The Godfather - The Coppola Restoration Giftset (The Godfather / The Godfather Part II / The Godfather Part III) [Blu-ray]

The Godfather - The Coppola Restoration Giftset (The Godfather / The Godfather Part II / The Godfather Part III) [Blu-ray]
by Francis Ford Coppola

The Godfather - The Coppola Restoration Giftset (The Godfather / The Godfather Part II / The Godfather Part III) [Blu-ray]
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Actor: Al Pacino, Andy Garcia, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Brand: Paramount
Producer: Francis Ford Coppola
Writer: Francis Ford Coppola
Producer: Albert S. Ruddy
Producer: Charles Mulvehill
Producer: Fred Fuchs
Producer: Fred Roos
Writer: Mario Puzo
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 840 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-09-23
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment

DVD Reviews of The Godfather - The Coppola Restoration Giftset (The Godfather / The Godfather Part II / The Godfather Part III) [Blu-ray]

DVD Review: Godfather + Blu ray = Seeing it for the first time!!!
Summary: 5 Stars

The first Godfather was released the year I was born (1972), but I didn't first see it until the mid-80's. Same goes for Part II ('74).

Despite the criticisms when it first came out, I first appreciated the grandioseness of this trilogy when I saw Part III in '91 and I thought it was an amazing and dramatic piece of work (especially the great score and dramatic opera scenes towards the end), which then led me to want to see parts I and II. My parents gave me a great education on them when we watched them together and I realized why these are must-have films for any movie collector.
My parents are retired commercial artists and they and many of their colleagues in the art field all consider the series not just "movies", but true works of art (particularly parts 1 and 2) and so do I!

A year or two back I bought the DVD trilogy and was particularly impressed with the audio/video quality of the first 2 (part 3 was and is still relatively modern and already looked pretty good and sounded pretty darn great in VHS Hi-Fi.) But of course, the DVD was worlds ahead of the VHS (not just image-wise, but Parts I & II also went from flat mono sound to crisp-sounding 5.1, which really brought them to life) and were surely the best it could look and sound... until I watched my Blu ray last night!

Now, in terms of video/audio quality, what others say here is true. First, it's not a "reference" Blu ray disc e.g., "Iron Man" or "Transformers". They restored the film as best they could without "tampering" with it. There is a good amount of film grain and a honeyish color tinge throughout that gave the film the "sepia" look of films from the 30s and 40s. Some will be turned off by that, but that is how Mr. Coppola intended to be.
But having said that, as my headline states, seeing Part I on Blu ray truly was like seeing it for the first time!

First, considering that there are so many dark scenes in the movie (purposely filmed that way and always harder for home video to reproduce) there is still an impressive amount of detail instead of the typical "mush" you saw in other formats. The outdoor scenes (except for the first outdoor scene at the beginning which I thought looked a tad too over-bright at times) were incredibly crisp, detailed and amazing to look at. (Especially the scenes in Italy where Michael tries to `hide' and gets married... the detail in the scenery and the colors were so amazing, I went back and watched it again!). The Dolby True-HD sound-quality is also stellar. I have a somewhat modest 5.1 home theater in a box and it sounded A-LOT newer than a 1972 film. I was impressed both by the "crispiness" of the treble and the fullness of the bass as well as the directionality of the sound effects. I think it definitely sounded better than the DVD version. (Imagine if I had a 7.1 HDMI receiver!). As for the special features, all the ones you loved from the DVD are in the Blu ray set, with many in HD!

All in all, this is simply a no-brainer Blu ray purchase. These films could not possibly look or sound any better even if you bought a film projector and a screen! To top it all off, Amazon's unbelievable price of $52.99 for this Blu ray set is LESS than the $60 I paid for the regular DVD set!!! Buy this set right here, right now on Amazon! Other retailers are selling this same set for $85 to over $100...Thanks so much, Amazon, for making so many great Blu ray discs like these very affordable for the rest of us!

DVD Review: This restoration is just what the doctor ordered
Summary: 5 Stars

After years of playing the Godfather Trilogy finally recieved a make over. going frame by frame retooling it. Taking the scratches out and revamping the color. They did a great job with it. The Godfather is my favorite movie and when watching in blu was the icing on the cake. This is a great film the restoration was excellent. This trilogy needs to be in any movie collection.

DVD Review: Fantastic
Summary: 5 Stars

A very good work.
I saw a new film with so many details I didn't realize other times I watched this work.
I do recomend the purchase of this Restoration Giftset.

DVD Review: Grain is Good !
Summary: 5 Stars

I've lost count of the number of times I've seen these movies on DVD, but I'm glad I got this blu-ray edition. I feel like I'm watching them for the first time. I made a side-by-side comparison on a 90" home theatre projection screen, and the improvements on this blu-ray are substantial enough for one's viewing pleasure to be enhanced manifold. The images are sharper, but not so sharp until they lose their film-like quality. Colours are much more solid and vibrant. I know there have been many complaints about too much grain, but for a movie like the Godfather, grain is essential for the Rembrandt-like quality of the interior scenes, and the sepia glow of the exteriors. Over-zealous processing would have ruined its moody atmospherics. There is a point beyond which a restoration job robs a classic movie of its classic aura. Thankfully, this has not happened with the Godfather on blu-ray.

DVD Review: A true Classic
Summary: 5 Stars

Its timeless classic in Bluray now. I am stil learning lessons from this movie.

Description of The Godfather - The Coppola Restoration Giftset (The Godfather / The Godfather Part II / The Godfather Part III) [Blu-ray]

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.

On 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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