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sonnyboo
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My Top 10 Reasons ROTJ sucks
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29-Sep-2011, 2:31 PM

Mrebo said:

10. Luke and Leia never shared a romantic kiss. Han did confront Leia twice in RoTJ.

I'm sorry, I didn't realize you missed THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. There's a scene on HOTH after Luke comes out of this healing water tank and Leia kisses him, full on with tongue. Seems kind of romantic and on the verge of being an objective observation.

The blatantly obvious intent of the kiss was to make the Han Solo character jealous. I don't know how things work in your family, but if wanted to make a chick jealous, I don't kiss my sister.

(please don't take too much offense to that snarky reply, but it's demonstrative of a point, not meant as a personal insult)

As for the Han confrontations, as I originally wrote, they have NO DRAMATIC TENSION in JEDI. He just very quickly gives up. This is NOT the character from EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. Compare those two confrontations to the south passage scene in EMPIRE STRIKES BACK where Leia tries to talk Han into not leaving, and he wants a good bye kiss. Then look at the scene on the Falcon where they have their first kiss.

There is no comparison.

RETURN OF THE JEDI has a ton that is flat and uninteresting. I'd even take the horrendous prequel EpII dialogue of "I truly.... deeply.... love you" over this dreck. Not by much, but I would.

Between the prequel trilogy and Return of the Jedi, it's like picking which apple is slightly less rotten.