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Originally posted by: jimbo
I think A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back are equal. The Empire Strikes Back is great until it stops. It doesn't end it stops. Return of the Jedi is needed to finish the story and Return of the Jedi is a far inferior movie.50 reason Return of the Jedi sucks
It's interesting that YOU should mention that filmthread article as ALMOST EVERY ONE of those reasons for ROTJ being a weak film are the very same kinds of inexcusable crapola that the PT films suffer from.
Except the PT films exacerbate the problem tenfold by having zero likable characters, a boring story and an over reliance on CGI.
Gungans.
Tone is inconsistent.
Look is all wrong.
Silly/racist aliens.
Repetition rather than innovation Lucas rips himself off and manages to spoil his OT surprises.
Poor and stilted unforgivably bad dialogue and horrible exposition.
Poor and extremely noticable CGI effects.
Physical and scatological humour.
Uninteresting locales.
The pointless Gunagan battlescenes.
Obiwan is neutered and cardboardy.
Music (while well composed is butchered by poor editing choices).
Threepio/Annie.
Stupid coincidences/virgin births/demystifying of The Force.
Maul, while semi-cool-looking, is a useless character who dies a pussy death.
Jake Lloyd's woeful 'acting'.
George Lucas's atrocious 'directing'.
Ben Burtt's superbad 'editing'.
All the actors look bored as fuck.
Missed opportunities.
Both the puppet and CG Yoda look worse than before.
The PT was made in such a way that the OT needed to be 'fixed' to match it.
Yippee!
What's at stake? No really what is at stake? Tell me because the film doesn't seem to want to or be able to address it.
Well staged saber fights that are still dull because, what's at stake?
People live and operate in videogame levels.
StormTroopers are all Kiwis!
Boba Fett! Oh my man what have they done to you?
Vader 90210.
Continuity Shmontinuity.
There are hundreds of others but I can't make you see when you won't open your eyes.