I finished the Godfather trilogy last night in fine fashion with part III. (Sorry, Pete!) Apart from Sofia Coppola's stiff acting, i rather enjoyed it, again. I say again because i saw it originally in the theatre in '90 and hadn't seen it since. I ended up picking up the whole trilogy for like 30 cents on the Columbia House "sign-up-and-get-10-movies-for-a-buck" thing, or was it a cent? Either way it was cheap! And i finally watched them all.

So to the point - the video releases have interviews with Coppola (Francis), Pacino, Keaton, etc. on the tapes before the films (not into DVD world yet) start, and they are discussing important scenes and showing film footage and everything. I understand they are "classics" and everyone is supposed to know exactly what happens all the way through all films so showing all the good stuff BEFORE you watch the film shouldn't bother anyone. But how retarded is that? I totally forgot that Pacino dies at the end of III, and they show that in the intro clips! Now luckily i realized this trend in part I, and FF'ed the intros of II & III, and went back and watched them after the film, but for some unsuspecting soul watching these "special" releases for the first time the whole movie could be blown out of the water for them! (Sorry for that reference, Fredo.)

Does anyone else see the nonsense in this? I guess now with DVDs we can jump around the disc to things like this, so my whole piece is for the remaining video crowd, so maybe it's a sign to get with the times and dump video! Man, i still have great stuff on BETA that i can't watch anymore, let alone VHS. Long live video tapes! (at least until i can afford a DVD setup. :)