C3PX said:
When I was a kid I definitely considered ROTJ as my second favorite SW film. It wasn't until I was older that I began to notice some of the silliness. The first thing that hit me as I started to get older, is how dumb it was that the Ewoks with there sticks and stones are able to beat these armed men in heavy armor. I like the idea of a small group defeating overwhelming odds using guerrilla tactics. But when you start to think about these guys in heavy armor getting knocked out (or possibly killed) by a stone being shot out of a sling, or by being beaten on with wooden sticks, it has a sort of Magical World of Disney quality to it. Like the little kid who managed to defend his house from the mofia by using suctioncup arrows and marbles or some crap like that. It is fun stuff for kids, but there is not much of a lasting appeal as you get older.

Well, in the Dark Horse Empire comics, which tried to take a kind of "we're-mature-and-serious-and-let's-look-at-both-sides-and-the-unimportant-people" take, they had a whole bunch of armored stormtroopers being killed by Amanin aliens with spears that were just sharpened sticks. These armored imperials were being skewered by sharpened sticks. If they can do that, I can let ROTJ off the hook over the ewoks' success. I don't have a problem with the ewoks with spears and slings and sticks and stones beating the armored men. Because Star Wars was never realistic about stuff like that. I mean seriously, is it realistic that these imperials have all this armor but it does zero good against the most common weapon in the galaxy (blasters)? Or is it realistic that they never hit and always miss? From the first film Star Wars established that it wasn't trying to be realistic that way, so the ewoks thing fits in with the pattern. And it was all in fun. I just go with it. I think to appreciate Star Wars you need to accept that to a certain extent it's meant for kids and be prepared to accept some stuff that's kid-style. I enjoy the Endor battle. It was good fun. Han got to kick some ass and Chewie got to take over an ATST walker and they beat the fucking imperials.