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I think there was too much going on in parallel in the third act to really emotionally invest.

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i actually don't think this would be a problem if done with the same tone, but the ewoks ruin it...moreover, the real problem is you have 3 things going on, one of them is pretty boring and doesn't utilize the characters at all, the other is a retread of the first movie and again doesn't do anything with the characters

I agree, it's very disjointed. for me though, it's the whole thing. the opening scene is the two droids walking and talking and it's through them that we're introduced to jabba...weak.

then the whole sequence goes on for 40 boring minutes. I've come to appreciate strong opening scenes in movies. ironically, empire is kind of unique in that there's no BOOM opening scene, but empire is a unique movie in many ways.

then we get to our rehash of the original. a huge problem is that many of our characters have no purpose. leia, han, chewie, 3po, and r2 are just there and lando is flying a plane...vader, luke and the emperor are pretty useless throughout the movie until you get to the throne room scenes.

It just bores me, but I can relate to having a special place for a movie you saw with your dad as a child...that's batman 1989 for me, but that movie has crazy style, doesn't suck and is a movie full of so many memorable lines and images