generalfrevious said:
I want to actually know what distinguishes ROTJ from the later prequel films in comprehensive detail and not be casually dismissed every time I post something here.To begin with, the title is different. To conclude, everything else is different.
That’s too vague. I need a lot more detail
This is a film. You have to realise that everything is completely up to one’s opinion. I can only give you my opinion as to why ROTJ is great: Luke’s character development is great, Vader’s character development is the best in the trilogy, Emperor is as perfect as he could be, space battle of Endor is one of the best miniature-model based SFX in film history, Jabba’s palace is very interesting, and so on…
now that we have known for years that the Kurtz version would have been the greatest thing ever.
Could you please stop with this Kurtz already. He was a producer who had very little to do with creative aspects. He was fired in the middle of ESB because he let the film go twice over-budget and over-schedule. In the recent years, he basically just tried to ride on the fans’ distaste towards Lucas to try to make himself look good.
And if you refer to this: “The discussed ending of the film that Kurtz favored presented the rebel forces in tatters, Leia grappling with her new duties as queen and Luke walking off alone “like Clint Eastwood in the spaghetti westerns,” as Kurtz put it.”… this is the stupidest version possible, which could have even been Lucas’ idea in the first place.