The first Star Wars movie was the best although it's easy to become interested in the characters and want to know what happens next. The sequel, "The Empire Strikes Back" was well liked although it gave "evil" the upper hand. And now this movie,"The Return of the Jedi" is corny but with a positive, hopeful ending. Where they really went wrong is when they changed the ending. When first released, the end showed the "ghosts" of Obi Wan Kenobi, Yoda and Anakin Skywalker. They were portrayed as seen in the film. After the prequels were released, they changed the actor from Sebastian Shaw to Hayden Christiansen. Bad move. So if they did this, why didn't they change Obi Wan to Ewan MacGregor? I think they should have left well enough alone. I had to go get an old VHS copy of the movie to see it as it was originally filmed. Just because you CAN change something because of technology doesn't mean you should. They should have left it alone.
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Final closure to the series
matthewjoseph-5465114 October 2019
Often considered the weakest of the original trilogy eturn of the Jedi concludes the series with not so much as an explosion but with a thud. Its not a bad movie but it doesn't scale the heights that the previous two films scaled. The dark, eerie atmosphere that oozed from every frame of The Empire Strikes Back is gone. Instead, for Return of the Jedi, we have good triumphing decisively over evil, a too-pat resolution to a love triangle, and walking teddy bears. Even Darth Vader doesn't seem very daunting this time around. With the arrival of the Emperor (a gaunt-looking Ian McDiarmid), Vader has turned into a second fiddle. It's decidedly unsatisfactory to watch him engage Luke in a civilized conversation. From a technical point-of-view, the space battles are amazing, easily dwarfing anything depicted in the previous films. Not only are there many, many more ships, but their speed and range of movement have been dramatically improved.
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