Lord Haseo said:
ESB has a better written script, is better paced, has way better acting and dialogue.SW/ANH is perfectly paced, ESB lags just a tad in the mid-section in comparison.
And SW lagged in the beginning. Difference being that when ESB slowed down it yielded more character development.
The script is also tighter in the original.
Very debatable. I don’t think either script has anything non essential in it.
The script is textbook execution of its genre in how it sets up and resolves its story, introduces the world and characters, etc.
That it is but I prefer how ESB is a textbook example of taking the premises, themes and characters in the first installment and taking them to unprecedented hights.
And no, ESB is not “way” better in terms of acting and dialogue. Better overall, yes, thanks to Kershner’s direction, but it’s really not all that different in most respects. There’s some clunkers in there worse than anything in SW. (“Two fighters against a star destroyer?”)
That line is only clunky because of the line delivery. “Somebody has to save our skins. Into the garbage chute flyboy” is much much worse from a line writing and a line delivery standpoint.
I will say this for SW, though: It’s the only one that works as a single film. ESB literally requires you watch what comes both before and after it to get the full story.
That’s not even a fair point because ESB is a sequel. That’s like me saying that ESB or TFA makes you want to watch the next installment more knowing full well that SW was made as if it was possible that sequels wouldn’t be made.