Villeneuve didn’t include the “dinner scene” in Dune. That is all you need to know about him.

But yeah, ROTJ has always been weird for me because unlike most mediocre movies, ROTJ is mediocre in a DIFFERENT way. Usually mediocre means that on average, any random scene in the movie is kind of mediocre, with maybe a few exceptions. But in ROTJ you get more of like an computed average level of mediocrity, because some scenes are AMAZING and others are just bleh. Like the Emperor throne room stuff and battle of Endor is incredible 5-star stuff. Ewok battle is more like 1 star. Jabba sequence: maybe like 2.5 stars, has lots of problems, is visually interesting, kinda cool but slightly janky. ROTJ doesn’t have one single tone. The throne room scenes are almost like a different movie from the Jabba rescue or Ewok battle.

But if I really had to distill down the reasons for why ROTJ kind of doesn’t work, it’s this: they obviously had no real idea what to do with 2/3 of the main cast. They just throw Han and Leia on “Ewok ground battle duty” despite neither of these characters having the requisite traits to justify this. They just needed the “big 3” to somehow stay involved in the ongoing plot.