies. I have to give it to Pt. 2 by a just a hair. I simply can't imagine how you could end the story with pt.1 and not make pt. 2. 

 

BTW - if  you get a chance, read Mario Puzo's book called 'The Family', it has similar plot to the Godfather, but in a completely different era involving the early Papacy. Fantastic book. 

[zappaFREAK]

Really splitting hairs on this one! Really the same film in 2 parts. 

[CampDelta369]

Godfather Part 1

Many great scenes. Great cast. And they got Luca Brasi [Played by Lenny Montana, an actual bodyguard for the Colombo Family in 1972]

[CampDelta369]

[Bucky McSwensen]

Love both but no 1 was flawless and true to the book.  Love the origin stuff from part 2, even loved the new stuff but the whole hyman roth stuff felt like fan fiction.  Really good fan fiction mind you, but nothing can touch the original

[Bill Hayes]

I remember having a video tape (if you can remember those) with the three movies in sequential order.

[David88]

Part 1 for me. You should have included number 3 in the poll to see if anyone is crazy enough to like it over the others

[Chucko8]

Part 1 by a hair.

[ayepatz]

Tough one. But I went for Part 2 simply because of this, one of the most operatic moments in cinema history:-

 

[Ken Gargett]

8 hours ago, Markspring1978 said:

One could argue that these are collectively one film. My nod is to #1 because Brando is iconic in that role. 

great films with 1 getting the nod.

i believe that gene hackman turned down the role. and the robert shaw role in jaws, and dreyfus in close encounters. get a new agent pal! 

[JohnS]

20 hours ago, Markspring1978 said:

One could argue that these are collectively one film.

Francis Ford Coppola states the very same thing at the end of Godfather Part II in his director's commentary. Also, Sight and Sound, the British Monthly Film Magazine published since the 1930's, ran a Critic's and Director's Top Ten Films of all time in 1952 and this list is updated every ten years thereafter. They considered Godfather Parts I and II a single film until the rules were changed for the 2012 list (which also affected Krzysztof Kieślowski's Three Colors trilogy and Dekalog and Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy).