Most of my life I could never muster enough interest to watch the original trilogy. The first
Star Wars movie I have watched was
Revenge of the Sith and I enjoyed it quite a bit in 2005. but took me a while to fully watch another
Star Wars movie.
When I finally watched all six
Star Wars movies prior to the Disney acquisition I felt no love for the original trilogy, but enjoyed some of the cheese and cool action presented in the prequels sans the
Phantom Menace. Upon revisiting them I could not really feel what made the original trilogy of franchise considered as some of the best movies ever made. Fights are slow and uninteresting, and characters are not that great, most of what I see gets quoted as memorable lines are meme material.
A NEW HOPE: Has too much bickering, poor rescue attempts that succeed out of foolishness and luck, and heavy on plot induced stupidity of the empire. The
Death Star was destroyed cause an amateur was able to use the force against the machine while being chased by a professional pilot/force user/assault officer.
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK: Venerable field commander
Luke Skywalker leaves the field mid battle to chase the commands of a ghost who allowed himself to get killed in the previous movie by his former student gone rogue. The love between
Leia and
Han is unearned and came out of the left field.
- Leia: "I love you"
- Han: "I know"
And this love confession came after
Leia confessed she loves
Luke not
Han, and most of what these two characters did was bicker among themselves. Then there is the matter of the overrated character introduced for two scenes in this movie famously known as
Bobba Fett.
RETURN OF THE JEDI: More bickering between
Han and
Leia,
Luke and
Leia are twins all of a sudden, ghost
Anakin is now a good guy with his dead pals? What?
Enough summary of why each individual movie is overrated on its own. Why is
Darth Vader considered to be a great villain?
Bane in
the Dark Knight Rises is a better general who is more menacing and proactive in the field, and he has the reputation of being a lapdog for being the second in command for
Talia AlGhul.
Darth Vader is loved despite a similar revelation and is considered to be one of the best cinematic villains of all time, yet all he did was force choke some of soldiers to keep them from questioning him and chop the hand of his son. The death of
Obi Wan is not an achievement of his cause as I said in
A New Hope summary; the teacher allowed the fatal blow to hit him.
Bane in
TDKR is not the only better cinematic representation of
Darth Vader's reputation that doesn't really apply to him, look at the character in my avatar and you'll see another superior
Darth Vader, and he's not even the underling of someone,
M. Bison in the 1994 live action was ambitious to set his currency value really high, and he had his city planned by himself, he wasn't joined as someone's mouthpiece to be garnishing.
I appreciate the value of the original trilogy in its positive impact on cinema as a visual art and on blockbusters when it comes to pushing boundaries, I can feel entertained by good elements in them, but beside that its flaws hold it back from being the impressive and entertaining thing it is celebrated to be.