If I turn our brain on,
1-That tow cable thing works only ATATs walk in a certain speed. With the speed depicted in the movie, they would have been just unable to move, not stumble.
2-They don't need to run through blockade, they could have simply travel to the otherside of planet and escape.
3- I know empire sends thousands of probe droids across galaxy, so probe droid arriving on Hoth is acceptable, but what's the probability it lands near rebel base on a planet.
4-How did Luke survive the fall? And how on earth he stopped exactly on the shaft door which will open.
5-How can Luke whose training is nothing compared to Vader's 30-40 years of Jedi and Sith training can hit him on the shoulder with his saber?
In short, I am sure there are many near perfect movies and you can't name all of them. But regarding SW you could just name ESB which is not perfect at all. For rest, you accept we need to turn our brains off. So, needing to turn our brains off to watch TROS does only show it's a movie like thousands before it.
I don't remember fans bashing Nolan for he did not show how Batman escaped The Bat in TDKR or question Lucius Fox why was he unaware of an escape pod in The Bat which he or his team designed.
1.) The tripping of the AT-ATs wouldn't depend on walking speed. The implied physics of it revolves around not being able to extend the lower part of the leading leg, thereby creating too long of a sustained imbalance. It's almost like the prank of tying someone's shoes together when they're standing still; they don't need to get to running speed in order to trip and fall.
2.) There was no way for the escaping Rebels to be sure that the Empire wouldn't be building a perimeter around the entire planet when they were evacuating.
3.) If you watch the movie, you'll see that multiple probe droids were launched onto Hoth. It wasn't just one that then happened to land near the base; there were others that landed near nothing. Considering that ESB takes place 2 years after ANH, the Empire would have been looking for the Rebels that whole time. It's not like they hit paydirt with their first probe droid launch.
4.) Shaft doors would usually open where things would naturally settle (like Luke did). You wouldn't put a drain latch at the top of a pool; you'd put it at the bottom in order for gravity to do the work. As for how Luke survived, he had clearly learned telekinetic powers that could've been used to brace the impact of his fall. Rey can now levitate herself while also levitating rocks, so why not?
5.) Because Vader wasn't trying to kill Luke; he was merely trying to trap him. Luke was fighting for his life against a superior opponent, and was therefore like a cornered animal lashing out against someone who doesn't want to kill it. The animal has a better chance of inflicting damage than it would against a predator willing to strike with lethal intent.
ESB isn't a perfect movie in terms of plot logic, and no one was saying that a SW movie needs to be perfect. But you definitely don't need to turn your brain off to enjoy ESB; not by a longshot. In fact, ESB is a more enjoyable viewing experience when you engage with it cognitively rather than just reflexively. That's because ESB has substance to it, just like all great films do (and *should*).
One of the plot logic problems in ESB would only exist for me if it had to exist in the context of TROS. Why didn't Vader use the Force to pull the Falcon down as it was leaving Hoth? That wasn't a problem before because we reasonably presumed that stopping an accelerating starship with the Force would be absurd. Not anymore; Rey and Kylo can *both* do it.
I suppose that a movie can still be enjoyed if you have to turn off your brain to do so. But it goes too far if someone has to completely unplug the brain for fear that even in "standby mode" it would start sounding alarm bells at every turn. I don't know how any movie can be enjoyable at that point.
