The Star Wars trilogy reminds me not of the "power of myth" blah blah, but of The Beach Boys. All nostalgia aside, it is beautifully detailed pop art and has that universal, melancholy tale at the center about Luke growing up/leaving home. That raises it above its cheap 30s serial roots. Return of the Jedi, as shaky as it is in certain areas, concludes that story in a very pure way, so I rate it very close to the other two. I feel the trilogy has more in common with American Graffiti than I-III.