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Summary: Would have been more stars if they let me!
Review: I am not going to go into plot detail and everything else that you may already know about the Godfather movies.What I will tell you is that you owe it yourself, if you have a DVD player, to get this collection. If you don't have a DVD player this collection is worth getting one just so you can watch it. If you have never seen them like myself until I got this collection, it is definitely worth buying. If you don't want to buy it, but put it on your Christmas list, make it the one thing you want most! The movies of course are spectacular, but the bonus material disk shows auditions for the parts, by actors you cannot believe it is awesome! If you have been looking for a reason to buy a DVD player, here it is, want to own a great collection, here it is! What are you waiting for?
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Summary: as good as it gets
Review: Simply amazing. What I love about the series is its completeness, the richness in portrayal by each of the actors, even if they had small parts. Above all everything in "one-box" of 4 DVDs. A must buy. The specials DVD is the clincher with unbelievable revelations, material that you never imagined about this epic series - imagine someone telling you that Martin Sheen and James Caan auditioned to play Michael. This is educational.
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Summary: Poor DVD qualtity Transfer
Review: Very poor tranfer to DVD.
Grainy, contrast too high - no shadow detail.
Lots of specks and dust that should have been cleaned up.
The darks are so dark that you see little or no detail, ex: Pacino's hair and dark clothing render no or very little detail, just black, you wont see any strands of hair or folds and pockets on dark suits.
The cardboard cases eventually will fall apart with use in time.
The old widescreen video version has better quality than the DVD.
It seems that Paramount did a quickie job to get this box set out and make there bucks, and in so doing compromised the quality and attention that these great films deserve.
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Summary: An offer you can't refuse
Review: "My father made him an offer he couldn't refuse."
"How?"
"Luca Brasi held a gun to his head and my father told him that either his brains or his signature would be on the contract. True story." (Al Pacino and Diane Keaton in "The Godfather.") For almost 6 months, I've really wanted to see "The Godfather." Now that I've finally see it, it's my all time favorite film. The scenes are great, such as the one in the restaraunt, and the baptisim scene. I hope that the other 2 are just as good. The fifth disc is a great one, packed with extras. There's trailers for all 3 films, a feature length documentary, Francis Coppolas notebook, Oscar speeches, 2 galleries, the family tree, and Oscar speeches, but without the Sacheen Littlefeather one. But still, it's an offer you can't refuse.
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Summary: "Hello Carlo"
Review: Listen.. throw out poisoned cannoli's... Joey Zaza, put the first two movies in chronological order & as good as the Stones with Mick Taylor. That's why it gets 4 insteadof 5.. Still as great as can be . Extra disc... Bussetta, looking for his name for 20 years.
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Summary: #3 is like...
Review: You know what #3 is like? It's like one of those lame and chessy TV reunion special. You know, those that they did for Brady Bunch, etc. It was not a total disaster, but close... The first two, what can I say? Classic and more classic! The DVD set was great, and my Toshiba player does play the bonus disc with no problem at all.
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Summary: I got burned
Review: I didn't read the customer review above about non-compatibility with some DVD players, and therefore cannot play the material I was most interested in seeing: the bonus disk. Truly a freaking gyp, and one for which I am very disappointed/mad with Partamount. Don't quite understand what the technical problem is, but the thought that they wouldn't be compatible with common brands (I also have a Pioneer player) is ludicrous. Backfire on you, studio boys--I'm never buying another one of your boxed sets again.
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Summary: Into the Family
Review: Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather" is perfect. This is a film that uses perhaps the greatest performance in cinema (Al Pacino as Michael Corleone), a plethora of spectacular supporting roles (Marlon Brando is magnificent as Vito- the funeral home scene), evocative cinematography, powerful imagery, and a screenplay of great emotional magnitude to send us down the path to the destruction of the human soul. It introduces itself systematically, and once we have entered the mafia fold, we are in the inner circle. There is no escape. Watch the film for its construction: the editing, the cinematography, the structure of every scene, and how each one builds off the last to bring us to greater intimacy with this vehicle of destruction, this "family". Watch for the progression (regression) of the character Michael. Watch for the performances, so starkly realistic, so warm, so touching, so unforgivingly cold. Watch for the ending: one of cinema's emotional hallmarks. Watch it because it is perhaps the greatest film of all time.
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Summary: The greatest mob movie ever!
Review: This pristine restoration of the godfather series of movies is spectacular! The sound and picture quality enhance these movies that did not need much to improve. The included disc with the extra features is truly a bonus. It includes all of the scenes from the complete epic from a few years back plus others. Watching these scenes makes you wish they were included in the movies themselves, because they enhance the story so well. This set is a must have for Coppola fans, and Godfather fans alike.
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Summary: Check The Paramount Disclaimer (In Very Small Print)........
Review: ......before forking over a pretty large amount of cash (not refundable after opening the package) or like me, you will be sorely disappointed, when you discover that the Bonus Track, promising several hours of additional footage, does not play on your (possibly older model) but also NEWER DVD Player (mine is a Pioneer Elite). I thought that at first I had a defective disc, and was, after much suspicion and hassle (the stores are very fearful of bootlegging) able to exchange only the bonus disk; took it home and same problem. Then discovered, after returning to the store where I bought the DVD Player, that the Godfather DVD Collection was not made to play on "all" older or newer DVD Players (it's very selective). That is when the disclaimer, in very tiny print on the back of the disk, was discovered. In writing this, I'm hopeful that anyone considering buying this expensive set (worth the money, perhaps, IF IT ACTUALLY PLAYED, and minus Godfather 111, in my humble opinion, but that's another story) will be spared unnecessary and unwarranted time, money and huge amount of hassle by checking whether their OLDER or NEWER model DVD Player is compatible with this disk BEFORE BUYING IT. Paramount doesn't appear to care. They and anyone connected to the release of this disk ought to be ashamed of misleading consumers, and correct the situation immediately.
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