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Bobocop
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ROTJ is the best Star Wars film... discuss!
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2-Feb-2014, 3:01 AM

I've always loved ROTJ, and it was my favorite of the 3 when I was young. Now that I'm older, my views have changed slightly and Empire is my favorite followed by Star Wars and Jedi.

But Jedi is still awesome sauce in my book. I've heard people say it's just a rehash of the original film but it never felt that way to me. It was thrilling to see Luke kicking ass and taking names on the sail barge, the speeder bike chase, and the Endor ground battle intercut with the best space battle ever and Luke facing Vader & the Emperor. Yes, there's another Death Star. That is treading familiar territory in a way, but circumstances are different. Luke is aboard, alone, trying to save his father WHILE the rebels are actively attempting to destroy it. Besides, if you were an evil emperor and your ultimate weapon was destroyed would you simply give up on the idea or would you try to fix its design flaw and rebuild it?

The only things that actually do bother me about Jedi are just little instances of sloppiness: The beginning of the space battle when there are TIE fighters appearing out of thin air (thin space?) and the lightsabers maybe casting shadows. In the first and second films, they are lit or shot in ways where the question of if a lightsaber can cast a shadow never comes up. But in Jedi, sometimes they cast a shadow and sometimes not depending on which props were being used. They could have avoided that by just keeping the affected area out of frame or lighting the set differently. (but these are minor enough annoyances that they don't affect my overall enjoyment of the movie)