It's no secret that sequels — especially to iconic movies like The Godfather – come with a certain amount of expectation. Audiences like to see sequels that are in the same spirit as and quality of the originals, and when The Godfather Part III hit theaters, that didn't exactly happen for one jaw-clenching, tooth-grinding reason: Sofia Coppola. 

How bad was her "portrayal" of the Don's daughter? According to Entertainment Weekly, when the press got a peek at the film, they didn't just laugh quietly and discreetly to themselves — they laughed very, very loudly at her final scene. Yes ... (spoiler alert) they laughed at her death scene. Just let that sink in.

Even Sofia's mother, who kept a journal during filming, wrote that, "Well-meaning people tell me I am permitting a form of child abuse," and her aunt had reassured her that daddy Francis Ford Coppola couldn't possibly be actually wanting to put her in the film, because "no one would do that to their kid" — or, ya know, to their movie. But he went ahead and did it anyway, after Winona Ryder was forced to drop out due to illness, and boy, was it rough. Time magazine reviewer Richard Corliss condemned her (via the Los Angeles Times) as "com[ing] close to wrecking the movie," while The New York Post warned, "there'll be hell to pay around the Coppola house." As for the movie, they added, "The disappointment can be crushing." Ouch.

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