Kbbm824 said:
The weakest film in each trilogy in my opinion.
I think Return of the Jedi has the lowest lows (The Endor fight with the Ewoks) and the highest highs (Luke vs Vader and Palpatine, Battle of the second Death star and the Sarlacc pit) of the two films.
I prefer Return of the Jedi. The final duel between Luke and Vader might be my favorite sequence in any movie ever. The music sends chills down my spine and has done that for like 25 years.
As for Return of the king. This is more of a fault in the books, more than the film's - but ghosts showing up, being immortal and killing all opponents in a minute flat, was so incredibly anticlimactic to me. The height of action, suspense and so on is easily the arrival of the riders of Rohan - but even after that epic battle, we still got several battle scenes to go and over an hour of movie left. It's exhausting.
Jedi wins for me |
The bolded is so true and the RotK has such a mania around it that it's been a while since I stopped trying to explain why it is such a crappy movie. I have a particular annoyance when the Ewoks come to the show, but at least there is some entertainment here and there. "King" is just boooooooring, long, with no tension whatsoever and clearly designed to appease to Oscar audiences. I wouldn't vote for any of them, but Jedi at least has something to show for it (the Jabba rescue - with bonus bikini scene - and the final fight of the Skywalkers). "King" is just barren.
