Easy, love it or hate it Star Wars is popular. Some people only love the OG trilogy. The prequels have been redeemed to some extent. Disney era has been a mixed bag ending on a low point for some people. So please, rank your Star Wars feature length films. Remember this is YOUR ranking, this is the ranking of what movies YOU prefer. This is not an objective ranking of what movies you think are the "critical best". Ill start:
1. Return of the Jedi
- What can I say. I love Jedi Luke. I love the space battle at the end. I love Luke vs Darth Vader (my favorite light saber battle of all Star Wars). I love the rescue at Jabbas Palace. It drags a bit during the Ewoks parts but not enough to knock it off for me.
2. Empire Strikes Back
- Objectively the best "movie" of the trilogy. Incredible film.
3. Star Wars
- The OG, started it all, some people view it as number one. I can definitely see it but I love Luke and Jedi Luke over whiny Luke takes it for me. Han Solo is a badass in this movie for sure.
4. Revenge of the Sith
- Not a perfect movie by any means but its Lucas, its heavy heavy Star Wars, and it really serves as a nice bridge between Eps 3 and 4. Love the rescue scene of Palpatine in the beginning.
5. Rogue One
- Prequels for films in general can be bad and even worse if they have to go in between existing prequels (we call these Interquels). But this one hit it out of the park. I often hear a lot of people saying the beginning was whack and the ending was cool. I personally loved the beginning and the scenes on Jedah with the Star Destroyer in Atmosphere. They could have easily cut out Bor Gullet and it would have been even better. The last space battle was cool. I love how Space Jimmy Smits made an appearance.
6. The Phantom Menace
- You cant imaging how hyped I was for this movie when it came out. I was deep into the Expanded Universe buying all the books and comics. This movie was good and very Star Wars but a bit too convoluted to make easy sense. So many things could have been done better but it was solid for sure. Fans should read the novel Darth Plageous (not cannon in the Disney era) which serves as a sort of prequel to the movie and really explains and makes everything make more sense.
7. The Force Awakens
- The Disney era definitely started on a high note. The new characters were fresh. The "remake" of A New Hope seemed to work. Lots of small problems but Rey, Finn, Poe and BB8 all seemed like cool characters. Kylo Ren is also a high part of the whole Disney era.
8. The Last Jedi
- I konw some people hate this movie for what they perceive was as insult to the story which came before it. I agree to some extent but I dont want to be some toxic fan either. The movie took risks and tried new things which is fine. Luke being a loser definitely rubbed me the wrong way. he doesnt have to be Superman but they did him a bit dirty IMO. I liked the training scenes and Luke is somewhat redeemed at the end. If they were gonig to kill him anyways I dont understand why he didnt fight Kylo physically but that is nitpicking a bit. I like how they got rid of Snoke in a surprise move. I think the final film would have been set up much better with Kylo as the "final boss" not the Emperor. The casino scenes served no purpose other than to show cool aliens and could have been dropped easily.
9. Solo
- I like Solo. Its a fun movie. Casting another Harrison Ford is a bold move and not sure it paid off. The actor did a fine job but he isn't Harrison Ford that's it. I think Donald Glover did a much better job as Lando. As a fan of the books and comics this felt much more like a book or better a comic to show this heist and stuff. It didn't feel like a feature to me. I also hated how they just couldn't help themselves and had to explain every minute detail of Han Solo's background from the Kessel Run to how he met Chewbacca, how he got the dice how he got the Millennium Falcon, how he got his FUCKING NAME etc etc. That really hurt the movie and really smelled bad like Disney executives getting in the way.
Tie 10. The Rise of Skywalker and Attack of the Clones
- ok I am cheating a bit. Both these movies are terrible. Rise of Skywalker I might give the nod to because it has one of my favorite light saber battles between Rey and Kylo on the water. But this movie isn't good period. Attack of the Clones was also terrible. There were some cool parts like Obi Wan vs Boba Fett on Kamino and the intro scene trying to find Padme's assassin. But there were so many awful scenes like the droid factory. Not to mention it makes the Jedi look terrible they weren't able to figure out this super obvious plan. Like "oh there is an ENTIRE ARMY which I guess is ours to control, sure why not we dont need to check that any further?" the acting is atrocious just look at the sand line as an example. I dont blame the actors but Lucas should have given up directing as he did in the original trilogy.
1. Return of the Jedi
- What can I say. I love Jedi Luke. I love the space battle at the end. I love Luke vs Darth Vader (my favorite light saber battle of all Star Wars). I love the rescue at Jabbas Palace. It drags a bit during the Ewoks parts but not enough to knock it off for me.
2. Empire Strikes Back
- Objectively the best "movie" of the trilogy. Incredible film.
3. Star Wars
- The OG, started it all, some people view it as number one. I can definitely see it but I love Luke and Jedi Luke over whiny Luke takes it for me. Han Solo is a badass in this movie for sure.
4. Revenge of the Sith
- Not a perfect movie by any means but its Lucas, its heavy heavy Star Wars, and it really serves as a nice bridge between Eps 3 and 4. Love the rescue scene of Palpatine in the beginning.
5. Rogue One
- Prequels for films in general can be bad and even worse if they have to go in between existing prequels (we call these Interquels). But this one hit it out of the park. I often hear a lot of people saying the beginning was whack and the ending was cool. I personally loved the beginning and the scenes on Jedah with the Star Destroyer in Atmosphere. They could have easily cut out Bor Gullet and it would have been even better. The last space battle was cool. I love how Space Jimmy Smits made an appearance.
6. The Phantom Menace
- You cant imaging how hyped I was for this movie when it came out. I was deep into the Expanded Universe buying all the books and comics. This movie was good and very Star Wars but a bit too convoluted to make easy sense. So many things could have been done better but it was solid for sure. Fans should read the novel Darth Plageous (not cannon in the Disney era) which serves as a sort of prequel to the movie and really explains and makes everything make more sense.
7. The Force Awakens
- The Disney era definitely started on a high note. The new characters were fresh. The "remake" of A New Hope seemed to work. Lots of small problems but Rey, Finn, Poe and BB8 all seemed like cool characters. Kylo Ren is also a high part of the whole Disney era.
8. The Last Jedi
- I konw some people hate this movie for what they perceive was as insult to the story which came before it. I agree to some extent but I dont want to be some toxic fan either. The movie took risks and tried new things which is fine. Luke being a loser definitely rubbed me the wrong way. he doesnt have to be Superman but they did him a bit dirty IMO. I liked the training scenes and Luke is somewhat redeemed at the end. If they were gonig to kill him anyways I dont understand why he didnt fight Kylo physically but that is nitpicking a bit. I like how they got rid of Snoke in a surprise move. I think the final film would have been set up much better with Kylo as the "final boss" not the Emperor. The casino scenes served no purpose other than to show cool aliens and could have been dropped easily.
9. Solo
- I like Solo. Its a fun movie. Casting another Harrison Ford is a bold move and not sure it paid off. The actor did a fine job but he isn't Harrison Ford that's it. I think Donald Glover did a much better job as Lando. As a fan of the books and comics this felt much more like a book or better a comic to show this heist and stuff. It didn't feel like a feature to me. I also hated how they just couldn't help themselves and had to explain every minute detail of Han Solo's background from the Kessel Run to how he met Chewbacca, how he got the dice how he got the Millennium Falcon, how he got his FUCKING NAME etc etc. That really hurt the movie and really smelled bad like Disney executives getting in the way.
Tie 10. The Rise of Skywalker and Attack of the Clones
- ok I am cheating a bit. Both these movies are terrible. Rise of Skywalker I might give the nod to because it has one of my favorite light saber battles between Rey and Kylo on the water. But this movie isn't good period. Attack of the Clones was also terrible. There were some cool parts like Obi Wan vs Boba Fett on Kamino and the intro scene trying to find Padme's assassin. But there were so many awful scenes like the droid factory. Not to mention it makes the Jedi look terrible they weren't able to figure out this super obvious plan. Like "oh there is an ENTIRE ARMY which I guess is ours to control, sure why not we dont need to check that any further?" the acting is atrocious just look at the sand line as an example. I dont blame the actors but Lucas should have given up directing as he did in the original trilogy.
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