Return of the Jedi
Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, the Emperor prepares to crush the Rebellion with a more powerful Death Star, and the Rebel fleet mounts a massive attack on the space station. Luke Skywalker confronts Darth Vader in a final climactic duel before the evil Emperor. From TMDB
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60 of 242 · most liked firstDenis Villeneuve is not interested in making a #StarWars film • He was once obsessed with Star Wars — calling 'Empire Strikes Back' his most anticipated movie ever • Franchise was 'derailed' with 'Return of the Jedi' — 'it became a comedy for kids' • Dislikes the Ewoks to this day (via Puck)
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's film Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi (1983)
neutral · AI labelView post →On a whim, I just rewatched Return of the Jedi for the first time in decades, so strap in for some hot takes: It’s a good kids film. A New Hope is a great kids film. Empire Strikes Back is the only one in the trilogy that seems more like a grownup action-adventure film. A New Hope is still my fave.
neutral · AI labelView post →Farewell to Academy Award-winning film editor Marcia Lucas (1945-2026). She won an Oscar for STAR WARS, was nominated for AMERICAN GRAFFITI, and shared a BAFTA nom for TAXI DRIVER. She also edited ALICE DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE and RETURN OF THE JEDI in a brief but game-changing career. #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →I don’t think it’s bad exactly and I know they had to get Han back but the entire first part of Return of the Jedi with Jabba really seems like “the gang does something to pass the time before we start the plot of the movie”
neutral · AI labelView post →Return of the Jedi is a Christmas movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy Scarlet Saturday! The current vibe is Star Wars! Me and my sister were watching Return of the Jedi this evening and it was so nostalgic 🥹 I don't know how many times I've seen it, but it's still such an amazing movie! I hope you have a wonderful day, I send love and positivity your way 💛☺️
positive · AI labelView post →Return of the Jedi was the first movie I sat all the way through (got kicked out of ET) and I did so only because my dad said he’d take me to Burger King after and get me one of these glasses
neutral · AI labelView post →TIL that Tron: Ares is a movie made from the third act of the original, scrapped sequel. To summarize, Disney began work on a sequel to Tron: Legacy immediately. Legacy was meant to kick off a larger universe of movies and TV. As time went on, other expected hits flopped, and Disney acquired Star Wars and made it their new darling, the Tron sequel got shelved. Jared Leto, who was going to have a minor role in Tron: Ascension, pushed to have a new movie made anyway, making his character the…
neutral · AI labelView post →So, I’m old. When I saw Return of the Jedi in the theater, there was kind of a “controversy” because they raised the price of movie tickets starting with that movie. We still waited in the long line to see it. But the price for a non-matinee ticket to see it went up to a whopping $4! Scandalous!
neutral · AI labelView post →RIP to a legend, editor of the first movie to change my life, Return of the Jedi
neutral · AI labelView post →Isn’t it wild how Terms Of Endearment was the second highest grossing movie of 1983? Like the only thing that made more than it that year was Return Of The Jedi
neutral · AI labelView post →I was discussing movie theater prices with my nephew’s wife earlier today. I told her that there was a big uproar when the price went up when RETURN OF THE JEDI came out. They raised the ticket prices to $4. It was outrageous. She thought that was funny.
neutral · AI labelView post →More Marcia Lucas goodness: the despecialized barge scene from Return of the Jedi, the third best Star Wars movie, I can’t tell you how fuckin exciting this sequence was, incredible ending to Act One (I learned a lot about editing structure from these movies) youtu.be/E7JhJAthwhg
positive · AI labelView post →My schizo theory is George Lucas made bad versions of STAR WARS on purpose. Think of all the people who got into film preservation because of it. 1000s of movies saved from destruction, careers in color grading, all because people didn't want to watch Return of the Jedi on VHS.
neutral · AI labelView post →I found out while researching a podcast on Return of the Jedi that child psychologists also advised Lucas there had to be a scene in the movie that confirmed Vader wasn't lying to Luke that he was his father in Empire, so Yoda says it and Obi-Wan confirms it, two trustable adults.
neutral · AI labelView post →NEW EPISODE! We conclude the original trilogy of Star Wars movie adaptations with Return of the Jedi! youtu.be/sKvbFWw0oUM
neutral · AI labelView post →Tibor Helenyi’s lysergic 1984 Hungarian movie poster for Star Wars: Return of the Jedi.
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie poster for 1983’s Star Wars: The Return Of The Jedi by the great Noriyoshi Ohrai.
neutral · AI labelView post →You’ll need that mind erasing tech from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a movie that was released closer to Return of the Jedi than to today.
neutral · AI labelView post →Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back Return of the Jedi Raiders of the Lost Ark Who Framed Roger Rabbit Transformers: The Movie Aliens Back to the Future The Big Lebowski Hudsucker Proxy
neutral · AI labelView post →Witold Dybowski's movie poster for the 1984 Polish release of “Return Of The Jedi”. I read that he was given little to work with beyond the film’s title & the fact that Darth Vader ends up dead. What a fabulous job he did.
neutral · AI labelView post →Conversations with the 8yo: 8yo: Why does every franchise have to make some bad movies? Me: What are you thinking about? 8yo: Mission Impossible 2, Jurassic Park sequels, War of the Rohirrim, Spiderman 3, Return of the Jedi, Despicable Me 3, anything after the first Pirates movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →RETURN OF THE JEDI Is my favorite Star Wars movie. Fite me. Don’t care.
positive · AI labelView post →Is it a hot take to say that Return of the Jedi is my favorite movie from the Original Trilogy? It's probably not as hot a take as saying Phantom Menace is my favorite of the prequels. Which it is. #grogart
positive · AI labelView post →Return of the Jedi is a Christmas movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi. Superman, the Movie. Raiders of the Lost Ark. I remember seeing “What’s Up, Doc?” in the theater in 1972. I was 5. That was one of my earliest theater memories. I was amazed by Madeline Khan. I thought she was really funny.
neutral · AI labelView post →The funny thing about tariffing movies is that according to Lucasfilm, Return of the Jedi has not yet made a profit. Neither has Men in Black, Spider-Man, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and a Harry Potter movie en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywo...
neutral · AI labelView post →Return of the Jedi building its plot around the construction of yet another Death Star Effective for that movie, as far as it goes, but it condemned us to 40 years of death star plot lines in franchise movies
neutral · AI labelView post →Return of the Jedi (1983): Filming the speeder bike chase
neutral · AI labelView post →• Would've centered on a character from Episode 9 • Fincher previously worked as an assistant cameraman on 'Return of the Jedi' • Kathleen Kennedy produced his film 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' www.theinsneider.com/p/steven-sod...
unlabelledView post →My first film love was Return of the Jedi (it took years to accept that The Empire Strikes Back was the best of the trio) and I’ve literally been mad at George Lucas for decades
unlabelledView post →Happy birthday to the legendary Lawrence Kasdan! Kasdan co-wrote The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, The Force Awakens, and Solo: A Star Wars Story. He also wrote the first Indiana Jones film Raiders of the Lost Ark. May the Force be with you!
unlabelledView post →Shawn Levy says ‘STAR WARS: STARFIGHTER’ is more like ‘RETURN OF THE JEDI’ than any other Star Wars movie. “It's Jedi because the combination of theme, levity, adventure, heart, spectacle. Somehow that movie just got it right for me.” Source: m.youtube.com/watch?v=gGR3...
unlabelledView post →Ian McDiarmid reveals Steven Spielberg’s response to seeing Emperor Palpatine in RETURN OF THE JEDI for the first time. “Oh my god, you’re evil!” (Source: variety.com/2025/film/fe...)
unlabelledView post →Return of the Jedi has my favorite ending for a Star Wars, not even close. Maybe even my favorite ending regardless of film. I genuinely tear up.
unlabelledView post →Alt-movie 2010 Mondo poster for 1983’s “Star Wars: Return Of The Jedi” by Olly Moss.
unlabelledView post →Time for lunch and a movie! Just got back from the library, off work today. Nasty weather today, so it's a movie night! Today's first randomly selected movie is... Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, 1983
unlabelledView post →Watching my favorite film about the War for Independence (Return of the Jedi).
unlabelledView post →“Return of the Jedi is bad” mfs are so funny. Oh the movie that climaxes with one of hollywoods greatest moments of self-sacrificial pacifism is bad because there’s cute little teddy bears in it? Boo hoo?
unlabelledView post →And you know what? Steve Harrington is right about Return of the Jedi being the best Star Wars movie. It *was* the most fun one. Speak your truth, Steve.
unlabelledView post →Happy birthday to Kenneth Colley, who would’ve turned 88 years old today. Colley played Admiral Piett in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi and is the only actor to play the same Imperial officer in more than one Star Wars movie.
unlabelledView post →Did you know? Return of the Jedi director Richard Marquand makes an appearance in the film as Imperial Major Marquand, whose uniform Han Solo wears as a disguise. Marquand’s CCG card hints at the director’s cameo by saying he "Directed a counterattack against the Ewoks on Endor."
unlabelledView post →I like this Return of the Jedi (1983) promotional image (not from the film, but made for marketing). ↙️ It's also a poster I got with Star Wars NES (1991). 🤩 I still have it. ↘️
unlabelledView post →He directed the original film, but Empire and Return of the Jedi were written and directed by different people.
unlabelledView post →What is the first movie you remember seeing in the theater? I remember only Reese's Pieces about ET, but I remember the ewoks singing in Return of the Jedi. That's all I got.
unlabelledView post →Opening day of RETURN OF THE JEDI at the SamEric theater in downtown Philadelphia 10-year-old me is likely somewhere in that mob of people. I know I saw ROTD at this theater on opening day right after school. A beautiful theater until it went to seed in the late 90s.
unlabelledView post →Another account recommendation, this time for filmmaking. Jamie does long interviews with personalities working in film, and mostly in sci-fi. He has also co-written a book on Return of the Jedi. In my headcanon, Jamie's work complements mine :)
unlabelledView post →I think Return of the Jedi is technically a Muppet movie.
unlabelledView post →Shawn Levy compares his movie (Starfighter) to Return of the Jedi more than any other Star Wars in terms of tone . #StarWars #Starfighter
unlabelledView post →Star Wars was a popular movie series that became a generational cultural text *because it stuck the landing.* It's not great in spite of Return of the Jedi, it's great because of Return of the Jedi.
unlabelledView post →Jon Favreau confirms that ‘THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU’ takes place about 10 years after the events of ‘STAR WARS: RETURN OF THE JEDI’ That means there’s approximately a 5-year time jump between the first season and the film. (via youtu.be/yD05sC9Kx14?...)
unlabelledView post →311. Return of the Jedi is the most successful realization of Lucas’s conception of Star Wars as a Flash Gordon style film serial, in the way it jumps from the Jabba’s Palace adventure to the completely different but tangentially connected Battle of Endor.
unlabelledView post →Movie Frame Study from 2022, for Jack, ref frame is from Return of the Jedi, thank you for checking it out ^^
unlabelledView post →Harrison Ford wanted Han Solo to be killed off at the end of Empire, as he wasn’t keen on playing him again. It was for this reason that Lucas had Han frozen in carbonite in the film, as it gave them the option of bringing Han back or not for Return of the Jedi. 14/39
unlabelledView post →Just learned that David Lynch was approached about directing Return Of The Jedi and trying to imagine what that movie would have looked like
unlabelledView post →Return of the Jedi is a Christmas movie, based on the position of the Earth in orbit around the sun as the events unfold. It just takes place in a whole ass other galaxy, so no one cares.
unlabelledView post →Andor is the best Star War Empire is the best film, but Rogue One is my favorite Overrated: Return of the Jedi So awful that it retroactively made me like Force Awakens & Last Jedi less: Rise of Skywalker Prequels? Still not "good," but I enjoy them more than I used to & I respect Lucas' hustle
unlabelledView post →Star Wars Favorites: Movie: Return of the Jedi Show: The Clone Wars Character: Tech Lightsaber Color: Yellow This list is constantly changing 🤣 Would love to see yours!
unlabelledView post →Rogue One is great if you've never seen a movie before, and I am absolutely not the person to be slandering Return of the Jedi to.
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