Curiously enough, I know several people that have watched the Star Wars movies (for the first time) in their numerical order instead of the release order, and all of them have uniformly judged the entire series as wonky, cheesy, plodding, and outright boring piece of crap, with ROTS as the only watchable outing of them all.
At any rate, I picked Empire, with III as a close second.
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