To me, Empire is the least watchable in the series. I find it to be repetitive (did we really need to see the MF's hyperdrive fail three times?) and the editing is confusing. Are we to believe that Luke was trained in two days time? Luke's training is intercut with the misadventures of the Millenium Falcon, which appears to last approximately 48 hours at most. The most enjoyable part to me is the confrontation between Vader and Luke. I think it is the best saber fight in the original trilogy and of course, the huge plot device that was revealed helps. I have seen Empire the most out of all six, which doesn't help either. AOTC is a much lesser film than Empire in many ways, but AOTC is still fresh to me (I have watched it less than 5 times, including the Magnolia edit). If given the choice between the two, I'd certainly pop in AOTC first.
To me, Empire is the least watchable in the series. I find it to be repetitive (did we really need to see the MF's hyperdrive fail three times?) and the editing is confusing. Are we to believe that Luke was trained in two days time? Luke's training is intercut with the misadventures of the Millenium Falcon, which appears to last approximately 48 hours at most. The most enjoyable part to me is the confrontation between Vader and Luke. I think it is the best saber fight in the original trilogy and of course, the huge plot device that was revealed helps. I have seen Empire the most out of all six, which doesn't help either. AOTC is a much lesser film than Empire in many ways, but AOTC is still fresh to me (I have watched it less than 5 times, including the Magnolia edit). If given the choice between the two, I'd certainly pop in AOTC first.