Is Star Wars Your Favorite Movie? — Page 2

Yes. Star Wars is and will always be my favourite movie.

Not top favorite but it’s up there. I don’t have a “favorite movie” per se because I have favorite films of various genres so it depends on my mood. Star Wars is likely my favorite film(s) of its kind I suppose then again there aren’t too many other films like Star Wars is there??

Yes it is, and probably always will be. Star Wars is the first movie I can ever remember seeing in a theater and introduced me to the movie-going experience. It’s not a feeling that can ever be replicated. That said, I don’t see Star Wars as the best movie I’ve ever seen or even the best of the OT.

Star Wars (ANH)
The Empire Strikes Back
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Full Metal Jacket
Jaws
2001 A Space Odyssey
The Terminator 1 and 2
Alien and Aliens
Escape from New York
Halloween
Shawshank Redemption
Schlinder’s List
Saving Private Ryan
Goodfellas
Superman: The Movie
E.T.
Forrest Gump
Back to the Future
Rocky I and II

I have a few favorites that are endearing and memorable. This is NOT a top 20, nor in any particular order, except Star Wars, Empire and Raiders. I know I’m forgetting other great films at this moment, and I’m sure they belong near the top of this list, but I can’t think of them at this particular time.

CarboniteSolo said:

Star Wars (ANH)
The Empire Strikes Back
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Full Metal Jacket
Jaws
2001 A Space Odyssey
The Terminator 1 and 2
Alien and Aliens
Escape from New York
Halloween
Shawshank Redemption
Schlinder’s List
Saving Private Ryan
Goodfellas
Superman: The Movie
E.T.
Forrest Gump
Back to the Future
Rocky I and II

It’s a simple yes or no question. :p

My favorite film of all time is pretty much a tie (or should I say TIE) between ANH and RotS. I love them both for different reasons (and nostalgia isn’t one of them). I’ll admit that RotS is really slow in the middle, but everything else makes up for it. Besides, I’m sure there’s fan edits that remove that stuff. The opening is a lighthearted adventure, and the rest is really emotional and beautifully tragic. ANH is just a lighthearted adventure the whole way through. As for other movies I really love, the only ones that come to mind are Wall-E and Up, but I’m sure there are others (and not just Pixar movies).

Yes, it is.

Hahaha, so emotional and beautifully tragic!

-There are a bunch of videogame cutscenes.
-The Jedi are all clueless buffoons.
-Anakin turns evil at the snap of a finger, spends one whole line saying he shouldn’t have, then goes right back to being evil.
-Ian (who I will grant is very good most of the time) has an incredibly stupid lightsaber fight with Mace Windu (including some truly awful dialogue), and then manages to have an even stupider lightsaber fight with Yoda in which he doesn’t just chew the scenery, he swallows it whole.
-Anakin and Obi-Wan play lightsaber Frogger.
-Padme dies of a broken heart.

Magnificent film-making!

TV’s Frink said:

Hahaha, so emotional and beautifully tragic!

I didn’t say it was perfect, just that I loved it. There’s no denying it has some issues.

TV’s Frink said:

-There are a bunch of videogame cutscenes.
-The Jedi are all clueless buffoons.
-Anakin turns evil at the snap of a finger, spends one whole line saying he shouldn’t have, then goes right back to being evil.
-Ian (who I will grant is very good most of the time) has an incredibly stupid lightsaber fight with Mace Windu (including some truly awful dialogue), and then manages to have an even stupider lightsaber fight with Yoda in which he doesn’t just chew the scenery, he swallows it whole.
-Anakin and Obi-Wan play lightsaber Frogger.
-Padme dies of a broken heart.

Magnificent film-making!

The only things you listed that I agree are problems are Padme’s death and Anakin’s turn. Okay, and the office duel, but just the first part, because of how ridiculously quickly Palpatine kills the Jedi. I actually just edited that scene today to fix that very problem (https://youtu.be/UZhCGrXxOno). Personally, I find one of the movie’s biggest flaws, if a really subtle one, is that we spend way too much time on the boring subplot of Palpatine wanting Anakin on the Council, and possibly other talky shenanigans. It’s probably the biggest offender of the PT’s chronic problem of Coruscant killing the pacing. There’s nothing wrong with talky scenes (we all know how great the opera scene is), but I’d have much rather seen the parts about the seeds of the Rebellion.

ROTS has one and only one good sequence: the one where everyone shuts up and all you hear is the music as Anakin and Padme get all weepy. That’s it. That’s all. The rest of ROTS takes the franchise out back, puts a bullet in its head, and leaves it for dead.

DuracellEnergizer said:

ROTS has one and only one good sequence: the one where everyone shuts up and all you hear is the music as Anakin and Padme get all weepy. That’s it. That’s all. The rest of ROTS takes the franchise out back, puts a bullet in its head, and leaves it for dead.

Even this part is a dud because they’re thinking back to the romance they had in AOTC…

Yeah, if you keep in mind the backstory it falls apart.

DuracellEnergizer said:

ROTS has one and only one good sequence: the one where everyone shuts up and all you hear is the music as Anakin and Padme get all weepy. That’s it. That’s all. The rest of ROTS takes the franchise out back, puts a bullet in its head, and leaves it for dead.

The scene I spent part of today intercutting with Palpatine’s Arrest, funny enough.

Actually they are literally married in that film. They had a ceremony at the end of AOTC.

I hate myself for knowing this.

Not my favorite movie.