Anchorhead said:

Vaderisnothayden said:

I think bashing ROTJ is a tired cliche...

a lot of inventing faults that weren't there...

It's a great film like the other two and I wish people would stop perpetuating the myth that it's the bad one in the trilogy.

As much as you may not care to hear it or accept it, there are some people who genuinely disliked Return when they saw it in the theater, myself among them. We felt every bit as let down by it as you do by the prequels.

Our thoughts aren't cliche, they aren't invented, nor is our view a myth. For a great many people, the story & style of Return fits better with the prequels than they do with the first two films. That's been clearly demonstrated here and backed up with examples - not tired cliches.

I explained my thoughts here;

http://www.originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/How-would-you-have-done-ROTJ/post/370539/#TopicPost370539

As a child I loved it a whole lot. As I got older I slowly stopped watching it. As the SE came around I quit all together. When the shitty prequels came out I quit watching any of the Star Wars movies at all. When Adywan came around it revamped my inner child. I think as far as editing will go ROTJ is full of possibility. The prequels aren't unless adywan really pulls his sleeves back and works his ass to non-existence.

I don't know why I get so mad at the prequels. I didn't get mad at the plethora of Battlestar Galactica spin offs and reimagings or the many different versions of Star Trek. Hell I just take my William Shatner/Patrick Stewart versions and have a good day. I completely dismiss other things I don't like. But why Star Wars.

Why does it haunt me in the night. Why does the horrible acting and overly disheveled yoda dialogue laugh at me. Why WHY WHY!!!!!!!!!!

I guess the whole good vs bad philosophy is true. You have the OT which represents everything that is good and pure in our lives and then you have the PT which has to try it's best to destroy the OT and even leaves its mark with the shitty SE.