RoccondilRinon said:It was a very silly movie, but fun. You just can't take it remotely seriously, but hey, you're not meant to.
The sillyness detracted from any fun (as did the lack of internal logic) it wasn't a comedy like Mars Attacks!, Ghostbusters or Men In Black (all much better films) it wasn't so bad it was good like Plan Nine From Outer Space, it was a jingoistic gung-ho bit of pseudo-patrotic sentiment pretending to be escapist science fiction.
In short it was Mars Attacks! without the jokes or Starship Troopers without the internal logic and satire (now that too is a much better film even if it isn't as good as the book).
ANH and ESB painted a very big galaxy, ruled by a huge Empire (with it's own internal bickering) backed up by a huge starfleet of thousands of ships (and presumably billions of troops) with a criminal underclass and a growing and viable Rebellion.
Going by the end of ROTJ everything shrank down to two old men about twenty capital ships and less than a hundred troops that could be taken down by teddy bears armed with stone age weapons of an afternoon (sure there is a huge body of EU material which continues the fight off the screen but from what we see on screen everything is tied up in nice little dissapointing bow).
That and the toilet humour, slapstick and references to Tarzan put ROTJ into much the same footing as where Independence Day would later place it's big flapping flag and set the scene for what didn't work with the prequels.
Echo3 said:I LOL'd. sorry if its been posted.
Who can tire of this Intergalactic gem?