That's how I feel. I rewatched "Empire" recently and it really seemed to me that the movie was very well put together in general. The thing about Luke's duel with Vader is that Vader starts out toying with him, and then gradually the whole affair becomes more desperate for Luke. By the time they're out on the catwalks it's clear Luke's being overwhelmed...Amadi Akintunde wrote:The fights in the Originals had much more emotion and meaning packed into them, really. I loved Episode V's ending duel because it felt so... genuine.Raiden wrote:I don't mind the prequels either, well aside from the obvious complaints. Episode II's only enjoyable parts are the last 10 minutes...it just took so much time to get up to cause he paced it so slow. I remember distinctively laughing really hard the first time i saw Yoda fight..nobody saw that coming.
And speaking of fighs, I have to give the prequels credit for making lightsaber fights so much more enjoyable and exciting than in the original trilogy. In the original, it just seemed like they were just swinging it randomly and didn't have much choreography/martial arts like influence put into it.
The prequels... Well, I want to give 'em another chance. I didn't enjoy 'em too much the first time around but sometimes a few years worth of perspective can be just the thing...
One of the big problems with the prequels, though, IMO, is they follow Anakin's life story, and his eventual turn to evil... In Ep 3 he even personally kills Jedi, and the trainee kids. He went from being a sympathetic character to a villain, and the prequels took on the task of telling us how that happened... Except they never really seemed to explain it adequately IMO.