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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: GODFATHER COLL.,THE: COPPOLA RESTORATION (DVD
EAN: 0097361313542
Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Restored, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 5
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Running Time: 549 minutes
Sales Rank: 399
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 1972
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Product Description:
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 murd
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - The best version of one of the best film sagas ever.
First off, I too have seen this set offered for far less. However, at any price, it's worth it. Even if you have the 2001 set, this new version has a much crisper picture and sound, making it a much better experience to watch and fully enjoy. The new extras are wonderful such as the great documentary on the problems making the film and how the film has impacted popular culture. The leftover extras from the first set are still great like the hour-long documentary on the making of the saga and the slew of deleted scenes that do add new layers (and for thos complaining about this not being the "Saga" set, some of those scenes are included in this category). So for any fan of either these films or just great movies in general, this set is a must-have in order to enjoy these classics to their fullest.
Rating:  - THE GODFATHER, The Coppola Video Game Giftset
This Review is based on The Standard DVD format Restoration, not The Blu-ray Version.
I'm on the fence about this New Restoration Box Set, but I'm leaning towards an all-out PAN of this New Restoration. Unfortunately, I listened to some of the reviewers here and purchased this Set. (A couple of you owe me a few bucks.) It doesn't look like any of the reviewers here did a side-by-side comparison test of The New Restoration and The Original Versions of these films on DVD. I did mine on a 50" Panasonic plasma.
Yes, the New prints have fewer scratches, dirt, and grain than The Original Set, (which is not as bad as some reviewers suggest). But, the COLOR ENHANCEMENT of The New Restoration Set is OVERLY saturated in many parts. Especially, in the Red Scale. Yellows and orange flesh tones are extremely pronounced, overly brilliant, and unnatural looking in this Set. And it still contains scratches, dirt, and grain. Not as much as The Original Set, but it's still there. A lot of the grain in certain frames has been removed, while other frames remain untouched and appear to be just as grainy as The Original Version. A very uneven transfer in my opinion.
In the opening shot of THE GODFATHER, the Undertaker is so overly saturated with yellow that as the camera pulls back to reveal Don Corleone's desk, it renders The Undertaker almost out of focus. Trust me, this shot looks far better in The Original Set. Compare the shot in THE GODFATHER of Luca Brasi in his apartment, ... Read More
Rating: - LEGENDARY FILM MAKING! Can I say more?
THE GODFATHER trilogy is just one those works that survives all trends, fads, crisis, fashions, critics, scholars, lists... and gets better and better every time you watch it. Just like Citizen Kane, Rear Window, Sunset Boulevard, Raging Bull, The Sound of Music and Casablanca, THE GODFATHER trilogy (especially the first and the second films) helped the shaping of American Cinema. These films are landmarks: unsurpassed masterpieces.
To say that the saga of the Corleone family and more particularly Michael Corleone (who says to his girlfriend Kay "It's my family. Not me"... but cannot and will not escape the "family" in his genes) nearly reinvented American Cinema in the 70's is an understatement.
This DVD edition features all the three films in Standard Definition restored from a new, glorious High Definition master with STUNNING picture and sound. If you don't have a Blu-ray player and cannot enjoy The Godfather - The Coppola Restoration Giftset (The Godfather / The Godfather Part II / The Godfather Part III) [Blu-ray], then this DVD edition is for you.
Except for the Blu-ray edition in High Definition, you cannot find a better product anywhere that will do justice to the great cinematic work presented.
The DVD Collection includes:
DISC 1:
The Godfather feature film
Commentary by director Francis Ford Coppola
DISC 2:
The Godfather, Part II feature film
Commentary by director Francis Ford Coppola ... Read More
Rating: - The New Restoration Collection does not disappoint!
The new transfers for The Godfather Parts I and II are stunning. It really is like seeing them for the first time. All of the murky, faded colors have been restored to their original glory while still retaining the warmth of the film stock. Gordon Willis' then-controversial cinematography can finally be seen they way it was intended on these new discs. If you have the original box set, it is worth it to double dip if only for the restoration job on these two films.
Carried over from the original set are all of Francis Ford Coppola's commentary tracks for the three films. On The Godfather one, he appropriately enough, starts off by talking about the film's famous opening scene and how it was supposed to start with the wedding but a friend suggested he do something else. Coppola talks about how he organized the elaborate wedding sequence and shot it only 2-3 days! He talks about the pressure he was under by the studio and in read danger of being fired because they didn't like what he was doing. This is pretty solid track that we've come to expect from the veteran filmmaker.
Coppola's contributes another excellent commentary for The Godfather Part II. Initially, he had no interest in doing a sequel and dealing with studio bureaucracy. He suggested Martin Scorsese for the job. The studio balked at this idea and accepted all of Coppola's terms. The veteran filmmaker talks at length about the development of the Corleone family from Part I. Coppola is engaging and very articulate, ... Read More
Rating: - Shop around a bit, the prices are already way lower
I pre-ordered the set from Amazon, figuring the price would be significantly lower as the sell date got closer. A short search turned up 4 (probably more by now, 9/22) of these sets in the $45 range...delivered..resulting in a cancellation of the Amazon pre-order. And a peek at my Sunday (9/21) newspaper ads showed a number of big box chains selling it for less than $46.
I'm sure Amazon will lower the price, unless they figure the hefty margins of their current pricing will make up for the lost volume. Until then, shop around folks!
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