Soundwave said:
RoTS still has a lot of clunk dialogue and terrible acting ... case in point it's the only Star Wars movie that somehow manages to embarass Darth Vader.
The whole Anakin Skywalker "turn to the Dark Side" is pretty fucking stupid and weak dramatically too because it's hillariously rushed (largely because Lucas so poorly wrote the previous two films): Anakin's "Bad Day" 8 AM - Good Guy 11 AM - Good Guy 2:30 PM - Good Guy, feeling good after lunch 4:30 PM - Uh oh, Palpatinez teh Sith Lord! 6:30 PM - AW FUCK IT! GUESS IMMA GONNA HAVE TO KILL A BUNCH OF KIDS NOW lol, c'mon Lucas.
Jedi is underrated in many ways IMO, the Emperor/Vader/Luke scenes are better than anything else in the Star Wars saga and yes that includes even the best scenes from Empire. "Sister ... so you have a twin sister ..." is the most delciously evil line in all the Star Wars movies, you can almost see Vader smile underneath his mask and the Emperor is such a wonderful, unnerving embodiment of the Dark Side. Think about what they did in ROTJ for a second ... they create a character who instantly has street cred as someone waaaaay more evil than even Darth Vader. None of the new Star Wars movies (not even TFA or Rogue One) can come close to claiming anything like that. |
Acting in all Star Wars movies besides ESB and RotJ is bad. The story in SW besides ANH and ESB is all recycled. People try to pin these movies, especially the old ones as the pennical of acting when they are as bad as the prequels. The dialogue, and acting, in ANH is on par with the mediocrity of AotC and PM. Only saving grace is its the only self contained Star Wars. And then you have TFA, which while the acting is miles above ANH, is... ANH.
Of course, if we're going purely on opinion, RotJ is my fave SW. But I recognize its faults enough to not put it above RotS, which is a better movie.
