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Diego
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Ranking the Star Wars films
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17-Jan-2016, 9:31 PM
  1. Star Wars. Nothing beats the original, there’s a sense of innocence, amazement and just plain fun that I feel none of the other movies have. It’s such a simple basic story if you manage to forget all the baggage that comes with the sequels and prequels.

  2. The Empire Strikes Back. May be the best one. It was such a clever and bold move to make something so different from the first movie when it was so easy to just repeat the formula (As the Force Awakens proves). Probably the most interesting one in terms of characters.

  3. Return Of The Jedi. Without a doubt the weakest of the original trilogy, but my favorite for many years, it was the first movie I ever watched. Lucas often claims that Star Wars movies are for children to defend the awful prequels, while I don’t think that argument works for the prequels (and it’s not true anyway), Return Of The Jedi is a wonderful movie for kids, it had everything, huge monsters, tons of new spaceships, the ewoks, jabba, and I loved it all. (And yes, I loved the ewok scenes, like when they’re going to cook our heroes, when I was a child). Luke’s story keeps me entertained as an adult.

  4. The Force Awakens. A very entertaining movie but I feel it’s too reliant on the OT (and basically a remake of Star Wars) to be considered any higher. It’s also too soon and we have to see how it holds up once the “OMG it’s the falcon!!!” nostalgia wears off. Still, I really enjoyed the new characters, they stand well with the classic ones and that bodes well for the future.

Way, way below are the prequels:

  1. The Phantom Menace. Universally regarded as the worst one, I think it’s actually the least awful prequel. At least they used some locations and sets so it still looks like a movie. It has a few nice moments and I quite like some of the designs and the score, but the problems are evident right from the beginning (boring characters, boring plot, no stakes, OT contradictions, terrible story decisions, bad direction, editing, etc.)

  2. Revenge Of The Sith. Why so many people consider this a good movie (or better than ROTJ) is really baffling to me. There’s really not a lot of difference with Clones, but I guess the (merciful) lack of love scenes puts Sith ahead. People like it cause it’s dark, but it’s so forced and nonsensical (Anakin killing little Jedi kids is so cheap and stupid) and the whole resolution so rushed, it really shows how wasted Episodes I and II really were.

  3. Attack Of The Clones. What a mess this is: boring characters, awful choices, the love plot doesn’t make any sense, the clone army plot doesn’t make any sense, the assassination plot doesn’t make any sense, terrible performances and it looks like a videogame.