I totally understand what you're saying, Marvolo. I too enjoyed RotS when I first saw it. However, once I began watching it a few more times, and I was able to better digest the fast-paced barrage of scenes and events, the movie began to really fall apart for me. I found very little that I wanted to like anymore. There really isn't anything to the movie, but its all assembled and portrayed as if there were (as far as I'm concerned).

Anyways, just to sound repetitive on a Star Wars forum one more time: Star Wars deserves to be #1 in my opinion because it started Star Wars and because I've watched it hundreds of times and it still hasn't really gotten old for me. It's one very good movie from those two perspectives. (Though I do not begrudge ESB being more popular.)