I just watched Jedi for the first time in more than 10 years, and surprisingly I liked most of the Endor scenes, which I used to find pretty boring. I like the Ewoks although I do hate most of the nonsense that goes on with them in battle, plus that ridiculous scene where one of them steals the speeder bike.
On the other hand, this was the first time I really felt like I disliked most of the scenes on Tatooine. The production value was just so bad and you can really see where the film was missing Gary Kurtz’s refinement. The barge fight is fun and Jabba is Jabba, but otherwise there’s nothing to like in this movie for 40 minutes or whatever.
I would still rank the films like this however:
- Empire Strikes Back
- Star Wars
- Return of the Jedi
- Rogue One
- The Force Awakens
- The Phantom Menace
- Revenge of the Sith
- Attack of the Clones
Spaces indicate a pretty big gap to the next group.
I hate the first scene in The Force Awakens, but I really liked the rest of the first act and it’s much better than anything in Rogue One. However, once they got off Jakku I hated the rest of it much more than I hated anything in Rogue One, so that’s why I have them in that order.