I thought Harrison Ford did a good job performing in Jedi. I don't know why people think he "phoned it in" or lost his touch in ROTJ, he was just fine in my opinion. He seemed just like he always did in the OT. I never found Harrison to be that great of an actor in the OT to begin with. He's pretty good, but he never came off a believable as Mark Hamil did as "Luke Skywalker" or Alec Guinness did as "Obi Wan" (Old Ben) or Carrie Fisher as "Leia". In fact, I would say he was one of the least of the actors in the OT. Not to say he was bad, but I thought the OT was a well acted movie series to begin with. Or maybe I've been desensitized by the PT too much?
Spielberg back in that day was still a good director. Sure his recent works are nothing spectacular specifically "Worlds" and "Skull". I haven't seen that one movie that he shot on film recently, what movie was that? ROTJ's script was lacking specifically between Luke and Darth Vader. Lucas is into too much repetitive dialog. Many of the lines spoken by Darth Vader in ESB were repeated in ROTJ and the Emperor dialog was repeated in similar ways too many times too. I think Speilberg could have ironed that out and given the movie up until the end battle a faster pace and more going on. The first few times I watched ROTJ I was bored in some areas. I never got that feeling with ANH or ESB.
Post #454297
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- Ghostbusters
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- The unmasking of Vader and Richard Marquand
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- 20-Nov-2010, 9:15 PM