In case the screen name isn't a dead give away, I am a huge SW fan. Considering there are more books, comics, and movies to love and its been around longer, I'm a bigger SW fan than a HP one (though I'm more passionate about HP now).
RotJ has a special place in my heart. I hated Sci Fi as a kid, and this included Star Wars. When I was 12 or 13, my sister was watching RotJ on HBO in the living room and I came downstairs to get a drink from the kitchen. It was in the middle of the battle of Endor and I watched the TV for a bit, yelled "Attack of the Killer Teddy Bears!" at the top of my lungs, and sat down to watch the rest of this really cool movie. I've basically never stopped watching and reading Star Wars ever since. Going back to the beginning (A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back) was a bit odd since I knew about Leia/Luke and that Vader was their Daddy, but I've got it all straight now and have never regretted the way in which I was introduced to the saga, which also means I have a particular fondness for the often disparaged Ewoks.
I think the stuff with Luke and Vader in RotJ are the best scenes of any of the Star Wars movies. And as I said, I love the Ewoks so everything on Endor is great. But RotJ as a whole is not my favorite Star Wars movie. That honor goes to Empire Strikes Back. I have two large issues with RotJ that prevent it from claiming the top spot as a movie, despite the power of certain parts of it. The first is the idea of the Empire building a second Death Star. Come on. Give me something new. The other is that the two halves of the movie, Jabba and Tatooine versus the Emperor/Vader and Endor, just don't mesh together into one movie for me. They are completely disjointed with nothing connecting the two. Both halves are pretty good, but they do not make one movie.
The many contradictions between the original trilogy and the prequel trilogy (Leia remembering her real mother as one) are annoying but I don't think any of them are completely insurmountable. Oh, and Padme can't show up because they are Force ghosts and Padme wasn't Force strong.
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Date: 2006-11-05 06:27 am (UTC)RotJ has a special place in my heart. I hated Sci Fi as a kid, and this included Star Wars. When I was 12 or 13, my sister was watching RotJ on HBO in the living room and I came downstairs to get a drink from the kitchen. It was in the middle of the battle of Endor and I watched the TV for a bit, yelled "Attack of the Killer Teddy Bears!" at the top of my lungs, and sat down to watch the rest of this really cool movie. I've basically never stopped watching and reading Star Wars ever since. Going back to the beginning (A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back) was a bit odd since I knew about Leia/Luke and that Vader was their Daddy, but I've got it all straight now and have never regretted the way in which I was introduced to the saga, which also means I have a particular fondness for the often disparaged Ewoks.
I think the stuff with Luke and Vader in RotJ are the best scenes of any of the Star Wars movies. And as I said, I love the Ewoks so everything on Endor is great. But RotJ as a whole is not my favorite Star Wars movie. That honor goes to Empire Strikes Back. I have two large issues with RotJ that prevent it from claiming the top spot as a movie, despite the power of certain parts of it. The first is the idea of the Empire building a second Death Star. Come on. Give me something new. The other is that the two halves of the movie, Jabba and Tatooine versus the Emperor/Vader and Endor, just don't mesh together into one movie for me. They are completely disjointed with nothing connecting the two. Both halves are pretty good, but they do not make one movie.
The many contradictions between the original trilogy and the prequel trilogy (Leia remembering her real mother as one) are annoying but I don't think any of them are completely insurmountable. Oh, and Padme can't show up because they are Force ghosts and Padme wasn't Force strong.
Just my two credits, which you probably didn't need.