I remember in 2002 when AOTC came out, everyone said SW was back from the early reviews. Less Jar Jar, no Jake Lloyd, more ObiWan, Anakin goes on a killing spree....... I still say AOTC is better then TPM, and at the time I kinda bought into those ideas, but years later and after getting a chance to watch it on DVD, it isn't THAT much better.
Rewind to 2005 when ROTS came out, everyone said THIS was the Prequel movie everyone waited for: Darth Vader is born, you see Luke/Leia, the duel, The Emperor revealed, the jedi are taken out........ I still say ROTS is better then AOTC, and at the time I kinda bought into those ideas, but years later and after getting a chance to watch it on DVD, it isn't THAT much better.
Does anyone notice I repeated myself word for word with each PT movie and how feel today? TPM set the bar so low for future SW movies, that anything that was tolerable was considered good, and anything that was good was considered great. So yeah, alot of people liked ROTS, but that doesn't mean they thought it was a classic movie, they just thought it was better then those other two turds, Episode I & II.
The ironic thing is ROTJ suffers from the EXACT opposite reviews from the fanbase, cause it doesn't live up to SW & ESB, as ROTS aint as bad as TPM & AOTC. That is why ROTS got good reviews at the time, and I guarantee if ROTS was released in 1983, it wouldn't have gotten the positive reviews it did in 2005.