Kostya

Word Stompy.

I mean people who advance objections against movies like The Godfather based on facile and meaningless details like the lack of perfect realism in a the predigital era fail to recognise the film's true value. This being said, one of the other aspects of The Godfather which makes it a masterpiece is that the film works on a number of levels, simply experienced as a story, a moral tale, a deconstruction of American ideals and realities, an examination of power and human frailty and so many more.

In other news:

I believe that The Matrix is overrated, but allow me to qualify my answer. Firstly, a great number of people, when asked why The Matrix is so great claim that it is such an original idea. Wrong. I believe that the film was precedented by a number of others which were moreover more subtle and intelligent in their treatment of the philosophical themes, most notably Ghost in the Shell. Another claim is that the choreography is awesome, indeed it is, but certainly doesn't compare to Chinese kung fu films made years before, most notably is the fight choreography in Drunken Master II, Once Upon a Time in China, Fist of Legend and the remake of Iron Monkey. The Matrix is a very good film, and certainly its utilisation of special effects and phenomenal fictional vision will be praised in later decades, but one doubts whether it will reach the iconic status of masterpiece.