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Post #436450

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LexX
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Who Felt Return Of The Jedi Was A Letdown At The Time?
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Date created
31-Aug-2010, 7:45 AM

I was 7 when the trilogy came on TV and from the first movie I was blown away. ROTJ was the only one I got to record on video and I watched just it for maybe at least half a year until I got my trilogy. So from the beginning it was always an entertaining movie and I couldn't decide which was better to me, TESB or ROTJ. SW was great, too, of course.

As a kid you tend to see only the positive things, I never had a problem with ewoks, I just waited for the end battle. But now in the recent maybe 5 years, everytime I watch ROTJ I think it's harder and harder to wait for the end battle. Because after the speeder bike chase it feels so dragging and boring and you're just waiting until Luke goes to see Vader. And even after that, the whole Endor battle isn't interesting at all. So for me, from 1 to 10, it's TESB 10, SW 9½ and ROTJ maybe 7½ now.

And about scores... I think SW and TESB are perfect. There isn't a track that isn't good (well, maybe Yoda's theme, I've never been a fan of that) or doesn't capture SW feeling. ROTJ is great, too, but there are some tracks that aren't so. And surprise, it's all the Ewok themes, and some of the Jabba tracks are little boring, too. But then there are themes that are more powerful than in the other movies. "Darkside reckons" always gives me the chills and then when Luke attacks... It's awesome. Also Emperor's themes are great and there are good battle themes, too. Funeral pyre is great, but again, Ewok Celebration ruins it, LOL. So ROTJ kind of compensates the bad tracks with even greater tracks.