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Originally posted by: Grandmaster_Windu
Don't be too harsh on me but to me the worst out of the six is a toss up between AOTC and .... EMPIRE!
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.
I don't see how Luke's short time on Daghobah training with Yoda is unrealistic when it was supposed to be rushed. I mean, it's not like he was that much of a better Jedi when he ran off the cloud city. Vader kicked his butt in that duel. Heck, Luke gained a LOT more of his Jedi skills BETWEEN MOVIES then he did during any of them. In the original Star Wars, he has like one short lesson and by Empire, he's considerably stronger. And then by Jedi, with no additional training, Luke is 10 times more powerful than he was in Empire (and Yoda claims he needs no more training, even though in Empire, he insists he needed it).
Also, I am so glad that Empire shows us what Jedi training is all about. We get just a teeny peak at that in Star Wars, but by Jedi, Luke is practically a full fledged Jedi (did he get the Jedi training manual) and in the prequels, all of Anakin's training is done BETWEEN movies. To me, that makes Empire a superior film, because they SHOWED. In most of the other films they TOLD.
I find Menace to be the least watchable. It's soooooo boring, slow, and confusing. There's nothing entertaining about it to me and I think the action scenes don't work because it's all razzle dazzle, but there's no emotion tied to it because the characters are so ininteresting.