... you had Michael Corleone paying out $600 million like it was nothing to the Vatican Bank to take majority control of an international real estate company. You had intrigue that reached all the way up to the Pope, a helicopter attack that wiped out the whole Commission, etc. In The Sopranos you have a mob family in North Jersey involved in local rackets like bookmaking, card games, loansharking, extortion, stock fraud, truck hijacking, and construction kickbacks...
Good point, and maybe that was part of the problem w/ GFIII - FFC overreached in extending the Corleone Family scope & influence. From NYC to Nevada is one thing but Italy & the Vatican? I suppose it was part of the 'full cycle' aspect, his father having been born there...but maybe a bit much with all the 'personal' family stuff going on. And not enough time to really develop the story.
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