09-09-2011, 08:51 PM
Return of the Jedi
yeah it was pretty bad
Well, not entirely. Han was great, most parts with Luke were great, the end confrontation with Vader and the Emperor was cool, it had solid visuals all around, and, well.. pretty much everything else was really, really boring filler. It also doesn't help that the final confrontation keeps getting interrupted by the fucking ewoks and the Lando parts. Made it really difficult to stay engaged in what was happening, and at one point I was thinking of shutting it off in boredom (the Luke/Vader parts kept me from doing so).
The majority of the movie felt rushed and lazy, like Lucas was tired of Star Wars and just wanted to get it over with. And I'm pretty sure he actually stated he was in that mindset when working on RotJ. Well, it shows.
So yeah, pretty disappointing. Having rewatched the entire original trilogy, I can definitely say with confidence that the Star Wars "saga" is pretty disjointed and doesn't really work. As individual movies, both Empire and especially the original Star Wars are great, and RotJ is just really boring. Put them together and it's a bit of a mess - not surprising, after all they were written as they went along.
yeah it was pretty bad
Well, not entirely. Han was great, most parts with Luke were great, the end confrontation with Vader and the Emperor was cool, it had solid visuals all around, and, well.. pretty much everything else was really, really boring filler. It also doesn't help that the final confrontation keeps getting interrupted by the fucking ewoks and the Lando parts. Made it really difficult to stay engaged in what was happening, and at one point I was thinking of shutting it off in boredom (the Luke/Vader parts kept me from doing so).
The majority of the movie felt rushed and lazy, like Lucas was tired of Star Wars and just wanted to get it over with. And I'm pretty sure he actually stated he was in that mindset when working on RotJ. Well, it shows.
So yeah, pretty disappointing. Having rewatched the entire original trilogy, I can definitely say with confidence that the Star Wars "saga" is pretty disjointed and doesn't really work. As individual movies, both Empire and especially the original Star Wars are great, and RotJ is just really boring. Put them together and it's a bit of a mess - not surprising, after all they were written as they went along.