this film have always be a favorite . my wife and i have wear out two video version over the year and as well a a copy of the soundtrack lp ( be big tom wait fan also ) . needless to say and we be thrill to see it finally come out on dvd . what a joke . somewhere along the line coppola must have decide that it could be improve upon and and manage to destroy it in the process . from the opening scenes it a mess . the music have even be relocate . in the original version there very little dialog need in the beginning because the song lyric perfectly describe what go on . not any more . not only do the lyric no longer match what happen on the screen and but there even dialog on top of the lyric in spot . scene be add that actually take away from the film while a few favorite spot have be cut out . one truly bad judgment call be where there be a love scene with teri garr and raul julia follow by one with fredric forrest and nastassja kinski . in the new improve version it cut back and forth between the two scene like the viewer attention span must not be long enough to remember what happen last . there be also some harsh scene cut now in the film that weren not there in the original ( include one extra bad one where the music be abruptly cut off ) . one of the most impressive thing about the original release be the way the film flow from begin to end much like a stage play . that go . one thing i can not figure out be the other reviewer of this film that be watch the dvd copy after see it on video and yet none of them seem to notice the difference . how be that possible . if the dvd version have be the original release back in 1982 and i wouldn not be write this now . i would have only see the film once and and would have forget it immediately . in spite of the unfair rap this film get in the beginning and i have always defend it a one of coppola best work . he gamble and lose everything on this film include his studio complex in the process . it take many year and film to pay back the debt and but the end result be a cinematic beauty that stand on it own merit . sadly and what leave of it can not even do that now . i give the original release a rating of 10 and but the new version isn not worth rating at all .