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CO
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If you had your choice, would you have wanted George Lucas to stop after 1977?
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22-Aug-2010, 9:40 PM

Diego said:

I'm not saying ROTJ doesn't have its flaws, and I know I'm biased cause I loved it as a child.

However, putting it together with the prequels is too harsh. ROTJ has heart. ROTJ has some emotions, something the prequels completely lack. The duel, when Vader is taunting Luke that maybe Leia might join the dark side and Luke loses it, is one of the most powerful moments in the trilogy, no scene in the prequels can even come close.

 I have to respectfully disagree.   The reason many of us here give Jedi a pass and not the PT, simply because it has Luke, leia and Han, and we were invested in those characters.  Jedi has alot of the same problems the prequels do with editing, kiddy tone, and sense of malaise in certain parts of the movie that it seems like it is going through the motions just to get to 2 hours. 

I have always said that the biggest failing of the PT is that I personally don't give a rats ass about the characters.  How can you care about a movie if you don't care about the characters???  So what happens is the only reason you are following the movie, or the trilogy, is simply because it is an extension, or prelude to the OT story we all fell in love with.