Star Wars FILMS RANKED (ORIGINAL AND PREQUELS ONLY)

Let me know your original and prequel rankings, I don’t include the sequels (well because we all know why).
1). Revenge Of the Sith
2). Empire Strikes Back
3). Return of the Jedi
4). Attack of the clones
5). New Hope
6). Phantom Menace

Between New Hope and Phantom Menace is so hard to chose

Original trilogy are tied but if I have to sort them,

1. Return of the Jedi
2. Empire Strikes Back
3. Star Wars
4. Revenge of the Sith
5. Phantom Menace
6. Attack of the Clones

1. Empire Strikes Back
2. Return of the Jedi
3. Revenge of the Sith
4. A New Hope
5. Attack of the Clones
6. Phantom Menace

Tier 1:
#1 overall - The Empire Strikes Back
#2 overall - Star Wars
#3 overall - Revenge Of The Sith

Tier 2:
#4 overall - Return Of the Jedi

Tier 3
#7 overall - Attack Of The Clones

Tier 4:
#9 overall - Phantom Menace

I think mine is

1. Star Wars
2. The Empire Strikes Back
3. Return of the Jedi
4. The Phantom Menace
5. Revenge of the Sith
6. Attack of the Clones.

TESB and SW are nearly tied, and in terms of film budget/quality of directing, and drama and stakes raised. But I do like George’s ability to work within the constraints and budget he was given and such an impossible task. I think his first 3 films are certainly impressive. I’m very critical of the prequels, but I admired his tenacity and vision of telling his story how he wanted. Especially in the OT. One can say oh they are just like movie serials, but Star Wars was sort of unique and nothing was really like it. It was in several genres or camps of storytelling, inspired by many sources. Some of those shouldn’t work together but do. Because Lucas approached it from a storytelling framing of a story of long ago, like a tale of old legends. or a fairy tale.

Broom Kid said:

Tier 1:

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. The Last Jedi
3. Star Wars

Tier 2:
4) The Force Awakens
5) Return of the Jedi

Tier 3:
6) Revenge of the Sith
7) The Phantom Menace

Tier 4:
8) Attack of the Clones
9) The Rise of Skywalker

The Sequel Trilogy wasn’t supposed to be included. Like OP said, this is supposed to be a ranking of the original 6 films.

In any case, I have two separate rankings: one for the objective quality of the movies, and one for subjective personal enjoyment.

Objective quality ranking:

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. A New Hope
3. Revenge of the Sith
4. Return of the Jedi
5. The Phantom Menace
6. Attack of the Clones

Personal enjoyment ranking:

1. Revenge of the Sith
2. Attack of the Clones
3. A New Hope
4. The Phantom Menace
5. Return of the Jedi
6. The Empire Strikes Back

1. Empire Strikes Back
   — Tier Break —
2. Revenge of the Sith (objectively bad but I love it)
3. A New Hope
   — Tier Break —
4. Return of the Jedi
5. The Phantom Menace
   — Tier Break —
6. Attack of the Clones

Can someone explain how Sith is bad except for the over use of cgi, Anakin’s turn that makes no sense. or the very overly produced and flashy without substance lightsaber duel.

The story is vastly improved, I might even say its quite good in the Novelization.

I think the last third is pretty darn good. And the opening despite the amount of goofy silly things and bad cgi is also quite decent.

I like the one liners in some scenes and I do actual like the seduction scene in the opera house, just not the mention of midiclorians.

I still think the Phantom Menace and Sith have the best scores of the prequel as well.

In most cases it might edge out Phantom Menace had it been shot on film, in my rankings.

JadedSkywalker said:

Can someone explain how Sith is bad except for the over use of cgi, Anakin’s turn that makes no sense. or the very overly produced and flashy without substance lightsaber duel.

The story is vastly improved, I might even say its quite good in the Novelization.

I think the last third is pretty darn good. And the opening despite the amount of goofy silly things and bad cgi is also quite decent.

I like the one liners in some scenes and I do actual like the seduction scene in the opera house, just not the mention of midiclorians.

I still think the Phantom Menace and Sith have the best scores of the prequel as well.

In most cases it might edge out Phantom Menace had it been shot on film, in my rankings.

I think ROTS is for sure the best of the sequels but it still has its issues when you see it as an actual movie. You already mentioned quite a few points (Anakins turn is the main plotpoint of the movie and it comes out of nowhere…). But you didn’t mention the general writing of the scenes. Here’s my favourite example of the terrible dialogue of this movie:

Anakin: You are so… beautiful.
Padmé: It’s only because I’m so in love.
Anakin: No, it’s because I’m so in love with you.

I also still love it but when you measure it by the criteria applied to any other movie, it doesn’t really hold up.

Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars
Return of the Jedi
Revenge of the Sith
The Phantom Menace
Attack of the Clones

Originals and prequels only:

1. Star Wars
2. The Empire Strikes Back
3. Return of the Jedi
4. The Phantom Menace
5. Revenge of the Sith
6. Attack of the Clones

If we’re including everything…

1. Star Wars
2. The Empire Strikes Back
3. The Last Jedi
4. Rogue One
5. The Force Awakens
6. Solo
7. Return of the Jedi
8. The Phantom Menace
9. Revenge of the Sith
10. Attack of the Clones
11. The Rise of Skywalker
12. The Clone Wars

Please note that on both accounts there is a several miles wide cavern before Attack of the Clones.

Star Wars A+
Empire Strikes Back A+
Return of the Jedi B+
Revenge of the Sith B-
Phantom Menace C
Attack of the Clones F

Star Wars A
Empire A +
Jedi C
TPM C-
AOTC D
ROTS C-

The Clone Wars movie is that even a proper movie despite being released in theaters. Filoni. I give that a D.

And if one needs to rate Disney.

TFA F
TLJ C
TROS F
RO B-
Solo C-
MAG D+