oh_riginal said:
Bingowings said:
I'm moving my response to this chain of discussion here for obvious reasons.

doubleofive said:
mrbenja0618 said:
EyeShotFirst said:
I hope ady showcases the space battle and the death star battle for our main attention. All I need to see is the rebels on Endor turning off the shield generator. Then back to the important dark duel. Coz the Endor Forrest battle is a mood killer.

It really does kill the mood.... But the space battle in ROTJ is still IMHO the greatest of all the films. I'm still amazed at how well the ships maneuvered with them being models on wires. Great work.

Seriously I agree. I mean, each ship is a separately shot element composited who knows how much time later. It's impressive. And to only have a couple mislayered/disappearing elements is extremely impressive.

All three layers of the battle need to be expanded in my view.

How does a small group of Rebels defeat an entire legion of the Empire's best troops to bring down the reactor to allow the Rebel fleet to survive being attacked by a large Imperial fleet and a full armed and operational Death Star?

The ground battle is only a mood breaker because it currently makes little sense and has no real visual and emotional impact.

The Luke/Vader rematch, as far as I'm concerned, is fine as is, except for the annoying swinging Luke does after screaming "NEVER!" as I mentioned before. Seriously, he looks like a blind kid trying to hit a baseball at times! At least that part of the duel could use some tweaking in editing.

I'm gonna blame GL for this - Mark Hamill actually came up with some really nice moves according to one of his interviews and he said that he and his stunt co-ordinator created the last part of the duel a lot differently - so that Luke attacks Vader with only one hand on the blade, and Vader backs off trying to block every swipe until he is defeated. This would have been better; but Hamill was told by Harrison Ford not to argue with Lucas' decision(s) on how the duel was to play out.