3) The Godfather Part II: As we enter the "top 3" category, it becomes extremely crucial that I choose movies that stand out, movies that are better than good, or great, but movies that are never forgotten. This movie happens to be the greatest sequel of all time to the greatest movie of all time, why not? "The Saga Continues." Seriously, another flawless work by Francis Ford Coppola that tops the charts for the best sequels ever. Using the superb acting skills of DeNiro to portray Vito Corleone in his younger years was one of the coolest things I've ever seen in American cinema. Michael Corleone, taking the throne after his father's death, is faced with many hardships including, a rebellious sister, a brother who maybe the downfall of his family, and the crude realization that he has become a ruthless mob boss, something that he had hoped and tried so long to stay far away from. There has never, EVER been a story as good as this one in my opinion, and in the opinion of many others. Another classic soundtrack, more flawless editing and screenplay, and a continuation of a story that was left at one of the strongest cliff- hanger endings of all time. Its no wonder that "The Internet Movie Database" (IMDb) agrees with me that this is the third best movie of all time.
2) The Shawshank Redemption: Possibly one of the most underrated, under appreciated movies of all time. A thrilling story which only someone like Stephen King can make, it explains the tale of two inmates in an imaginary high security prison somewhere in Maine, the Shawshank penitentiary. A different style of movie than most, it leaves you thinking about many, many things after its over. Sometimes I find myself going back and watching it and feeling the same way I did the first time I saw it. An original story, if you haven't seen it than you're really missing out, very few movies are able to make a prison drama stand out so well.
1) The Godfather Part I: Absolutely. No debate here, none whatsoever. Has there ever been a movie so finely crafted, with so much attention to detail and story, that for a little over three hours you are hooked, and find the ending to be a big slap in the face just because you didn't want to movie to finish so soon? Never has a movie suffused the viewers in its events better than this one, the hardest decision ever made with regards to this movie is figuring which quote is the best. "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse," versus, "Take the Cannoli." An epic tale set in the late 1940s of the Italian crime families of the United States, Francis Ford Coppola dropped this atom bomb on the United States cinema in 1972 and to this day, its radiation plagues the movie industry.
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