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Reviews - The Godfather DVD Collection |
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The
Godfather DVD Collection
(Paramount Home Entertainment)
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| DVD
Release Date:
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October
9, 2001
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Length:
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545 mins.
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| Rated:
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R
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| Format:
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Widescreen (1.85:1)
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Languages:
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English, French
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| Subtitles:
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English
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Screen-Specific
Audio Commentary, Making-of Documentary, 4 Featurettes,
Additional Scenes, "The Godfather Chronology" Family
Tree, Academy Award Clips, 3 Still Galleries, Theatrical
Trailers
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This epic trilogy showed it's genius in
the first film by quickly captivating the audience early on. With
interest peaked, a complex web of characters were revealed while still
maintaining the plot's momentum. Of course, strong performances only
helped as this soap opera unfolded and engulfed the viewer. One
remarkable feat, evident in all three films, was getting away with a
rather slow pace by keeping interest in the family dynamic alive. This
was augmented in the second film with two inter-cutting stories, both
involving well entrenched characters from the first one. The third
film utterly fails as the plot itself was too ambitious in it's scope,
and felt somewhat unfamiliar since we really only had two established
characters returning. While it may stand better on its own than the
second one, it was only bolstered by having some association to the
other two. In it's return, the rest of the trilogy was definitely
handicapped by it's last chapter.
With the exception of the commentary, all the supplementary materials
were found on a disc of their own. There, we got thirty-four great
deleted scenes from all three movies, the three trailers, a bunch of
photos, a nice look at some Oscar acceptance speeches, crew
information, story boards from Parts 2 and 3, and a wonderful family
tree that went into a little detail about each character. In the
behind-the-scenes section, we got several short featurettes each
focusing on location, screenwriting, cinematography, Francis Coppola's
notebook, the music of Nino Rota, and the music of Carmine Coppola.
There were also two making-of featurettes, a lengthy one covering all
three films, and a brief one made in 1971 dealing with the first
movie. All of these featurettes were excellent in their information.
The aforementioned commentary, was provided by director Francis
Coppola throughout all three discs. While there were some short
stretches of silence, one can't blame him. After all, there was over
nine hours to cover. However, his recollections of the films were
quite full and contributed to an entertaining listen.
The first movie totally captures you while the second expounds your
involvement. Unfortunately, the final installment ended up breaking
your heart.
| The Movie: |
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9/10 |
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6/10 |
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| Recommendation: |
One
For The Library |
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