The Godfather - The Coppola Restoration Giftset (The Godfather / The Godfather Part II / The...

The Godfather - The Coppola Restoration Giftset (The Godfather / The Godfather Part II / The Godfather Part ... | Al Pacino, Diane Keaton | Just picked this up. Best Trilogy ever!!!

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	The Godfather - The Coppola Restoration Giftset (The Godfather / The Godfather Part II / The Godfather Part ... Al Pacino, Diane Keaton Paramount Home Entertainment, 2008 average customer review:based on 42 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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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From Mexico

Well, I'm just another fan of the films, but the real deal is in the extra features. Very food ones. The transfer in the films could be better, I guess.

Just picked this up. Best Trilogy ever!!!

What can I say. Im not going to rate the movie because everyone know what it is. I will rate the Blu-Ray quality and I give it 2 Thumbs Up. The colors and bright scenes pop. With these older transfers the black/dark scenes seem to be a bit grainy. Overall, a very good buy!

A pristine restoration of the greatest movie ever made

A vastly improved print compared to the dark-shaded 2001 DVD Box Set.

You will have the exact same viewing experience as you had when viewing in theaters on the big screen back in the 1970s.

I've read recently that Director Francis Ford Coppola has seen the restored version and is extremely pleased with the results.

A pristine restoration of the greatest movies (Godfathers I and II) ever made!

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You have to buy it so what are you going to do, right?

Definitely an improvement over the previous DVD version, for the aficionado it's a must have. Fascinating documentaries have been added in addition to all the previous bonus material as well as new commentary tracks. Too bad we have to choke down Godfather 3 to get the first two but what are you going to do, right?

Excellent first,Outstanding second and Distinctive third.

This trilogy on Blu-Ray left me with the opinion that the first chapter was the best but I was looking forward to seeing Robert De Niro in the second and I was impressed with his portrayal of the younger Marlon Brando in his role as Vito Corleone. Now I understand why these guys get paid so much. He even sounded like Marlon Brando let alone take on his mannerisms that he (Brando) had adopted for the part. Al Pacino did a sterling job as the linch-pin in all three movies and held the trilogy together in continuity terms at the very least but essentially gave the whole story some meaning in his role as the reluctant but necessary member of the "Famiglia" that tried to go legitimate.
As for this Restoration Edition the work that the studio did to clean up the thirty-five year old picture was nothing short of incredible. The transfer is so clean and precise that at times some of the outdoor scenes took on a three dimensional image and I don't think I have ever seen so many different shades of BLACK in a movie before. Overall this is a very dark movie (and I don't just mean its theme) and the Blu-Ray just brought it all out into sharp focus as I'm sure F.F.Coppola was aiming for in this beautiful restoration. Well Done all involved and a treasure to own. My votes were; Chapter 1, 9/10 EXCELLENT. Chapter 2, 8/10 OUTSTANDING. And Chapter 3, 7/10 DISTINCTIVE.

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