…as continually drilled the past of popular franchises and rarely struck artistic or box office oil. There is only one truly brilliant prequel anyway: Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather: Part II from 1974, a movie about fathers and sons that hurtles back and forth across decades until tragedy…as continually drilled the past of popular franchises and rarely struck artistic or box office oil. There is only one truly brilliant prequel anyway: Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather: Part II from 1974, a movie about fathers and sons that hurtles back and forth across decades until tragedy stops time…