re: Watching Empire Strikes Back last night

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Because it's one of the very few SW movies where the characters acted like real people. Like people you might know, normal feelings and banter.

I don't know what the Prequel people were...Half robots, a strain of human DNA that never originated from Earth? As if everyone in that Universe has Anhedonia.

TFA was better on that front but still detached, cheerless, somewhat loveless, lacking wit and vital human characteristics and traits to our normal degree.

So when ppl say great acting, it's because they're acting like us...How we talk and behave now...Fight, quarrel, be impetuous, grumpy, sarcastic, happy, cheerful, grateful, normal, scared, etc.

( Remember the trash compactor scene in a New Hope complaing about the smell and arguing about whose fault it is and blaming each other and how they whooped and cheered to be alive? If that's in any other SW movie but the originals, the characters would say stoicly and robotically say..."the machine has stopped, we must depart post haste."

And that's a welcomed shock.

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You hit the nail on the head. For some reason In Bruges springs to mind as another particularly good example.