Originally posted by corleone bastard:
I liked Part III. It wasn't an opus, yes, but it didn't suck. Part III is just misunderstood, I think. One of the things it didn't have going for it was the twenty year waiting period. You build up *that* amount of anticipation for the film, you're bound to disappoint a helluva lotta people.
Imagine George Lucas waiting for twenty years before releasing Return of the Jedi after Empire Strikes Back, or Return of the King coming out twenty years after The Two Towers.
I agree - people's expectations were too high for this movie, but that's b/c FFC & Puzo made two unbeleivably great films in GF & GFII. Part III had nowhere to go but down and was doomed to be a disappointment for people expecting the standards of the first two to be maintained.
Although not nearly as good in comparison, look at "Silence of the Lambs." It took nearly over ten years from the time the book was released to the release of its sequel, "Hannibal." The latter was nowhere near is good because it lacked some of the finer details and little things that the first one possessed, much like GF/GF II vs. GF III.
