... I'd be very interested to know what those whose first Godfather movie was III thought of it, having such a different perspective than the rest of us.
The thread appears to have taken the usual turn of comparing GFIII to GF and GFII.
To respond to your ORIGINAL thought which was a pretty interesting one...I cannot even imagine why someone who has not yet seen The Godfather and/or The Godfather Part II, even being interested in viewing GFIII.
Other than getthesenets who pretty much admitted it was due to video rental availability (nuff said)....has anyone even answered your question?
Nope, no answers yet, other than the one you mentioned.
As for whether someone would be interested in Part III without having seen the first two, I don't know. I saw Die Hard II when it came out in the theater, and watched it numerous times on TV, before seeing Die Hard for the first time. But Die Hard II wasn't nearly as connected to its predecessor as GFIII is to Part I and II.
The only Star Trek movie I've even seen is Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.