The Godfather - The Coppola Restoration Giftset DVD
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Actor: Al Pacino, Marlon BrandoBrand: GODFATHER COLL.,THE: COPPOLA RESTORATION (DVD
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Restored, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 549 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-09-23
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount
DVD Reviews of The Godfather - The Coppola Restoration Giftset DVD
DVD Review: Disappoineted
Summary: 3 Stars
I'm a big fan of The Godfather so I was very exited when they decided to digially remaster this. After seeing the Part 1 and 2 remastered I'm am disappointed. Yes, it does look a little better on my projector screen but not as good as I thought it would. Some parts look the same as the old version and other seens are still fuzzy. I know we're dealing with a 1970's film but still think it could look better. On a few seens there is a big piece of dust that they never got rid off. I can't believe the editors missed the dust!!DVD Review: Classic Reborn
Summary: 5 Stars
This Was the rebirth of the Godfather for me and it was worth every penny.DVD Review: 2 Stars for the horrible restoration quality
Summary: 2 Stars
I absolutely agree, word for word, with unluckyfrank's review.
I too purchased the standard DVD set of 'The Coppola Restoration' and it is bad - not worth the money bad. I found myself CONSTANTLY turning up the brightness, turning down the brightness, turning up the color, turning down the color. It is unbearable!
Worst of all, I found myself yearning to watch the original release right in the middle of viewing my brand new 'Coppola Restoration'.
I was expecting James Bond quality restos, this is not even in the ballpark. The James Bond restorations and the Alfred Hitchcock restorations are stunning in their quality, the Godftaher should 'whack' the studio boss for this one!
DVD Review: The best version of one of the best film sagas ever.
Summary: 5 Stars
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.DVD Review: THE GODFATHER, The Coppola Video Game Giftset
Summary: 3 Stars
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, donning his bulletproof vest, in preparation for his meeting with Sollozzo. The colors in The Original Version look natural, while The Restoration renders Luca's apartment in a blazing wash of bright sunshine yellow. These frames are entirely over-saturated with color. I assure you, certain frames of this Restoration DO NOT look anything like the Original film stock print. The warm and natural looking sepia tone of The Original film has been blasted away with digital color in many frames, almost making them look unreal.
THE GODFATHER II has been compressed onto one disc, while The Original Version was compressed onto 2 discs.
(By the way, I could care less about The TV Saga Version. It's not the way these films were shot, and it's not the way they were intended to be seen.)
Some frames of The New Restoration look very grainy, some look incredible, while other frames make these films appear as if Ted Turner Colorized them. At times, I wasn't sure if I was watching THE GODFATHER, or SPEED RACER.
Is this version worth a Double Dip? I'm still on the fence about that. But, I think I prefer The Original Box Set over this half-baked attempt at improving this Classic with an over-saturation of color.
I get the feeling that The Blu-ray Version must look really odd. Blu-ray is great technology for newer films. Older films tend to suffer from over-saturation with this technology. The public is so enamoured with Blu-ray, they don't realize some of the classic older films don't resemble their original celluloid color exposures anymore. And that's a shame. It's going to take some more time before remastering technicians understand the remastering treatment that some of these classic older films deserve. Sometimes less is more.
If you must have The Restoration, turn the brightness and color way down on your TV.
I'm calling this THE GODFATHER: THE COPPOLA VIDEO GAME GIFTSET.
Act accordingly.
Description of The Godfather - The Coppola Restoration Giftset DVD
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 murdOn the DVD People used to say this was Frank Sinatra's world, and the rest of us just lived in it. After watching the multiple special features in the box set The Godfather - Coppola Restoration, one might conclude it's actually time for a cultural and historical revision: This is the Corleone family's world. The rest of us better tread lightly. Actually, the point of the half-dozen or so features crammed onto a disc accompanying the beautifully restored The Godfather, The Godfather II and The Godfather III, is that The Godfather movies have penetrated popular culture in such a deep and meaningful way that they are second-nature to everything. David Chase, creator of and writer on The Sopranos, for example, describes in the featurette "Godfather World" that his hit HBO series was intended to be the story of the first generation of mobsters actually influenced by Francis Ford Coppola's hit trilogy. Joe Mantegna calls the three films "the Italian Star Wars." (Mantegna co-stars in The Godfather III.) Alec Baldwin says no matter what one is doing, one is compelled to stop and watch the films if they're on television. Richard Belzer calls the films "a religion." And so on. A number of people similarly testify in "Godfather World" to the importance and ubiquitousness of The Godfather and its sequels in American life. There's no point in arguing, so its best to move on to the other featurettes, including "The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't," reviewing in detail much of what has been said about Paramount's mistreatment of Coppola, about casting fights (Steve McQueen as Michael?), about the studio's assumption they were getting a quick-and-dirty B-movie, and about producer Robert Evans' determination to keep his choice of director and unlikely actors under his wing. Fresh information within the special features, however, begins with ". When the Shooting Stopped," a fine study of post-production on The Godfather, with several surprising and fascinating facts. Among emerging details is an explanation of why Michael Corleone's scream toward the end of The Godfather III is silenced out. (Hint: it was meant to be the inverse of a sound effect in the first movie.) "Emulsional Rescue: Revealing The Godfather" talks about the painstaking work of restoring the first two films, beginning with a phone call from Coppola to Steven Spielberg (after the latter's DreamWorks studio became part of the Viacom family) asking if he'd request money from Paramount for restoration work. "The Godfather On the Red Carpet is a negligible series of fawning statements about the movie from hot young actors, while "Four Short Films" are brief and enjoyable takes on different aspects of The Godfather's impact on modern living. --Tom Keogh
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