I personally think the 2nd Godfather is better but it’s by the absolute slimmest of margins. It is insane how much Godfather has influenced cinema. One example is oranges in film. The amount of times I tell people I knew something bad was gonna happen because oranges were mentioned/shown in a scene is surprisingly high. Just today I was watching Mad Men and there is a death in the show that I knew was coming because it was predicated by the person saying “this ice cream tastes like oranges”