PotC3, even more of an incoherent mess, but the first part also dealt with rescuing the scoundrel character from near death. Come to think of it, it also was about the (British) Empire throwing all of their forces into a trap for the rebellious Pirates who had banded together... Interesting.xhonzi said:
It's more concerned with wrapping up all of the loose threads (some in a big way a la Jabba, and others in a line of dialogue or two) than it is with the Empire for most of the first half of the running time.
I'm thinking of PotC3 and if it was any better. It had its own little plot that seemed to come mostly out of nowhere and I felt that was a weakness for that movie.
Return of the King- anything ground breakingly new (*cough* ghost army *cough*) really shouldn't be introduced in the third act... All of the pieces should be on the table... That scene really frustrated me because it seemed all was lost and how would the world of man go on?!?!? Oh yeah, remember those ghost guys that owe us a favor? (5 minutes later) Thanks Dudes!
So... should Jedi have had more of its own identity? Or is the role of the 3rd Act (macro or otherwise) only to wrap up the problem as introduced in the 1st Act, and the complications which were introduced in the 2nd Act?
RotK doesn't counts for me as a "third movie", as it is really the third act in a series. The books were written at once, the movies were filmed at once. I don't think you can come into RotK without having seen the first two. RotJ may be closer to RotK than I thought, but RotJ may be more disorienting because ANH wasn't written to be the first part in a trilogy (neither was PotC, come to think of it), and the team that made ESB really had little to do with RotJ. Star Wars seems more like 3 separate movies that fit together than a three-part series...
Blasphemy?