And this goes on and on and back and forth for 90 or so minutes until the movie just sort of ends.

I am truly jealous that you get to experience this for the first time. I hope you love and enjoy it as much as I do!

I stand by this to this day; The Godfather is the absolute greatest piece of American cinema in history. It isn't debatable; there is no other film as incredible, influential, or widely well received as The Godfather is. The behind the scenes trouble at Paramount while it was being made is also legendary. This film was destined to fail, and against all odds it succeeded. Truly lightning in a bottle; 2 is also great, but it pales in comparison to the original. While some would argue that it has a richer narrative, I would argue that making the movie much more political for 2 alienated some of the audience that truly loved 1, and detracted a bit of the sheen.

People in whodunits do talk like that though, it's definitely a genre film in the best sense of the word.

Book*

I don't recommend anything outside of The Godfather. They are quite amateurish and it feels like a copycat rather than someone continuing the story. The Sicilian technically has Godfather characters in it, but play it safe and just read the original.

Just like any of the Dragon Tattoo books outside of the original 3.

It'll be too close to the godawful Spirit Halloween movie that just dropped.