Recently watched "The Godfather" in it's normal theatrical version (not something I have done for years and years) on the DVD Coppola Restoration and I have to say....it lacked what I had become used to, namely all those fantastic extra scenes that were in the TV 'The epic' version.
The film somehow felt incomplete without such superb sequences as The Don visiting the dying 'consiliere' Genco where in a great moment showing just what power The Don has Genco pleads with him to stay by his bedside so that when Death comes he will see The Don and be too scared to take Genco.
The loss of this scene also makes it very strange as far as Michael and The Don goes, as without their scene together outside in the corridor, despite Michael coming down for the wedding, The Don and Michael never ever meet until late in the film while The Don is recovering.
It's just weird not to have them talk during Michael's wedding trip.
I wish to hell Coppolla would pull the finger out of his arse and redo 'The Epic' on DVD...The film's seem incomplete to me now without these extra scenes. Hell in "G 2" we will no longer see the treasonous bodyguard who tried to blow up Michael assassinated, or a lot of top drama/plot sequences.
Even if he wanted to lose the consecutive timeline editing of 'The Epic' (all the DeNiro parts appear first before we go into "G 1") and do it as the theatrical cut of "G 2"...he could at least include all the extra scenes.
Hey ho...