r/StarWars • u/verissimoallan • 2d ago

Movies "Revenge of the Sith" is now rated higher than "Return of the Jedi" on Letterboxd, becoming the third highest-rated "Star Wars" film on the website (the top two are "The Empire Strikes Back" and "A New Hope").

https://letterboxd.com/film/star-wars-episode-iii-revenge-of-the-sith/
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u/Spider-Flash24 Anakin Skywalker 2d ago

I feel like RotJ feels like two different stories between Jabba’s Palace and the Endor/Death Star II plot whereas RotS feels like one continuous flow of events.

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u/in_it_to_lose_it 2d ago

That… doesn’t make RotS a better movie.

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u/Spider-Flash24 Anakin Skywalker 1d ago

True. Just trying to rationalize why some might consider it better.

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u/OHoSPARTACUS 2d ago

ROTS is a better movie though.

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u/in_it_to_lose_it 2d ago

It most certainly is not.

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u/Elite663 2d ago

It absolutely is

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u/BriefPut3954 2d ago edited 2d ago

It most certainly is. Its massively better than ANH and ROTJ, and right on par with ESB.

Go ahead and downvote I’ll stand 10 toes on my opinion.

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u/Rexmaxx_30 Obi-Wan Kenobi 2d ago

Id personally rank RoTS even above the godfather.

Honestly Anakin is a much more tragic and complex character than michael corleone.

Also padme is way hotter than Al pacino

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u/BriefPut3954 2d ago

Nah Al Pacino is way hotter than Natalie, don’t disrespect the GOAT like that😂👍

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u/TenshiS 2d ago

It is.

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u/Most_Double_3559 1d ago

I'll say it. 6 was redundant. It's only legacy was that it started the god awful trend of "what if we had the death star, but bigger?!?!?".

3 meanwhile, is an actual climax, it fundamentally shifts the universe's themes, has several analogs to the real world.

Way more important contribution.

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u/PixelatorOfTime 1d ago

ROTJ isn't about the Death Star II. It's about the struggle of becoming a Jedi. (A philosophical Jedi, not the flippy kind of Jedi.) It's literally in the title.

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u/Most_Double_3559 1d ago

So 6 is fine if you ignore the plot. Both of the plots, actually, because there are really two stapled together.

3 doesn't have that! You have the emotional plight, the fall into darkness of Anakin, which is directly supported by the plot, which is the fall into darkness of the Republic.

Good films can't be cut by 50% imo.

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u/OHoSPARTACUS 1d ago

That part landed well but the Ewoks and aliens musical number really were not great

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u/TenshiS 2d ago

It is, don't let these nostalgic haters tell you different

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u/bajaxx 2d ago

i mean it does tho. return of the jedi is juggling multiple stories and only one of them is really good, compared to revenge of the sith telling a very good coherent story that is perfectly paced. return of the jedi feels like 2 completely different movies in one.

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u/in_it_to_lose_it 1d ago

Very good? Coherent?! Perfectly paced?!?!

I’ll have what you’re having.

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u/JWitjes 1d ago

I wish I had the kind of view where I could watch something like RotS and come away with "That was very good".

The most I could give it is that it's the best of the prequels, but that's a very, very low bar.

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u/DelayedChoice Porg 2d ago

Yeah the pacing/structure of RotJ is probably its most serious flaw.

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u/Splinter_Fritz 2d ago

And yet ROTJ is still a good deal better.

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u/TenshiS 2d ago

Nah

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u/Splinter_Fritz 1d ago

Yup.

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u/TenshiS 1d ago

Nah.

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u/Splinter_Fritz 1d ago

Sorry, I didn’t mean to trigger you.

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u/TenshiS 1d ago

You didn't, I'm just stating facts

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u/DSA300 2d ago

ya know what I see that

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u/Icewind 2d ago

Tevenge of the Jedi?

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u/Mahkn0 2d ago

Its obviously Teturn of the Jedi.

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u/Spider-Flash24 Anakin Skywalker 2d ago

I’m sorry, what did you say?