Well, I'll tell you. I'm pretty sure I liked Star Wars and ESB about the same. I would have been...ten or so when ESB came out. I liked them both the same. I had not yet learned that you could ignore certain films in a series at that time. When ROTJ came along, I love it as well. As far as I was concerned, it was up there with the other two, but it felt... I don't know. Off. Probably the worst part, the part that stands out in my 23 year old memory is the scene with Obi Wan and Leia being luke's sister is revealed. How it came out felt... unnatural. I'm not sure how to put it. It was kind of "well, there it is." It felt weaker because of this, which was throughout the movie, just especially bad in that scene. Also, ROTJ showed us little that was new. We had seen Tatooine. We'd seen AT-AT's (or AT-ST's). We'd seen furry creatures, light sabre battles and a climatic battle to destroy the death star. It was more of the same instead of showing us something new, the way ESB did. There were some original items in ROTJ, but not as much as ESB or Star Wars, for that matter. I still love the movie to pieces, but I probably wouldn't if it weren't for the first two.