- Return Of The Jedi. Without a doubt the weakest of the original trilogy, but my favorite for many years, it was the first movie I ever watched. Lucas often claims that Star Wars movies are for children to defend the awful prequels, while I don’t think that argument works for the prequels (and it’s not true anyway), Return Of The Jedi is a wonderful movie for kids, it had everything, huge monsters, tons of new spaceships, the ewoks, jabba, and I loved it all. (And yes, I loved the ewok scenes, like when they’re going to cook our heroes, when I was a child). Luke’s story keeps me entertained as an adult.
Agreed. As a kid, I replayed Rotj probably the most, but admittedly, I fastforwarded that blasted VHS to the battle sequence. The immersion of the space dogfights, the moving duel between Vader/Luke, and the campy thrill of the Ewok battle with AT-ST’s was very enjoyable to me.
- Revenge Of The Sith. Why so many people consider this a good movie (or better than ROTJ) is really baffling to me. There’s really not a lot of difference with Clones, but I guess the (merciful) lack of love scenes puts Sith ahead. People like it cause it’s dark, but it’s so forced and nonsensical (Anakin killing little Jedi kids is so cheap and stupid) and the whole resolution so rushed, it really shows how wasted Episodes I and II really were.
I probably replayed this film as second place in my childhood. Obi-Wan vs Anakin basically is an on-screen version of what I used to pretend play as a kid: the floor is lava! So after viewing that film for the first time, I made makeshift sabers and dueled with one of my little brothers across couch cushions 😄