Rogue One is, "we want to show the experiences of the background characters of this universe in a 'realistic' military movie"
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And they nail it. SImilarly, Ep 7 is JJ's lifelong dream of "I want to make Episode 7" and it hits expectations for what an Episode 7 is.
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Empire is an exciting pulp movie that pushes the bounds of the special effects of its time and doesn't get bogged down, and has The Twist.
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Return of the Jedi is two movies in one, a "Shadows of the Empire" style in between story, and a final battle. It's less focused on what it
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RotJ was made after Lucas' plans for a whole sequel trilogy collapsed
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so it crams in the original Ep 6 plot (saving Han Solo) w the climax of a planned Ep 9
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That explains why the filmmakers seem to have no idea what to do with everybody who isn't Luke after Jabba's
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and the pacing of new plot twists is on meth after that - Yoda dies, Death Star #2, Leia is your sister
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And three separate concurrent endings (Endor, the space battle, Luke and Vader's duel)
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it's bits and pieces meant to be spread out over a future trilogy crammed into one movie
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Lucas learned the wrong lesson from this and intentionally crammed FOUR climaxes into TPM
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Gungan battle, Naboo palace infiltration, duel vs Darth Maul, Anakin in space
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And again, as with RotJ, we at most care about two of those.
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