[rchaud]

GF is one of those films that are so drenched in critical acclaim and hype that it's not possible to simply stumble across it without preconception. For that reason, when you watch it, it doesn't seem spectacular because people have praised it right into the ground.

[kranke155]

It’s also been so copied that the original impact is a bit lost. It was the first or one of the first movies to treat the Mafia as an organisation.

And in fact it made the Mafia look so good that Mafiosi started emulating the film.