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My revised list
Empire Strikes Back
A New Hope
Return of the Jedi
Rogue One
The Last Jedi
The Force Awakens
Revenge of the Sith
Rise of Skywalker
Solo
Attack of the Clones
Phantom Menace
An update of my ranking, now that we have TROS and the Mandalorian:
My preferred Skywalker Saga experience:
I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX
I’m only going include the “Skywalker Saga” films. My list changes every time I marathon the films but this is my ranking as of now. Just for some context I was -1 years old when TPM came out so the Prequels were always a part of Star Wars when I got into it, which is why they are probably ranked too high.
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The Eleven Star Wars Films
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A New Hope / Star Wars: I rewatched the OT and ST in preparation for TROS this month, and I found myself enjoying this more than Empire. Although it’s production value isn’t ideal, I find this story best captures the essence of Star Wars… despite being the shortest in the franchise. 10/10.
Empire Strikes Back: Standing next to ANH on a pinnacle, Empire is rightfully praised for its shocking story, high production, and darker themes. 10/10.
The Rise of Skywalker: I’m nicknaming this one Fuck It! A Star Wars Story. This is the only ST movie confident in itself, and it has so much fun doing it. It’s sorta a Fast and Furious movie, but with the emotion of the best Star Wars when it needs it. Only problem is it’s too rushed, a direct result of splitting the trilogy to two directors. 9/10.
The Force Awakens: Rewatching this movie I had forgotten how much fun the the little moments are. Rey and Finn talking in the Falcon, Kylo being immature. And TROS makes it even better in retrospect. Only real issues I have is first, Starkiller Base, and second, the intense nostalgia you’d expect from the passing of the torch. It’s a great setup for the sequel trilogy. 8.5/10
Return of the Jedi: This movie has perhaps the best scene in Star Wars - the throne room. Everything else is meh. The plot is broken up and everyone seems to just be there to finish the trilogy up. 7.5/10
Solo: A very basic movie that was unfortunately filled with controversy. Really it’s a solid movie. It’s a bit clunky, but still a fun adventure I can get behind. 7/10.
Rogue One: Everyone talks about the end to this movie, and I agree it’s awesome. But the first half is too boring, imo. It’s a solid Star Wars adventure, but not one we really needed to make into a movie. But Vader’s in it so I guess it’s great? 6.5/10.
The Last Jedi: This is hard for me because I am in a perpetual love/hate relationship with this movie. I really liked everything related to the Jedi, and got really annoyed by the Resistance. It wants to lecture to the audience when we just want to have fun. I still side with Poe on the Holdo debate, and Rose was an unneeded character when Finn was setup in TFA to love Rey. But after all that, we have Luke’s standoff against the First Order: one of the best scenes in the franchise. 6.5/10.
Revenge of the Sith: For the longest time I put this one higher for the memes alone. But as a movie, it’s basically a bunch of people walk and talk until the main character turns evil. Add some random fights to keep people awake, and you got yourself this movie. 5/10.
The Phantom Menace: The most boring of the Star Wars movies. 4.5/10.
Attack of the Clones: I have never understood this movie. The plot is baffling. The characters cringe worthy. The locations aged CGI. Sorry, but this feels less like it’s one movie and more like the bridge between Episodes I and III. 3/10.
My revised list
Empire Strikes Back
A New Hope
Return of the Jedi
Rogue One
The Last Jedi
The Force Awakens
Revenge of the Sith
Rise of Skywalker
Solo
Attack of the Clones
Phantom Menace
For one last time, Skywalker/Palpatine Saga only:
I just cannot fathom how Kennedy, who is a skilled producer and a very intelligent woman, could have produced such non sense. Something went wrong with the ST from its very root, I don’t know how to explain… or maybe I don’t really care now. I feel Adam Driver’s pain: such a good actor in such a mess…
To sum up:
So real ranking:
See you all. Have fun. I’ll probably come back from time to back to check out OT hybrid cuts and a ROTS conservative edit.
I can finally put SW behind me 😃
It’s that time of year again!
A New Hope
The Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
The Last Jedi
The Force Awakens
Solo
Rogue One
The Phantom Menace
The Rise of Skywalker*
Revenge of the Sith
Attack of the Clones
*Amazing how this has managed to unite people on the opposite side of the TLJ divide. We all wanted something better than this.
The Empire Strikes Back
The Last Jedi
A New Hope
The Force Awakens
Return of the Jedi
Solo
The Rise of Skywalker <- very subject to change, especially after viewing fan-edits in the future.
The Phantom Menace
Rogue One
Attack of the Clones
Revenge of the Sith
Current feelings. Ranked by favorite-ness, not critical assessment:
Return of the Jedi
A New Hope
The Empire Strikes Back
The Last Jedi
The Force Awakens
Rogue One
The Phantom Menace
Revenge of the Sith
Solo
The Rise of Skywalker
Attack of the Clones
The Clone Wars (for completion’s sake since I included the newer spinoff movies)
This list reflects how the films rank for me in terms of my feelings toward them, not my assessment of them as films, or necessarily even how much I would enjoy watching them.
ok ,as it stands for me as of now, it may change over time but the OT will ALWAYS be my top 3
An update of my ranking, now that we have TROS and the Mandalorian:
- The Empire Strikes Back
- A New Hope
- Return of the Jedi
Good
- The Empire Strikes Back 10/10
- A New Hope 10/10
- Revenge of the Sith 9/10
Almost
- The Empire Strikes Back 1980
- Star Wars 1977
- Return Of The Jedi 1983
Good
Return of the Jedi
A New Hope
The Empire Strikes Back
Good
The Empire Strikes Back
The Last Jedi
A New Hope
Dude, come on !
A New Hope
The Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
Perfection
Empire Strikes Back
A New Hope
Return of the Jedi
Good
That’s being said, with more EU stuff added:
A New Hope
The Empire Strikes Back
Clone Wars (micro series)
Return of the Jedi
Revenge of the Sith
The Mandalorians (yeah it gets better actually; still pointless but nicely pointless)
The Phantom Menace
Rogue One (dumb and doesn’t fit the OT but might be the best looking SW since the OT)
Attack of the Clones
The Last Jedi
Solo
The Force Awakens
The Rise of Skywalker
The Clone Wars
^ most importantly…
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^ wow man , I never knew Chewbacca’s wife was so kinky !
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She inherited it from Itchy, and we all know from the Holiday Special how deviated a prevert he is.
Updated ranking for me (decided I like TFA just a tad better than TRoS now):
GREAT
1.SW77 (10/10)
2.TESB (10/10)
GOOD
3.RotJ (9/10)
4.Solo (9/10)
FINE
5.TFA (8/10)
6.TRoS (8/10)
7.RotS (7/10)
8.TPM (6/10)
9.R1 (6/10)
10.TLJ (6/10)
BAD
11.AotC (5/10)
So this is the ranking from Metacritic and I have to say that I think I agree with this for the most part.
1- A New Hope
2- The Last Jedi
3- The Empire Strikes Back
4- The Force Awakens
5- Revenge of the Sith
6- Rogue One
7- Solo
8- Return of the Jedi
9- Attack of the Clones
10- The Rise of Skywalker
11- The Phantom Menace
What do you guys think?
And, just because I’ve seen 'em…
CoC/BfE
TPM/TFA
HS
AotC/RotS
Just going off all the ones that I’ve seen
…and the rest of the movies more or less fall into relatively the same category of mediocrity or frustratingly dropped the ball when it had the right pieces.
The Rise of Failures
Well after letting TROS settle, I think this is ultimately how I feel -
Near Perfect
Star Wars
The Empire Strikes Back
Excellent
The Last Jedi
Great
The Force Awakens
Good
Return of the Jedi
Solo
Okay
The Rise of Skywalker
Revenge of the Sith
Rogue One
Not Great
The Phantom Menace
Not Good
Attack of the Clones
The Clone Wars
Bad
Caravan of Courage
The Battle for Endor
Worst Thing I Have Ever Attempted to Watch
Holiday Special
Updated ranking after second TROS watch:
- Star Wars
- The Empire Strikes Back
- Return of the Jedi
- Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
- Rogue One
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
- Solo
- Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi
- Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Having seen TROS a third time recently - and I only saw Solo once, 3 days before TROS’ release, so… that’s two movies I’ve had to allow to sink in.
Might as well break it down since it’s not your usual ranking:
TROS is such a wild beast. I enjoy it, but… there’s nothing there. It’s so hollow. It’s dumb, fan-fic-y, and that’s fun, but at the same time that’s not really what this should be about. So it’s only above the two films I actually don’t really like at all.
It also hurts to put TLJ ‘last’, so to speak (it’s the last one of the ones I can really have a good time with), but what can I do. The less interesting part of the film is… well… I don’t really like it. And it feels like a different movie. And the more interesting part depends on some key things that just don’t work for me. They almost do, but they don’t. But it’s a bold and beautiful film, and I’ve grown to appreciate it a lot more recently, especially after TROS.
Solo was fun, even if there seemed to have something missing. But I liked it. Not much to be said I think.
AotC reminds me of TLJ in lots of ways. Out of the two stories going on, one is very good and the other not so much (for different reasons). I can excuse AotC’s stupidly cringy moments though, because the story the movie’s telling is just so interesting. TLJ’s story didn’t get me as hooked (mostly TFA’s fault) and so whatever felt off felt much more off than in AotC for example. AotC also makes the galaxy feel like such a huge and mysterious world. What I’m trying to say is that I see some redeeming qualities to this film and I just enjoy it for the most part.
Rogue One is a near perfect SW film to me: its faults are mainly in a couple of underdeveloped characters. Only reason it’s fifth is because RotS is also a near perfect SW film in my book and there’s more emotional investment to that one than to RO. And then, well, the OT’s above it as well because, well, it’s the OT.
Speaking of the OT, I sooo wish I could place RotJ higher. Maybe even first. But its first and second acts are just not on par with Star Wars or TESB. There’s also the sister thing, and the underutilized written-in-in-the-last-couple-of-weeks Han Solo… but, to me, Luke still manages to carry it fairly well. And what the heck it’s still Return of the Jedi, it’s still fucking awesome.
And TESB and SW are perfect.
I think I’m starting to like TRoS better than TFA again… TFA is better-made, but TRoS has more moments that I like. It’s hard to rank them! Guess I need to see TRoS a few more times to really be sure.
Here is my new updated ranking.
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I have not come to the place where I can rank the movies individually yet. But I can rank the trilogies (internally and externally).
Trilogies
1 - OT
2 - ST
3 - PT
OT
1 - TESB
2 - ANH
3 - ROTJ
PT
1 - TPM
2 - ROTS
3 - AOTC
ST
1 - TLJ
2 - TROS
3 - TFA
I need to watch them all again and see if some rise higher. all I can say for sure is I think TROS, TLJ, TPM, ROTS are better than TFA and AOTC but not as good as ANH or TESB. But what order I can’t say.
Great:
Really (really) good:
3. ROTJ & ANH
5. Rogue One
Good:
6. ROTS
7. Solo & TFA
Alright or worse:
9. TROS
10. TPM
11. AOTC
“Vader! Hologram, now!”