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NeverarGreat said:

With Star Wars, pretty much everyone is in agreement as to what is cool about it. There's no need to defend it. Same with Empire.

Jedi however is uneven. There are brilliant bits, and some of the worst moments in the trilogy. I think that watching the first two can make you think that Star Wars is naturally awesome and this is its natural state. When you watch Jedi, you realize just how badly things could go, and how easily. It is the trilogy at its best and its worst, and for this it seems the most relatable, the most, should I say, human. If that makes any sense.

Hmm not really. A film having flaws doesn't make it more relatable IMO. A story with flawed characters makes it relatable. Not a flawed story. That's poor story writing. The characters and story of Empire (and Star Wars to a lesser extent) were pretty much spot on.

I shouldn't have said relatable. It's difficult to describe really. You know movies based on true stories often have trouble ending things in a satisfying way, and the fact that this movie has trouble bringing things together flawlessly makes it more realistic in a sense. You wouldn't expect Ewoks to be a part of Star Wars, or Han to be put in carbonite to quickly be freed from it in the first act. In a way, these unrealistic elements make the movie more alien, because it makes the audience realize that this isn't like real life. But Star Wars is an alien universe, so it's not supposed to be like real life. The paradox is that the flaws make it more intriguing even as they make it worse.

The short of it is that the movie is surreal. It's like watching a movie about a theatrical production of Return of the Jedi, and that makes it arresting in its own way.