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Originally posted by: TIEBomber70Why is ESB considered to be the best film overall, superior even to ANH? My opinion is it's the direction. GL should have found a suitable director for ROTS, but its all water under the bridge at this point. I submitted a review on IMDB reflecting this point of view, and I'll close with the the same close there: I'll wait for Magnoliafan's version.
Empire is considered better than Star Wars, partly because of directing, but more because of the tone and pacing of the film. It's more somber, with ending on a downer note. Instead of some giant celebration which was totally impractical. The Rebels destroyed the Death Star, yay! Apparently they forgot about all the Star Destroyers that now know EXACTLY where they are. They should probably chill on Yavin for awhile, get all gussied up and line all the troops up in one spot so it would just take one laser cannon blast to crush the Rebellion.
While at the same time alot of the 'best movie ever stuff' will die down, so will alot the the OT diehards that feel they must defend the sanctity of the OT against a possibly good PT film.