theprequelsrule said:
a lot of the credit goes to the editing skills of the two Lucases (Luci?).
Wasn't it Richard Chew who rescued the film by re-editing it based on the pacing of the actors rather than the pacing of the script's intention?
the original film is kind of in a separate category of it's own and is almost always the film I choose to watch when I watch a Star Wars movie. It is, in a way, the only Star Wars movie.
This is pretty much my view as well, although I enjoy the others.