Best and Worst of the Trilogy

Rating: 10/10 (10 April 2017)

This film is really hard to go on and describe in a full manner. There really are some things in there, that are amazing. However, there are a lot of things in the film that just make it understandable why people consider this to be the worst of the original trilogy. Which is why I coin the idea of best and worst of the trilogy.
In terms of amazing stuff, there is the whole final death star battle of Endor going on. The space battle, the fight against Vader, the Endor section with the storytelling that the Ewoks have before the final battle are all great. The emperors acting is some of the best acting in the entire series, not just the trilogy. And the whole Vader thing at the end with his death and the celebration at the end as well a the whole Yoda scene were also amazing. The last forty to fifty minutes of the film really are great.
But on the opposite end of the spectrum, the first forty to fifty minutes really are sort of a drag. There was no real need, at all, to spend forty minutes trying to free Han Solo on a plot line that should have never really even been a thing at all. It just felt like there was no real purpose to it and that it could have been left out entirely and maybe went better. Plus the whole Jabba thing was just something that I was never really interested in at all, even from the first movie. I feel like that entire Jabba plot line should have been scraped from the trilogy and if anything, it would have been better.
The ewoks has some funny and nice moments, but the whole final battle was just not needed with them. If their role was left off at the scene when 3PO was talking with them, it would have been a lot better. Also, some of the stuff that they do was just hard to watch. But I would not really say that it was able to ruin the film. It is still a well made movie as a whole that just suffers from a drag of a first act.