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Yeah I feel like Lucas didn't really understand Star Wars. He had to follow a lot of studio notes for the first one and thought it made it terrible. Instead it was the most successful movie ever and he didn't understand why. It was a smart move to get someone else to direct the next movie. Unfortunately because of his petty squabbles with the director's guild he didn't just keep on doing that and instead got a non-union director for RotJ (and ended up pretty much directing it himself anyway) and directed the prequels himself. He just saw it as a way to make money by selling toys in the end.
But the throne room stuff with Luke, Vader and the Emperor was pretty great. The action was fun in the Jabba part of the movie, but of course that didn't have anything to do with the rest of the movie. Overall not a good movie, but pretty fun.
The big problem with Star Wars now is that because it's so popular and makes so much money, people take it way more seriously than they should. Ultimately it became popular because it was fun action adventure movies, that can at times have interesting subtext. I think only JJ Abrams has made Star Wars movies like that, the rest are trying to do Saving Private Ryan in space or Citizen Kane in space, which results in a mediocre versions of those kinds of stories.
I have no idea what you're talking about. Throne room? Emperor with Luke and Vader? Jabba part?
RotJ?
Are you trying to push that silly 4chan conspiracy theory that there were movies after The Empire Strikes Back?
Look, I get it. Everybody wanted to see how things would turn out after the downer ending of Empire, but it just didn't happen. You don't have to hallucinate a hundred more movies like some kind of prehistoric LLM!
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