imperialscum said:

By far the best reference we have are actually IMDb scores which are generalisation of large amount of opinions.

Looking at ROTJ score, it is at 75. place (within top 100 all-time). That pretty much tells you that people think it is a pretty damn great film. So if you say it is an average your opinion deviates considerably.

That IMDB Top 250 is surprisingly solid, a few things I'd take issue with here and there but generally a respectable list. A lot less crazy "WTF is that doing there?!?" entries than most movie lists. It says it is based on...

The formula for calculating the Top Rated 250 Titles gives a true Bayesian estimate:

 weighted rating (WR) = (v ÷ (v+m)) × R + (m ÷ (v+m)) × C

where:

R = average for the movie (mean) = (Rating)
v = number of votes for the movie = (votes)
m = minimum votes required to be listed in the Top 250 (currently 25000)
C = the mean vote across the whole report (currently 7.0)

for the Top 250, only votes from regular voters are considered.

But in the general user ratings ROTS is rated higher than ROTJ, which was one reason I started the thread. Interesting to note that using the above formula the PT doesn't even feature in the Top 250... which is as it should be.