I think what character you loved said alot about what SW movie was your favorite. As a kid, I wanted to be Luke Skywalker, he was me, and I related to him, so essentially SW was my favorite movie, and ROTJ was a close second.
As I got older I realized how f-n cool Han Solo was, and in that time I realized how great ESB was. But my friends growing up who loved Han Solo more then Luke were bigger fans of ESB then I was back in 1980.