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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: Blu-ray
EAN: 0097361386447
Format: NTSC
Label: Paramount Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Paramount Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Running Time: 840 minutes
Sales Rank: 32
Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: December 25, 1990
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THE GODFATHER: Popularly viewed as one of the best American films ever made, the multi-generational crime saga The Godfather (1972) is a touchstone of cinema: one of the most widely imitated, quoted, and lampooned movies of all time. Marlon Brando and Al Pacino star as Vito Corleone and his youngest son, Michael, respectively. It is the late 1940s in New York and Corleone is, in the parlance of organized crime, a 'godfather' or 'don,' the head of a Mafia family. Michael, a free thinker who defied his father by enlisting in the Marines to fight in World War II, has returned a captain and a war hero. Having long ago rejected the family business, Michael shows up at the wedding of his sister, Connie (Talia Shire), with his non-Italian girlfriend, Kay (Diane Keaton), who learns for the first time about the family 'business.' A few months later at Christmas time, the don barely survives being shot by gunmen in the employ of a drug-trafficking rival whose request for aid from the Corleones' political connections was rejected. After saving his father from a second assassination attempt, Michael persuades his hotheaded eldest brother, Sonny (James Caan), and family advisors Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall) and Sal Tessio (Abe Vigoda) that he should be the one to exact revenge on the men responsible. After murdering a corrupt police captain and the drug trafficker, Michael hides out in Sicily while a gang war erupts at home. Falling in love with a local girl, Michael marries her, but she is later slain by Corleone enemies in an attempt on Michael's life. Sonny is also butchered, having been betrayed by Connie's husband. As Michael returns home and convinces Kay to marry him, his father recovers and makes peace with his rivals, realizing that another powerful don was pulling the strings behind the narcotics endeavor that began the gang warfare. Once Michael has been groomed as the new don, he leads the family to a new era of prosperity, then launches a campaign of murderous revenge against those who once tried to wipe out the Corleones, consolidating his family's power and completing his own moral downfall. Nominated for 11 Academy Awards and winning for Best Picture, Best Actor (Marlon Brando), and Best Adapted Screenplay, The Godfather was followed by a pair of sequels.
THE GODFATHER PART II: This brilliant companion piece to the original The Godfather continues the saga of two generations of successive power within the Corleone family. Coppola tells two stories in Part II: the roots and rise of a young Don Vito, played with uncanny ability by Robert De Niro, and the ascension of Michael (Al Pacino) as the new Don. Reassembling many of the talents who helped make The Godfather, Coppola has produced a movie of staggering magnitude and vision, and undeniably the best sequel ever made. Robert De Niro won an Oscar®; the film received six Academy Awards, including Best Picture of 1974.
THE GODFATHER PART III: One of the greatest sagas in movie history continues! In this third film in the epic Corleone trilogy, Al Pacino reprises the role of powerful family leader Michael Corleone. Now in his 60's, Michael is dominated by two passions: freeing his family from crime and finding a suitable successor. That successor could be fiery Vincent (Andy Garcia)... but he may also be the spark that turns Michael's hope of business legitimacy into an inferno of mob violence. Francis Ford Coppola directs Pacino, Garcia, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Eli Wallach, Sofia Coppola, Joe Montegna and others in this exciting, long-awaited film that masterfully explores the themes of power, tradition, revenge and love. Seven Academy Award® nominations, including Best Picture.
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Rating:  - This is an offer you can't refuse!!
One of my top 10 in blu!!!!, now give me TLOTR Trilogy, Braveheart, Gladiator, Pulp Fiction, Star Wars, HEAT, Jason Bourne Trilogy, The good, the bad and the ugly, and 7 Samurai and i will be complete.
Rating: - well done
just wanted to say i recieved my copy on friday, i only put it on to see what the quality was like and i have to say good job, once i put it on i didn't want to turn it off. notn only was it nice and clear but it was full screen. it's not often i can sit down and watch an old movie, its good how the picture quality makes all the difference.
Rating:  - The video quality is just OK
I was really looking forward to this title. I haven't seen the Godfather in a while and when I heard that the Blu-Ray version had gotten a hand makeover I thought it's time to buy it.
I was very disappointed in the quality of the picture, the colors were just OK and a lot of things just faded into black throughout the scenes.
All in all it was a good buy but I really believe it could've been so much better. This film deservers it!
Rating:  - Anticipation turned into massive Disappointment
I ordered this on blu ray after hearing about its release and seeing the good price on Amazon. What a complete waste of money. I've seen better quality on non blu ray. This is one of the most grainy blu ray movies ive ever seen. Not worth the money or the effort. I cannot believe this is the best they could do with this movie. Its all hype and no sustenance. Save your money and dont buy this.
Rating:  - Uggh
I love Bluray and I love the Godfather so this appeared to be a perfect marriage. But, right from the start I was wondering if I had received the wrong discs or something. In some cases the picture quality seems to be not even as good as some previous DVD versions played via a BluRay player, in other cases the picture quality is downright terrible. What exactly did they spend that year they claim the restoration took doing? I understand that older movies won't ever look as good as other BluRay transfers but this is basically a rip-off. I have several other versions of these movies and wouldn't have bought this one if i had had any sense that the picture quality would not be any better....who would? I have the best possible set up from a player/television/connections standpoint so it isn't the equipment. Save your money and use one of the prior releases.
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