CO said:

Sorry for getting off topic.

I don't think what you've said is too off-topic, really.

I have to disagree with you about the Jabba part dragging, tho. You could question the logic of the whole Jabba strategy (like Gaffer did in another thread) but regardless of that I think the scenes are very suspenseful and well-paced. I love how R2 and 3PO show up first, and you wonder what the heck is going on, then Leia shows up, Han is defrosted and later Luke makes his dramatic entrance in his black cape. I know it's a surprise that's sort of over after you've seen the film once, but I love showing the trilogy to people who haven't seen it before and seeing their reactions. I mentioned before that I not long ago showed the OOT to a couple of kids, and the boy couldn't sit still thru the 1st 20 minutes of Star Wars, and even asked me "when does this movie start to get exciting?" So, you could make the argument that Star Wars "drags" in spots too.......well, you could make the argument, anyway. ;-)

I was glad for all of the quieter, slower parts in Jedi- knowing that it was the last SW film and I was never going to see these characters again, I didn't want things to move too quickly. I remember reading an interview with Carrie Fisher once, where she said that she wished here scene with Mark Hamill on the Ewok balcony could have been a bit longer, but everything in the Star Wars universe was so rush-rush to get to the next action scene. I have to agree with that, and that's why I'm happy that there are some reflective scenes in the film, and that it's not just 2+ hours of fighting and explosions.

As I said in another thread recently, I saw Temple Of Doom when I was about 13 and I loved it then- but now I see all of the flaws that others saw when it was released that I couldn't understand at the time. I can't say the same about ROTJ however- I saw it when I was 12 and I loved it and still do.

Oh, and I must have missed those 'good parts' in the PT (LOL). :-D