What did you think of the film when you first saw it?
I was disappointed in the movie but nevertheless tried to convince myself it was still a good, solid film.
In some ways, I miss having that kind of naivete.
My eldest brother had similar thoughts when he saw ROTS in theaters, only he was more confused.
He was a huge SW geek who proudly proclaimed the genius of George Lucas, and was about 16-ish years-old (just saying this for context). After he saw the film, he tried to retain his loyalty to SW, but he felt like something was missing. He returned to see the film a total of six times. Each time he continually felt like it wasn’t all there, and he didn’t know what was wrong. I believe this was just before the time he realized how terrible the PT is.