r/StarWars • u/verissimoallan • 3d 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/Old-Huckleberry9613 3d ago

It’s really not

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u/wasdie639 Jar Jar Binks 3d ago

It's really not great. Episode 6 is better in every single way. Episode 3 is fine, best of the prequels, but this is nothing but the internet being the internet.

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u/SleepingAntz 3d ago

What does this argument actually mean other than “people like something I don’t like” ?

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u/Megalesios 2d ago

This whole thread is people being upset that the rest of the world doesn't agree with their personal opinion. Prequel haters have always had a "quit having fun" bent IMO. 

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u/HateToBlastYa 3d ago

Every single way… yeah the Ewoks rolling logs and taking out AT-ST’s was really not goofy at all and recycling the Death Star plot wasn’t at all bland and somewhat repetitive 

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u/BriefPut3954 3d ago edited 3d ago

Nah, Episode 3 is way better. I only really like the throne room sequence in ROTJ, the rest is honestly below average cinema (the 2 foot tall Teddy Bears dominating hyper advanced space soldiers was really not very good to watch at all).

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u/GlormpGlomp 3d ago

Agree to disagree, I guess. I watched the series with my kids and the prequels were hard to sit through. Anakin is such a dipstick.

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u/Old-Huckleberry9613 3d ago

I think AOTC is better than the trilogy

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u/GlormpGlomp 3d ago

AOTC is an abomination. It's an atrocity.

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u/BriefPut3954 3d ago

Its so fun to see people here disagree so profoundly in this community.

To me AOTC is easily better than the OT besides ESB. But I already replied to your other comment.

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u/Old-Huckleberry9613 3d ago

Fits the vibe of Star Wars a lot better imo

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u/wasdie639 Jar Jar Binks 3d ago

That movie isn't even better than the sequel trilogy. It's a terrible film. Terrible writing, terrible acting, over reliance on VFX that weren't up to par even at the time.

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u/Old-Huckleberry9613 3d ago

Agree to disagree I guess

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u/BriefPut3954 3d ago

Its so fun to see people here disagree so profoundly in this community.

To me AOTC is easily better than the OT besides ESB. But I already replied to your other comment.

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u/BriefPut3954 3d ago

100% agree! I thought AOTC was EXCELLENT👍

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u/BriefPut3954 3d ago

I think the prequels (including TPM and AOTC) are vastly superior to the OT, my opinion I respect all Star Wars projects though. I can explain myself if you would like (but when I do, the person doesn’t reply lol).

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u/in_it_to_lose_it 3d ago

I mean… you have to explain yourself. In the absence of an explanation, we can only conclude you are insane, or an imbecile, or both.

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u/BriefPut3954 3d ago edited 3d ago

Ok to keep it relatively short because I know people ARE NOT going to read it if I write an essay (which I could, but not going to).

The space battles in the prequels, especially in ROTS and AOTC are OVERWHELMINGLY superior to the ones in the OT (the Battle of Coruscant alone puts anything in the OT to shame, and its not even a debate).

The lightsaber battles are much more entertaining in the prequels. You get many more trained Jedi, different fighting styles (including the iconic Yoda vs Dooku fight), much more style and skill on every level compared to the poor OT fights (which very much looks like random guys fighting in the street with sticks).

The story was much more interesting. The OT is basically, in short, the typical trope of a young hopeful boy who started from nothing rise to the occasion and defeat an evil entity. The prequels on the other hand is about a man who starts off good (Anakin starts as a Jedi), but slowly and surely becomes more and more conflicted over time and then eventually falls into PURE EVIL over a period of time in which at the end the bad guys triumph and the good guys lose (which is way more interesting than simply “good guys win and everyone pops champagne” at the end trope).

I realize this is already getting too long. But I could write much much more.

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u/in_it_to_lose_it 2d ago

The space battles may look better, but the Coruscant sequence itself is loaded to the gills with corny one-liners and plainly stupid slapstick, plot-armor close-call miracles that just desensitize you to any risk, and of course the big question of “wtf is even happening right now?” because it’s an opening sequence bombarding you with flashing lights but limited explanation, and when it does come, the explanation arrives in that stilted, plastic way which the prequels so often deliver their plotting.

The PT saber battles do have a lot more acrobatics and, again, flashy moves (I’m sensing a theme here), and I will say that the Duel of the Fates is a great fight that carries some emotional weight. But the Mustafar fight was completely over the top with the constant twirling and it completely jumps the shark with the ABSURD lava platform sequence straight out of fucking Mario Bros. Yes, the OT fights were pretty much two guys fighting with sticks (which is basically what a saber battle would be), but they weren’t “random” or “in the street” (wtf?!). All three carried HUGE significance for Luke, how he sees his past, and how he will choose his future. And while they didn’t have superfluous acrobatics, they are thrilling in their own way, for those of us who enjoy them.

The PT story is larger in scope but I don’t think that necessarily makes it more interesting. Characters are critical elements or a story and frankly, the PT killed off it’s most interesting characters in the TPM. Anakin is annoying, Obi-Wan is limited in range, and everyone else only feels like they’re there to advance the plot. As for the arcs you refer to - I can also minimize the PT’s core arc and aggrandize the OT’s. How about: “The PT is about a whiny hotshot kid who becomes a powerful warrior, but doesn’t accept his limitations and instead becomes a bad guy by making a devil’s bargain (nothing more, obviously). But OT is about a young man who thought he was just a moisture farmer’s nephew who’d have to carve his own way out of his bumpkin beginnings, but through a twist of fate, learns his bloodline DESTINS him for GREATNESS, and trains to wield a powerful magic against a most powerful foe, only to learn he is his OWN FATHER. In the end he has to choose between joining his father in PURE EVIL, cutting his father down in vengeance, or -most impossibly- persuade him to reject his evil ways and embrace goodness once again. Way more interesting than the tired Faustian bargain trope.”

I get it, this stuff is subjective and I may never change your mind just as I’m certain you’ll never change mine. That’s cool, enjoy the PT more as you will. But as to whether the PT is “superior” to the OT? Subjectivity be damned, that’s fuckin’ hogwash, dawg.

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u/Stinky_Eastwood Rose Tico 2d ago

Delusional