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My current ranking:
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The Last Jedi: Just perfect. Loved every second of it and wouldn’t change a thing.
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The Empire Strikes Back: My favoutite of the OT when I was a kid.
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Star Wars: In my adulthood it is now my favourite of the OT. The only things that stand out for me is why do the stormtroopers run away scared from Han and Chewie when they clearly outnumber them 5 to 2, and let’s face it, Obi-Wan vs. Vader is the least impressive lightsaber duel in the whole saga.
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Return of the Jedi: This one surpassed TESB as my favourite one of the OT when I was a teenager, and if you ask me, I consider this one to be the pinnacle of traditional optical effects before the advent of CGI.
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Revenge of the Sith: If not the best of the PT, then it most certainly is the one with the best ideas, and I personally consider Anakin/Vader vs. Obi-Wan to be the best lightsaber duel in the entire saga.
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Rogue One: Although this movie tells a story we already know Gareth Edwards manages to do some pretty cool stuff within the limitations, with characters like Cassian Andor who do the Rebels dirty work.
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Attack of the Clones: The first SW movie shot on digital cameras and because of it the movie has aged poorly. Current digital cameras look a lot better but I still prefer the look of film, but I digress. While I know many of you hate this part of the movie I absolutely loved watching Yoda fighting with a lightsaber and for me it was a great payoff after enduring the most forced romance in movie history.
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The Phantom Menace: Apart from learning how Anakin became a Jedi and how Palpatine took his first step towards ruling the Galaxy this movie doesn’t really feed into the rest of the saga, and you can skip this movie altogether and you won’t really miss a thing, and frankly I didn’t like the lightsaber duel between Maul and Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan, way too choreographed, which Lucas noticed and thankfully loosened up a bit in the following two movies. Its only redeeming quality is that it was the only one of the PT which was shot on film.
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The Force Awakens: How and why this movie is held in such high regard is beyond me, or J.J. Abrams for that matter. It’s nothing but a remake of the first SW movie. Abrams returning to direct Episode IX means TLJ will probably be the only good movie from the sequel trilogy, thus I’m not really looking forward to Ep. IX and will only go watch it at the cinemas to see how the story ends, which based on Abrams’ body of work will be a remake of ROTJ by my guess, as that is pretty much all he seems capable of doing, recreations of the pop culture he enjoyed in his childhood and teenage years.
I haven’t watched The Clone Wars so can’t comment on that one, and I would also like to post that I’ll pass on the Han Solo movie as I’m not really interested nor do I care what Han was up to before meeting Luke and Obi-Wan.
Finally I’d like to ask. Am I the only one ranking TFA dead last? Because this is my first post on this thread and have skipped the previous pages.
