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The Godfather DVD Collection

The Godfather DVD Collection

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Wow!!!!
Review: This is one of the greatest Films of all time. Not onlt is the movie great, but so is the quality, they made everything look much better than the VHS. The special features are great also they have hours and hours of special features. They also have a few deleted scenes, and I find those great!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One of the best DVD collections ever, for the best films
Review: At long last, the Godfather series is released on one of the best DVD collections ever released. The Godfather and The Godfather part 2 are indispensable films. The stories and characters are complex, and these are some of the best performances you will ever see. The quiet countenance of Al Pacino's performance is absolutely flawless. Well worth the eighty dollar price tag, just click "Add to Cart" it's that easy.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Excellent Movies
Review: You know how people say that sequels aren't as good as the first movies? Well that isn't true in this case. If you haven't seen any of The Godfather movies, I highly reccomend it. They are definitely my favorite movies.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Godfather Truly a Masterpeice
Review: The Godfather DvD collection is the best 3 movies ever made.
The storie of the Corleone Crime family from there rise to power to there fall in the end.

THE GODFATHER-This movie is about Vito Corleone(Marlon Brando) a Mafia patriarch who despratly tries to hold his empire together.
He Seeks to find the next leader in his 3 sons.After one is brutally murdered Don Corleone makes Michael(Al Pacino) the youngest of the sons to be the new leader of the corleone crime family even though Michael swore he'd never become his father.

THE GODFATHER PART II-This Movie is about Michael's struggles as he learns to be the head of the Corleone Crime Family.And at the same time the movie falsh backs to when Young Vito Corleone(Robert De Niro)rose to power and learned the same lessons his son is learning.

THE GODFATHER PART III-This Movie is about the last years of Michaels Hard life.It shows his kids his family and enemys 30 years later.This movie was actually filmed about 20 years after the first two to make Al Pacino grow older making Michael older.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Who Couldn't Love the Godfather?
Review: Especially if you're Italian, these movies are going to be ones that you've seen a thousand times and will see a thousand more times until you can recite the dialog by heart, and still find the movie compelling.

When you flip the channels and its on, you find yourself watching it anyway. The saga, the messages, the story are all compelling and draw you in. But then there's the culture, portrayed so familiarly that you feel like its a home movie at times.

It's guaranteed to stir something inside you, and not just hunger for pasta.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Glorifies organized crime
Review: If there is ever a film designed to make excuses for the behaviour of bunch of criminals, this is it. Not recommended for children. This collection glorifies organized crime and should be strictly for adults.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: GODFATHER....
Review: There have been reviewers writing full analytical essays about this DVD set... Let me break it down.

Part I - excellent (Marlon Brando in the funeral home, best scene in the movie, he is truly a legend)

Part II - even better (Fredo and Micheal in cuba, talk about drama)

Part III - good, but does not live up to the first two, but still nominated for Best Picture, so it can't be as bad as people claim.

Its the Godfather, enough said... GO GET IT!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The minimal-spoiler review.
Review: If you're a Godfather virgin (and thank the gods!), quit reading other reviews and at least rent the movies (or very least, part I on VHS). Despite the fact the gore and violence here isn't as gut-nauteous as Final Destination II (but very intriguing) and seemed snail-paced like your grandad's opera records, the clever plot-twists, slick direction and monumental acting will reward the best three hours of your lives (or six, or even hell, almost-impossible, nine).

Part I gets you intrigued with the greatest mafia figure in film, Vito Corleone ("I'm gonna make an offer he can't refuse") with such wisdom and fatherly authoratian that you will regard him like a real godfather instead of a mafia head. "Sonny" Santino Corleone, the eldest son who is so temperental, brash and a terrible contrast of his father that you may wonder how the world will turn if he takes over Vito Corleone as the Don. Fredo Corleone is reputed to be the weakest in the family, but you must watch Godfather Part II to know further more. Al Pacino's career launched as the legendary Micheal Corleone who doesn't want to follow his father's footsteps, yet he assumes his father's position later on and became a figure that never knew would become; a colder figure than his father. Part II goes back to the roots of the Corleone family; the rise of Vito Andolini from his humble beginnings after running away from a Mafia head who wiped out his whole family. Also side-by-side with this "prologue" is Micheal Corleone continuing to running the family, with his paranoia of betrayals tightening his Machiavellian approach. Part III is reputed to be flop and some Godfather fanatics even recommended complete exile from Part III, yet it is just as good as "Return of the Jedi" for Star Wars. Despite some pretty superficial acting by Coppola's daughter in potrayal of Mary Corleone, Al Pacino as the aging Don Micheal will touch your hearts at the very least and he saved the movie from being a total disaster because of dissapointing casts (where is Robert Duvall and why is elderly Tom Hagen silent throughout the movie?). Furthermore, the story is still commendable despite parallels with Part I.

There are some pretty personal complaints. Part II, despite the classic usual Al Pacino's performance as Micheal, feels a bit of a let down. That is because storywise, Part III is more intriguing and Vito Corleone's story lacks creativity and is downright predictable. I also had to watch the movie some three times because the plot in Micheal's story is somewhat confusing (yet still had clever plot twists). However it will be an abomination if similar dissapointment is expressed in superb casting and the terrific debutant Robert De Niro as young Vito. De Niro really mirrors Marlon Brando's elderly Vito, from the voice, characteristics to the some parallels to Brando's "Cleenex" cheeks! The picture quality is dissapointing, some images are downright murky and some scenes are too dark to view anything. Also, the lacking of chronological order of "The Godfather Saga" and my biggest complaint; overzealous reviewers spoiling the movie by revaling crucial plot-twists and even endings. Yet all of these are minor and please watch, even though you grew up being fed by Titanic, Matrix, or even Jackie Chan movies.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Really Steamed Over An Offer Too Easy To Refuse!
Review: Francis Ford Coppola's trilogy represents a landmark acheivement in American cinema. Okay, maybe not Part III, but cumulatively The Godfather movies are an incredible film experience and legacy. Not that you'd know it by examining the shoddy transfers put out by Paramount Home Video. Although Coppola did shoot his films with a decidedly dated look, none of the transfers included in this collection are anything but dated by the ravages of time. Color fidelity and balance is inconsistantly rendered. Flesh tones are either too pink or too orange. Blacks, browns, dark grays and blues all appear as one gigantic muddy mess. Fine detail is completely lost in contrast levels that are too low and that never fail to disappoint. Digital compression artifacts, film grain, aliasing, fine detail shimmering and video noise are prominent throughout.
Oddly enough, out of all the transfers, Part I looks the best while Part III, the newest of the bunch, represents the worst example of aliasing, shimmering and color bleeding that I've seen thus far in any film from the eighties. Also, Part II is inexplicably spread across two discs, presumably to avoid compression related problems, which still abound, yet Part III, which pretty much shares the same running time, is compressed onto one disc. Chapter references on all three films is bare bones - for a three hour film, 12 chapter stops is not suitable.
The extras are lumped together on a separate disc, but with all the problems I've just listed and the added disappointment of not being chapter referenced. Unfortunately, for fans of these immortal classics, Paramount Home Video has given us an offer all too easy to refuse!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One of the best Mob movies of all time.
Review: All three are great in there own way. The first 2 are the best. I think the third one was almost pretty good, but it ended badly. It is not just about the mob but also the Sicilain family from Corleone which Vito Corleone has migrated all by himself and starts a life in the mob. Marlon Brando is great as Don Vito Corleone. Robert De Niro played a great role in the 2nd one. He played as the young Vito Corleone in the flashbacks in the 2nd one. Al Pacino is michael corleone and he is great. Robert Duvall plays the part as the lawyer. This movie will remind you of the 1940s mob bosses and if you are Italian you will love it. Alot of italian songs and tarantellas in the movies.


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