I'm with you on the best bits :) I shall have to go and watch that version of the final scene, I thought I remembered he was shot and then vanished from beneath his cloak on the floor when I saw it, but it was 26 years ago so I may be misremembering. Whoever I saw as Phantom was more deranged killer too, definitely creepier than whoever was playing him in 2011.

I had managed to forget there was a sequel. I probably don't want to watch it, do I? I've never heard the music but I hate people ruining good endings by writing sequels with a passion.