I just rewatched TFA for the first time since I saw it in theaters, the gentle restructure fan edit, and it’s not quite as good as I remember, but still immensely enjoyable and quite possibly still better than ROTJ for me.
Things I noticed this go-around:
- The humour was not my style and took me out a lot.
- The title theme sounded more like a parody than the theme proper.
- Rey being able to pilot the Falcon better than Han, and the unexplained change in the treatment of droids was odd and a little annoying.
- The Rathtar scene is atrocious and serves little to no purpose.
Not all of it was bad. I noticed John Williams’ score a lot more, and was able to appreciate it more. Everything with Kylo Ren was great. I enjoyed everything else about the same.
My ranking:
- Star Wars
- Empire
- TFA
- ROTJ
- R1
- Everything else.