CO said:

So trust me, there are a load of fans who don't think ESB is the greatest movie (I am not one of them as I love the movie), but if you look at the re-release in 1997, the total grosses of each movie do tell you something about the OT generation:

Star Wars: 138 Million

Empire: 57 million

Jedi: 45 million

These figures could also be somewhat accounted for by people who were bigger fans of Empire or Jedi, but so disgusted with the 1997 changes to Star Wars that they refused to see the other two ;)