It may seem odd for a man of my advanced years, but I have never seen a Godfather movie. Thanks to those lovely people at Sky Atlantic I have now managed to catch 1 & 2. Agree with the general view that 2 is the better movie. What was odd though was the lack of graphic sex and violence in a gangster movie. Shows how times have changed! Or how old I now am.
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Iāve seen them loads of times. They are fantastic films - I just love the space theyāre given to breathe.
There is a cut of both films called The Godfather Saga, which does the events in chronological order. Saw it on the BBC once. Would love to see it again.
Just when you got in, they pull it back out.
This is interesting. Godfather III, by no means a bad film, but nowhere near as arresting as the first two, is getting some treatment.
This version has Coppolaās intended title. The Death of Michael Corleone. The producers didnāt like the original ending.
This is an offer I probably wonāt refuse. December 8th.
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I picked up the dvd set some time ago, but still havenāt watched them. Itās on the list for when the birdās out or watching some romcom nonsense.
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That first film was a legendary production. Coppola did not have the clout he would soon enjoy. The producers spent a good deal of early production putting pressure on Coppola to fire Pacino!
They changed their minds after seeing one scene from a set of dailies; the restaurant scene. From that point on, Coppola never got any more shit, even though rumours persisted throughout production that he could be replaced at any time.
Anyway, get your arse in gear. Cultural references from about a million other films or TV shows will finally make sense.
Just ask @Sadoldgit 
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Iāve also got the Dirty Harry box set which I havenāt watched, care to comment? 
In all this confusion Iāve forgotten whether thereās 5 or 6 DVDs in the box set, well, do you feel lucky punk
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First one is brilliant. Diminishing returns after that.
I have often described myself as the Dirty Harry of whatever programming department Iām in.
I get all the shitty jobs.
And do you know what? I fucking love it. There is nothing quite like taking down a loop-hittinā mutha-procca in a T-SQL ghetto. Some code needs taking out! *
* I realise that this will perhaps be of amusement to one or two people apart from me. **
** Perhaps not even that
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Are you even talking English? I understand some of the word and recognise all of the letters but have absofuckingloutely no idea what that all meansā¦
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You might know more than you think.
Youāve probably had to deal with at least one head blocker.
Itās marriage for most 
Nope.
Work me through this
If itās never been a problem you need no help from me
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Itās the not understanding what the fuck youāre talking about is my problem
I get that a lot. Sorry @Cobham-Saint, not really targeted at you, although I am impressed youāve never experienced a head blocker.
Most men have from time to time, irrespective of their technical understanding of the term.
Sotonians. Come for the largely unrequited promise of football chat. Stay for the obscure puns that only @BTripz seems to get
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Someone has written some bad code in the structured query language used by SQL server, a contradiction in terms BTW, this bad code is getting stuck in a loop and is doing the same thing over and over again, this is causing bad shit to happen on the server.
@pap has gone in, like a modern day gunslinger, and has stopped the code looping and has saved the day (or system if you will)ā¦yay , what a hero
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I would say āold schoolā gunslinger, just like Dirty Harry.
This young crop confuses the fuck out of me. A good deal of them are built like brick shithouses.
Whatās their endgame? Becoming Avengers?
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Yeah, the only muscle needed to code is head muscleā¦
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I get that, so why not speak Engerlish? 
A beard used to be mandatory for the deft operation of a computer. These were simpler times, before the hordes of hillbillies arrived on social media.
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