re: Godfather Epic is on HBO2 now

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I prefer the original two movies. But since I've seen them 100 times, I really enjoyed the Epic with deleted scenes.

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this...some of the additional scenes hold up well on their own and were exciting to watch, others needed to be cut. I was in full nerd mode telling me wife stuff like, "oh wow this whole part where Tom Hagen is walking through the house was not part of the movie" while she just rolled her eyes and played Candy Crush on her phone and said "uh huh, that's nice".

I also went full fan boy on the scene when young Vito and Clemenza meet the gunsmith Augustino Coppola and his son Carmine, who played a flute I think...and I explained to her how the directors dad was a musician named Carmine Coppola and wrote some of the background music for the movie so he must have included a scene as tribute to his father.