I was completely blown away last weekend when I finally saw The Godfather DVD collection.
 I've only seen one DVD so far, (actually just part of one DVD) and it was just amazing as hell.
 The part I saw was the scenes they had to drop from the original finished movies.

 There are so many pieces that were left out of the finished print we've all seen.
 For example:

The scene where Sonny is told his father has been shot.
    A NYPD detective calls and says, "Don't say my name - do you recognize my voice?"
    Sonny says he does. "Your father has just been shot, and it's bad."
    Sonny asks if he's still alive and the detective says he doesn't know.
    So Sonny has to go over to his parent's house and he finds Mrs. Corleone in the kitchen.
    "Mom, Dad's been hurt," he says to her, and she asks, "Did they kill your father?"
    and Sonny says "I don't know, it looks pretty bad," and his Mom very, very casually says,
    "I better change clothes in case we can see him."

    Moving as hell scene - I can't believe they couldn't fit it in.

Somewhere in One, they say, "Tom is the new consigliere," and I always wondered why that line was there.
    The reason is, they cut the scene where the old consigliere was on his deathbed. Vito got all his sons, even
    Michael (plus Jonny Fontaine) to visit the dying consigliere in the hospital, where there was this incredible scene:
    The consigliere asks Vito to stay with him,
    "...so when Death shows up and sees you, Death will be scared and leave me alone."
    They don't make clear if the guy was delusional or if he somehow thought Vito actually had that kind of power,
    but it was a startling scene to see.

Remember Woltz, the movie producer? Remember he said that the young starlet was "the greatest piece of ass
    I've ever had and I've had them all over the world?"   They showed the young starlet running from Woltz's bedroom,
    but her mother prevented her from leaving. Her mother sold her to Woltz, and that makes him a lot worse of an
    asshole and you feel better when he gets his horse's head surprise, knowing what a prick he really was.

When Tom Hagen was being held by Sollozzo, it was up to Michael to confort Mrs Hagen.  To me, this scene didn't
    make a lot of sense, because when Tom finally walked in the door, he was so happy to be alive and holding his wife,
    he was all smiles and total joy but he knew that his Godfather had just taken six shots - how happy could he be?
    All he could say was, "Can I have a few minutes?" to be with her, instead of telling Sonny what happened with
    the Solozzo meeting, which severely affected everybody's lives.

Maybe the best scene we never saw: When they had the first giant "sit down," Vito swore on his grandchildren's
    grave that he would not be the one to break the peace. He & Michael talked about that, later. Michael said,
    "I have to avenge Sonny and Appolonia. You promised not to break the peace, but I made no such promise,"
    and Vito basically said, "Go for it."
    Michael found out that the guy who bombed his car in Italy, killing his young bride, was brought to America
    by that rat-bastard Barzini, and he got madder than Bob Dornan on election night.
    Nothing could stop Michael from killing Barzini, perhaps not even his father.

    There are maybe 40-50 scenes that were cut, which is hard to believe.
    How extra-goddamn thrilling it was to see those extra scenes.
    If you're a Godfather fan, you need to see (or own) these DVDs.
    The quality is extra-super, and they fill in so many holes that I never realized were there.
    For instance, did you know Sonny had a twin sister?

     [On the main page is a link to order The Godfather DVD Collection]

    You gals out there - if your husband/boyfriend is a Godfather fan, he'd love getting this for Christmas.
    On the other hand, if you & he didn't think The Godfather I and II were all that good, you probably
    wouldn't want to spend the money.  Maybe a Jim Carrey movie would be a better choice.