Sep
24
How many damn times does “The Godfather” need to be released on DVD? For the love of Pete! I remember during my first year of film school, circa 2000, the VHS(!) version of movie one was screened for our class. The following year, the “Godfather” trilogy finally landed on DVD in a boxed set, since no one in their right mind — not even the oddball completists like me — would pick up the third film on its own. I got the trilogy that Christmas. Three years later, Paramount released the films separately on DVD, the double-dipping bastiches!
Now Paramount’s triple-dipping, cranking out “The Coppola Restoration” versions of the “Godfather” films. What the junk?! I thought my friggin’ 2001 versions were restorations. Well, imagine how stupid the people buying the “Coppola Restoration” DVDs will feel 5 years from now Paramount will release the motherless trilogy in 3-D. Double-dips are Hollywood’s way of punching fans in the nuts. I understand that Francis Ford Coppola hasn’t made a good movie since before I took my first steps, but he’s been hanging out with his buddy George Lucas too much for my liking. This is ridiculous.
That being said, the two “Godfather” double-dips fall far short of the eleventeen editions of the original “Night of the Living Dead,” but Romero’s film is out of copyright and any low-rent distributor can crank out their own inferior version. Major Hollywood movies, however, should have one (1) DVD release with all the commentaries, special features, deleted scenes, making-of documentaries, featurettes, alternate endings, free movie tickets (worth up to $7.50!) and severed horse heads you could possibly want.
Who could refuse that?
-Brad Lohan
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