Naturally, this isn't exactly an objective audience... after all, this is originaltrilogy.com. Which movies do we suppose people here are going to prefer? If this were prequel.com, the results would likely be reversed.

Now, that said, sure ESB is a good movie with lots of elements. But I don't think it is the classic that Star Wars is. You don't have to be a Star Wars fan to appreciate it as a great movie. Simple classic plot, great characters, believeable settings where the aliens are real folks doing average grunt work, incredible pacing - slow where it should be slow, and most of all ESB suffers the absence of Obi-Wan. Billy Dee Williams just can't make up for the loss of Alec Guiness and Peter Cushing.