Fearless In Quarantine said:
From what I've read others opinion about Michael's time Italy, it was there where he tried to have a family and when Appolina died in that car explosion it was that moment where Michael decided to be a full don't and take the Corleane family responsibility. Thoughts on that?
A lot of that could have been reworked to be the result of him having to leave America in the first place as well as from the deaths of his brothers. The only other essential element is his daughter, though that as well could be reworked to her being the child of him and Kate.
Also recommend me of 5 movies about mafia similar to the Godfather. I'm planning to watch Goodfellas and Sapranos this week.
It's difficult to recommend ones similar to The Godfather when most of the best mafia films each have their own unique take and theme exploration on the genre. The Godfather stands out for its focus on a man doing dark deeds to protect his family. Goodfellas has a good focus on the attractive stylistic elements that sway people to the lifestyle and how crime doesn't pay overall as well as having a good sense of scope. The Irishman is probably the most similar to The Godfather in length and has some similar elements, trading away the idea of family for a focus on mafia being just business that allows it to stand out compared to Goodfellas (and most of Scorsese's films in general where characters are more controlled by their emotional wants). Beyond those, there's not many mafia films worth checking out when the majority of them are essentially lesser versions of those. Gangs of New York had some good truths to share about the nature of power in modern America, though its plot becomes all over the place and pretty dumb towards the end. Scarface is a great gangster movie, but isn't a mafia one.
The Sopranos is by far the best mafia related piece of visual media available, taking many of those previously mentioned elements to form something unique with some of the most well written characters I've ever seen.
Kenshi said:
While that's true, We Are! is still remembered as OP's most iconic opening despite them changing the opening a bunch of times (albeit, they did remix We Are) and Pokemon's first opening is still considered the most iconic in both Japan and America despite them changing it a number of times as well. Toei's practice seems pretty dated considering that.
The previously mentioned element of a link to the series' focus probably played some part in that. For example, We Are! is the only one to even feature the phrase "One Piece" outside of Kokoro no Chizu and Jungle P's brief usage of it (and they lasted nowhere near as long), with Pokemon having brought back Mezase Pokemon Master pretty early through its 4th OP that may have allowed it to stand out more.
Toei's practice with DB is somewhat dated, though is probably preferable to constantly switching the OP for the next new thing when the series has really lacked much of a major change in focus since the Boo Arc's brief stint at Gohan being the protagonist (or arguably GT going back to the more Part 1-esque adventure roots). Its also become pretty apparent with their more recent material that none of their new songs have the same iconography amongst the fanbase as something such as Cha-La-Head-Cha-La (only thing that's come close from Super has been the Ultra Instinct theme), which I guess would limit their necessity in trying new things. I would probably prefer them to at least offer a new cover of the more classic songs as they did with BoG if that were the case though (especially considering Kageyama singing a new song seems very unlikely at this point due to record label problems).
