TV's Frink said:
I'm going to go farther than Throw and say this is crazy. My wife and I just watched ROTS last night. We watched L8wrtr's version (there's no way anyone in my house is allowed to watch the original). It's not a good movie. There are some good bits, and some great ideas, but the execution is terrible. The dialogue is bad. Half the movie looks like a video game. The Jedi are absolute morons (my wife complained about this endlessly). Yoda jumps around with a lightsaber like he's got a lit firecracker in his ass. Ian is generally very good but in the final fight with Yoda he cackles the scenery (rather than chewing it) way past the point of insanity. Hayden is out-acted by the few sets they actually built. I could go on but I'm just getting more and more depressed as I type.
Yeah, this is how I feel. I was trying to reign it in though with my earlier posts. I can sum up the prequels like this:
Episode 1 - Not a great movie. It has redeeming qualities, and could have been a lot better. It has a few really awful components (e.g., Jar Jar) that are so bad that people generally call this the worst of the lot. However, if you look past those parts, its far superior to the other 2 prequels.
Episode 2 - This is a terrible movie. Period. The only thing I like about this movie is the design (not the execution) of the Kaminoans.
Episode 3 - This is a terrible movie that has one or two bits that are actually pretty darn cool (the opening battle/music). However, the bad parts (see Frink's post) in no way can be overlooked nor can those cool parts save the movie.
People keep editing these movies though because they so desperately want more Star Wars. So, editing the OT to align with some of the bad ideas inherent in the PT is the wrong move. Sure, it may be easier to delete that line in ROTJ, but that doesn't mean it is a better move.