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The PT will not stand the test of time. Maybe the FX will, but the stories and the movies themselves will not.
Here's how I think this....
I was 6 when ROTJ came out back in 1983. Thanks to my Dad buying bootleg copies of SW and ESB, I was definitely prepared for ROTJ when it came out. I watched those two movies endlessly....easily 50 or 60 times in the year to a year and a half before ROTJ, so I consider myself every much part of the original SW generation. Now when ROTJ came out, I LOVED it. I thought it was the most awesome one yet. Better than SW and ESB combined. It was just the shiznits, man.
Now....fast forward about 9 years. It's early 1992 and Star Wars has faded...now a distant, relished memory. I'm 15 years old and I want to watch the movies again, but those old bootleg Beta copies went by the wayside somehow. So I saved up some allowance for a few weeks and bought all 3 on fresh VHS tapes. I watched them and was enthralled. It was like I was REALLY seeing them for the first time. SW just riveted me, but when I got to ESB...that was when the greatness of this story really hit me. These weren't just movies, these were epics of the grandest scale. ESB got under my skin the most. I must have watched it 20 times.
But...
Something happened when I got to ROTJ. It felt strange....like something just wasn't right. I immediately saw how silly the Ewoks were and how anti-climactic Boba Fett's death really was. But it did have a lot there that was great. The duel at the end was powerful (as was the music), even though it still pales in comparison to the duel from ESB. ROTJ is a good Star Wars movie, but I got the sense back then that it could have been a hell of a lot better.
My point here is this....when I saw ROTJ at age 6, I thought it was the greatest ever. When I "rediscovered" the trilogy, I was older and realized the greatness of SW and ESB, but also saw the weaknesses of ROTJ.
I think that as the years go by, the PT will not stand the test of time and anyone who thought it was awesome and great will revisit it again and see the weaknesses and wasted potential.