There's no good reason for me to review what's obviously one of the greatest movies ever, but I'm going to anyway.  I just saw this again for the first time in maybe two years and holy crap I almost forgot how awesome it was.  How is it awesome? Let me count the ways:

1. The story.

   It functions both as an overblown gangster melodrama and the high tragedy of a good man's descent into evil.  There's million things going on this movie, but at the center of it all Michael Corleone's desire to protect his family gradually becomes a cold-hearted lust for power and revenge, no matter who it hurts.  And if this website has taught you anything, it's that lusting for power and living for revenge are the height of badassitude.  Also, everyone has their favorite subplots and small scenes from this movie.  Mine is the scene in Hollywood with Jack Woltz, the movie producer.  Not the thing with the horse's head, but the scene where Woltz first meets Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall) and strings together a sentence containing every Italian ethic slur there is. Hagen wearily replies: "I'm German-Irish." To which Woltz immediately responds "Then listen, my kraut-mick friend..." Beautiful.  And of course there's the scene where Sonny takes a trashcan lid to Carlo Rizzi, one of the truly great beatings in movie history. 

2. The acting.

   Brando, Pacino, James Caan, Duvall.  That's a god damned master class of thespians right there.  Really Brando is the worst of those, since all he does is stuff his cheeks and mumble.  Caan's performance as Sonny is the best thing he's ever done. Duvall is especially good as the non-Sicilian who can never really be part of the family, which is all he really wants.  And of course nothing compares to Pacino as Michael, who goes from zero to vendetta is less than 3 seconds.  It's the best cinematic portrayal of repressed rage I've ever seen.  Check out the scene with Carlo after the baptism where Michael forces him to confess to setting up Sonny.  You know Carlo's a dead man.  Carlo knows it.  Pacino plays Michael as an angry, yet still calm and reasonable man so well that you almost believe he'll spare Carlo's life. 

3. The vengeance.

   As you know, we here at Amazing Ben's Stupid Website are all about living for revenge.  This whole movie is about revenge, back and forth in endless cycles until ultimately, you have to take out all the heads of the Five Families.  The movie literally ends with Michael orchestrating the killings of everyone who's crossed him or the Corleone family throughout the course of the whole movie.  Plus his whole method is to lull his enemies into a false sense of security before killing them (the aforementioned scene with Carlo).  Everyone in this film thinks they've got the world by the balls right up until the moment the Corleones take their cold-blooded vengeance. 

So, if you've never seen this movie, go out and do so right now.  And if you don't like it... well, you need to take a good long look at yourself and maybe make some changes.  That's right.  I said it.  This movie is so good that not liking it amounts to a character flaw.