aalenfae said:

I wouldn't agree that it's bad film-making.

It's just not literal - or realistic film-making. It's just much more fantastic film-making, which isn't necessarily out-of-place in Star Wars.

The only reason I would say I don't care for it is because it takes almost a minute (an eternity in screen time) to get to any actual story material. It doesn't take an entire minute to establish that there's a battle going on, which is ALL that the shot communicates, besides simply being cool.

So maybe a better way of putting it is bad screenwriting. However, in my opinion pretty much the entirety of ROTS is bad film-making.

When my only true enjoyment of the film rests in a Plinkett review tearing it apart, then to me that's bad film-making.

And on that note; I'm ready for you to fix the bad film, Aalenfae. ;)